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KLIA may be shrouded in Haze; THAI New Suvarnabhumi Airport is basking in its new glory and HAZE FREE BUT our AIRASIA PLANE took off from Suvarnabhumi Airport in turbulence. The skins of its wing “peeled off”, indicating some of its planes are getting old. Check the drama and inter alia in:
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2006/10/air-asia-plane-drama-at-thai-airport.html

With the haze like this, any camera SLRs and non-SLRs will give us the same pic quality.

Hmmm, saw compression artifacts.

JEFF OOI says: Yes, all images were originally captured with Nikon D200 which allows 16MB RAW file each at 16 bits/channel, and they were later batch-processed, resized, and compressed to about 40kb JPG each for easy downloads on the web.

compression normal lah...bsides the colour range is almost similiar so the compression engine takes the nearest values available. :P

We had water filtering companies selling water -filtiration system to us for years now especially in the Klang Valley. So what's next? Full house air-filtiration system? :P

Time to create an ASEAN firefighter community.

ahh... so now they are going to leave it all in the hands of god. don't they know that god only help those who help themselves?

Time to ask our DPM Najib why he told Malaysians to stop to their criticisms against Indonesia for failing to stop the forest fires.

He actually said: "We should in fact sympathise with Indonesia."

Alamak... whose side is he on? Whose interests does he have as top priority?

I can go as far as to symathise with some of the Indon peasants, EVEN though some of them actually started some of the fires. They are poor, desparate and maybe even ignorant of the havoc they have caused and are still causing.

But the Indonesian companies who are burning acres and acres of vegetation? The Indon officials and police who do NOTHING to prevent and stop the fires? Sympathise with them?

Sympathise with the Indon govt and the Indonesia as a whole? NO WAY lah.

As Deputy Prime Minister of MALAYSIA, I wouold expect Najib to work for the health and well-being of the Malaysian rakyat. Anything else is simply not doing your job, Najib.

Soon To Be Released Statement
Yes we know it's hazy and we know it's shitty for you tourists to pay to come here and breathe this crap but if you don't like it you don't have to come here..*shrug*

jeff..where can we get the latest Air Pollution Index (API)? I think in these conditions we need to know whether its safe to drive home or not...the sky looks scary out there but it also looks like its gonna rain. lets cross our fingers.

JEFF OOI says: For API, go to DOE website (http://www.doe.gov.my) scrolldown, you willfind a 3-day archive.

I admire DPM who practice his level of wisdoms on this hazy issue. I agree with him totally now as we have nothing...no technologies, lack off knowhow and just waste of efforts and reluctant enough if we just send our man to the neighbours' land for putting off the fire if they continue to start it up annually.

Why not we just have all the valuable resources and money and put a mega air cleaners like nucler cooling towers across our country. It can filter off the loose particles floating in the air during the Indon's after crops season, and let it running through out the rest of the year for fltering off hazardous fumes come out from the commercial transports generally.

And the clean air output can cold down environment if conduited properly. These air cleaning and reoxigenated air (ionized)is good for these modern days. Feeling like standing infront of Returned Air Windows/grills in a big government offices and complexes.

Researchers make records of the event, Innovators perfect it.

Wow, the pictures are cool, Jeff!
If you have just landed in Sepang the haze makes it look like you have just landed in gloomy London!

We should use this fact to our advantage and maybe publish some Visit Malaysia brochures with these photos. We are now no more a one season country! Let the world know that we too have "mist"-like weather to attract more tourists whom have never experienced such awesome weather before!

I think our VVIPs afraid that when they pinpoint on Indonesia, the Indon can trace back to Malaysian plantation company which is one of the culprits.

This might not be good when that company is a GLC.

It is easy for politicians to say we should stop critising Indonesia for the haze. They can always go overseas for their holidays to avoid the haze. For many of us, we can't.

"As Deputy Prime Minister of MALAYSIA, I wouold expect Najib to work for the health and well-being of the Malaysian rakyat. Anything else is simply not doing your job, Najib".

Is this man going to be the next AAB???

"As Deputy Prime Minister of MALAYSIA, I wouold expect Najib to work for the health and well-being of the Malaysian rakyat. Anything else is simply not doing your job, Najib".

I mean Najib :-)

that almost look as though we are at genting highland and clouds are everywhere. A good way of getting tourist into malaysia :P

Health care insurance company must be screaming at the back office and looking for ways to increase premium charges!!!!

I so wanna shoot some polluters/Indons!

I have been sick for the past couple of weeks