Tuesday, February 6, 2018

I do not know from which school they are from. In tropical country like Malaysia, more than 200 days a year rain, when we expose soil will cause surface erosion then caused sedimentation in the river systems. When river water become milky, cloudy, and sedimentation then change the original form of water including water quality. This means that the pollution occurs. Those say logging not harming environment need to go back to school.

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Many not understand how good people developed. Not counting papers like many of our academician. We must produce something in science. Our academic leaders must change their mind set from numbers to quality if we want to be world class.

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Why they cut the tree. They should cut grasses. Manu trees planted by the contractors died because of the grass cutter. We need to teach them. The contractors not just waiting for money but must give good service.

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Issue discussed in recent workshop and seminar was very hot and focus on water supply in the future and illegal logging. May be pub;ic still not very concern about effect of logging on the environment and water resources. Catchment areas should not be logged and must be kept for ever. More education and research need to be done. Younger generation must understand and support this effort for their future need.

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Plastic pollution not just in town but in rural areas too. In fact every where and finally go to the sea caused disaster to marine life. We cannot avoid using plastic and not that easy because every body got to use with plastic in their life. may be we need to educate them about plastic and teach them about managing the plastic.

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Still remember how we discuss on the salary scheme for lecturers in the public university. We compared with other universities in the world, publication, economy status of the country and general productivity. Malaysian lecturers should get higher pay. than now. After retire may be I should focus on the contract professor, sharing courses among the universities in Malaysia and may be Asean countries. With current ICT and IR4.0 trend may be this suggestion is relevant.

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