Kompleks Karamunsing (2010):
- ground flr: min: RM4.11 psf, max: RM5.87 psf
- 3rd flr: min: RM2.10 psf, max: RM2.75 psf

Wisma Merdeka (2010):
- ground flr: min: RM10 psf, max: RM25.13 psf
- 2nd flr: min: RM3.01 psf, max: RM4.50 psf

Plaza Wawasan (2010):
- ground flr: min: RM8.60 psd, max: RM12 psf
- 1st flr: min: RM3.73psf, max: RM5.71psf

Centre Point (2010):
- ground flr: min: RM8 psf, max: RM23 psf
- 1st flr: min: RM5 psf, max: RM7 psf

1Borneo (2010):
- ground flr: min: RM7.32 psf, max: RM10 psf
- 1st flr: min: RM7.32 psf, max: RM8 psf

As of first quarter of 2011, retail space:
- Kota Kinabalu: 4.5 million sq ft, population: 453K, 14.5% of the total population of Sabah
- Tawau: >300K sq ft, population: 398.5K
- Penampang: 261K sq ft, population: 122K
- Sandakan: 242K sq ft, population: 397.5K
- Sabah total: 5.6 million sq ft (38 shopping complexes), population 3.12 million i.e. 11% of Malaysia
- Malaysia total: 116 million sq ft; i.e. 20 times more than Sabah

Between 2000-2010, Penampang’s population grew by 3.9%, the highest rate in Sabah. In contrast, Kota Kinabalu’s rate is only 2.42%, Tawau 2.67%, Sandakan 1.3%. Sabah average: 2.34%.

Between 1991-2000, Penampang’s population grew by 5.78%, Kota Kinabalu 5.89%, Tawau 2.45%, Sandakan 4.98%. Sabah average was even higher: 3.92%

Malaysia’s population in 2010: 27.57 million, 25.5% live in Klang Valley.

Source:
Daily Express, 22nd August 2011

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I purchased some water taps of the Talent brand in mid 2010. They cost at least RM25 each.

On 17th July 2011 one installed in a shower broke after a soapholder hung on it was pulled out:

Then on 1st August 2011 another one installed in the laundry room also broke after a hose connected to it was pulled out:

After that experience, I’d definitely not recommend these taps. They look nice, with a matching price tag, but have proven to be very fragile. Taps costing half that price lasts longer.

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Update 16 September 2011

Up till today I haven’t heard of any related arrest(s), perhaps the perpetrator covered his face at the material time with a scorpion exo-700 helmet or similar.

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19 August 2011

Following a spate in the peninsula, copycat acid splashing has made its way to Sabah.

Around 2pm on 18th August 2011, Ling Siew Teen, 22 was alighting from her car in front of a supermarket in Taman Khidmat, Kolombong, near Kota Kinabalu when heard a man calling for her behind her back, and when she turned round, the man who was driving a Perodua MyVi splashed corrosive liquid on her. She was burned in the eyes, cheek, lips and chin.

Fortunately, it was reportedly not a “full strength” concoction.

Source
Bernama, 18th August 2011
Borneo Post, 18th August 2011

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The covered outdoor car park at Central Plaza, Kota Kinabalu has been around for years but the owners have never bothered to improve its design, even after they started charging.

At first glance it looks rather nice with trees, and all-day multiple-entry parking for only RM1.50.

But if you look closer you’d notice that the trees are taking up precious space where a vehicle should be.

The space taken is so big that it takes a chunk off the parking space, so much so that cars would not be able to be placed all the way in.

Another thing is, there’s a car wash nearby, and the workers sometimes hung a volleyball net across the road, totally blocking it. It would’ve been much better if they value added their premises by selling car accessories like bentley rubber mats instead.

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It was reported by The Star on 30th July 2011 that at the end of 2010, Malaysia’s population was 28.3 million.

In the once-in-10-year census exercise done 6 July – 22 August, it was 23.3 million in 2000, an increase of 5 million.

The 2010 Population and Housing Census final report can be purchased for RM25, but why bother when you can save money and trees – get the report at the Statistics Department’s website.

Some details mentioned by the minister:
- average annual population growth rate: 2% between 2000 & 2010. Between 1991 & 2000, it was higher, at 2.6%
- fertility rate 2.3%, lower than the 3% in 2000.
- 67.3% of population aged 15-64
- 27.6% of population aged 0-14
- 5.1% of population aged 65 & above, meaning Malaysia is not an ageing society: it needs to be 10%
- mean age of 1st marriage for males: 28, for female: 25
- census exercise recorded 14,562,638 males & 13,771,497 females
- all states except Putrajaya & Perlis had more males than females
- 91.8% of population are Malaysian citizens
- Bumiputra: 67.4%, Chinese: 24.6%, Indian: 7.3%, others: 0.7%
- Most populous states:
1 Selangor: 5.4 million (19.3% of country)
2 Johor: 3.3 million
3 Sabah: 3.2 million
- Highest population growth between 2000 & 2010: 17.8%.
- Urban population: 71%, compared with 62% in 2000

What the minister did not highlight, but is reported in the report is:

- Sabah has the highest percentage of non-Malaysians (27.7%). The next highest is Labuan at 14%, followed by KL at 9.4%. Ref: Taburan Penduduk & Ciri-Ciri Asas Demografi, page 11

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It never ceases to amaze me that from a primary school in a rural area in Sabah I somehow ended up at a prestigious public school in the United Kingdom in the space of 6 years.

SK Rangalau Baru (nearer Tamparuli than Kiulu); apparently this satellite image was taken in 2003:

Felsted School, Essex:

A photo of the most-well known part of the school overlooking the cricket pitch:

To get a general idea of the difference in size, the dirt field at SK Rangalau Baru measures about 75m (top to bottom) and that field in the middle of Felsted School measures about 150m (left to right).

Both places hold fond memories. Felsted was like a dream, and has probably everything a school should have, but Rangalau Baru will always have the most natural composters ever, if you know what I mean.

Satellite photos courtesy of Google earth.

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This breathtakingly beautiful photo was taken by one of Sabah’s best photographers.

Taken from a plane, one would have only a few minutes to catch this shot. Probably a mobile phone camera won’t be able to take a shot of this quality, but a shot is better than not shot at all to catch this glorious view, better get those samsung phone batteries fully charged.

Original: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2317/2219402283_d6b0444054_o.jpg

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If you want to fly the national flag / any flag for that matter, it’s not a fly-it-then-forget-it matter.

A prime example, as mentioned by Ilie Jaymon, is as follows:

This is not an isolated case, it can be seen happening in quite a lot of places, including government buildings.

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A boring corporate event, you feel sleepy with the long monotone speeches, then all of a sudden something happens, something you just need to capture on video.

Or another scenario is: you’re speaking onstage in front of many VVIPs, then suddenly someone very close to you snatches your mike and…

That was Zhang Bin making an announcement live on TV sometime in 2007 when wife and fellow TV person Hu Ziwei snatched everyone’s attention by saying that he’s having an affair.

Can’t make it whether it’s one of those lcd tvs samsung brand.

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A few of us went to several places in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor for a working visit a few days ago.

What was interesting to me was fortuitous timing of events causing ICT Security to make national headlines.

The day we were supposed to visit Cybersecurity Malaysia, the CRO of F-Secure Mikko Hyponnen tweeted at almost 5am Malaysian time about the hacker group Anonymous’ plan to attack malaysia.gov.my. So when we arrived about 9.30 for the visit, it was a very interesting discussion with a person with a major responsibility to deal with the impending attack by probably the world’s most infamous crackers.

Later that day it was a visit to ITU-IMPACT, and we got a view of the other perspective.

Of course the evenings were mostly window shopping for things like Backpacking Boots. Some of us bought watches :-)

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