While I was walking around the railway quarters, I met some elderly familiar folks setting up a cassette player playing sounds of bird chirpping inside some bushes at the foot of Kepayan Ridge. Upon enquiry they told me they are setting up trap to catch this bird. Any one knows what specie is this? Looks pretty and chirps lovely sounds.
Born in the quiet Tanjung Aru Railway Quarters, (Jesselton)Kota Kinabalu, I grew up amongst the mixed community of the railway workers. Our playgrounds were the Kepayan Ridge, the Tg Aru football padang (no longer exists)and the Tanjung Aru Beach. I attended the Malay medium Government Primary School, (now SRK)Tanjung Aru in 1959 until primary V and won a Native Scholarship to attend Preparatory Classes at Sabah College.
After form V in 1970, I was offered a Yayasan Sabah scholarship for education Brighton Technical College to Study Electrical Engineering.
I completed my Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 1976 at Brighton Polytechnic, UK and returned to Kota Kinabalu to work as a Government employee at Telecoms Department.
I left the privatised Department (Telekom Malaysia) in 1997 to go into private business. Now do a little bit of here and there...