KERETA mangsa jatuh ke dalam gaung akibat tanah runtuh di Jalan Jemaluang-Mersing, Johor, awal pagi tadi. Gambar diambil daripada Berita Harian
[UTUSAN}- MERSING 15 Jan. – Seorang lelaki warga emas bersama-sama keluarganya nyaris maut apabila kenderaan dipandunya terbabas dalam gaung di Kilometer 16 Jalan Jemaluang-Mersing, dekat sini awal pagi ini.
Dalam kejadian kira-kira pukul 2.30 pagi berdekatan Institut Latihan Perindustrian (ILP) Mersing, kereta dipandu Swee Ah Pang, 60, hilang kawalan apabila berlaku tanah runtuh secara tiba-tiba semasa melalui jalan berkenaan.
Ketua Polis Daerah Mersing, Deputi Superintenden Cyril Edward Nuing berkata, kenderaan warga emas itu menjunam dalam gaung berkeluasan kira-kira 70 meter dengan ketinggian cerun 15 meter.
“Polis terima panggilan orang awan menyatakan satu kejadian tanah runtuh dan mendap berlaku di Kilometer 16 Jalan Jemaluang-Mersing.
“Dalam kejadian itu sebuah kereta terjatuh dalam gaung. Mangsa bersama-sama penumpang tidak mengalami kecederaan serius dan dirujuk ke Hospital Mersing bagi pemeriksaan lanjut,” katanya ketika dihubungi di sini hari ini.
Beliau berkata, laluan tersebut tidak selamat untuk dilalui mana-mana kenderaan ringan atau berat dan ditutup sepenuhnya.
Katanya, jalan alternatif yang boleh digunakan adalah melalui Jalan Nitar-Jemaluang untuk mana-mana orang awam yang mahu ke Johor Bahru atau Mersing.
Jalan runtuh itu adalah jalan utama melibatkan kedalaman cerun 15 meter dengan keluasan 70 meter. Gambar diambil daripada Astro Awani
Laluan Jemaluang-Mersing ditutup sepenuhnya daripada kenderaan ringan dan berat selepas tanah runtuh sepanjang kira-kira 70 meter. Gambar diambil daripada Sinar Harian
KEADAAN tanah runtuh di Kilometer 16 Jalan Jemaluang-Mersing, Mersing, Johor, mendap dan runtuh awal pagi ini hingga mengakibatkan sebuah kereta dipandu warga emas terbabas dalam gaung. Gambar diambil daripada Utusan Online
KERETA mangsa jatuh ke dalam gaung akibat tanah runtuh di Jalan Jemaluang-Mersing, Johor, awal pagi tadi. Gambar diambil daripada Berita Harian
The districts of Johor, Malaysia were given their own flags on the 3rd March of 2015, and since then the districts flags are proudly seen waving in their respective districts.
All of the ten district flags come in two versions, horizontal and vertical.
The horizontal flags are the ones that we usually see either hoisted from poles or hung against the walls, fences and others.
The vertical flags are the flags that are usually hoisted from a crossbar, either on lamp posts or on walls.
Below are the vertical flags of the districts of Johor:
Batu Pahat
Tangkak
Segamat
Pontian
Muar
Mersing
Kulai
Kota Tinggi
Kluang
Johor Bahru
But it is very unfortunate that when it comes to the districts of Johor vertical flags, I saw mistakes in the designs of some of the flags hung around the districts that I had visited.
One of the common mistakes is converting the design of the horizontal flag into a vertical flag by just rotating the horizontal flag and “stretching its background”.
I first realised these mistakes during my visit to Felda Bukit Ramun, and since then, I like to observe vertical district flags whenever I travel around Johor; and I found that there are mistakes in designs of other vertical flags hung in other places too, including in Batu Pahat which I visited a few day ago.
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The mistakes in the design of the vertical district flags of Muar, Batu Pahat, Kluang, Mersing and Kota Tinggi flags at Felda Bukit Ramun in Kota Tinggi, Johor.
The mistakes in the design of the vertical district flags of Kulai, Johor Bahru, Pontian, Segamat, and Tangkak flags at Felda Bukit Ramun in Kota Tinggi, Johor.
From my observation as I travel around Johor, below are the common mistakes in the designs of the vertical flags of the districts of Johor:
The mistake in the design of the flag of Kota Tinggi
The mistake in the design of the flag of Kluang
The mistake in the design of the flag of Johor Bahru
The mistake in the design of the flag of Batu Pahat
The mistake in the design of the flag of Tangkak
The mistake in the design of the flag of Segamat
The mistake in the design of the flag of Pontian
The mistake in the design of the flag of Muar
The mistake in the design of the flag of Mersing
The mistake in the design of the flag of Kulai
Maybe some people are not bothered by these mistakes; and may consider them as little mistakes but for me this is a serious problem because of the importance and the significance of the flags as part of our love, respect and loyalty to the state of Johor.
Apart from that, it also can ruin the meaning and significance in the designs of the district flags.
The best example is the flag of Tangkak, where the blue triangle represents the Mount Ledang; but when the design of the horizontal flag is just rotated to turn it into a vertical flag, the triangle which represents the Mount Ledang is also rotated thus, it doesn’t represent the shape of a mountain anymore.
And that is why in the actual design of the vertical flag of Tangkak, the triangle is cropped at the sides so that the triangle shall remains as a symbol of a mountain.
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The integral aspects of the designs are the crescent and star, and the core colour which must be placed in the right positions of the flags.
The crescent and star in the district flags represent Islam as the religion of the state of Johor, hence they must be placed at the top of the flag or in the central part of the designs; and not at the lower part of the flags as in some of the “faulty” district flags of Kota Tinggi, Mersing and Muar that I came across.
Another mistake that people made when converting a horizontal district flag to a vertical flag is to place the center point of the orthogonally divided flag exactly in the middle of the flag, which what happens in the flags of Muar and Kulai.
And in the flag of Muar, they made the first and fourth quarters black, second quarter yellow with a red crescent and star, and the third quarter red with a white crescent and star.
The real flag has the first quarter red with a white crescent and star, the second and third quarters black, and the fourth yellow with a red crescent and star.
In the flag of Kulai they also made the first and fourth quarters blue, and the second and third quarters red instead of the first and fourth quarters red, and the second and third quarters blue.
The state of Johor has ten districts which are Batu Pahat, Johor Bahru, Kluang, Kota Tinggi, Kulai, Mersing, Muar, Pontian, Segamat and Tangkak.
And on March 3, 2015, all the ten districts were given their own district flags.
Six months later, the district of Kulaijaya and the district of Ledang were renamed as Kulai and Tangkak respectively by the Sultan of Johor, Ibrahim Ismail ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj.
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Flag of the Batu Pahat district
Flag of the Johor Bahru district
Flag of the Kluang district
Flag of the Kota Tinggi district
Flag of the Kulai district
Flag of the Mersing district
Flag of the Muar district
Flag of the Pontian district
Flag of the Segamat district
Flag of the Tangkak district
All of the district flags of Johor have similar characteristic, which are red, white and blue in colour and with crescents and stars.
There are five bend flags, Kluang, Kota Tinggi, including three per-bend flags which are Batu Pahat, Johor Bahru and Segamat; two orthogonal quartered flag, Kulai and Muar; two triangle flag, Tangkak, including one chevron flag which is Mersing; and one horizontal bicolour flag which is Pontian (charged with a white crescent and star).
The stars’ rotation angles are the same in all flags except for the per-bend divided ones, since the stars are aligned to the bend of the flag.
The designs of the flags symbolises the special characteristic of the districts, for instance in the case of Kota Tinggi’s flag, the colour white at the center field represents the Johor River where the old Sultanate of Johor was established on 1528.
In the case of the district of Mersing flag, the upper field of the flag symbolizes the South China Sea while in the district of Tangkak flag, the blue triangle represents the Mount Ledang which used to be the name of the district before August 2015.
Water spout seen from Pengkalan Teluk Buih, Air Papan, Mersing, Malaysia on June 18, 2011. (Kosmo.com.my).
At about 3:30 pm on June 18, 2011, villagers in Pengkalan Teluk Buih, Air Papan, Mersing, Johore were surprised to see a water spout that swiftly moved towards their village.
A lot of fishermen’s boats were reported damaged.
Water spout rarely happens in Malaysian waters in the past.
Anyway the Meteorological Department predicts that the changing climate could result in more waterspouts in certain areas such as the one that occurred here.
Similar waterspouts had been detected in Penang, Selangor, Malacca, Sarawak and Sabah.
Water spout is something like a tornado(twister) but it started in the sea or ocean.
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