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Johor Centenial Flood Part 2: KUiTTHO

yesterday i attended a meeting at KUiTTHO.. after woke up at 6 in the morning n a 3 n 1/2 hours drive.. to my shocking surprise the campus of Kolej-Universiti Teknologi Hussein Onn at Parit RAja, BAtu Pahat was flooded with water..

my first reaction was.. FUCK..!!! i made a wasted trip.. after much phone calls the meeting was confirmed still on and was held at one of the meeting rooms in the new Phase where it was not flooded.. after some internal road i managed to find my way into the campus n attend the meeting dry..

the reason of why the day was sunny n warm the water still isnt receeding yet maintaining n climbing its level was.. a. just after a flood, b. previously the rain was in huge amount and c. Sembrong dam was releasing its guts..

Sembrong dam was recording additional 0.8 meter high.. in order to put the dam back to safety zone.. the dam was forced to open releasing its water out... thus leaving the Parit Raja n parts of BAtu Pahat continue to flood..

and KUiTTHO is one of the casualty..

the site office where the meeting supposed to be help was island-ed by the water.. the lake behind the building was overflowing with water thus surround the lower land area around the office.. thus creating "Site Office Island" an island that non of the contractor n me would love to visit... only Pajero, 4x4 and canoe.. yes.. canoe can access the office..

the water level got higher through the day.. probably due to the dam reducing water level.. but it was drastic like it floods the whole area... just bout another 1" or 2 increase in height.. which honestly doesnt make much difference in such situation.

so KUiTTHO was closed yesterday n today.. allowing staffs n students to go home as it wasnt possible for the teaching n administration works to go on...

hope that situation in KUiTTHO will get better soon..
attached are some pics i took..

Johor Centenial Flood - Round 2: Kluang Chapter

after the major flood that JOhor endured in last december of 2006.. JOhor got hit with a second wave of major flood..

practically most major town of Johor got hit badly this time.. as for me i was at my hometown this time around.. to see how mother nature take on the Johorians in second round onslaught..

well the flood started in Kluang on Fri night Jan 12, 2007.. at bout 8 plus in the evening.. water started to fill up part of Kluang's low land.. part of roads were not accessible by road traffic.. heavy drizzles scattered every where..

things started to get out of hand towards mid night.. Mengkibol River started to spew its guts out many major roads in the town were flooded with water of bout a feet high..

at lower land area like the Kampung Melayu was badly hit.. water climbed all the way to bout 5 to 6 feet.. thus flood water rushed into houses leaving the kampung residence no time to get and save much of their belongings.. some areas in the Yap Tau Sah.. where mostly populated by the chinese are also affected by the flood water..


Vegetables farm which situated in Yap Tau Sah was flooded totally..

by mid day of Jan 13, the water already soaked part of the town area.. let say bout 3 to 5 major streets in town was flooded.. rest are residential areas at lower part of Kluang were still very much flooded.. i.e. Kampung Melayu, Yap Tau Sah, Kg. Paya n Kampung Palembang and so on..

bridge that connecting Kluang to Kahang n MErsing has collapsed due to the heavy current of Sg. Sembrong.. severing road connection to these areas.. it was also reported that road from

Kluang to Kota Tinggi was cut off as well.. leaving only road Kluang to Ayer Hitam (west) and Layang-layang (south) was still accessible..

there were thousands of evacuees n victims of the flood seeking refugee in temporary relief centres.. and many selfless charity organisation acted swiftly helping n providing neccessities to these flood victim.. good job..

at this moment in time i was told that kluang has got back to its normal operations except some victims can only go home after their home's situation got better.. all else the flood is considered over in Kluang..

*pictures are taken at various part in Kluang town.. at bout 5 to 6 pm on Jan, 13 ..

Eye of Malaysia.... kinda nice...

last evening after a hard n difficult day of nothing but a bloody meeting..8 hours alright... i decided to stop by (as it is along my way back to the office) Tasik Titiwangsa of KL, Malaysia... as to pre-visit a new attraction in town.. called Eye of Malaysia..

According to a newspaper report it was originated from Paris, France n shipped here for the ppl of Malaysia throughout the entire year of 2007.. it is coincide with the local government effort to promote tourism in the country as this year Malaysia is celebrating its 50 years anniversary and at the same time dedicating this year as Visit Malaysia Year... that;s a tourism year...

anyway.. i was pretty sceptical in the first place.. but looking at what the organiser did to the Tasik and the program that was on and the amount of crowd it gathers.. i supposed it wasnt a bad i dea to have a giant ferris wheel for a year n spending millions of ringgit..

to take a ride.. u need to pay RM 15 per person.. n that;s like u will have a ride of bout 12 to 15 mins.. sometimes u may get more when they get someone out of the gondola should give u some extra minutes..

i heard till early february or something.. u r dished with fireworks display n water skiing display at bout 830 pm every night.. so quite a good hangout place for the families.. oh yea.. the fire works display lasted bout 20 to 25 mins..

oh yea.. water skiing was a lil earlier but it is also part of the fireworks display..

so bring ur family there... :) they will love it.. so is ur gf.. or wife or if u want to propose or bring someone u like there.. :)

Thank You All... on behalf of the Wongs...

I would like to take the oppurtunity here to convey our heart felt thanks to everyone friends and relatives that was involved n helped out in my grandpa's mr. K.P. Wong's funeral.. thanks for all the help, the visit and last respect, those small small things, the concerns n regards and last but not least joining us for the funeral procession..

i would also like to thank NIRVANA Memorial for the upmost service n assistance in meeting our needs and sorting out most details of the funeral (yea.. although we paid for the service).. good job... your staffs' effectiveness n ways of handling my family's need are deeply appreciated.. Keep it Up..!!!!

really appreciated that those friends and Nirvana's staffs that present giving their undeterred attention and without complaint finished the procession.. as it was raining then...

last... thanks a million to all of you for making the funeral pretty grand for my grandpa.. deeply appreciated..

here are some shots during from the funeral..