Glowing eyes in the sky

U’ll see a communication tower in pix above. It is the #3 tallest in Sarawak, but I don’t think it is still #3 now. It’s been there since the day I was born. It was built when my mother was still a pretty young girl in the kampung. Where is it?

I took the picture from my grandfather house which was just 100 meters away from the tower. My kampung is in Balingian, if you ever heard of it. I suppose that those who learnt geography in school should know that this area was once a coal mine (refer to your text book). But seriously I never saw one. Its okay, otherwise we’ll be like accident in china few days back where a coal mine exploded and collapsed.

When I was still a kid, old folk always frighten us about the glowing red eye in the sky. And of course, as a kid that so decent and don’t know anything, we were all frightened by the story. Actually, there is a red glowing eyes in the sky….3 red glowing eyes. But apparently,as I grew older and wiser, I realize that the glowing eyes in the sky was just a beacon light to prevent helicopter or plane from colliding with the tower. Last time I see the light, there’s only one left. The other 2 might got burnt out already.

Just amazing, the structure stood up vastly for more than 2 decade.hmmm…..

P/S : although the tower is just 100 meters away. There was no mobile coverage in that area until 2001 from TMTouch. Now they can have celcom only (since TMtouch merge with celcom) and my grandfather started to use handphone…hehehe. Its not too late.