Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Malaysian Vehicle Registration

I love making lists. So when a friend asked on Facebook why the new plate numbers stated with V, I wondered what alphabets were left to be used.

In Malaysia, each state registers vehicles. The plate number reflects that by using the first alphabet as to represent the states' name. For instance WXX 0000 is a vehicle registered to Wilayah Persekutuan, the state Kuala Lumpur is in.

So here is all the states alphabets.

A Perak
B Selangor
C Pahang
D Kelantan
E Vowel avoids being used
F Putrajaya FT
G
H Taxi
I Too much like 1
J Johor
K Kedah
L Labuan
M Malacca
N Negeri Sembilan
O Too much like 0
P Penang
Q Sarawak
R Perlis
S Sabah
T Terengganu
Vowel avoids being used
V Kuala Lumpur (2nd series)
W Wilayah Persekutuan
X
Y

Z Military

Thursday, 6 April 2017

Pulau Tenggol





The family visited Pulau Tenggol this Easter holidays. Just under the water in the bay that we stayed in was this amazing emerging coral bed with lots of fish finding food and their new homes there. It is obcious that the bed had died , much of the coral was bleached. As I snorkelled out towards the 'drop off' where it became deep, the new coral could be seen emerging from the old. The fish were feeding by breaking off the old coral to find something inside. 

I have never seen such huge variety of fish, different bright colours, just like in a video. I could have spent hours there, if my energy kept up. 

Here are some of the fish I saw: