Swordie Bloggie

Are you bored with the lampposts along the roads or around the parks?… Depending at the post design, some are unique and some are just plain… well, lamppost was used to light up the streets since many decades ago…

It all started as the boring log pole with lantern hang on top of it, and that concept of a pole with lamp hang on top of the pole survived until today. But that might change very soon. Recently a group of people including city planners and architects put a challenge to Dutch electronics company Philips to design a new concept for outdoor lighting system… all because they feels that the streets are cluttered. They want to get rid with the lamppost.

So Phillips decided it is best to remove the vertical streetlight poles and turn the street as FreeStreet by replacing it with horizontal lighting system. They did it by hanging clusters of horizontally-strung cables with leds lights built into it. What makes this design interesting is the lighting system looks invisible during the day. With that design they won the 2011 Dutch Design Award… and it will be available for use in Europe this month… 😀

Most of the roads in town are decorated with colorful lights now days… neon, led, spot lights, etc… they are decorating the lampposts, trees and buildings with all kind of colorful lighting… with the mini led christmas lights decorated on the trees, trees looks like Christmas tree 😀

Well, they are decorating it for the coming 31st August celebration… national day… but people is Sabah and Sarawak is not fond to celebrate it I think… they only enjoy it for the public holiday. They prefer to celebrate the 16th September for Malaysia Day… coz this is the day Malaysia was born… 31st August is for the Malaya only… but a lot of people are confused with the Malaysia’s age… some will count it from 31st August 1957. But Malaysia is born on 16th September 1963!!! There is no Malaysia in 1957 or before 16th September 1963. So Malaysia is only 47 years old and not 53 years old this year!!!

Anyways, let’s just hope the peace amongst all the people of Malaysia will continue forever… so let’s celebrate with colorful fireworks and colorful lights… 😆