Sunday breezing

Borneo Post Keeping up with the trend
Borneo Post (BP) gave us a new look today but not with the tabloid size that is convenient to read (like those of NST and Star! I am impressed with the team of editors, sub-editors, layout artist and graphic artist. It’s about time they play around with photo cut-outs style.. and probably marking the success of their implementation of Adobe publishing system too (it looks like Adobe InDesign to me).

The only fall short of BP’s new look is (again, typical Sarawak) the font selection. I guess BP decided to cut the budget on purchasing of fonts. Even, when I was with Malaysian Today, the Management have decided not to buy any fonts and yet spent so much on the Editorial System from Tera Publishing.

I believe the good layout must be supplement by nice looking fonts. At least I have the urge to flip through their Post Mag (the pull out section). Stick with that font family for now and not to use too much fancy fonts and make the section looks like a cheap comic book!

And… they still decide to put on shelf their website! (not so Internet savvy yet huhh… )

MMC one day success!
This sight is common around Morsjaya Commercial Centre. However, yesterday (Saturday) we didn’t get to see this vendor selling their product at the car parks.

And, the success came only one day, when today, the vendors are back doing their business as usual. I can’t reason out why Miri City Council (MCC) still fails to manage this fruits and vegetable vendors. Yes, MCC did build a market place near the car park and cemetery but I guess the feng shui is not conducive to the Chinese traders. Or, MCC have failed to promote this market as a common trading place for vendors.

It’s just like some of our shopping mall – Pelita Tunku, who once was a landmark in Miri, but with poor event management, the mall failed to attract Miri residents to shop there and left the place almost dead, if not due to the government agencies who occupied the office floors. How would we able to attract tourist to shop in Miri? We just can’t sell our resort concept without explosive shopping events.

Enough with the car park vendors and poor event management, our traffic lights too need to be review and probably clean of the dust or better still a complete change. It is getting dimmer and dimmer! Drivers could hardly see the green light during bright sunny days. And the obvious traffic lights, are right in front the Miri Residence Office, just a few steps from MCC’s office! Gheeee………

On the brighter side, this Sunday, is the vocal Datuk Seri Tiong! I must admire this fella, just like Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik. If only our Dayak MPs and ADUNs are like him, I am sure we could have a better share of the Malaysian Plans. Anyway, not many of us know that Bintulu have a RM16 million budget for road repairs! I think the government agencies are still not transparent enough on their budget (and, I have yet to receive a reply from the email that I sent to the State Implementation and Monitoring Unit – can’t blame the webmaster tho’, it must be a slow mail server orite LOL) Blame it on the protocol!