there are some new development on the gov't fund & blk j theft case which we have mentioned in our last posting...
we have submitted our appeal for financial aid on both water tank lining & building repainting projects to the state EXCO office on 21/11/14, and were told by the special assistant of the YB that they will soon contact us for meeting on the mentioned projects, we read it as a positive sign.
but anyhow we have waited anxiously for their official letter to invite us for the meeting, then after 1 week, exactly 1 week, on the following Friday (28/11/14), we got the letter from the EXCO office that a meeting will be arranged on 4/12/14 (Thursday) morning, this meeting will be attended by committee members or their representatives from few housing project in Penang Island (where they have also submitted similar appeal of fund), respective state assemblymen from their area (according to the list abt 6 YB are invited), together with COB and EXCO member Jagdeep Singh, is a big meeting indeed.
we are not sure what will be the outcome of this meeting, of course we pray hard that they will grant us our wish that both projects will be funded by them :)
or if not, then at least one project will be approved, to be carried out this year, even though in that case we still need to forge out the 20% of the total cost, but we really wish it will happen this time.
concerning the blk j theft case, after the viewing of CCTV recording in blk j ground floor, lift & main entrance, we have now manage to see the 3 thieves' face clearly, all at their early 20's, came in abt 4am, cheated the new guard that they are residents here, but went to the bike parking area of blk j stealing parts from those old or abandoned bikes, and left at abt 4.45am.
They knew that there's a camera which covering the area they plan to steal, so that climbed up to turn the camera upward, without knowing all their action have been watched & recorded by other cameras, so now our cctv vendor have helped us to copy the files, compiled into video clips, saved into CD. we have viewed the CD, and passed a copy to the bike owner, which he will turn it over to the police station where he has lodged the report, we also passed those video clips to few voluntary patrolling body to locate the thieves, and tonight we will send another copy to the guard boss when he come over for meeting with the committee, we believe that soon these mentioned parties will nab the culprits soon.
will continue to update residents on these matters, thanks.
Friday, November 28, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
general updates as at 22/11/14
few matters to update our beloved Vista residents,
1) lift T&G system, so far the feedback from the blog readers is generally positive, we did also check with some of our residents personally, they too feel OK with the proposal, well, we will wait for more green light then if all condition are right, we should get something going at the beginning of yr2015.
2) blk j lift rope, the faulty lift rope was replaced awhile ago, performed some test run, then contacted the lift inspector to inspect the new rope (according to the requirement) & he too ok with the rope,so now at blk J, both lifts are running, but we are also budget for new rope for other lift in yr2015, and we asked the lift vendor to monitor the condition of the other ropes, and should not wait for the sudden breakdown case like this.
3) theft at blk j, few days ago we received a report that someone force-opened the seat of a bike & stole some parts of the bike at blk j ground bike parking area, we advised the owner of the bike to make police report & we did check the CCTV the next day. We found out the camera which suppose to cover the bike where the bike part was stolen, someone has purpose turned the camera faced the ceiling but not the bikes, so now we have contacted the CCTV vendor to use other cameras at blk j to check who's the person turned the camera, and bring him to police for further investigation, will update residents on this once more info available.
4) building repainting matter, someone asked in the last posting any news on the repainting, well, as we have said earlier, we were advised by YB to apply next year, but anyhow, few days ago we brought the documents for fund application for both water tank & repainting to EXCO office for them to consider, and to our pleasant surprise we were told one meeting will be set in 2 weeks' time for the YBs in charge to have further discussion with us on the matter, we hope to hear some good news from them :)
but if (just in case) they agree to our request for the building repainting (abt 450K) or water tank lining (abt 220K for 8 tanks), then we need to contribute 20% of the total cost as soon as possible, so guys, any idea how to get the money ready :P
thanks.
1) lift T&G system, so far the feedback from the blog readers is generally positive, we did also check with some of our residents personally, they too feel OK with the proposal, well, we will wait for more green light then if all condition are right, we should get something going at the beginning of yr2015.
2) blk j lift rope, the faulty lift rope was replaced awhile ago, performed some test run, then contacted the lift inspector to inspect the new rope (according to the requirement) & he too ok with the rope,so now at blk J, both lifts are running, but we are also budget for new rope for other lift in yr2015, and we asked the lift vendor to monitor the condition of the other ropes, and should not wait for the sudden breakdown case like this.
3) theft at blk j, few days ago we received a report that someone force-opened the seat of a bike & stole some parts of the bike at blk j ground bike parking area, we advised the owner of the bike to make police report & we did check the CCTV the next day. We found out the camera which suppose to cover the bike where the bike part was stolen, someone has purpose turned the camera faced the ceiling but not the bikes, so now we have contacted the CCTV vendor to use other cameras at blk j to check who's the person turned the camera, and bring him to police for further investigation, will update residents on this once more info available.
4) building repainting matter, someone asked in the last posting any news on the repainting, well, as we have said earlier, we were advised by YB to apply next year, but anyhow, few days ago we brought the documents for fund application for both water tank & repainting to EXCO office for them to consider, and to our pleasant surprise we were told one meeting will be set in 2 weeks' time for the YBs in charge to have further discussion with us on the matter, we hope to hear some good news from them :)
but if (just in case) they agree to our request for the building repainting (abt 450K) or water tank lining (abt 220K for 8 tanks), then we need to contribute 20% of the total cost as soon as possible, so guys, any idea how to get the money ready :P
thanks.
Friday, November 14, 2014
are we ready for lift T&G?
as we are still finalizing the budget for yr2015, the lift T&G system was brought up again in the committee meeting, generally we feel that we are now more ready for it's implementation.
so decided to get residents feedback here, if our residents also give positive response then we are looking at early yr2015 to install the system at both blk j & k lifts.
we did bring up the same matter abt 2 years ago, those days even though the feedback was ok, but we felt that our blk k lifts were in bad shape, to install the T&G system may cause more problem to blk k residents, so we decided to put in on hold, until the lifts condition improved, so with God's help, we managed to upgrade the blk k lifts, so with 2 good condition lifts in blk k, and 2 reasonable condition lifts in blk j, perhaps now is the better time (can be the right time too) to install the T&G system in our 4 lifts.
some of the reasons we have cited in our previous meeting for this system are, first is for the security reason, this system will help to discourage the outsider with bad intention to try their nonsense in our place, shall they manage to get past the security guard post.
other important reason include to get hardcore defaulters to pay their SC (service charge), especially those stay at the higher floor, accordingly our record, quite a number of them rather to park their vehicles outside but still choosing not to pay the outstanding SC, well, this system will help to get them to pay.
we also can use lift T&G system to make sure the renovators to behave better, at the moment we still notice some renovators are not observing our house rules such as worked outside the time which they are allowed to do their renovation works, messed up the common areas, carry too much things in the lifts, etc, so with the T&G system, we can bar the access card until they behave well.
we also feel that the lift T&G system may able to help to reduce the number of foreigners hostel in Vista Condo, we actually can set in our house rules that the lift access card is not for foreigner hostel (for security reason), so by not issuing the card to these units, will force them to use the staircase for their in & out, this may produce a result which many vista condo residents like to see, control the number of the foreigner hostel to the lowest one!
someone also mention to us that the same access card can be used for swimming pool, we actually like the idea too :)
so pls give us your feedback, thanks.
so decided to get residents feedback here, if our residents also give positive response then we are looking at early yr2015 to install the system at both blk j & k lifts.
we did bring up the same matter abt 2 years ago, those days even though the feedback was ok, but we felt that our blk k lifts were in bad shape, to install the T&G system may cause more problem to blk k residents, so we decided to put in on hold, until the lifts condition improved, so with God's help, we managed to upgrade the blk k lifts, so with 2 good condition lifts in blk k, and 2 reasonable condition lifts in blk j, perhaps now is the better time (can be the right time too) to install the T&G system in our 4 lifts.
some of the reasons we have cited in our previous meeting for this system are, first is for the security reason, this system will help to discourage the outsider with bad intention to try their nonsense in our place, shall they manage to get past the security guard post.
other important reason include to get hardcore defaulters to pay their SC (service charge), especially those stay at the higher floor, accordingly our record, quite a number of them rather to park their vehicles outside but still choosing not to pay the outstanding SC, well, this system will help to get them to pay.
we also can use lift T&G system to make sure the renovators to behave better, at the moment we still notice some renovators are not observing our house rules such as worked outside the time which they are allowed to do their renovation works, messed up the common areas, carry too much things in the lifts, etc, so with the T&G system, we can bar the access card until they behave well.
we also feel that the lift T&G system may able to help to reduce the number of foreigners hostel in Vista Condo, we actually can set in our house rules that the lift access card is not for foreigner hostel (for security reason), so by not issuing the card to these units, will force them to use the staircase for their in & out, this may produce a result which many vista condo residents like to see, control the number of the foreigner hostel to the lowest one!
someone also mention to us that the same access card can be used for swimming pool, we actually like the idea too :)
so pls give us your feedback, thanks.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
sorry, water is not money :)
for some Chinese like to jokingly say, water is money, but for us once heard there's big water in our place, it's definitely not bring in money, but likely need to burn (spend) money :(
the two big source of water, namely rain water & water tank leaking water, have indeed cost us big fortune, just for the past few weeks, nearly 30K have been allocated or spent for the water related damages.
the rain water gutter at blk K can't stand the big volume of rain flowing through it & strong wind blowing against it, then it broke at the upper part, as we see that the whole gutter will fall at anytime, we have no choice but to remove the broken pipe & replace with new one, it was a high risk work, the project cost us 8K, we have seek claim from insurance company & hope that there will be good news soon.
the block J lift rope, according to vendor, also have been damaged by rain water, this really burn a big hole in our pocket,14K! we have already paid the robe supplier 7K so that the new part can be brought in, now the lift vendor have completed 80% of the work, hopefully another few more days we will see the lift running again, now the challenging part is how to convince the insurance company that the reason of the breakdown is due to rain water.....the adjuster have came in 3 times & called us many many times but still can't see the relation of lift rope damage & rain water :(
another headache of rain water is it took advantage of those crack at the wall & roof top, sip into residents house, in some cases, it is so serious until you can see water mark at the wall during the heavy rain! from our record, at least 10 unit reported this kind our water leaking problem, each case take abt 1k to 3k to patch the crack (by applying water proofing material at the affected area), so for total will amounting to abt 20K, the worst thing is, unlike the water gutter & the lift robe case, insurance company will not consider the claim for this, headache.....!!!
early on we wish for raining season so that Penang will not lack water, but now as the rain comes, we have new worries.... :P
sigh! life..... :)
the two big source of water, namely rain water & water tank leaking water, have indeed cost us big fortune, just for the past few weeks, nearly 30K have been allocated or spent for the water related damages.
the rain water gutter at blk K can't stand the big volume of rain flowing through it & strong wind blowing against it, then it broke at the upper part, as we see that the whole gutter will fall at anytime, we have no choice but to remove the broken pipe & replace with new one, it was a high risk work, the project cost us 8K, we have seek claim from insurance company & hope that there will be good news soon.
the block J lift rope, according to vendor, also have been damaged by rain water, this really burn a big hole in our pocket,14K! we have already paid the robe supplier 7K so that the new part can be brought in, now the lift vendor have completed 80% of the work, hopefully another few more days we will see the lift running again, now the challenging part is how to convince the insurance company that the reason of the breakdown is due to rain water.....the adjuster have came in 3 times & called us many many times but still can't see the relation of lift rope damage & rain water :(
another headache of rain water is it took advantage of those crack at the wall & roof top, sip into residents house, in some cases, it is so serious until you can see water mark at the wall during the heavy rain! from our record, at least 10 unit reported this kind our water leaking problem, each case take abt 1k to 3k to patch the crack (by applying water proofing material at the affected area), so for total will amounting to abt 20K, the worst thing is, unlike the water gutter & the lift robe case, insurance company will not consider the claim for this, headache.....!!!
early on we wish for raining season so that Penang will not lack water, but now as the rain comes, we have new worries.... :P
sigh! life..... :)
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