Wednesday, June 2, 2010
♥ Final Destinations... The Oil Palm Palantation & Palm Oil Factory
1) The Oil Palm Plantation 
Hi everyone :) its me the crazy crazy toast. Hahahahahahah (spongebob laughter) I had a lot of fun when I was at Johor. When we were on the way to the plantation plots and plots of plantations "speeded" pass us, I was actually gettingh bored. You see, being a typical city dweller, trees and greenery do not excite me as much as
the games I play on the computer. However, the plantation changed my opinion on the plots of land outside the bus' window. The tour guide told us a lot of facts about oil palms.(The facts are seriously nice, haha :D, I took down a lot of those facts)
I learnt that oil palms cannot grow where the climate is cold as it will harden. That's not very good news for the people who live in places with the 4 seasons as they would not be able to use it. When cooking, more and more people have been using palm oil rather than butter. This is definitely a more healthier choice as butter contains more fats in comparison with the palm oil.
Hey! Do you know that palm oil can be turned into soap detergent and cosmetics? I think this is seriously cool! They are able to make soap, detergent and cosmetic out of palm oil. Previously, these products are made using chemicals now that it is able to be made of palm oil is truly amazing. This is a more organic and environment-cum-skin friendly method! They are also trying to replace petroleum with palm oil! Imagine, how much more greener a world we be if this was to succeed! Thinking about it just makes me so excited! Oh, for your information, the pest control in the plantation is also very organic. The people uses barn owls to get rid of rats instead of pesticides! Instead of wasting time and energy in creating pesticides that might be harmful to the environment, the people have ingeniously used barn owls!
Do you know that the leaves would be attacked by pests if the palm is not healthy? Well... I sure didn't know that until I was told. I though that if a plant or a tree was not healthy the leaves would only turn yellow. There was also other things ... like how the bunch is harvested.
Watch the video below to see how the bunch is harvested using the Pahat...
Oops! The video is taken at the wrong angle. Well, hope you don't mind tilting your head :D
After the demonstration the people let us tried the fruit...raw. It was dangerous and Joanna bravely took a step forward and declared that she would try it. The declaration left us all in awe of her courage... okay, okay,I know that I'm exaggerating a little too much. Yes, alright I admit it. I exaggerated it by a lot. Anyways, Joanna tried it and declared that she didn't like it because it was too oily. Definitely not her type of fruit.
(TO Be Continued)
2) Palm Oil Factory
Hai’s people! I must admit that this trip to Johor Bahru was 1 of the most enjoyed educational trips I have ever been to. To be honest, before i had even stepped into Malaysia,I was already very reluctant about weather i was gonna gain anything from this trip... well, I definitely did not expect to learn soooo many facts from it all!!!XD
Well, enough of all that,i find the Oil Palm Factory the most interesting as that is where the Oil Palm fruits are processed into crude oil or food that we see in our supermarkets everyday,eg. Vegetable oil. I was very intrigued by it all and was sure to take as many pictures and notes of the Oil Palm Plantation.
When we reached the factory , no one had the intention of getting off the coach. Why, you ask ? Simply put it, it had rained and there was an unbearable stench in the air. Only after using up almost half of our tour guide's body spray and plenty of their assurance that we all piled out of the coach. Though a bit humid and hot, it really wasn’t so bad! All of us walked carefully towards the factory where there were guides to explain to us the details of the oil palm fruit.
When we reached the factory , no one had the intention of getting off the coach. Why, you ask ? Simply put it, it had rained and there was an unbearable stench in the air. Only after using up almost half of our tour guide's body spray and plenty of their assurance that the wasn't so bad we managed to reluctantly get down the bus. Sure enough, the smell was not as strong once we stepped out of the bus. Well then,lesson learnt- always trust your tourguides :). Hahas.. I'm getting off topic.
We paid a lot of attention to the smoke-blowing chimneys of the factory .
The spectacular sight left us all in awe. Anyway, the tourguides gave us some ointment to rub under our noses to get rid of the not-so-stong-as-compared-to-the-smell-in-the-coach stench. Aww...such sweet tourguides. The road that will lead us to an area where bunches of oil palm fruit would be lying on the ground, was very slippery. That was due to the oil the fruits produce. There, we met the manager ( I think ) of the oil palm factory. He answered all of the questions we threw at him. He was very patient even to the hard-to-answer-type of questions. We even asked how much oil can 1 small fruit like this >>>
produce ?!We also saw the cross-section of the oil palm fruit. 
It looked exactly like the cross-section of a coconut but only a smaller version.Then how did these smal, tiny fruit create so much oil that the floor was so slippery? Now do you know how much fruit was used to make the floor so slippery? 1 ton of fruit can make 20%of 1 ton of oil. It was that much! The toasts had a great time being crazy, acting shy, asking questions eating kueh and of course being ourselves.
I was amazed that people would put so much effort in making the world a more greener place.I can't help but have a strong impulse to start putting in my effort in saving the Earth, the Earth, is my home after all. The facts and the lessons in life I've learnt, the will in saving gaia, the bonds created between friends during this journey would be etched deeply in my heart. I know that all of those things I've mentioned would not be easily forgotten as the blog is here to remind us all of the wonderful times we had on our trip to Johor.
A joint : Joanna and Pei Ling XD
Hi everyone :) its me the crazy crazy toast. Hahahahahahah (spongebob laughter) I had a lot of fun when I was at Johor. When we were on the way to the plantation plots and plots of plantations "speeded" pass us, I was actually gettingh bored. You see, being a typical city dweller, trees and greenery do not excite me as much as
the games I play on the computer. However, the plantation changed my opinion on the plots of land outside the bus' window. The tour guide told us a lot of facts about oil palms.(The facts are seriously nice, haha :D, I took down a lot of those facts)
I learnt that oil palms cannot grow where the climate is cold as it will harden. That's not very good news for the people who live in places with the 4 seasons as they would not be able to use it. When cooking, more and more people have been using palm oil rather than butter. This is definitely a more healthier choice as butter contains more fats in comparison with the palm oil.
Hey! Do you know that palm oil can be turned into soap detergent and cosmetics? I think this is seriously cool! They are able to make soap, detergent and cosmetic out of palm oil. Previously, these products are made using chemicals now that it is able to be made of palm oil is truly amazing. This is a more organic and environment-cum-skin friendly method! They are also trying to replace petroleum with palm oil! Imagine, how much more greener a world we be if this was to succeed! Thinking about it just makes me so excited! Oh, for your information, the pest control in the plantation is also very organic. The people uses barn owls to get rid of rats instead of pesticides! Instead of wasting time and energy in creating pesticides that might be harmful to the environment, the people have ingeniously used barn owls!
Do you know that the leaves would be attacked by pests if the palm is not healthy? Well... I sure didn't know that until I was told. I though that if a plant or a tree was not healthy the leaves would only turn yellow. There was also other things ... like how the bunch is harvested.
Watch the video below to see how the bunch is harvested using the Pahat...
Oops! The video is taken at the wrong angle. Well, hope you don't mind tilting your head :D
After the demonstration the people let us tried the fruit...raw. It was dangerous and Joanna bravely took a step forward and declared that she would try it. The declaration left us all in awe of her courage... okay, okay,I know that I'm exaggerating a little too much. Yes, alright I admit it. I exaggerated it by a lot. Anyways, Joanna tried it and declared that she didn't like it because it was too oily. Definitely not her type of fruit.
(TO Be Continued)
2) Palm Oil Factory
Hai’s people! I must admit that this trip to Johor Bahru was 1 of the most enjoyed educational trips I have ever been to. To be honest, before i had even stepped into Malaysia,I was already very reluctant about weather i was gonna gain anything from this trip... well, I definitely did not expect to learn soooo many facts from it all!!!XD
Well, enough of all that,i find the Oil Palm Factory the most interesting as that is where the Oil Palm fruits are processed into crude oil or food that we see in our supermarkets everyday,eg. Vegetable oil. I was very intrigued by it all and was sure to take as many pictures and notes of the Oil Palm Plantation.
When we reached the factory , no one had the intention of getting off the coach. Why, you ask ? Simply put it, it had rained and there was an unbearable stench in the air. Only after using up almost half of our tour guide's body spray and plenty of their assurance that we all piled out of the coach. Though a bit humid and hot, it really wasn’t so bad! All of us walked carefully towards the factory where there were guides to explain to us the details of the oil palm fruit.
When we reached the factory , no one had the intention of getting off the coach. Why, you ask ? Simply put it, it had rained and there was an unbearable stench in the air. Only after using up almost half of our tour guide's body spray and plenty of their assurance that the wasn't so bad we managed to reluctantly get down the bus. Sure enough, the smell was not as strong once we stepped out of the bus. Well then,lesson learnt- always trust your tourguides :). Hahas.. I'm getting off topic.
We paid a lot of attention to the smoke-blowing chimneys of the factory .
The spectacular sight left us all in awe. Anyway, the tourguides gave us some ointment to rub under our noses to get rid of the not-so-stong-as-compared-to-the-smell-in-the-coach stench. Aww...such sweet tourguides. The road that will lead us to an area where bunches of oil palm fruit would be lying on the ground, was very slippery. That was due to the oil the fruits produce. There, we met the manager ( I think ) of the oil palm factory. He answered all of the questions we threw at him. He was very patient even to the hard-to-answer-type of questions. We even asked how much oil can 1 small fruit like this >>>
produce ?!We also saw the cross-section of the oil palm fruit. 
It looked exactly like the cross-section of a coconut but only a smaller version.Then how did these smal, tiny fruit create so much oil that the floor was so slippery? Now do you know how much fruit was used to make the floor so slippery? 1 ton of fruit can make 20%of 1 ton of oil. It was that much! The toasts had a great time being crazy, acting shy, asking questions eating kueh and of course being ourselves. I was amazed that people would put so much effort in making the world a more greener place.I can't help but have a strong impulse to start putting in my effort in saving the Earth, the Earth, is my home after all. The facts and the lessons in life I've learnt, the will in saving gaia, the bonds created between friends during this journey would be etched deeply in my heart. I know that all of those things I've mentioned would not be easily forgotten as the blog is here to remind us all of the wonderful times we had on our trip to Johor.
A joint : Joanna and Pei Ling XD
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