It’s All In The Planning!

Dear reader,
Thank you for visiting this blog on the WordPress server.
For the past year, I had been penning my thoughts here but effective mid-July, I have moved my blog to its new home at ssquah.activeknights.org
Please click here to take you to the new home of It’s All In The Planning!
Regards
Quah, Seng-Sun
Penang, Malaysia

Do you think it is really possible to clean up the state of Penang, or for that matter, just Penang island?
If the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) is to be believed, it’s possible. MPPP president Datuk Zainal Rahim Seman said on 5 Jun 2007 that all he needed was six months to make this a [...]

It seems that Penang’s problems with infrastructure is being thrusted into the limelight again. For the first time, the Penang Bridge was closed to traffic yesterday from about 4.30pm until 7pm for reasons other than bridge runs or some mass community events.
Reason? Some dumb ball-less, spineless characters planted a suspected, so-called pipe bomb wedged in [...]

Today marks the day that Firefly starts its operations out of Penang as the nation’s first community airline. Firefly, a 100% subsidiary company of Malaysia Airlines Berhad, took off on its maiden commercial flight from the Bayan Lepas International Airport to Kota Bharu at 6.55am.
It’s a very modest airline, serviced by two Fokker 50 aircraft [...]

I’ve just created a new category for this blog and I call it Penang because I’m a proud Penangite and I will always care for this place called Penang. I’ve also transferred a few pertinent stories from the General category to here because it is where they belong.
There’s no place like home and Penang is [...]

I stay on the mainland but that does not mean I’m insensitive to the transportation problems faced by my insular island cousins.
On the contrary, as one that grew up on the island before transplanting myself to the mainland some 28 years ago, I feel for those people who are pained by the inadequate public transport [...]

I used to live in Seberang Jaya on mainland Penang. Then, more than two years ago, I moved to Bukit Mertajam for a change of scenery.
At that time, the Butterworth Outer Ring Road was being built. One end starts at Prai/Taman Inderawasih and the other end starts at Bagan Ajam. So it is very logical [...]

Deja vu. It has happened again. A horrendous traffic jam on Penang island caused by a stupid accident on the Penang bridge on Friday (24 Nov 2006). Only this time, unlike three years ago, I barely managed to avoid getting caught in the bridge jam.
Click here to read the rest of this post on my [...]

Traffic during the past one week has been so very hectic here in Penang. It has been a while since I experienced such congestion on the island and it took a bit of streetwise knowledge to use the minor roads and evade the jams.
Living on the mainland has not spared anyone too, especially if you [...]