Work boats at work. Water here is very shallow. Dept varies from a meter to 5 meters so boats has to navigate around this waters with care, else they'll run aground.
Low tide! Note the sand bars. You can actually walk to the vegetations as the sea bed is sand, not mud as you'll expect from river delta. No boats movement now.
More close up view of sand bars.
That's the view of one of the many river mouth in this delta. Oh..by the way, it's known as Mahakam Delta located in East Kalimantan.
Channel deepening in progress. But I can say it's very strange how things work around here. You see, the bucket scoops up sand from sea bed then the crane swings over to it's port side, deposits the scooped up sand some 10 meters away. I would have thought it make more sense to have the scooped up sand deposited far away from the new channel thus preventing the channel from being re-filled by the scooped up sand. This is similar to the then Miri Municipal Council workers clearing weeds, earth and rubbish from drains in Lutong back home. They would deposits and left them by road side for weeks. Then they would come back to clear it up. It's all about money making.......creating work for themselves..I suppose
2 comments:
Dear Mr Stephen,
I'm Ian Gan from SMK Chung Hua (Your daughter Dione and your Henry knows me).Currently in form 2.In your June 22 post, I saw some pictures of your houseinterior.I would like to know how good is the quality of the things that Mr.Alan does.For your infomation, Mr Alan is also incharge of my grandparent's new house interior.I just can't wait to know how nice it is.He started to place the things in the kicthen area yesterday and dissapointingly, the materials we saw was plywood(or something similiar).We've paid quite a large sum too for his designs.
It with be a pleasure if you tell me more about the results of your house interior made by him.
Regards,
Ian(ian.gan@hotmail.com)
Hi Ian,
Thanks for visiting this blog.
I would say that we are very satisfied with the job and work done by Alan. Yes, you'll see lots of plywood being used in the underlaying structure of cabinets and cupboards. I believe this is presently an industry practice as solid woods are hard to obtain and costly. All other interior designers and contractors are now using plywood. unless we are prepared to pay an extremely high price for solid wood. I don't know how much your grandfather is paying for the whole job but I think what we paid for is reasonable as I have gotten various quotes before settling for Alan. Even a major interior designer/furniture seller in krokop cost more for same design and would have used plywood anyway as i've seen in their various projects.
Rest assure that Alan will do a good job.
Cheers,
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