Snippet 4 : Socio Project for Kuala Lipis-Kemaman Project

It seem not easy looking job especially for newbies like me. While waiting for that job to come( in your dream). I'm doing part time job, which is diverse from engineering aproach. Doing socio-economy survey job. This is field work where u must go on the ground looking for primary data apart secondary data from readily published report. Really tuff job if u ask me. Doing last Ramadhan, muslim fasting month.

The survey cover from Kuala Lipis to Kemaman. About 1500 questionare and cover 200km distance. Interesting place is Kuala Tahan(Taman Negara), Kuala Tembeling(jetty to Taman negara), Jerantut(patin fish masak tempoyak), and Sg Lembing(ex-tin mine.



So we got the data needed as some interesting story from old timers(Sg Lembing). This man told his experience in his tins mine job. He told his risky job, the chalenge during flood season, the up and down of the ex-mine. He has the collection of mine ore where it was very heavy compare to normal rock. The tunnel is about 3km deep. Water Need countinuesly pumped. They have cinema back then. We also met people told their problem, political isues, and their hope. And one resettlement, from outside the main road, it seem nothing, but when we enter. it suprisingly to see there have mosque, school and 500 people living within it. And also have train station where this is their main transportation.

Apart from job done. i got priceless experience that can't get from book and inspire me to do something. That for now.

1st job

my first job is to prepare a proposal for a impact of sewerage in quality of river in peninsular malaysia. well, the expentation from the client is high and the delivered time only 3 month. To simplify it, the current data tend to put a blame on the sewerage operator regarding the deterioration of river water quality. this based on data presented in department of environmental.

to analyses the data. a set of data needed before, startup and after operation of the said operator. the research, journal and other publication also need to look into to come up with hypothesis. other source need to be identified like point source and nonpoint source. this needed land use data. Others also including the population as this will increase the sewage load.

at the end, the data will predicted by somesort of model. whether QUAL2EU or artifial neural network(ANN). that it. no technical explaination. just search internet and u will get an idea. so the proposal has been submitted. just wait whether can beat other competitor. haha.

Life move on

At last, i graduated with a good result. Master of environmental engineering. And this subject i got A. haha, really thank a lot to my lecturer. So, should i dumb this blog, huh like i would do. better continue the thing we started. and when it will ended. like i know, but let me make it simple. the fight to have better life will never end as long human exist. haha.

life goes on. one down, two more to go. work and settledown. I now started from nil, found a company that deal about environmental issue. Not an easy job, but time will tell. maybe not successful but the experience is what i needed. it long way to go and really high barrier to climb up. just do it step by step is what my strategies is. and the important thing is pray to god and have faith.

This where i found during site visit for feasibility study to propose road from kuala lipis to kemaman.

Snippet 3: Whaling Hunter

Snippet 2 : Earth Hour 2009

Earth Hour: TNB Records 550MW Drop

KUALA LUMPUR: Although the Earth Hour campaign last Saturday resulted in electricity consumption dipping by 550 megawatt but Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) is not complaining.

Rather, TNB accepted that the hour-long campaign, which began at 8.30pm, was for a good cause.

The 550 megawatt is equivalent to 14 million fluorescent bulbs of 40 watt each.

"While this minor fall in demand will result in a slight shaving of our revenue, we accept that Earth Hour is for a good cause," said TNB president/chief executive officer Datuk Seri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh in a statement here Monday.

He said, during the one-hour period of the energy conservation initiative, TNB staff were extra vigilant, in the event of untoward operational snags.

"Everything went on very smoothly and we were able to respond to the slightly lower demand, without any operational glitch.

"Demand peaked almost rapidly at 9.30pm, to follow the normal Saturday evening demand pattern," added Che Khalib.

He said TNB was surprised by the support and appreciation demonstrated by many of its customers on the worldwide Earth Hour campaign. - Bernama

5th comment

If we heard about renewable energy, we must thinking wind, solar, biodiesel, fuel cell, hydropower, and many more. How about methane hydrate, have you ever heard about it.

methane hydrates is a crystalline form of methane gas and pure water that exists when pressures are sufficiently high, or temperatures sufficiently low. It looks like a lump of ice. Gas hydrates, also known as "clathrates," form when methane gas from the decomposition of organic material comes into contact with water at low temperatures and high pressures. Those cold, high-pressure conditions exist deep below the oceans and underground on land in certain parts of the world, including the ocean floor and permafrost areas of the Arctic.


There are mega-tons of the stuff at the bottom of the ocean all over the world and in the Arctic permafrost (about 300,000 trillion cubic feet of it) and it is the cleanest and most abundant source of energy in the world. There is at least twice as much of it around as fossil fuels (some say 10 times as much). And, when burned as a fuel, it releases less carbon dioxide pollution than anything else around.

The interesting is, when methane, which is a gas, combines with seawater to make methane hydrate, it rejects the salt in the water. Therefore, fresh water is produced when the concentrated hydrates are melted. It's a desalination process where the methane can be recycled to continue the process.

With such huge potential, we should not fear if fossil oil is run out some day. There is still many research and problem need to be tackled before it can be extracted like fossil oil. The main problem are transportation as it need to be contain in high pressure or low temperature condition and also problem when over exploit toward environment.

If in future,there manage to convert mehtane gases into methane hydrates, this will surely like a carbon sinking program where methane from dairy industries can capture and storage beside been process. Other solution also to our water shortage.

4th Comment

Have you heard about the cheapest car in the world. With a cost only US2,500 to build this will surely bring car ownership reach millions of people. What a great vision by Ratan Tat, the Tata Motor Company owner, to make car not as privilege thing. In tata nano (the car name) come with basic accessory, scarify space, and without air condition system. The purpose is just to transport from one place to another.

Here the issue, environmentalist seem not favor the step and several other critic have been thrown to them. One of the issue here is, this will increase the global warming effect and also increase the fuel price.

This is what we called biased, Car A gets a fuel efficiency of 46 miles per gallon. Car B gets about 50 miles per gallon. Car A is called the Toyota Prius and is hailed by environmentalists as a step towards solving global warming. Car B, a new car called the Tata Nano unveiled by an Indian company, is reviled by environmentalists as disastrous for global warming.

The reason is, with the car price is affordable, the selling of the car will obviously mass in volume. this will increase the fuel consumption and consequently increase the green house effect. On positive side, the Tata Motor has proved that the cheapest car is not possible if we really put an effort to it. It like Honda tag line 'the power of dream' but there seem their dream too expensive to be shared with all people.

Car using propelled bu combustion lost much of the energy in a form of heat from mechanical movement. Electric car and fuel cell car seem have higher efficiency combine with drive by wire technology. If the Tata Motor can came up with all this technology with a affordable price is will another revolution to autocar industries.

3rd Comment

Green technology!!. i'm sure we have heard it. it a technology that eco-friendly to our environment. New government of US under President Obama seem really commit to reduce the global warming effect by it new green policies. The problem are the skeptical point of view from their investor. As we know that currently world in a great deal of recession especially US, such a move will slow down the economic recovery.

The reason is simple, as we know green technology is more in research and development stuff. So the profit is for a long term rather than short term. This surely not good for investor. If we compare to our country we can see there a lot of our research have got the medal in geneva, but how many have been successfully commercialize. Investor is afraid to invest and sometime there no following study to scale up to manufacturing production capacity.

Here is what goverment of US plan to do to reduce the global warming:-
-United States will double its supply of renewable energy in three years
-By 2025, the Obama administration hopes one-fourth of the nation's energy will come from renewable sources
-could help reduce CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2050,

2nd Comment

Here is another site I think it worth to read (http://environment.about.com). There are lots of environmental issues mainly in United State. I pick up one article as my 2nd comment that I think it is poses as global problem in the future. It is about bottled water we use to drink. As we know there are many type bottled water like mineral water, distill water, and reverse osmosis water.It is worth to buy this product(exclude soda beverages, and juice, and dairy product).Why get so high market??? it seem because it easy to prepare, cheap and choice other than sweet drink. But actually it as we all quote "a solution that create another problem"

The article reveal a surprising fact that most of the plastic bottles are never recycled in United State. Why??? As we know their people keen with recycling program and any environmental awareness. One of the reasons is probably because manufacturer doesn’t want any contamination issue regarding the water quality. The noble reason I can come out with .

The article also bringing up about the quality of the water itself. They found that the quality of the bottled water really small improvement or no different than tap water. They also state the test conduct limited(no e-coli test) compare to tap water. With higher price but more risky to consumer!!!!!

One fact that make we should discourage to buy bottle water is that to get 1 liter of bottled water into your hands requires from 1,100 to 2000 times as much energy to produce, package and transport the stuff as it takes to provide we with the same amount of tap water (conducted by the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Oakland, California.)

They estimate that just producing the plastic bottles for bottled-water consumption worldwide uses 50 million barrels of oil annually enough to supply total U.S. oil demand for 2.5 days. More clearly, assuming the 2007 consumption rate or US citizen are 33 billion liters that requires energy equivalent between 32 million and 54 million barrels of oil. While for world consumption for bottled water is about three times that amount.

Malaysia also has similar trend as develop country, bottled water seem was used excessively in any occasion, seminar or conference. It seems will be another bad culture created. There still no people or groups bring this issue seriously. Our government also need to monitor the water quality so that it will comply with current drinking standard. We don't want to put people health at stake. And again the choice at our hand....

Snippet 1 : Top 10 worst polluted places in the world

Top 10 worst polluted places in the world:

1. Chernobyl, Ukraine (nuclear)
2. Dzerzhinsk, Russia
3. Haina, Dominican Republic (lead problem)
4. Kabwe, Zambia
5. La Oroya, Peru
6. Linfen, China (air pollution)
7. Maiuu Suu, Kyrgyzstan
8. Norilsk, Russia
9. Ranipet, India (heavy metal)
10. Rudnaya Pristan/Dalnegorsk, Russia

A study and chosen by the Blacksmith Institute’s Technical.
(read more at http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/top10/10worst1.pdf)

1st Article

For my first comment, this article I got from this website http://www.grinningplanet.com/6001/environmental-issues-all.htm#thetop This website seem very interesting.


So what you know about cotton. Apart as our beautiful jean, shirt, blouse and many more. Haven’t u think more beyond it. Here is the issue

Here is some statistic

• Cotton accounts for only 3% of the world's crops, yet represents up to 25% of global insecticide use.
• The average conventional cotton t-shirt uses almost half a pound of toxic chemicals in its production.
• It takes 500 gallons of water to produce just one t-shirt made of conventional cotton
• Even the cotton fields are now failing as rising salt residues (a side effect of long-term irrigation) render the land infertile. The United Nations describes the crisis in this area as one of the "most staggering disasters of the 20th century."

Want more?

• The biggest exporter of cotton to Europe is Uzbekistan. It has been widely documented that state-sponsored child labor is used in the cotton fields. Irresponsible environmental practices there have caused the UN to label Uzbekistan "one of the largest manmade environmental disasters."
• Child cotton workers—may be paid only 1 to 2 cents per pound for cotton that is valued at 50 cents (US) on the global market.
• It's estimated that there are up to 5 million cases of pesticide poisoning every year among agricultural workers in developing countries where 20,000 of these cases result in death.

Feel awefull, some to glitter your day 

Now there is awareness to ensure supplier is certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). Apart of guaranteeing that the cotton produced is organic (thus eliminating toxic pesticides and harsh processing chemicals), the standard includes an audit of the working conditions in the factory and verifies that:

• Employment is freely chosen, and the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are respected.
• Child labor is not used.
• Regular employment is provided, living wages are paid, working hours are not excessive, and working conditions are safe and hygienic.
• No discrimination is practiced, and no harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed.

So, when it apply to Malaysian, what is our part.
• Neither we have cotton plantation nor child labor issue.

That leave us to the only option??? support the organic cotton. So the problem is how we want to recognize it(some sort of specific labeling). Still no specific store sold just organic cotton to begin with. But if there is entrepreneur willing to invest in these industry, are we willing to spend more(of course more expensive). But believe me this sort of company really need our support to make sure it happen.

First day as blogger

Hi, this my first blog. Are u kidding? environmental issues. Why, am I too young to talk about this issue. BTW this is my assignment for my sustainable environmental topic. Haha, what a typical malay. But this may my startup as blogger. Assuming this not be the first and my last one.