1Borneo, the largest probably, certainly not the best
Jun 29, 2009 General
Visited Kota Kinabalu briefly last week. A lot have changed since my last visit there. 1Borneo – the shopping complex – touted itself as the “largest lifestyle hyper mall” was the most visible addition.
Note – it says ‘largest hyper mall”. However it didn’t say where – but I bet – they are referring to island of Borneo. No doubt it was ‘big’ but not huge – probably two third of Times Square, Kuala Lumpur.
1Borneo is celebrating it first year anniversary promising to give shopper cash rewards. I was expecting the mall to be packed with shoppers as it was a Saturday afternoon. Surprised. I asked a friend why the mall look rather ’shopper-less’. He said it an expensive place to shop. Most people still prefer the good, familiar place to shop – the Center Point.
“Who wants to buy the same good, same brand name at double the price of Center Point,” he remarked.
I was also told that the 1Borneo GSC (Golden Screen Cinema) roof located at the top floor collapsed barely month after it was opened. Asked if it was ever reported in the media – he said “no one dare as it involved the most powerful man in Sabah”.
A typical ‘Bolehland’ way of doing businesses. There were cracks everywhere on the floor and larger ones were concealed with carpets.
“Opening Soon” signage like this one were everywhere.
Tags: Travel
Four year-old Turkish boy survives freak car accident
Jun 24, 2009 General
In freak accident in southern Turkish town – a boy named Mohammet Dirlik, 4 survived a freak accident after being hit by car. He was standing on top of The speeding motor slews off the road and crashes into the Turkish boy, who is standing at the top of a flight of eight concrete stairs.
Muhammet escapes certain death by just a few centimeters as the car’s bumper appears to catch him on the back of his legs and sends him flying 10 feet through the air.
As the car ploughs through the glass shop window front, the lucky youngster darts to the left and lands on his backside at the bottom of the stairs.
Amazingly, moments after the horror collision, Muhammet jumps up from the ground and appears to run around in small circles, looking dazed and confused.
Tags: Media
Malaysians have to wait for another 10 years for broadband internet
Jun 24, 2009 Technology
According Dr Ongkili high-speed broadband Internet infrastructure was being rolled out currently and would take about 10 years to complete. He said it’s going to cost RM11.2 billion of which RM2.4 billion from the government another RM8.9 billion from Telekom Malaysia.
“We need major roll-out of the broadband plan in order to reduce costs. Pikom (Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia) has proposed that the cost should be no more than RM30 a month to make broadband accessible to all and increase Internet access.
He said he believed that target broadband speeds of 20Mbps for the commercial sector and not less than 2Mbps for the general population could be achieved within the next three years.
He added that while high-speed broadband Internet development was in the purview of the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry, his ministry was responsible for content development.
Tags: Sarawak