mamakk!!!

via NST:

PUTRAJAYA: The ceiling price for general purpose flour has been raised by 15 sen per kilogramme in the peninsula and by 10 sen per kg in Sabah and Sarawak. With the increase, which took effect on Monday, the price of flour is now RM1.35 per kg in the peninsula and RM1.45 in Sabah and Sarawak.

The price hike comes after repeated requests by flour millers, who have been complaining about the rising costs of wheat and shipping over the past decade.

“We don’t want food outlets and others to take advantage of this announcement by raising the price of roti canai or noodles.

“A price hike of one or two sen is okay but it must be in proportion to the price increase for each kilogramme. Surely you don’t use one kilogramme of flour to make one roti canai,” Shafie said.

No!!! Knowing businessmen in Malaysia, I think an increase of 10-20 sen is here to come… (;_;)

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An abandoned Oil Rig converted into a Dive Resort. Seaventures Dive Resort, a scuba dive heaven, 1km off the coast of Mabul, Sabah, Northern Borneo. The resort used to be a Oil Exploration Platform, These days it is home to divers from all over the world who want that little bit extra from their dives.

Beautiful isn’t it?

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via Daily Express:

Kota Kinabalu: Deputy Chairman of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in Sabah Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan Monday challenged former Chief Minister Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak and the Government to once and for all address the illegal immigrants issue in Sabah by setting up a Royal Comission of Inquiry.

He said the claim that there were 1.7 million illegals in the State of which 600,000 of them are holding Malaysian identity cards and some even joined Barisan Nasional component parties “is nothing new and open information.”

“They don’t need to ask about truth because proof is everywhere we have been giving it and we will give solid proof on this in this book written by Mutalib,” he told reporters at his office here, while showing the new book titled “IC Projek Agenda Tersembunyi Mahathir?” written by Mutalib M.D.

Mutalib M.D. a political analyst and social activist highlighted the issue of illegals possessing Malaysian ICs in his book before “IC Palsu: Merampas Hak Anak Sabah dan Pengundi Untuk Disewa”.

woah…a quick look at Sandakan’s shorelines will tell you how severe this problem is…

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fran wrote:

When people ask me where is my home, I often don’t know what to say. If the person is not a Malaysian, the answer would be easy. I would say,”I’m from Malaysia.” But if the person is Malaysian, a small part of me would be torn. Where is home? Seremban or Sabah? Most of the time, my answer would be Seremban, because that is where I grew up. But I was born in Sabah, thus I’m technically Sabahan. I have a large family there, and I’m half native.

In Sabah, I won’t be called a Chinese, even though I bear a Chinese name, and all official documents will classify me as one of Chinese heritage. They would call me “Sino-Kadazan”, which means “Chinese-Kadazan”, as if the Sinos are all another race by themselves. This reminds me of the Nyonya-Baba race. Maybe “Sino-Kadazans” would one day evolve to be another race on its own as well. Maybe. Maybe not.

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At present, if we look into the current development around Sabah and Kota Kinabalu in particular, one can see that mega complexes projects costing millions in construction cost are being built literally everywhere. Currently we only have the Centre Point Shopping Complex, Karamunsing Shopping Complex, KK Plaza, Wisma Merdeka and Wisma SEDCO as the main shopping destinations around Kota Kinabalu. But with all the new shopping complexes recently being completed such as Wisma Warisan, Star City and other on going mega complexes such as KK Times Square, Harbour City and the biggest one, 1 Borneo soon to be completed, Sabah will be soon most probably be put into the Malaysia’s Book of Records being the “Most Developed State Under One Administration”. Isn’t it weird?. It’s like ” cendawan tumbuh selepas hujan” kinda thing…Big cendawan lagi tuu..

I’m not a politician, but personally I think why all these projects being approved and implemented in very short period of time is because of the political changes within Sabah itself especially with the establishment of UMNO in Sabah soil. Maybe its about time that Sabah needs a new face in this new millennium, but I just wished it could be something more close to Sabah’s cultural and ethnic identity rather than a building to represent a political party in Sabah (worst, it’s not even a sabahan party!).

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