Monday, December 1, 2008

Trip to Nabawan

My dad was invited to this Majilis in Nabawan (which is 2 hours from Keningau). First of all, the event was scheduled to start at 10.30am with the Guest of Honor coming at 10.30am. Guess what, the guest of honor came an hour late. Typical Malaysian... Wonder when will it ever change. After sitting there for an hour, listening to 5 YB talking about FELCAR and politics, I had enough and asked my driver to pick me up. (He is on his way to the farm for second round, picking up oil palm fruits)

Went to the farm, look at the the area. The place in getting better, trees are bigger than a year ago. Helped with loading and unloading the fruits. Really good work out. Those fruits are not light, each is around 1-2 kg, maybe even more.

Ok, here are some of the things in the farm. This is the farm tactor which my dad got a few months ago. This cut down loading time from 3-4 hours to just 1. Plus, don't have as much prob with the pickup getting stuck in the mud and all that anymore.
















This are the fruits that have been picked and ready for loading.




















































This is the worker's house. When the farm first opened, it was a quarter of the size you see now. The living room is the pic with blue flooring































This is the kitchen, basic but it works.




























The driver was sleepy halfway to the factory, so I took over and drive. I missed doing that, driving the pickup with a load ont he back, accross drit roads.



This is the factory which we send the fruits to. Big and smelly. Don't really know why but the plam oil factories are always smelly. You see the big plam oil fruit hill? at the bottom of it, it's a hatch, it'll open when the factory operates, and it'll process it automatically.

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