The Likas skate park test ride...

tight bowl carving
checking the scene
Quater to quater attempt

2 weeks ago, I headed down in Kota Kinabalu, I managed to search down the likas skatepark out in the sports centre, placed at some akward corner at the end of a large carpark. The park was awsome with heaps of hips and gaps and transfers, sadly all i had was my Jump bike, would have been amazing with the Bmx.....

photocredits: Tim Cockrill

'Teach For Malaysia' Programme To Draw Bright Graduates To Serve In Rural Areas - Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 (Bernama) -- The government will launch a high-profile "Teach for Malaysia" programme to attract the best and brightest graduates to teach for two years at underperforming or rural schools.

According to the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP) tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday, the measure is to increase the graduate teachers from 89.4 per cent in 2009 to 90 per cent by 2015 in secondary schools and from 28 per cent in 2009 to 60 per cent by 2015 for primary schools.

Under the programme, top graduates under corporate sponsorship will be encouraged to participate in the programme prior to returning to work with their employers.

They will enter a fast-track training programme where they will receive intensive training in the latest teaching methods.

To ensure a higher minimum quality for new teachers, guaranteed placement for teacher trainees in Institutions of Teacher Education (ITEs) and public universities will be removed.

Currently the teacher trainees are guaranteed placements in schools regardless of how they have performed.

There are currently 175,000 applicants to become teachers and every year, up to 20,000 new teachers are placed into schools.

However, many applicants do not have the right aptitude and attitude for becoming teachers, 10MP noted.

Measures to improve teacher training:

* Postgraduate teaching course will be extended from one year to one-and-a-half years
* State education departments will coordinate the practicum programme
* Experienced teachers in qualifying schools will be provided with mentoring courses to upgrade their capabilities
* The quality of the practicum training provided will be linked to the performance evaluation of the school and mentor teachers

From: BERNAMA

2010 Bicycle Film festival is here!

For dates and shows check out their website here

Curly B, Verde Bike check

Buddy of mine from Singapore with his Verde.....Word.

Curly B Verde Cartel V2 Bike Check from SSTBMXTV on Vimeo.

Spanish Sahara, Foals

This has truly gotten me to get building this week

Coal plant to be made on paradise, Sabah, Malaysia

By Jeremy Hance (mongabay.com)

With the world's eyes on the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, many are beginning to ponder the rightness of not just America's, but the world's dependence on fossil fuels. Yet large-scale fossil-fuel energy projects continue to march ahead, including one in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo to build a 300 MW coal plant, which has come under fierce opposition from locals (already the project has been forced to move locations twice). The newest proposal will build the coal plant, as photos below reveal, on an undeveloped beach overlooking the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine environments, with transmission lines likely running through nearby pristine rainforest that are home to several endangered species, including orangutans and Bornean rhinos.

A group of NGOs that oppose the coal plant, known as Green SURF (Sabah Unite to Re-power the Future), warn that the plant will come with a host of environmental problems, including discharges of chlorine and sulfates into the ocean, sulfur dioxide emissions that could cause acid rain, thermal pollution, and the need for new transmission lines, infrastructure, and cargo to carry coal from mines south in Kalimantan. Green SURF has recently conducted an energy audit that showed Sabah has the capacity to develop cost-competitive power needs from a variety of other non-fossil fuel options, including palm oil biomass, solar, and hydrological.

To voice your opinion on the coal plant visit Green SURF. There are a number of campaigns, including a post card campaign, a petition, a Facebook group, and general information onSource Watch.

Primary rainforest, incredible biodiversity, and a host of endangered species, Tabin Wildlife Reserve is one of the treasures of Borneo. Transmission lines for the coal plant may cut close to the reserve, in addition, acid rain could bring pollution to the fragile environment. Photo by: Cede Prudente.

Paddling in Tun Sakaran Marine Park. Photo by: Yee I-Lann.

The coal plant will be built on the northern edge of Lahad Datu Bay. Photo by: Cede Prudente.