The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM)
About the Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM)
(Source: http://www.ism.org.my/)
The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM) is the professional institution representing the surveying profession in Malaysia and consists of four main divisions, namely :
• Property Consultancy Valuation Surveying Division
Members of the Property Consultancy and Valuation Surveying Division are qualified professionals trained to provide specialist services in real estatre to their clients which includes corporations, institutions, statutory bodies, owners, investors, landlords and tenant
• Geomatic and Land Surveying Division
The Survey Department imposes stringent regulations on cadastral surveying. Such regulations and the categories of persons permitted to do cadastral surveying, reflect the importance attached to the cadastral plan, the usual end product of a cadastral survey. The plan should unambiguously identify a particular parcel of land for purposes of proprietorship and registration, and the survey should be of technical standards required in the legislation governing the registration of title to land and of dealings herewith.
The National Land Code, mentioned in above, amended and consolidated "the law as relating to land and land tenure, the registration of title to land and of dealings therewith and the collection of revenue therefrom" within the States of Semenanjung Malaysia. Similarly, the Land Ordinance (Sabah Cap. 68) sets out "to regulate the alienation and occupation of State lands, " while the Land Code (Sarawak Cap.81) is "An Ordinance to make better provision in the law relating to land."
The Licensed Land Surveyors Act, 1958, provides for the establishment of the Land Surveyors Board, to deal with "the licensing and control of land surveyors and for matters connected therewith." To carry out the objectives and purposes of the Ordinance, the Licensed Land Surveyors Regulations, 1959, were made.
• Quantity Surveying Division
• Building Surveying Division
(Source: http://www.ism.org.my/)
The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM) is the professional institution representing the surveying profession in Malaysia and consists of four main divisions, namely :
• Property Consultancy Valuation Surveying Division
Members of the Property Consultancy and Valuation Surveying Division are qualified professionals trained to provide specialist services in real estatre to their clients which includes corporations, institutions, statutory bodies, owners, investors, landlords and tenant
• Geomatic and Land Surveying Division
The Survey Department imposes stringent regulations on cadastral surveying. Such regulations and the categories of persons permitted to do cadastral surveying, reflect the importance attached to the cadastral plan, the usual end product of a cadastral survey. The plan should unambiguously identify a particular parcel of land for purposes of proprietorship and registration, and the survey should be of technical standards required in the legislation governing the registration of title to land and of dealings herewith.
The National Land Code, mentioned in above, amended and consolidated "the law as relating to land and land tenure, the registration of title to land and of dealings therewith and the collection of revenue therefrom" within the States of Semenanjung Malaysia. Similarly, the Land Ordinance (Sabah Cap. 68) sets out "to regulate the alienation and occupation of State lands, " while the Land Code (Sarawak Cap.81) is "An Ordinance to make better provision in the law relating to land."
The Licensed Land Surveyors Act, 1958, provides for the establishment of the Land Surveyors Board, to deal with "the licensing and control of land surveyors and for matters connected therewith." To carry out the objectives and purposes of the Ordinance, the Licensed Land Surveyors Regulations, 1959, were made.
• Quantity Surveying Division
• Building Surveying Division
The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM)
About the Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM)
The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM) is the professional institution representing the surveying profession in Malaysia and consists of four main divisions, namely :
• Property Consultancy Valuation Surveying Division
• Geomatic and Land Surveying Division
• Quantity Surveying Division
• Building Surveying Division
Power to enlighten
I thoroughly enjoyed the this article written by Rabiatu Abubakar - a talented writer/linguist whom I have had the great opportunity to work with when I was at Stamford
Sunday September 2, 2007
Power to enlighten
By RABIATU ABUBAKAR
An account of a troubled land, written by a teenager no less, has our reviewer wanting to head off on an adventure.
COME BACK TO AFGHANISTAN
My Journey from California to Kabul
By Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 410 pages
(ISBN: 978-0747583660)
READING the first paragraph of Come Back to Afghanistan, I could immediately relate to Said Hyder Akbar’s description of Kabul International Airport. Having witnessed the civil war in Somalia, I am no stranger to airports that are falling apart.
According to Akbar, what you first notice is that the identifying letters on the roof look like they are about to fall off. Airplane parts, shredded metal and bullet-ridden walls are commonalities shared by airports in war-torn countries. They are testimony to the destruction humans are capable of.
Over the years, a plethora of books have been written about Afghanistan covering the 25 years of terrorist violence and political upheaval the country has experienced. Akbar himself refers to some of them. So, what makes his book different from these others?
Well, for one thing, the author is not a political pundit or history professor or journalist; he was, in fact, a high school teenager in 2002 when he began recording the wealth of details that went into this personal book.
The period in which Akbar collected his material is another difference, perhaps: unlike many of the other books, Come Back to Afghanistan had its gestation in those crucial years right after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
The Afghans were trying to get back on their feet then, after the US-led war to drive the extremist Taliban government out had succeeded (well, sort of). The Northern Alliance and US Special Forces had the Herculean task of rebuilding a ravaged country. It was a tentative peace, though, one rife with political dissent, tribal discontent, insurgencies and escalating terrorist attacks.
It was at this time that Akbar made a life-changing decision to join his father, Said Fazel Akbar, in Afghanistan.
In 1979, Said Fazel fled with his family to Pakistan, where his son was born in 1985, and then to the United States, where the boy grew up on pizza and U2. After receiving a phone call from old friend Hamid Karzai – who had just been made Chairman of the Transitional Administration – Said Fazel returned to Afghanistan in 2001 and became Karzai’s spokesman; he was later appointed governor of Kunar, a rural province.
In 2002, high-schooler Akbar was eager to join his father. And what began as a rather-more-exotic-than-usual summer vacation for the 17-year-old turned into a search for identity in his father’s troubled homeland.
Coincidentally, just before Said Fazel left for Afghanistan, father and son were interviewed on Afghan matters by Susan Burton, an NPR (American public radio service) reporter. When she discovered Akbar was going to join his father, Barton asked the teen to record “slice-of-life” segments for the station’s This
American Life programme. Hence, Akbar travelled everywhere with a tape recorder, a practice that stood him in good stead when he later decided to write a book to elaborate on the broadcasts that aired on NPR. Barton co-authored the book with him.
The first few chapters of Come Back to Afghanistan, covering Akbar’s stay in Kabul, are a little slow, but once he joins his father in Kunar, “a barren tribal area with a lot of chaos”, the pace picks up.
Working with his father, Akbar mingled with top officials in informal settings, which led to unusual perspectives on some important figures in Afghanistan’s history.
Akbar shows us the genteel side of Karzai, who was elected president in October 2004. The teen’s experiences with Rashid Dostum, a notorious warlord said to have crushed prisoners with tanks, takes us closer to the realities of war. David Passaro, a CIA contractor and the first civilian to be charged with prisoner abuse – thanks to testimony from Akbar and his father – also features in the story. (An FBI website – http://charlotte.fbi.gov/%20dojpressrel/2007/ce021307.htm– reports that Passaro was recently sentenced to eight years jail.)
Amazingly, this young writer manages to capture the essence of each person.
There is, for instance, Rauf Mama, Akbar’s uncle, who is one of the book’s most intriguing characters. A former front-line commander of Kunar’s Wahhabi party, Mama – who has only one eye, remnants of bullets lodged in the back of his hand and pieces of shrapnel in his forehead – comes across as the epitome of courage. He lost his eye in a land mine explosion, writes Akbar, and when “he felt his eye ball dangling, he reached up and ripped it out”.
Despite the sober subject matter, the novel has some humorous moments. Akbar writes engagingly of his attempts in Dubai’s airport to buy an airplane ticket back to Afghanistan from the snack bar operator, and of his adventure on the luggage conveyer belt at Kabul airport during a frantic search for a friend.
Amid descriptions of guerrilla warfare, terrorist attacks and political meetings, Akbar’s vivid descriptions of Kunar, Bajaur, Asadabad and the spectacular landscape of Nuristan reads like a travel guide – but one packed with fascinating supplementary information. Of course, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden’s hideout that became world famous after numerous mentions on CNN, spices up the travelogue.
Akbar paints a picture of a patriarchal society, rarely mentioning the role of Afghan women in the community. This is, I feel, an unfortunate omission, as women’s liberation is a significant issue in Afghanistan.
But Come Back to Afghanistan still provides a real understanding of a country that has been shuffled to the periphery of the world’s vision. It is a timely reminder – the paperback was released recently – in today’s Iraq-obsessed world that Afghanistan still needs help desperately.
Having said that, I guess it sounds incredible when I have to add that, after finishing this book, I felt an urge to go jaunting off to this remote land. Such is the power of this enlightening book.
Akbar, now a senior at Yale University, founded a non-governmental organisation called Wadan Afghanistan to build schools and construct pipe systems in Kunar. He is now 22 – and still leading an interesting life: in April, he was arrested, along with two other students, for burning an American flag (New Haven Register, April 4).
A Nigerian born in Britain and a diplomat’s daughter, Rabiatu Abubakar has travelled the world and learnt, after witnessing Somalia’s tragic civil war, that wars never solve problems. She is currently living in Malaysia.
Sunday September 2, 2007
Power to enlighten
By RABIATU ABUBAKAR
An account of a troubled land, written by a teenager no less, has our reviewer wanting to head off on an adventure.
COME BACK TO AFGHANISTAN
My Journey from California to Kabul
By Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 410 pages
(ISBN: 978-0747583660)
READING the first paragraph of Come Back to Afghanistan, I could immediately relate to Said Hyder Akbar’s description of Kabul International Airport. Having witnessed the civil war in Somalia, I am no stranger to airports that are falling apart.
According to Akbar, what you first notice is that the identifying letters on the roof look like they are about to fall off. Airplane parts, shredded metal and bullet-ridden walls are commonalities shared by airports in war-torn countries. They are testimony to the destruction humans are capable of.
Over the years, a plethora of books have been written about Afghanistan covering the 25 years of terrorist violence and political upheaval the country has experienced. Akbar himself refers to some of them. So, what makes his book different from these others?
Well, for one thing, the author is not a political pundit or history professor or journalist; he was, in fact, a high school teenager in 2002 when he began recording the wealth of details that went into this personal book.
The period in which Akbar collected his material is another difference, perhaps: unlike many of the other books, Come Back to Afghanistan had its gestation in those crucial years right after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
The Afghans were trying to get back on their feet then, after the US-led war to drive the extremist Taliban government out had succeeded (well, sort of). The Northern Alliance and US Special Forces had the Herculean task of rebuilding a ravaged country. It was a tentative peace, though, one rife with political dissent, tribal discontent, insurgencies and escalating terrorist attacks.
It was at this time that Akbar made a life-changing decision to join his father, Said Fazel Akbar, in Afghanistan.
In 1979, Said Fazel fled with his family to Pakistan, where his son was born in 1985, and then to the United States, where the boy grew up on pizza and U2. After receiving a phone call from old friend Hamid Karzai – who had just been made Chairman of the Transitional Administration – Said Fazel returned to Afghanistan in 2001 and became Karzai’s spokesman; he was later appointed governor of Kunar, a rural province.
In 2002, high-schooler Akbar was eager to join his father. And what began as a rather-more-exotic-than-usual summer vacation for the 17-year-old turned into a search for identity in his father’s troubled homeland.
Coincidentally, just before Said Fazel left for Afghanistan, father and son were interviewed on Afghan matters by Susan Burton, an NPR (American public radio service) reporter. When she discovered Akbar was going to join his father, Barton asked the teen to record “slice-of-life” segments for the station’s This
American Life programme. Hence, Akbar travelled everywhere with a tape recorder, a practice that stood him in good stead when he later decided to write a book to elaborate on the broadcasts that aired on NPR. Barton co-authored the book with him.
The first few chapters of Come Back to Afghanistan, covering Akbar’s stay in Kabul, are a little slow, but once he joins his father in Kunar, “a barren tribal area with a lot of chaos”, the pace picks up.
Working with his father, Akbar mingled with top officials in informal settings, which led to unusual perspectives on some important figures in Afghanistan’s history.
Akbar shows us the genteel side of Karzai, who was elected president in October 2004. The teen’s experiences with Rashid Dostum, a notorious warlord said to have crushed prisoners with tanks, takes us closer to the realities of war. David Passaro, a CIA contractor and the first civilian to be charged with prisoner abuse – thanks to testimony from Akbar and his father – also features in the story. (An FBI website – http://charlotte.fbi.gov/%20dojpressrel/2007/ce021307.htm– reports that Passaro was recently sentenced to eight years jail.)
Amazingly, this young writer manages to capture the essence of each person.
There is, for instance, Rauf Mama, Akbar’s uncle, who is one of the book’s most intriguing characters. A former front-line commander of Kunar’s Wahhabi party, Mama – who has only one eye, remnants of bullets lodged in the back of his hand and pieces of shrapnel in his forehead – comes across as the epitome of courage. He lost his eye in a land mine explosion, writes Akbar, and when “he felt his eye ball dangling, he reached up and ripped it out”.
Despite the sober subject matter, the novel has some humorous moments. Akbar writes engagingly of his attempts in Dubai’s airport to buy an airplane ticket back to Afghanistan from the snack bar operator, and of his adventure on the luggage conveyer belt at Kabul airport during a frantic search for a friend.
Amid descriptions of guerrilla warfare, terrorist attacks and political meetings, Akbar’s vivid descriptions of Kunar, Bajaur, Asadabad and the spectacular landscape of Nuristan reads like a travel guide – but one packed with fascinating supplementary information. Of course, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden’s hideout that became world famous after numerous mentions on CNN, spices up the travelogue.
Akbar paints a picture of a patriarchal society, rarely mentioning the role of Afghan women in the community. This is, I feel, an unfortunate omission, as women’s liberation is a significant issue in Afghanistan.
But Come Back to Afghanistan still provides a real understanding of a country that has been shuffled to the periphery of the world’s vision. It is a timely reminder – the paperback was released recently – in today’s Iraq-obsessed world that Afghanistan still needs help desperately.
Having said that, I guess it sounds incredible when I have to add that, after finishing this book, I felt an urge to go jaunting off to this remote land. Such is the power of this enlightening book.
Akbar, now a senior at Yale University, founded a non-governmental organisation called Wadan Afghanistan to build schools and construct pipe systems in Kunar. He is now 22 – and still leading an interesting life: in April, he was arrested, along with two other students, for burning an American flag (New Haven Register, April 4).
A Nigerian born in Britain and a diplomat’s daughter, Rabiatu Abubakar has travelled the world and learnt, after witnessing Somalia’s tragic civil war, that wars never solve problems. She is currently living in Malaysia.
Thai Food: Laab
Forget Tom Yum:-) Try 'Laab' - it's definitely one of the spiciest (and best) Thai dishes I've ever had
Suan Lum Night Bazaar
Crab curry
Green seafood curry
Souvenir stalls at Suan Lum Night Bazaar
Fancy clock designs
Raw crabs
T-shirts with funny messages
Frequently Asked Questions
1) Do you earn a lot of money conducting art classes/editing photos?
Lol, :-) well, you can earn a decent living as a digital artist, but you can’t be a millionaire unless you land a deal with Pixar/Disney.
In my case, I do find the additional income handy, but not sufficient for me to quit my full-time job
2) If your photo-editing income exceeds your salary, would you quit your full-time job?
Hell nooo... ;-) I’d go crazy if I were to edit thousands photos everyday. The reason why I can stay sane is because I listen to BBC Radio while clicking away on the com + I’m doing it as a hobby
But then again, if I strike it rich by winning a lottery, 3D or Toto,… ah… maybe I can then start a biz… (wishful thinking) - more exciting than editing photos 12 hours a day.
3) Would you start your own biz someday?
I can't foresee that happening in near future;-) But, hey... this is an interesting subj. So, let's talk abt it.
Now, starting a biz without substantial invesment capital is not easy, unless you have the vital skills (eg, for a low risk web-based biz, you need programming skills). Now, if I become good enough in Ruby on Rails & Ajax to create mashups, then … (Hey, why not start a biz?;-))
4) How did you get your first photo-editing project?
My sis, her friends & most Msian girls dislike the airbrushing technique of bridal boutiques – 90% of the time, their noses get erased (almost). I was already emceeing at wedding dinners prior to freelancing as a digital artist. A client casually asked if I could edit her photos (while retaining her natural looks), & that’s how I got my first so-called project ;-)
5) How much should I charge my clients?
Good question! That’s the biggest dilemma I have had when I first started out:-)
First of all, communicate with your clients. Find out what they want;-)
Do they want only simple editing (e.g, enhancing colour, improving blur photos)?
or
moderate editing work?
eg, remove spots (usually in scanned photos), erase zits
or
do they want complex photo editing work?
eg, digital boob job, eye job, liposuction, face lift, leg lengthening surgery, lip colouring, …?
A rough guide:-
a) Simple editing work – RM2-3, depending on volume (US$1)
b) Moderate editing work – RM4-6, depending on volume (US1.50-2)
c) Complex editing work – RM10-100, depending on complexity (US$4 – 30)
6) What career path did you take?
Off the beaten path, lol;-)
kitchen helper (I helped bake & sell cookies as young as 12) > shop attendant > waitress >door-to-door salesperson > event management > writing/editing school books > public relations > Sales/Marketing/PR
7) How long will I need to learn photo editing?
Only 3 hours - basic photo editing.
To be skilled at it, all you need is lots of practice after that :-)
Gippsland, Victoria
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south. The region is best known for its primary production such as mining, power generation and farming as well as its tourist destinations—Phillip Island, Wilsons Promontory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw Baw Plateau, the Strzelecki Ranges and the Gourmet Deli Region. Originally inhabited by the Gunai and Bunurong Aboriginal peoples, Samuel Anderson [1]a Scottish immigrant established the third permanent settlement in Victoria at Bass in 1835. European settlement began after two separate expeditions to the area. Angus McMillan led the first European expedition through the area between 1839 and 1840, naming the area "Caledonia Australis".[2] This was followed in March 1840 by Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, who unknowingly led his expedition across the same terrain already encountered by McMillan, renaming many natural landmarks and places. Following these expeditions, the area was officially given the title of "Gippsland", a name chosen by Strzelecki in honour of the New South Wales Governor, George Gipps, with whom Strzelecki had a close relationship.[3]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census reported a population of 239,647 for Gippsland, comprised of 80,115 in East Gippsland, 52,377 in South Gippsland, 33,632 in West Gippsland, and 73,477 in the Latrobe Valley statistical divisions.[4]
Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south. The region is best known for its primary production such as mining, power generation and farming as well as its tourist destinations—Phillip Island, Wilsons Promontory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw Baw Plateau, the Strzelecki Ranges and the Gourmet Deli Region. Originally inhabited by the Gunai and Bunurong Aboriginal peoples, Samuel Anderson [1]a Scottish immigrant established the third permanent settlement in Victoria at Bass in 1835. European settlement began after two separate expeditions to the area. Angus McMillan led the first European expedition through the area between 1839 and 1840, naming the area "Caledonia Australis".[2] This was followed in March 1840 by Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, who unknowingly led his expedition across the same terrain already encountered by McMillan, renaming many natural landmarks and places. Following these expeditions, the area was officially given the title of "Gippsland", a name chosen by Strzelecki in honour of the New South Wales Governor, George Gipps, with whom Strzelecki had a close relationship.[3]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census reported a population of 239,647 for Gippsland, comprised of 80,115 in East Gippsland, 52,377 in South Gippsland, 33,632 in West Gippsland, and 73,477 in the Latrobe Valley statistical divisions.[4]
Kim Chi, starfish & other stuff
Yummy Korean BBQ and kim chis :-)
A cute shop that caught my attention
My first time seeing a starfish ;-p
Magnolia
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