Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Mili-watt River ?



Last Thursday, I was on a working visit to one of the project site by my client. The Site located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah with such beautiful frontage of Miliwat River and just a few meters away from the firth to South China Sea. Its view include the majestic Mount Kinabalu which were already shrouded by thick clouds far beyond the horizon at 11am!  However, I find it a bit disturbing that the whole design doesn't take into consideration into 'wrapping up' these view for a dedicated vista appreciation which, for an instance, this view were captured in between windows of one of the rooms!

Uniquely, the river were name Mili-wat,  (a combination of milli as in millimeter, and watt as the measurement unit for electric, but it has nothing to do with those two actually) and if we were to wrongly miss-spell it as Meliwat it could represent another meaning in Malay which is 'sodomy'.  Plus, the site actually located at a local area known as Menggatal, which if we were to literally translate as a Malay word to English it would means - flirtatious. Hillariously unique, I think. No offence to Sabahan, but everybody else from Peninsular thought these names were uniquely hillarious. :)