Saturday, December 27, 2014

pls help the flood victims

hi,

would like to urge our beloved Vista residents to give generously to the flood victims, for at the moment our nation are going the worst flood crisis in history.

for us in Penang, we are so fortunate for not experiencing those suffering the flood victims are going through right now, but from the news & photos we have seen in the media, all of us see how bad is the situation....

just quote some of the unthinkable situations which we have received from some friends from those badly affected area, run out of clean water so forced to use rain water to make milk for infants, hospital emergency ward electrical power cut but patients need oxygen tank & it can't function due to no power, many areas have no water & food supply but there's no sign of rescuer reaching them, some areas even though need help urgently but helicopter can't land there due to the flood....

believe that there are still many more other things which are worse than that... :(

after reading this, can you pls check around for those relief collection center, at the moment items like instant noodle, diaper, panadol, milk powder....etc are badly needed, but if you can't find any relief collection center then do kindly check with Malaysiakini website, they do compile a list of organization with necessary info for the relief works for the flood victims.

thanks.

Friday, December 19, 2014

some brief outlook on next year high priority project

we are in the last phase of finalizing next year's budget, committee do decided only in January 2015 for setting the time line for those project we plan to carry out next year.

some of bigger will be as follow,

1) Bomba under ground piping, we have found out awhile ago that the underground conceal piping for supplying water from Bomba pump to blk k have been leaking, at the area near the swimming pool foyer, few months ago we received the quotation from vendor for replacing the pipe, but couldn't go ahead as we haven't fully recovered financially speaking, after spent on some other big project earlier on, especially IWK matter & main pipe for blk j, for info the bomba pipe replacement project will cost abt 16K, but we in the committee have agree that should give this project highest priority in 2015, so it should be done in first quarter of 2015.

2) Switch room calibration, we also give this project high priority, and target at first quarter of 2015, beside the safety concern, we also hope through this exercise, we will be able to find out why the TNB bill of blk j is double of blk k consumption, as both meter are supporting the same facilities of each sides, namely lifts, pumps, common lights, etc, so it's hard to accept the huge gap of the bills. In the past we did approach TNB & other technical ppl help to rectify but none of them can tell the reason of this big gap, but during the calibration, as we are going to switch off all the supply & check all the component one by one, we should be able to rectify that.

3) Lift T&G system, from the feedback, found most of our residents prefer to have the system to be installed in all our lifts, security is the main reason, besides that, it should be able to help to get those hardcore defaulters to pay, especially those who thought can escape by parking their vehicles but happily using Vista facilities, for by implementing this system, they either pay the outstanding or climb staircase to go home, of course we understand those stay at lower floor still can be stubborn, but let their kids asking their parents why can't use lift...... ;)

Pray & hope that God will enable us to complete all these in the first quarter of 2015 :)




Saturday, December 13, 2014

no posting this week, school holiday :)

hi,

no posting this week, busy bringing family for holiday :P

wish everyone, especially kids in Vista Condo happy school holidays :)

will be back next week.

best regards.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Report on Meeting with EXCO

some brief report the mentioned meeting...

on Thursday, 3 MC members went to Komtar 53rd floor, to attend the meeting called by EXCO office, on the various projects (on water tanks & lifts only) presented by some apartments in Penang, the meeting was attended by 3 EXCO members, 4 YBs, COB, UPEN and representatives from abt 8 different flats and apartments, included Vista Condo.

some apartments do have their requests on water tank & lifts be granted financial aids, where some were told to furnish more detail to the gov't for further consideration, also some were told to put on hold.

we took the opportunity to present the our request to replace all the roof top water tank lining, total in 8 number (4 big tank & 4 small tank), we show them the photos of our tanks, together with the quotation/proposal by the contractor, and we tried our best to let them know that our water tank lining are indeed at the end of their life span, and should be replaced as soon as possible.

to our pleasant surprise, after the EXCO member saw the photos we presented to them, the advice is to replace the water tank lining is not the best option, as they also notice that the outer layer of the tank, the metal panels are not in very good condition too. so the EXCO YB was graciously suggesting to us to consider to replace all the tank with new tanks, he even mentioned the fiberglass type.

what he suggested, is really beyond our expectation, because we thought to request for the help (on the 80% cost shouldered by gov't) is something big, but he even thought of something bigger than that! so now we are busy checking around for the quotation of the fiberglass tanks to replace the existing tanks at the roof top, so far few vendors did mention they are able to do this job, but still waiting for their official quotation.

of course, just in case the EXCO agree to extend financial help for all the tank replacement, this will pose another financial challenge to us, as the rough estimation of 8 fiberglass tank is amounting to RM400K, for 20% of the total cost need to be absorbed by Vista Condo, or RM80K in this case :P

but let's not to worry abt this 80K now, we got to try our best to get their approval for this project first, once got the approval then let's find way to raise the fund.

thanks.