TIVUNG HILLS continued being excavated even during Chinese New Year Holidays

The threat of the Salip Hill collapsing within a short time is ever increasing.

During the CNY holiday this year Feb 1, 2014, I went up to the St Michael's Church in the afternoon to get a view of the Salip from this direction.

I was armed with a 500 mm zoom lens only and the qualifty or sharpness of a zoom lens is always bad. Anyway from a 5mb digital data, I have to reduce it with my laptop to a 640 bit or large pic for web as per the microsoft picture editor and enhance the colour a bit. So these are the pics I want to share as a continuation of my "Lights on Salip" story.

Anyway the point is that even on CNY holidays, the hillcutting continued meaning the earthwork business got to be so lucrative that CNY meant nothing to these guys in business. Goodbye to landmark hills.  Development for buildings and so on is more important in this country and who the hell cares about environment since our population is exploding faster than the rabbits and mice could reproduce and the PTIs getting overnight citizenship adding to the population, then what do you expect ?

Pics above shows the extend of hill cutting activities

This was the route of the Good Friday Cross, now a vertical slope with one of the small white cross standing near the slope.

 

 



Very ugly SESB transmission tower now dwafting the cross

 

 



Lorry kicks dust on a chinese new year 2014 holiday.

 

 



And the excavator harvest more earth for human projects

 

 



 

So if you wanna climb the hill, for now, this is the path you will have to follow

 

 

SABAH CREDIT CORP CSR: Golden Citizen Activity :- Chinese New Year Potluck

Sabah Credit Corporation at Donggongon Penampang have a CSR for the Golden Citizens of Penampang (60 yr and above) although pensioners at 55 also are welcomed.

This state owned financial institution provides several health activities for the golden citizens such as health talks, seminars, free blood pressure screening, light dance exercises and small parties for all festive occations every Wednesday between 9 am and 11 am at the 3rd and 4th floor of their headquarters shown  above.

 

For example the activity on 12 February 2014 was Chinese New Year potluck including angpows for the elderly.

The event is best described by just posting the photos below, and those members shown in the pics are free to take copies of their photos and portraits for their own use as I may remove them to save space after say one year.  So welcome to my blogs Senior Citizens.

 

 

 

SCC CFO  giving his CNY message

 

Senior ladies showing their line dancing style, and with regular exercise such as Tai Chi Kung and others, these senior citizens seems so healthy that they can pose as models as shown below:-

 

A few senior ladies taking their portrait with the year of the horse logo created by SCC

 

PLEASE copy your pics while it is on.  It may be removed in future

 

Gong Xi Fa Cai from blogger.



FAREWELL to NOELLE BACHI, a good old friend



Noelle was currently one to the Assistant Directors in the Sabah Agriculture Department when he passed on unexpectedly to us old friends, on 3rd February 2014. I cannot locate any old photos that I had taken in the past so I hope the Agri Dept will not mind borrowing his pic from their website. After all they will have to remove his pic from the website soon.

So farewell ole chap, there is nothing I can add further since it would only break my heart further.

Noelle's only son saying his final farewell to his Dad

 

 



Last pose for the family album. All the families of his brothers and sisters seen here led by Datuk Dr Ronney Bachi and Datin in the middle at St Michael's Church on 6th February 2014