Tree

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Originally uploaded by wanhashim

Lucky to still be able to see one of the oldest tree still standing in Kuching City. Despite the rapid development rate in Kuching they still preserve the trees. I think it is a Bilbao tree. But the tree is not as big as the Bilbao tree seen in this blog.

Rear Seat Belt

As expected, those vehicles which were manufactured before certain years without being fitted with rear seat belt were also being slaps with summons by the police and Road Transport Department. The Road Safety Department has issued a statement that their summons can be cancelled as the summonses to rear passengers in vehicles not fitted with rear seat belts was against the ruling announced by the road safety department as announced by its Director-General early this year. Even those types of vehicles need to be identified by a special sticker "an exemption stickers" as they did not have the three 'points' that were needed to fit rear seat belts.

Well for those types of vehicles without being fitted with the rear seat belt, I don't think that it is much safer in terms of its body strength upon high impact collision. I suggests that the next items that the Road Safety Department should look into is the safety aspect of the vehicles body so that only those vehicles that pass stringent safety requirements should be allowed on the road.

What About the Fourth Passenger?

According to this report, it has not been decided whether the fourth passenger will be summoned for not wearing rear seat belt since the normal saloon car is only equipped with three seat belts. The normal size of Malaysian family is more than four people including the passenger and they will be more likely wanted to know whether they are allowed to carry all of their family members in one saloon car. What they have to do is upgrade to MPV or van if they can afford it. Otherwise they have to wait for the decision later.

How Safe is the Milk Product?

According to an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, "protein powder" of uncertain origin has been used as a cheap way to fool dairy companies' quality checks. Farmers used the "protein powder" to fool the dairy companies' about the fat contents, protein contents and freshness. The article has listed down all possible ingredients of the "protein powder" and one of the ingredient is of course melamine.

According to the article, the underlying problems remains i.e. flaws in farming methods and relatively lax supervision. Flaws in farming methods is due to lack of capital and know-how to adhere to good dairy-farming practices.

Daylight savings

As Malaysian, we are not bothered very much about daylight saving until we visit or stay in the Western Countries. If you happen to visit or stay for example in the United Kingdom or United States during the daylight savings time, you will most likely showing up earlier to an interview or to work. Refer to this article if you wanted to know more about the history of the daylight savings.