Question from Sabah

For those intend to improve yourself in land survey skill or knowledge, please do not hesitate to email me. It is my pleasure to assist you all.

This is one of my sabah friend. He do not have any survey background but the way he write to me is very impressive and intend to know more regarding land survey Professional. Good sign, my dear.

Friendly speaking, nowadays we are very hardly can get a labour with RM300 per month in Peninsular Malaysia. I know is very hard but learn as much as possible and hopefully may be you can success as a land surveyor.

Below is part of my sabahan friend email.

"Thanks a lot for allowed me to ask you or more precisely learning from you . Actually my mandur or bos is a bit(can't blame him either lah) "kedekut"(don't in english word) to teach us. May be he scare when we know how to do the survey we will be his competitor in the future but thank to God there is still a good human being in this earth willing to share their knowledges for the good of others human kind like you.
As you know being a survey kuli is hard especially in sabah where most of the land topo is either hilly (almost 90degree) or swapy like the bakau area. Even the foreigner dont want to do this kind of job with only rm300/month in sabah .
with only knowledge to set the tripod or holding the pugo(funny that is what there call in my kg) for topo survey certainly our life will not change much(mau kawin pun susah bah). I like this job bcause i like math(not really good in math but dont know why just like to solve math problem),some more most peoples underestimate(look down) on this field. They said no standard or orang hutan job(may be we always went to jungle/remote area). If i know how to do land survey by myself I wanted to change my friends and my kampung peoples perception. I wanted they to know that land survey is important in our life. It is important for our country development or at least i can teach them so they can improve their life(for your info sabah is the no 1 "termiskin" in malaysia)

Most of my bos projects are land subdivision,topo,or LA. thus my questions will be only on this field area.
firstly just want to ask how they produce the subdivision plan. Normally we follow the mandur to the site to search the initial stone,search all the boundry stones(how many still there & how many missing)then after about 1 month he produce the sub plan. When we ask the mandur he just said waste his time to explain since only educated(sekolah sampai tinggi tinggi di Kuala Lumpur,tak tahu pula tinggi sampai mana) person like him will understood the calculations. I no he was lying bcause I know there are some mandur where my other friends working they only finishes their SPM level but still can be mandur.
if possible can you pls state down the steps that we do from very beginning in land subdivision project.
I know working as land servey mandur is very bz so just take your time to answer my questions.

Hope to get a good reaply from you soon. Thank you."