Saturday, March 26, 2011

a list of thanks....

120++ adult & kids turn up in the rainy evening for the Vista Condo Earth Hour Party, it really touch our heart, we thank God for His blessing on the event, & we also want to express our heartfelt thanks to...

Vista Residents, w/o the residents, the party would not take place, especially the weather for past 1 week really gloomy, then extremely heavy down pour started on the 26/3 early in the morning, continue until afternoon, then took a break for abt 2 hour from 5.30pm to 7.30pm, then rained again abt 8pm, it encourage our heart so much when saw the big turnout in this weather condition.

Vista Kids, kids' games always the highlight of vista condo party, when they express they enjoyment with screaming & laughter, it brought broad smile to the faces of adults, thanks kids for participate in the games wholehearted.

YB Yeoh Soon Hin, we are excited for YB's visit, as far as we can remember, no VIP at this level has visited any Vista Condo function, we feel honored by his present here. Furthermore, YB has contributed 10 lucky draw hampers, & promised to look into our request for the shade over the main entrance & help us to check on the status of the empty land behind the rental parking area, thanks a lot YB Yeoh.

Vista Vendors, Bituin Management Services, Lee electrician, Lung plumbing, Tokio Marine insurance, Lee Yong That insurance agent, Bakat Gemilang Lift Services, Grace & Glory Enterprise, Mr Hassan's 2 contractor friends, for their kind contribution on the lucky draw item, their gift of love have bless our residents much!

JMB members, Deva had been running around for few days to compare price & buying item for the lucky draw grant prizes & kids' games(the bike, air cooler, termoflask, stationery...), Jeffery, Ang & Isma lobored themselves in the kids games, Siknee for doing the MC stuff, Tan busy taking photo, they also work hard (together w Hassan) for planning this event & approaching residents to join the party..., guys, thanks for showing the great teamwork! (oh yeah, Ang's wife also sponsored the cup cakes, thanks to her too!)

also the caterer, PA system vendor, tent/table/chair vendor, YB's assistants, newspaper reporters, thanks, thanks, thanks.....

YB Yeoh said this event is "very successful" for it's big turnout & also it's a first in his constituent (Paya Terubong), we rated it as "successful" as few things need to improve, especially the food, as we have prepared 120 pax, but turn up to be not enough as many residents sign in last min out of our expectation, we consider it's a "good problem" and Ang & Jeffery managed to ta-pau the KFC on time, thanks bro...

if possible, we would like to make "Vista Condo Earth Hour Gathering" a yearly event, what do u guys think?

Cheng

Friday, March 18, 2011

earth hour "makan" party promotion

like to promote the makan party on 26th March, 8pm to 10pm.

well, indeed it has many benefits,

1) makan together can always bring people closer to each other, our aim for vista condo is to build a community where ppl really care for each other, especially in the times of need, like if u r away for few days, u will wish some1 can look-see ur house once awhile, or if my old car breakdown, then i can count on some1 to give me/family a lift, or during world cup/all england/olympic suddenly ur TV go strike then u no need to go coffee shop but jz pop in ur vista fren's house, of course u got to make sure he/she likes sport too, or if u cook halfway suddenly u notice there's no egg in the fridge...

2) educating ppl on going green, as this is a "in" thing now, well, this is our responsibility to preserve the nature for our next generation, we hope by doing this, we will encourage our neighboring apartments like villa, alor vista, marina tower & others start to consider the same thing, ie having the awareness of preserving the nature.

3) lucky draw items not bad huh, so far YB Yeoh, Star Newspaper, Insurance agent, other vendors promised to contribute for these.

4) this one also quite important, state assemblyman YB Yeoh plan to join us in the party, some reporter will follow too, think abt it, if few days later the newspaper got this article "Vista Condo Residents go green, setting the good example for others", i guess it will boost our image so much, then, i believe the vista property value will go up a bit too...., at the moment we heard some blk J unit sold at 160K, blk K sold at 155K, perhaps after the event can have another 5K more?

still got other benefits, ur kids will have fun playing the games, the prizes they going to win will create some confident in them, mothers will have a break as no need to prepare dinner, & u also can save some petrol & parking fee as u no need to go find a place for weekend dinner...

so pls switch off ur light & join the party, pls do drop by the office to register, or contact any1 in JMB, or u can even register here in the comment...

thanks & see u guys then..
cheng/JMB

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

yr2011 some statistic to share...

hi,

perhaps is good to share with residents some of this data..

our monthly expenses (roughly)

management service - 3000
security service - 3300
cleaners - 1750
lift service - 1400
generator & electrical- 400
swimming pool - 800
TNB - 6000
PBA - 500
phone (ofis & guard) - 100
various repair - 3000

it's abt RM20,250 in total....

now our average collection is RM22000, which is abt 80% of 275 unit, from here surplus is abt 1K, then with 20% of debtors, or 5k, it makes to total asset of abt 6k per month, or 72k per year.

at the moment old debt (outstanding service charge & insurance) by defaulter is abt 60K, plus the 72k from above, so at end year, we should have 132K asset, say along the way there's some major repair, especially the lift, then we still can expect something like 100K at the end of yr2011! (the legal notice for the defaulter should be out this month)

if my data looks a bit confusing.... :(

in short, it means the future of Vista Condo looks bright, but it take every residents' cooperation & effort to make it happen.

Cheng/JMB

MC, management corporation, new dawn....

(it has been more than 1 yr since last article, we reactivate this blog upon residents' request in the AGM)

in the AGM held on 25/2/2011, we have most of residents voted to form MC, in full, management corporation, & this important step enable us to move forward for one of long term goal, SINKING FUND, coz only MC has the legal right to claim back our sinking fund, but JMB is not in the position to do so...

we wanted to thank those resident who have taken their strata title, coz according to the strata title law, we must have at least 25% of purchaser collected their strata title in order to form MC, we did the search in land office few months ago, we do have abt 30% taken theirs, there's why we called the AGM to form it, now we are waiting for the council to send us the cert to form it officially, thank God for His help...

honestly not too sure when we can get back the money, pray & hope that it will happen in 2011, & with the money of nearly RM400k, a lot of things can be done, painting of building, upgrade the lifts, replacing the water tanks' lining, etc....

is it a dream? in fact our experience told us it's good to have many dreams, like in the past, we dream of forming JMB, we dream of having our own management, we dream of having surplus in our P&L, also providing enough parking space, improving the quality of our facilities, latest one forming MC....although is not smooth riding, but as we see we manage to hit these target one by one, we are confident to say, with God's help, we will get back our sinking fund.

so...., let's dream on...

cheng