Sustainable Land Transport-2016

1. The transportation sector in Malaysia accounts for approximately 35% of the total energy consumed nationally and produced nearly 50 million metric tons (Mt) of CO2 peryear.  85% of transport emissions, comes from road transport.  Due to the high rate of personal automobile ownership, cars account for about 59% of the overall emissions, while freight is responsible for 27%. 
2. Malaysia had been working with the German Technical Cooperation, Project Transport and Climate Change (GIZ TCC) team to produce a stocktaking report on sustainable transport and climate change. The report provides the picture of the transport sector and transport-related GHG emissions and mitigation policies in Malaysia. This report will be the basis of our mitigation action towards the sustainable transport and climate change.  Finalized in November 2016, this report is timely, as guidance towards our initiative in determining the national contribution for the energy sector.
3. This is going to be a challenging task to Malaysia, as the growing awareness of environmental issues involves various parties and we often find that most of the measures are oriented towards manufacturers and somehow focused on limited and specific areas.  We also noted the challenges in policy, physical and infrastructure to overcome the barriers towards energy efficiency and reducing GHG emissions.
4. Our mitigation actions that are already on-going includes encouraging the usage of public transportation by developing more accessible light commuter rail, shifting the movement from road to rail by introducing the electric train system (ETS), and promoting integrating freight hub to optimize route and load for goods vehicle.
5. The Expert Group on Sustainable Land Transport (EGSLT) under the ASEAN Land Transport Working Group is established to support the Sustainable Transport Strategic Thrust in the Kuala Lumpur Strategic Transport Plan (KLTSP) 2016-2025.  This is a regional level project that aims to develop an ASEAN Strategy to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the land transport sector. The EGSLT is an ad hoc group, to act as consultative platform to mainstream the issue of sustainable transport and to institutionalize it. The EGSLT will be supported by the ASEAN-GIZ TCC. Malaysia is the co-chair for the first EGSLT Meeting which was held in Kuala Lumpur on 10th November 2016. 
6. Malaysia through our Logistics and Trade Facilitation Masterplan supported the sustainable development goals by planning to provide green initiative support as well as promote the efficient urban logistics. One of the strategic shift is to achieve continuous supply chain innovation through the adoption of future trends such as green logistics and urban logistics solutions to ensure that the industry remains relevant to meet future needs.
7. Launched in March 2015, the first phase of the Masterplan focused on debottlenecking. This is the phase where all the root causes that impedes the development of logistics industry being addressed.  On-going initiatives includes improving the last mile connectivity in our major port, Port Klang and enhancing infrastructure capacity at the Padang Besar Terminal, the entry point for trading across borders at our northern part. 
8. Port Klang, our busiest port, ranked 13 in the world busiest ports.  With the rapid demands in logistics services development, the last mile connectivity at the area is prone to the road congestion, critical roads conditions as well as the air pollution due to the gases emitted by the vehicles.  By improving the last mile connectivity, the efficiency of road transportation will be enhanced, resulting in less congestion and less waiting time for trucks and lorries, thus, less emissions.  At the same time this will also encourage other logistics supporting activity in that area. 
9. Padang Besar Terminal is the main entry point for containers movement from our northern neighbor states. It provides movement by using the train from the entry point to the neighboring port, the Penang Port.  For the time being, we are enhancing the yard capacity to accommodate more volume of containers, as well as increasing the efficiency of cargo handling and improving numbers of train services in order to shift the movement of goods from road to rail. 
10. Malaysia is working to provide more support towards the green and sustainable logistics development. Among the initiatives includes promoting the green design and purchasing and reverse logistics and optimizing the routes and load carried by the goods vehicles. Currently, Malaysia and other ASEAN member states are working with the Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on promoting the green logistics measure and best practices in the region.  

Down

Salam,

Selamat berpuasa.

Beberapa minggu ni, laptop saya down, bila dah repair, connection pulak down. Banyak masa saya dihabiskan di luar. Buat kerja luar.

Baru saya teringat yang saya kena buat TNT.

Terima kasih.

Janam janam

Fell in love with this song! :)

Pekerja Asing

Kecoh pasal nak masukkan Bangladeshi seramai 1.5 juta orang.

Yang orang tak tahu,

tak ramai nak kerja di ladang,

tak ramai  nak kerja buruh binaan,

tak ramai nak berpanas susun kargo,

tak ramai nak cuci toilet kat mall, airport, RNR,

tak ramai yang nak jadi tukang angkut barang perabot,

tukang cuci meja makan.

Mungkin ramai nak, tapi tak puas hati dengan gaji. 

Memang kalau kira penyebabnya orang Malaysia juga. 

Nak makan murah, 

Nak bayar gaji orang murah,

Nak servis semua benda murah,

Nak kos untuk semua urusan rendah.

Tapi,

Barang-barang jualan mahal,

Rumah pun mahal,

Sedangkan,

Gaji kecil sangat. Sebab gaji saja yang boleh diubah-ubah, sedangkan kos lain adalah mengikut kuasa pasaran global. 

Ramai sebenarnya, bukan tak mahu kerja berat, ada yang mencuba, tapi tak tahan, dan secara automatik menyebabkan kos meningkat kepada penyedia perkhidmatan. 

Kos recruitment, kos training, kos uniform, semua tu perlu diambil kira untuk hire pekerja. Tapi pekerja, kerja dua minggu (true story) terus tak sanggup, lepas tu berhenti. Belum pulang pun lagi modal recruitment, training and uniform. 

Sedangkan ada majikan yang offer bagus, with benefits for medical, etc tapi entahlah, mungkin sebab orang Malaysia sekarang terlalu manja. 

Tapi tak perlulah nak bising sangat, sebabnya, keputusan untuk buat apa-apa secara besar-besaran ni bukan terletak di tangan seorang Menteri saja. Ada SOP semua perkara ini dan permintaan ini bukan datang dari Menteri saja, Menteri cuma mewakili permintaan dari seluruh industri contohnya, perladangan, pembinaan, pengangkutan/pengendalian kargo, restoran, spa, pencucian dan pembersihan dan lain-lain.

Memang ada industri yang hampir lumpuh sebab tak cukup pekerja, tidak dinafikan yang puncanya bukanlah 100% masalah pekerja, ada isu kecekapan perkhidmatan juga, tapi...

Terpulanglah. 

Be rationale.

Dalam setiap apa yang diputuskan harapnya ada jugalah jalan untuk mengatasi kebergantungan kepada pekerja asing ni.

InsyaAllah.

Talks. Gossip.

Now sibuk pasal perceraian artis tu.

Satu jer.

Nak tengok if the (ex) in laws would treat the kids as good as they treat the other kid from the first marriage. 

Sebab selama ni katanya, hubungan cucu-nenek-atuk-makcik-pakcik-whatever tu menyebabkan diorang masih lagi rapat.

Well I would like to see what happen next.

Take care.

Talk : Malas

Malas nak tulis apa pun.

Tak tahu. Tak tahu dan tak tahu. 

Malas. Malas. Malas. Malas. 

Kenapa perangai sesetengah orang adalah pelik. 

My magic phrase this year would be

My happiness comes from me~

Thoughts : Perasaan

Biasa orang kata bila usia dah meningkat, kadar metabolisma pun makin mengurang. Macam, masa umur 20 tahun kita makan apa apa je... cepat je dicerna tapi bila dah umur 30 tahun... nak makan banyak pun tak larat. Dan makan sikit pun cepat je jadi gemuk! Makanan dah susah nak dicerna... 

Begitu juga perasaan. Masa umur 20an.. mudah je perasaan tu datang dan pergi. But when in 30s... perasaan susah nak hilang. Walau dah tahu baik buruk, betul salah, masih juga nak teruskan. 

What say you?

Thoughts : TASKA

Assalamualaikum!

TASKA - Taman Asuhan Kanak-Kanak.

I am incharge of TASKA at my office. Quite funny considering I don't have kids and husband even. But it's okay, others are too busy to be managing something out of actual job tasks. Like I am too free to be doing this, but hey, that's okay. I love learning. 

The chaos started today as I was informed that the demand is more than what we can provide. The quota for children under 1 year old are only 10 while up to this afternoon there are 18 babies! So this afternoon I was busy discussing with my committee on how could we prevent this/improve this situation. 

From our observation we found out that the operator might just had simply accepted each and every application without considering the conditions that we have agreed upon like this TASKA is opened only to those parent working at this building. and the MOT's staff had the first priority. 

I think there might be a need to hold the operation for one week. I am gonna have a discussion with the owner and I shall see what excuses she's gonna tell me tomorrow. 

I am too soft-hearted sometimes. I have to be more.... tegas.

Wish me luck!

There will be a fire drill tomorrow. Malasnya.

Talks : Ties

This conversation I had with my girl friends. One of us is getting married in May, and she asked me how much would it cost to organize a wedding reception. 

I know that I am still not married but I've prepared for the reception for my brothers and sister like 4 times so maybe that's why she asked me. 

The details would be how many invitees, from there the cost could be estimated. I didn't really pay attention to the foods and beverages part as my father did most of the things at home, but I'd say that it would be much reasonable to have people cooking at the wedding place. Like rewang and she said that's what being practised at her home town. 

She's also asked our views on pre-nup and we was like, for what? Since both of them are singles, I didn't really think pre-nup would be practical and I think that it should be a discussion between her and her partner. 

Anyway, my aunt will be getting married in February while one of my father's cousin-his son will also be getting married on February. This uncle, though long distance in family but has always been a close family to us since we're living in the same village and he had helped us a lot since mum's left. 

So, I think I would be back home, insyaAllah for the uncle's son's wedding instead of my aunt's. 

Takpela kalau tak faham.

Oh, by the way, happy new year! :)