Saturday, 22 October 2011

Signal Hill

These are the sceneries of beautiful Kota Kinabalu from the observatory tower at Signal Hill [or Bukit Bendera], the hilly [duh~] green lung of the city. I like the place… the lush greenery, the awesome vista overlooking KK.

It is located just beside old KK city centre and is one of the few places of the former Jesselton where forested environment prevails. The little yet historic Anderson Clock Tower can be found at the foot of Signal Hill, though that place is not the original place where it stood before.

In recent months, there have been talks and court cases on developing the site for commercial purposes. I think it is pity if a place of natural heritage and a historic landmark is sold for something that can be built somewhere else. Why do we need to be so gluttonous and don’t care about our environment and history just for the sake of petty things like hotels and shopping malls? KK has enough malls and hotels. There are still a lot of lands left for these kinds of developments.

These kinds of greedy people should get new brains and think about the consequences of the things they’re doing!

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