BERTUKAR

5 Jamadil Akhir 1423 H

550pm

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Ahad ku tidak ketat sangat minggu ini. Jadi aku ringan-ringankan tangan untuk update laman kesayangan aku ini. 

Entry kali ini masih berkisar tentang kehidupan ku kebelakangan ini. Bukan mudah untuk aku coretkan sesuatu di sini jika ikut kan mata aku yang asyik kuyu sahaja sejak akhir-akhir ini. Entah apa yang aku mengantuk sangat.

Baiklah. Kali ini aku dengan rasminya mengumumkan di laman ini yang aku telah dengan izinhNYA selamat bertukar. Bertukar? Tukar apa?

Selamat bertukat tempat kerja. 

MIR Valve Sdn. Bhd.

Setinggi penghargaan aku ucapkan kepada my Boss, Philip Wong. Banyak sangat tolong meng'build up' my career. Dengan kepercayaan yang diberikan, akhirnya aku dapat menjiwai segala gerak kerja as Technical Costing Engineer. 

Bukan mudah untuk aku menyaluti kepada otak ini berkenaan dengan pelbagai material yang ada di atas muka bumi ALLAH ni. Daripada basic material as Carbon Steel until Duplex SS dan lain-lain. Daripada forging material aku mengenali casting material. Daripada yield strength aku dapat tahu kelebihan setiapa material yang digunakan.

Ada juga entry-entry sebelum ini yang aku bercerita mengenai ball valve kan. Semua nya kerana pembacaan demi pembacaan yang aku buat selama aku di posisi TC Eng. 

Jika sebelum ini aku hanya tahu ASME B16.34 itu hanya surface sahaja, kini aku tahu pentingnya standard ASME B16.34 dalam dunia material. 

Sebelum ini aku tidak pernah dengar mengenai API 6D, kini aku sudah tahu bukan sahaja API 6D, tapi aku juga mengetahui berkenaan API6D SS dan API 6A. 

Banyak standard yang aku pelajari sepanjang aku di MIR. Terima kasih kepada Chuah KL and Siti Aishah. 

Banyak rupanya yang aku pelajari sepanjang di MIR. Tapi jodoh kami tak panjang, cuma sepuluh bulan sahaja aku bersama Engineering Department. Namun sepanjang disana, element kekeluargaan yang terbina menyebabkan aku senang untuk disamaping mereka.

Transwater API Sdn. Bhd.

Kini aku sudah bertukar syarikat. Masih lagi dalam dunia Valve. Jika di MIR aku bergelumang dengan ball valve. Kali ini aku bergelumang pula dengan Pressure Safety Valve and Pressure Relief Valve. 

Bermula semula episod pembacaan aku dengan standard yang dipakai. Contohnya API 520, API 526 and API 527. Jadi aku tidak lah boleh berceloteh panjang sangat kerana aku masih mencari rentak untuk memulakan dunia baharu. 

Di TW aku diletakan di Valve Division-Project.

Chhoooowww.

-khai. M-

RAHSIA EMAS 

Dedahkan Maklumat Loji Lynas: Pakar Geologi

8 Jamadil Awwal 1423 H

837am

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Aku petik, from Topeng Perak Unmask

Kedua-dua kerajaan Australia dan Lynas Corporation digesa tampil menjawab banyak... soalan yang masih belum dijawab berhubung loji pemprosesan nadir bumi yang sedang dibina di Gebeng dekat Kuantan, kata seorang bekas pakar geologi kanan kerajaan.


Bekas pegawai Jabatan Penyiasatan Kajibumi Malaysia (GSM) itu juga berkata, ketiadaan ketelusan bermakna sukar bagi pihak ketiga dengan kepakaran teknikal untuk menawarkan pandangan mengenai kemungkinan bahaya alam sekitar ekoran kerja-kerja pemprosesan itu.

“Ada banyak soalan tanpa jawapan,” kata Wong Yew Choong kepada The Malaysian Insider semalam.


Wong berkata beliau telah menjalankan siasatan mengenai radiasi kepada GSM, yang kini sebahagian daripada Jabatan Mineral dan Geosains lewat 1980-an bagi loji Asian Rare Earth (ARE) di Bukit Merah. Loji itu kemudian ditutup pada 1992 ekoran protes awam.


Hampir dua dekad kemudian loji itu yang dikaitkan dengan lapan kes leukemia di kalangan penduduk tempatan masih berhadapan dengan kerja-kerja pembersihan yang menelan kos RM303 juta.


Lynas berharap untuk memulakan operasinya di Gebeng menjelang September ini, untuk bersaing dengan China yang menguasai 95 peratus pasaran nadir bumi. Syarikat itu menjangkakan pulangan hampir RM8 bilion setahun bermula 2013.


Bagaimanapun di sebalik krisis nuklear di Jepun ekoran bencana berganda baru-baru ini, laporan New York Times mengenai operasi itu awal bulan ini menyebabkan kebimbangan dan mencetuskan polemik baru mengenai isu tersebut.


Sehubungan itu, Wong berkata, seolah-olah kelihatan sebagai “rahsia kerajaan tidak membolehkan rakyat mengetahui butiran projek yang sedang dibangunkan itu.”“

Rakyat seharusnya boleh memperoleh pandangan pihak ketiga, bukan daripada kerajaan ataupun Lynas, mengenai kesemua aspek,” kata beliau.Lynas berulang kali menegaskan, logam nadir bumi yang akan diproses di Gebeng hanya mempunyai dua peratus elemen radioaktif, torium yang wujud dalam bahan mentah digunakan di Bukit Merah.


Bagaimanapun, Wong berkata menurut tulisan akhbar Amerika Syarikat itu loji tersebut akan memproses 10 kali ganda nadir bumi dan boleh menyebabkan jumlah sisa pembuangan radioaktif dalam jumlah yang banyak.


“Sementara saya ragu-ragu dengan respons bahawa bahan mentah hanya akan mempunyai 0.16 peratus kandungan torium, ia masih satu kadar yang besar jika mereka hendak memproses beratus tan bahan mentah,” katanya lagi.


Malah kata beliau, bahaya radiasi akan terus mengalami pertumbuhan daripada himpunan sisa buangan dan juga debu yang dilepaskan ketika pemprosesan.


Pakar alam sekitar dan penduduk di Kuantan menuntut butiran operasi loji itu daripada Lynas dan pihak berkuasa tempatan.

 -khai. M-

RAHSIA EMAS 

Gempa Sana Gempa Sini

5 Jamadil Awwal 1423 H

104pm

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Sekarang ni di bumi ALLAH gempa seperti saling 'sahut menyahut'. Masih belum stop sejak kejadian Tsunami di Jepun tempoh hari. Kalau bukan Islam mereka akan percaya itu adalah lumrah alam, mungkin.

Tapi kita sebagai umat Muhammad yang beragama Islam dan mempunyai Iman, perlualah percaya dan beringat. Itulah tandanya kiamat makin dekat. 

Sudah banyak tanda-tandanya ALLAH tunjukan. Tapi sejak akhir-akhir ini petunjuk tersebut makin jelas. 

Jom kawan-kawan dan sahabat-sahabt sekalian. Kita kurangkan dunia, lebih kan akhirat. Selagi belum terlambat ni kan. Semoga ALLAH menerima amalan-amalan kita yang ikhlas terhadapNya. Ameen.

Abu Hurairah berkata, “Nabi bersabda, ‘Tidak akan tiba hari kiamat sehingga ilmu pengetahuan (agama) dilenyapkan, banyak gempa bumi, masa saling berdekatan (semakin singkat), banyak timbul fitnah, banyak huru-hara yaitu pembunuhan, hingga harta benda melimpah ruah di antara kamu.’”

 -khai. M-

RAHSIA EMAS 

PRR2

823am

3 Jamadil Awwal 1423 H 

 

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

 

Alhamdullilah, penat otak aku memikirkan pasal projek PRR2 akhirnya berhasil bila MV berjaya mendapatkan projek tersebut. Nama penuh projek ni kalau dalam Bahasa Melayu ialah Projek Peremajaan & Pembaikan di Petronas Gas Kerteh.

 

256 biji valve. Memang pening kepala juga aku buat projek tu. Tapi bila dah dapat ni lega rasanya hati.

 

10 bulan aku di MV ni, aku dah berjaya mendapatkan dua projek besar. Tapi MV tak kenang pun jasa staf yang bekerja berat untuk dapatkan projek-projek ni. Terutamanya kami di Engineering Department. 

Kesian kan. Alright. Roger.

 -khai. M-

 

RAHSIA EMAS 

KUANTAN TEMPAT PEMBUANGAN "sampah" TERMAJU: SAVE KUANTAN

745pm

19 Rabiul Akhir 1432 H

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Penting untuk semua warga Kuantan mengetahui tentang perkara ini. SAVE KUANTAN.

I understand some of you in Kuantan will be attending various forums & meetings to discuss / appeal against this sad decision and I guess what I'm trying to do here is to perform analysis of all the available data, try and compile it and provide as much useful information to you guys as possible so you have more than enough facts to fight the case.

As you all in Kuantan already know, Lynas Corporation from Australia is going to open the world's largest Rare Earth processing plant in Kuantan. Rare Earth processing plants are notorious for leaving behind radioactive waste / by-products which contains Thorium - something they say is slightly radioactive, but slightly doesn't mean it's safe, especially the significant amount (22,000 tonnes per year) they will be dealing with at this "largest plant" in the world. In fact this has happened in our country before at Bukit Merah, Perak which is crowned the "LARGEST radioactive waste site in Asia", and due to serious health issues (Cancers, birth defects etc) & pressure from local residents the mine was finally forced to close in 1992 but the secretive $100 million radiation cleanup is still going on until today, quietly not to cause any panic. The Kuantan plant will be the first of such dangerous plant built outside China in the past 30 years! NO other country in this world is willing to allow this sort of plant to be build in their land. Is Malaysia that desperate???  Even in China, the largest of such plant is located in Inner Mongolia, far away from major cities. The Kuantan plant is in Gebeng, only 25 km away. The Kuantan plant is in the final stages of construction and is planned to start operation somewhere between July-Sep 2011. We certainly do not need another contaminated town /toxic dumpsite but if nothing is done about it - Kuantan will be a disaster waiting to happen. Increased low level background radiation aside, possibility of radiation slowly seeping into the air, rivers, sea water & the fishes you eat aside, if an accident / fire / natural disaster ever hit the plant, of it the container ship ever sinks it will be a major tragedy for all people living around the area. The Tsunami in Japan today re-validates this strong point, with major oil refineries caught on fire & nuclear power stations on emergency shutdown fearing radiation leakage caused by damages from the Tsunami hit. Oh, and if they don't store the waste, they are considering plans to recycle the radioactive waste to be converted into materials used for building roads. Either way, good luck! 

Don't believe if they tell you that no radiation will be released into the air or water. Maybe not significant amount but certainly not 100% zero, especially when accumulated over time. Thorium has a half-life of 14.05 billion years, which means it emits radiation forever. What the plant will be processing is rare earth dug up from underground, not sure how much dust will be generated in the factory / released into the environment / how much close contact the workers will have with the rare earth dust during processing. What we do know is that the plant will release waste water (equivalent to 3 olympic sized swimming pool) back into the surrounding rivers EVERY DAY. They say the waste water fill be filtered / decontaminated and also the surrounding air monitored for radiation. But who does the reading & monitoring? Someone from Lynas? Someone from the government? Do you trust their readings with your life? The only people you can trust are "independent" environmental scientists hired by the Kuantan community itself. Best to do a baseline radiation reading now BEFORE they start operating, then continue measuring the levels periodically and properly document all results. (If the radiation readings does go up over time then this can be a very powerful evidence to use for future complaints / negotiations / even court cases)       

Now the golden question why Malaysia and why Kuantan. There is no way Lynas would be allowed to open this sort of processing plant in Australia, they probably would spend the next 5 years waiting for it to be debated in parliament. So naturally the next best choice is China since it's the "only" Country in the world to be processing Rare Earth at the moment. So Lynas originally applied to open the processing plant in China but China imposed all sorts of restrictions & taxation on them (so as to protect their local industry). 

So Lynas had to look around for any other countries willing to allow them to built the plant there. Remember this, NO one else want this kind of dirty work in their country. No one until recently Malaysia, possibly too desperate for foreign investment to a point where the government offered Lynas Corp 12 YEARS TAX EXEMPTION for opening this dirty plant in Kuantan! YES 12 YEARS TAX FREE for dumping toxic waste in our land! And do you know they originally wanted to open the plant in Terengganu but was totally rejected by PAS due to concerns of the people's health & safety there? Makes you wonder how much the politicians in Kuantan actually cares for the people who voted for them. Oh, and the 2 MCA reps who got a free tour of the mining site in Australia back in 2009 (hosted by Lynas of course) and they came back from the trip all smiling and giving the all OK it is absolutely safe, nothing to worry about. So many people in the internet forums have challenged these 2 MCA reps to move their family to Gebeng next to the factory since they claim it's totally safe. So far no answer from them. 

Maybe the politicians are thinking it will benefit the local community? What benefit? The gigantic plant only creates 350 jobs (for those who's willing to work in there), and we're NOT charging Lynas any TAX at all for doing the dirtiest work in our land, not for the next 12 YEARS!!! If the Government is not collecting any tax for this huge operation than how is this all gonna benefit the local community???? The profit from the business entity is not public spending money one would imagine. 

This might just be a start. Kuantan has recently been designated as Malaysia's first Special Economy Zone (complete with tax exemptions, import and export duties exemptions etc.), all designed to attract super heavy (and sometimes questionable) industries like Lynas to setup plants in the area especially Gebeng & Pekan. The main concern with this tax free bring in whatever approach will attract more and more high environmental risk industries such as Lynas, Toxic Chemical plants, high polluting industries, basically anything that will have trouble opening / operating in developed countries. Also remember first choice for western companies to setup any manufacturing plants will be China. Malaysia can never beat China in terms of cost tax free or not and it's only when China rejects then only we get the leftovers (or riskier ones) like Lynas. And if the local politicians continue to have their way who knows one day Kuantan may even be used as toxic waste dump site for heavy metals, toxic chemicals or radioactive waste coming from developed countries. 

But here is something more scary to think about the "possibility" of Kuantan's future. It is already clearly mentioned in the news that Malaysia is planning for Nuclear Power Plants. And remember the waste element generated by the Lynas plant, Thorium? Well it appears that the next generation Nuclear Power Plants being developed runs on Thorium (google it). If you put the 2 together, doesn't it make sense for the government to build Malaysia's first Nuclear Power Plant near the Thorium source, in Gebeng? Scary thought for Kuantan's future isn't it? 

Lynas can say they have all the strictest safety policies & procedures in place, but the plant will mostly be operated by local Malaysian (famous for tidak-apa attitude & not the best work ethics in the world). Lynas need to understand that Malaysia is different from Australia in the sense there is not a strong occupational health & safety culture / it's loosely enforced. Unlike Australia where they take health & safety and environmental issues extremely seriously to a point every business is so scared of being fined or sued for the silliest little things. In Malaysia things may be a little more "loose" at times. Malaysian workers sometimes do not follow the rules by the book 100%. A tiny mistake or slacking or someone forgetting a tiny procedure may end up in disaster, especially in dangerous plants like this.  

 

Plus in one of the video news reports below, somewhere it mentioned that it only took MPK (the city council) 1 day to approve this hi-risk mega project. Makes you wonder how much feasibility study, environmental impact & community safety evaluation was done. Or they just based their decision on whatever paperwork Lynas supplied them?  

Another key concern is that Lynas in Australia even though a public listed company, is considered small compared to the real big miners like BHP & Rio Tinto. Lynas has been a mining exploration company and this is only their first real mining campaign. In other words they are NOT an experienced mining company with several mega mining projects running around the world. If this is their first real life mining production project, we better hope nothing will go wrong in their first ever processing plant in Kuantan. What's worst they are losing money. Lynas Corporation reported negative cash flow of $23.91m for quarter ended 30 June 2010, possibly because they haven't started making any money. And their dream is to challenge China who already monopolised the Rare Earth industry globally. I guess the point with all this economic data is that IF the business doesn't work out and the plant in Kuantan needs to be closed down, or they decide to move the plant to another even cheaper country then good luck with cleaning up the radioactive waste. Japan's Mitsubishi Chemicals spent $100million decontaminating Bukit Merah plant, not too sure what sort of obligations Lynas has if they go bankrupt / change focus into mining something else.        

 

 

It would also be a good idea to work with others who are already fighting the case, help educate the public and gather more support from the general population in Kuantan (who mostly may not be as well informed / educated or just plain ignorant). Once there is enough people from the population supporting the cause, everyone can sign a formal petition to the Malaysian Government, Lynas Corp and even the Australian Green Party (who I believe is being contacted by Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh to help pressure Lynas Corp). It is good that the international media is already providing a lot of coverage on this issue and if the signed petition is made known to the media internationally it will be made very very public and it will be much harder for the parties involved to not seriously consider the local residents' petition. Lynas Corp for one will need to be very careful when handling such a public issue as they are a public listed company and the last thing they want after they start operation is for every single cancer / birth defect case in Kuantan after that to be a lawsuit for compensation. Open long-winded public lawsuits like that can't be good for their brand & business and definitely won't be good for their share prices. As for the local state government in Kuantan, the last thing they want is to lose power in the next election so if enough people in Kuantan sign the petition, they will probably think twice before making any further decisions which will make them very unpopular. 

 

Here are some key people already campaigning hard for Kuantan and they really need more support:

Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh

Dr. Jayabalan A. Thambyappa (experienced in the Bukit Merah case)

-khai. M-

EMAS, JOM KITA BACA

RJ Buat Hal Lagi

My PC @ MV
0845am
8 Muharram 142 H / 14 Dec 2010



Assalamualaikum w.b.t

Pernah aku buat entry pasal mamat ni. Semalam dia buat hal lagi. Siap pakai nama manager lain konon. Apa da. Nasib baik beliau tua daripada aku. Kalau tak, lama dah aku hempuk kepala dia. Sebab soalan bodoh dia la. 

Selama aku buat technical part, baca sepc from customer and others, F51 tidak pun bermaksud metal seat. Nasib baik ada hormat lagi aku pada orang tua.

Kalau macam ini lah perangai orang yang lebih tua. Tak menunjukan contoh yang baik kepada staf lain. Dia hanya tahu ampu boss dan sebagianya. Sebab time dia dia nak sound orang semua boss dia akan CC. Tunjuk dia paling bagus la. Ada aku kisah. Aku tak reply pun email dia. Buat bodoh.

Aku nak tunjuk email dia yang 1st time dulu:

Tolong la kawan-kawan… Tolong la. Saya tujukan pada kita semua (bukan pada Khairul Afizan shj): Kita semua mesti tak suka kena sound kan. Tapi kalau kualiti kerja kita macam ini, sedangkan kita tahu kita boleh buat yang lebih baik, memang kita akan kena sound. Jadi terimalah teguran dgn hati yang terbuka dan tunjukkan pada diri kita sendiri kita boleh perbaiki diri. Cuba bayangkan perasaan org lain yang menerima hasil kerja macam ni. Kalau la cukup 40 kali kena maki dgn org yg teraniaya, silap-silap makbul.

Terus-terang saya tak tau nak cakap apa lagi dah. Semoga Allah Ta’ala memberi rahmat dan petunjuk kepada kita semua.

Sebenarnya semua orang pun nak buat kerja yang terbaik. Salah sebenarnya tidak lah sedikit sahaja daripada draftman. Tapi aku juga dia tujukan. Tak mengapa pakcik RJ. Sabab beliau nak tunjuk alim kan. ALLAH pun makbul doa orang yang beliau selalu nak kenakan.

Tapi yang aku tak faham. Kenapa dai tak puas hati sangat dengan aku. Aku tak pernah pun sakitkan hati dia. Pelik kan. Pak cik. Pak cik.

BONGKAR TEKNIK PELABURAN EMAS

~khai. M~