Hot in Alor Star

It is more than warm now in Alor Star with temperature in the house at 35 deg C. That is the problem with living in this type of house now common in most 'taman' where urban people live. Traditional wooden house in the kampung where I grew up was never this hot. Something ought to be done to inprove the design of these supposedly modern houses. Not too long ago someone did do an example of a house that uses little power to cool itself however I have not heard of it since. As always, good ideas are difficult to be accepted generally. As it is I had to install 2 units of 1-HP air condition in the house so we can sleep in comfort, more would be installed if I had a bigger family. For now I just pray that the rain would come and that if it does rain please come in just small amounts everyday.

Good work Karam

Good la Karam.

March 15. Karam Singh went up a plane to see what's going on in the Sg.Selangor catchment area. Not surprising, there shown many commercial activities that pollutes the river. The best part is for Karam to blame the authorities for being unable to condone the polluting acts of those parties. The Selangor state government was singled out in particular. Good work Karam! for being blunt and unafraid, but will things change? In my opinion not likely. Many businesses associated with polluting the river e.g. river sand mining, have strong political connections so they'll get their way. In Kedah, if not for the dams and their associated catchment areas in the upper reaches of the Pedu-Muda river, the forests would have been lost to logging, agriculture and development. We, as a group of people, has thus far failed to appreciate and take good care of our environment.