Food for Oil?

Went to a hypermarket a short while ago...A packet of 10 kg rice now cost RM8-9 more...sheeshh!

You can see that nowadays, everywhere in papers or any form of news medias, topics on food shortage always made its way on the print somehow.

I believe one of the reason is rising oil price and worldwide efforts to find alternative fuel. That..may contribute to the so called food crisis now apart from global warming factors and so on. Why might say so? Look around you..we have so called hybrid cars and so on, then we have this relentless pursue for alternative fuel such bio-fuel..bio-diesel, bio-this or bio-that.. bla bla bla..

In Brazil, bio- ethanol is a very popular form of fuel for vehicles in the country. Trouble is when the demand for such fuel starts to grow it shrinks the very own source of form of food to the people. Ethanol are produced from sugar in a wide variety of sugarcane crops, but there has been considerable debate about how useful bio-ethanol will be in replacing fossil fuels in vehicles. Concerns relate to the large amount of land required for crops.

Back to rice, malaysia imports about 30 percent of its rice needs, heavily subsidises a lot daily food items, such as milk and salt.World rice prices have soared this year partly blamed on higher energy and fertiliser costs, global weather changes like droughts or flood

But, alarmingly, it is also due to the loss of rice farmland to biofuel plantations...Hmm time to take out my bicycle out..now if only I can remember wher I stuffed it...

**image courtesy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming

Kelanang...oh kelanang

Received an sms from office yesterday. Instructed to do an article on Pantai Kelanang. Ah..Kelanang when was the last time I was there..2006? Yeah it was early 2006 if I am not mistaken.

So, here was me again riding my elegan from KL looking forward to be there, relieving the fond memories I had there before..the soft sand..serene landscaping and not to mention the tasty Mee goreng from one of the food outlet manage by a makcik there.

Pantai Kelanang was also the main venue for Joran, a competition organised by a local mainstream daily last year.

When I reached there about 4pm, I was shocked! This could not have been the same place I was before....there were tree stumps..bakau roots everywhere on the beach? What happened? Did a Tsunami just wrecked havoc on the particular area?



Surely, this is not the same Pantai Kelanang that used to frequent more than a year ago...Jagged root stump were everywhere that it would be suicidal if you were to walk on the beach bare footed.

I caught up with a guy who was strolling by near the edge of the beach and ask him about the condition of the beach. A local there by the name of Amir.

"Sad isn't it? Just a few days ago a seven year old boy had a big gash on his foot because of the potruding wood stumps. It could have been avoided...now nobody wants to go here anymore..even most of the stalls here already "gulung tikar".....", he said.

Amir, concluded that this could have been avoided if the authority had taken the necessary steps and making sure the landscaping contractor appointed did its work according to guidelines and specifications.

"The contractor should have remove the roots and stumps completely before pouring sands on the surface to create the "sandy beach surface" look. There are certain time in a year where there will be high tide phenomena....certainly it will washed away the sands and the stumps and roots beneath that was not removed will eventually protrude out," he added.

He has a point there..and I have my points too for being upset. First, the particular makcik who sell my favorite Mee Goreng is no longer here..secondly it is a beautification project by relevant groups built out of haste without doing their homework that now have become a sore point.

On the other hand, coming to think about it..They should have just leave the place as it is..the real Pantai Kelanang that I knew before the beautification project..sigh..

What a waste.....

I will post the photos later..

Its time....

May 26th...that was the last time Skoot was updated. I admit, I was too engrossed at accommodating other's whims and fancies that I forgot about my own priorities.

There are times they can be so demanding and "cunning" that I just can't differentiate what is white and what is black. Well Guys..."No more...enough is enough!"

just like my signature in this forum says..." Suara-suara sumbang tak lagi berbisik tapi dah keluar nada B flat"..It is not for you,me or anybody to understand what it meant..but it will fused a stinging reaction to a few individuals around. Guys...you felt it already?

DADA

Hi all...

Riding my scoot around Shah Alam is not a pleasant thing to do nowadays. Why? It scares me off when I see most road user blatantly disregard rules..

When The light on a traffic light changes from green to amber, I can see most road users..bikes, cars even heavy vehicles instead of de-accelerating and preparing to stop instead step on their gas and try as they might to beat the light before it turns RED.

In defensive driving, one of the main aspect that I was taught was to always apply the DADA rules..It's Define....Analise...Decision...Action.

In this case, it means When approaching a traffic light junction that is changing from green light to amber, I should access the situation (define) before monitoring the circumstances in front and rear if my skoot can stop in time (Analise) and while decreasing the speed prepare to stop (decision) and making sure