few news to share with our beloved residents,
1) we have received few reports that snake abt 5ft to 6ft long has been seen at the swimming pool & the rental parking area since few months ago, suspected it is from the jungle area near the Jalan Paya Terubong, so besides putting up notice to alert our residents, we also putting the netting at the fence facing the trees to prevent it from crawling in (still in the process of doing it), at the same time putting up one more spotlight at the rental area to make the place brighter, so that our residents can have better view on those object on the floor especially during night time, as one report says that snake was seen at night.
2) there was a commotion on Friday late night, abt 12 midnight at the swimming pool, according to security guard's report a young man with long jean but no shirt, looks not in this usual self, forced the grill door of the pool open & jump into the pool & start singing very loud, many residents (those unit facing the pool) were woke up by this, it lasted for awhile until his family members (also our resident) managed to convince him to come out from the pool & bring him home, now the security guard company & the management are dealing with the matter, got to make sure he won't cause any trouble to other peoples in Vista Condo.
3) for those who intend to sell their unit, some little good news is, we have came to know certain unit have managed to sell at abt 300K, while most of the unit sell at 260K to 280K, except those poorly maintained unit may sell below 250K, so we hope can get the building painted by end of year, then the property price can easily climb over 300K barrier.
4) we are still trying to make the appointment for our lawyer to meet up with state EXCO YB Jagdeep Singh for our sinking fund matter, can't get it done for past few weeks because state assembly restarted & besides attended the meeting, he also busy with his regular stuff, so we will try again in August, & hopefully through his help, we will see breakthrough in this matter, God pls help us......
thanks.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Saturday, July 20, 2013
looking forward to the better lifts :)
so the vendor did what they promised, started the upgrading works on Monday, which until today, it's abt one week they have been working on it.
most of the works are done in the lift motor room at the top floor on our building, but also not small portion of it need to be done in the workshop, after assembled/soldered/welded only that they move it to our motor room for further works.
we hope they will honor another pledge they have made, to complete the upgrade by Hari Raya, we pray & hope that they will accomplish this mission, which we believe at the moment still on the right track, as far as the schedule is concerned.
well, not everything were so smooth so far, understand that on Wednesday night, the only lift which still running also go on strike, breakdown for abt an hour, but vendor managed to rectify the problem & the lift is running again, for that we have told vendor to send extra hand to stand by at our place daily, in between 6pm to 9pm, so that if it happen again, the problem can be attended immediately.
one final thing, we would like to clarify that this is "upgrading" process, but not changing to new lift, which from the beginning we have told residents that it's UPGRADING, so hope that after the upgrading is completed later, residents won't get disappointed why it's not completely new.
but the upgraded lifts will be as good as new one, in regards of it's reliability & performance, to make it easier for our residents to understand this, imagine an old car, we change for it the new engine, new air cond, new seat, new shaft, etc almost everything except the chassis, we weld it, patch it, & spray the new paint on it, so this old car will be in very excellent condition, like new :)
thanks.
most of the works are done in the lift motor room at the top floor on our building, but also not small portion of it need to be done in the workshop, after assembled/soldered/welded only that they move it to our motor room for further works.
we hope they will honor another pledge they have made, to complete the upgrade by Hari Raya, we pray & hope that they will accomplish this mission, which we believe at the moment still on the right track, as far as the schedule is concerned.
well, not everything were so smooth so far, understand that on Wednesday night, the only lift which still running also go on strike, breakdown for abt an hour, but vendor managed to rectify the problem & the lift is running again, for that we have told vendor to send extra hand to stand by at our place daily, in between 6pm to 9pm, so that if it happen again, the problem can be attended immediately.
one final thing, we would like to clarify that this is "upgrading" process, but not changing to new lift, which from the beginning we have told residents that it's UPGRADING, so hope that after the upgrading is completed later, residents won't get disappointed why it's not completely new.
but the upgraded lifts will be as good as new one, in regards of it's reliability & performance, to make it easier for our residents to understand this, imagine an old car, we change for it the new engine, new air cond, new seat, new shaft, etc almost everything except the chassis, we weld it, patch it, & spray the new paint on it, so this old car will be in very excellent condition, like new :)
thanks.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
the long wait is abt to over...
right, the long is abt to over, it's a great relieve too, for us in MC.
on Wednesday, the parts for blk K lift upgrading has arrived, quite a rush job because we only got the confirmation on Tuesday that the parts are coming, so to arrange for forklift, get the 2 store room ready to keep the parts, contact odd job worker to stand by as we heard the total weight is abt 800kg....
so lastly, it's all done at abt 1pm of Wednesday, vendor did another round of verification to make sure all these parts are according to the order he made to their supplier from Korea, then lock them up in the store room, yeah, we also purposely installed 3 extra locks to make sure parts are safe kept inside, consider how hard we tried to get this project approved, so need to make sure parts won't kena curi before installation :)
the vendor going to start work on Monday, round a clock type, so we can expect them to do the installation even in the night time, as it will be a better time to do because it will create lesser interruption to the residents who are using the lifts. of course during the upgrading, only one lift is available for blk K residents, so pls bear with the situation, he estimated the whole job can be finished before Raya, we really hope so...
to play safe, we do request the vendor to arrange at least 1 technician to stand by for Vista Condo 24 hours a day, this is to make sure that if (for in case) the only lift which supporting the residents is down, then they can attend to it immediately so our blk K residents not need to climb staircase, but we are praying that the whole upgrading process will be smooth one.
God pls help us.... :)
on Wednesday, the parts for blk K lift upgrading has arrived, quite a rush job because we only got the confirmation on Tuesday that the parts are coming, so to arrange for forklift, get the 2 store room ready to keep the parts, contact odd job worker to stand by as we heard the total weight is abt 800kg....
so lastly, it's all done at abt 1pm of Wednesday, vendor did another round of verification to make sure all these parts are according to the order he made to their supplier from Korea, then lock them up in the store room, yeah, we also purposely installed 3 extra locks to make sure parts are safe kept inside, consider how hard we tried to get this project approved, so need to make sure parts won't kena curi before installation :)
the vendor going to start work on Monday, round a clock type, so we can expect them to do the installation even in the night time, as it will be a better time to do because it will create lesser interruption to the residents who are using the lifts. of course during the upgrading, only one lift is available for blk K residents, so pls bear with the situation, he estimated the whole job can be finished before Raya, we really hope so...
to play safe, we do request the vendor to arrange at least 1 technician to stand by for Vista Condo 24 hours a day, this is to make sure that if (for in case) the only lift which supporting the residents is down, then they can attend to it immediately so our blk K residents not need to climb staircase, but we are praying that the whole upgrading process will be smooth one.
God pls help us.... :)
Friday, July 5, 2013
new guard company starting this month
anyone notice new guards have taken over the guard post?
this is the 6th security guard company we are using since year 2009, which means every year we almost changed twice the guard company for vista condo, it's very high turn around!
just for record, in the past 3 & the 1/2 years, lift vendor change once, management changed once, electrician once, pool vendor twice, it's very normal, but how come security guard changed so many times?
and in fact, this new company is the first company we hired in 2009, but the 2nd year they terminated themselves due to some payment issue with the JMB then, but this time we hired them as guard again, well, main reason is their strong back up.
in the past we did change guard company due to different reason, for both good & bad reasons, at least twice we forced to changed guard company because guard was missing during his duty, also guard get drunk when came to work, worst one is new company took over 2 days then never send any guard anymore, without telling us :(
but this time the reason to change, is aiming for improvement, the previous guard company did "above average" job, generally they were OK, even though we did once awhile heard residents complained that some times they simply opened for ppl without car (or those whose card already barred), we do missed the Chinese guard by the name of Ah Keong, he is an excellent guard, but too bad due to health reason he need to stop working, but anyway we are now once awhile meet him for a cup of coffee :)
we welcome residents to feedback to us your opinion & observation for the new guard company, we did take into consideration those opinions given by our residents, and in fact more than half of the changes of companies as mentioned above were triggered by residents' feedback, and we must agree that it has brought improvement.
thanks.
this is the 6th security guard company we are using since year 2009, which means every year we almost changed twice the guard company for vista condo, it's very high turn around!
just for record, in the past 3 & the 1/2 years, lift vendor change once, management changed once, electrician once, pool vendor twice, it's very normal, but how come security guard changed so many times?
and in fact, this new company is the first company we hired in 2009, but the 2nd year they terminated themselves due to some payment issue with the JMB then, but this time we hired them as guard again, well, main reason is their strong back up.
in the past we did change guard company due to different reason, for both good & bad reasons, at least twice we forced to changed guard company because guard was missing during his duty, also guard get drunk when came to work, worst one is new company took over 2 days then never send any guard anymore, without telling us :(
but this time the reason to change, is aiming for improvement, the previous guard company did "above average" job, generally they were OK, even though we did once awhile heard residents complained that some times they simply opened for ppl without car (or those whose card already barred), we do missed the Chinese guard by the name of Ah Keong, he is an excellent guard, but too bad due to health reason he need to stop working, but anyway we are now once awhile meet him for a cup of coffee :)
we welcome residents to feedback to us your opinion & observation for the new guard company, we did take into consideration those opinions given by our residents, and in fact more than half of the changes of companies as mentioned above were triggered by residents' feedback, and we must agree that it has brought improvement.
thanks.
Friday, June 28, 2013
touch card for lifts? what u say...?
received an email from resident, he got some suggestion which we also heard from others as well, so like to share here & find out from our residents are they agreeable to this suggestion or not?
is concerning the touch card for using lifts.
(at the moment the parts for blk K lift upgrading still in kastam, our lift vendor's agent is doing the clearance, hope it won't take long)
few benefits we can get from installing the touch card system in the lifts, the most important one is for security, for which only our own residents can access to their floor by touching the scanner in the lift with their card, so other peoples (especially outsiders or visitors) must accompanied by own residents or else they will need to use staircase, through this the security will be greatly tightened.
another benefit is it's good for collecting the service charge, for some other apartments in Penang have already implemented it, the feedback so far are mixed one, no doubt it can increase the collection rate, but at the same time cause inconvenience like card malfunction, forget to bring the card, emergency situation, etc.....
earlier on we dare not to consider to install the touch card system due the lifts in blk K are in the real bad shape & blk J lifts are just in acceptable condition (can't say very good), we worried that after install the system, more problems will be caused to blk k residents, so those days we were thinking if blk K lifts can be in more stable condition then we should consider to install the system....
so now as we will upgrade the blk K lifts soon, and perhaps the blk J lifts will get improved as well because we can use some of existing parts from blk K lifts to replace the faulty parts of blk J lifts, by this all the blk J & K lifts will be fit enough for the touch card system, and, now is the better time to consider this question, should we install the lifts touch card system in Vista Condo?
so our beloved Vista Condo residents, can you give your opinion on this, thanks.
is concerning the touch card for using lifts.
(at the moment the parts for blk K lift upgrading still in kastam, our lift vendor's agent is doing the clearance, hope it won't take long)
few benefits we can get from installing the touch card system in the lifts, the most important one is for security, for which only our own residents can access to their floor by touching the scanner in the lift with their card, so other peoples (especially outsiders or visitors) must accompanied by own residents or else they will need to use staircase, through this the security will be greatly tightened.
another benefit is it's good for collecting the service charge, for some other apartments in Penang have already implemented it, the feedback so far are mixed one, no doubt it can increase the collection rate, but at the same time cause inconvenience like card malfunction, forget to bring the card, emergency situation, etc.....
earlier on we dare not to consider to install the touch card system due the lifts in blk K are in the real bad shape & blk J lifts are just in acceptable condition (can't say very good), we worried that after install the system, more problems will be caused to blk k residents, so those days we were thinking if blk K lifts can be in more stable condition then we should consider to install the system....
so now as we will upgrade the blk K lifts soon, and perhaps the blk J lifts will get improved as well because we can use some of existing parts from blk K lifts to replace the faulty parts of blk J lifts, by this all the blk J & K lifts will be fit enough for the touch card system, and, now is the better time to consider this question, should we install the lifts touch card system in Vista Condo?
so our beloved Vista Condo residents, can you give your opinion on this, thanks.
Friday, June 21, 2013
general updates on 22/6/13
few things to brief our beloved Vista residents,
1) we have been informed by lift vendor that the parts for the blk k lift upgrade can arrive this weekend in Penang, after that they will do some inspection to make sure good condition & right parts, then shall waste no time & start the upgrading process. vendor promise to do it round the clock, so we expect they will have ppl in Vista Condo most of the time during the upgrading, how long will it take...? abt 4 to 6 weeks.
2) wifi @ foyer, has anyone among our residents tested it? pls feedback to us the quality so if any modification needed, we can get the vendor to do. As the return to the timedotcom's kindness, we will let them to have road show in our place, hope they will give good offer for those who will sign up during their promotion.
3) sink hole at entrance, the job has completed 2 weeks ago, the vendor also have cleared all the IWK manholes in Vista Condo, but our main concern is the main entrance sinkhole, vendor should have pasted all the leak, for that the supposedly result is that area should NOT sink anymore, so we like our residents to help us to monitor that floor level is not lowered even 1 inch.
4) staff movement, we have a new supervisor now, Mr James, who started work 2 weeks ago, the previous person Mr Rashidi is actually quite a good supervisor, but too bad due to his health condition (diabetic), he needs to go gor check up every now & then, this made his attendance record not too presentable, so now we wish him all the best & may he get the better job to suit for his condition, as for new supervisor Mr James, so far our comments are OK, hope that he can stay on.
5) someone mentioned abt durian party in the comments of last article, well, we will like to have one, but got to wait for the price to drop, let's wait for another week & see :)
thanks.
1) we have been informed by lift vendor that the parts for the blk k lift upgrade can arrive this weekend in Penang, after that they will do some inspection to make sure good condition & right parts, then shall waste no time & start the upgrading process. vendor promise to do it round the clock, so we expect they will have ppl in Vista Condo most of the time during the upgrading, how long will it take...? abt 4 to 6 weeks.
2) wifi @ foyer, has anyone among our residents tested it? pls feedback to us the quality so if any modification needed, we can get the vendor to do. As the return to the timedotcom's kindness, we will let them to have road show in our place, hope they will give good offer for those who will sign up during their promotion.
3) sink hole at entrance, the job has completed 2 weeks ago, the vendor also have cleared all the IWK manholes in Vista Condo, but our main concern is the main entrance sinkhole, vendor should have pasted all the leak, for that the supposedly result is that area should NOT sink anymore, so we like our residents to help us to monitor that floor level is not lowered even 1 inch.
4) staff movement, we have a new supervisor now, Mr James, who started work 2 weeks ago, the previous person Mr Rashidi is actually quite a good supervisor, but too bad due to his health condition (diabetic), he needs to go gor check up every now & then, this made his attendance record not too presentable, so now we wish him all the best & may he get the better job to suit for his condition, as for new supervisor Mr James, so far our comments are OK, hope that he can stay on.
5) someone mentioned abt durian party in the comments of last article, well, we will like to have one, but got to wait for the price to drop, let's wait for another week & see :)
thanks.
Friday, June 14, 2013
so the answer is..........
YES........!!!! now the foyer area is wifi equipped, also motor parking area of blk j & K which facing the foyer area.
we have tested for few days already, signal is strongest at the round table area at the foyer, blk j parking area (facing foyer) also quite ok because the transmitter is placed somewhere there as power point has been fixed there 2 years ago, blk k bike parking area also reasonably good especially near to the swimming fencing, but too bad the signal can't both lift lobby of J & K.
special thanks to TimeDotCom for their kindness to set up this facilities, we are now also thinking how to get more area to covered...hopefully other company will be kind enough to do for us too.
oh ya, login name & password,
login : vista wifi
password : vistacondo1234
we will put up the notice soon to inform all our beloved residents.
thanks.
we have tested for few days already, signal is strongest at the round table area at the foyer, blk j parking area (facing foyer) also quite ok because the transmitter is placed somewhere there as power point has been fixed there 2 years ago, blk k bike parking area also reasonably good especially near to the swimming fencing, but too bad the signal can't both lift lobby of J & K.
special thanks to TimeDotCom for their kindness to set up this facilities, we are now also thinking how to get more area to covered...hopefully other company will be kind enough to do for us too.
oh ya, login name & password,
login : vista wifi
password : vistacondo1234
we will put up the notice soon to inform all our beloved residents.
thanks.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
free wifi for vista residents, is it possible?
at the moment we are discussing with one of the internet service provider for making some of the ground floor common area to be wifi ready, the chance to get it done is actually quite bright :)
(maybe some residents still don't know that Penangfon do provide us a free internet connection at the management office since 2 years ago, this has enable the staff to send us daily update on the fee collection, bank in amount & other thing, for this it has saved our management fund abt RM100 per month)
the company we are negotiating now is a different company, we hope they can provide wifi coverage for blk j ground floor, blk k ground flr, and foyer, in fact today they did come & tested few location, seems need to overcome few technical issue, but not major one, we hope if they can't cover these 3 areas as mentioned, at least they will do for foyer area, and once it's done then our residents can enjoy free wifi connection, especially those who doesn't have one in their house.
not sure this free wifi facilities has been made available for other apartment, of course penang free wifi can be found in some shopping center, coffee shop & other public places, but not apartment yet (this company is not related to penang free wifi), we do come across one condo project in Tg Bungah area do invest in some modems & routers, subscribed a internet service to make some common area wifi ready, but then they need to spend over hundred ringgit per month for the line, and also to maintain the equipment, not sure are they still doing so as last time we heard abt this was abt 3 years ago.
we are at the moment following up with the company for vista free wifi, once all settled then will announce it to our residents, when....? hopefully in the month of July.
thanks.
(maybe some residents still don't know that Penangfon do provide us a free internet connection at the management office since 2 years ago, this has enable the staff to send us daily update on the fee collection, bank in amount & other thing, for this it has saved our management fund abt RM100 per month)
the company we are negotiating now is a different company, we hope they can provide wifi coverage for blk j ground floor, blk k ground flr, and foyer, in fact today they did come & tested few location, seems need to overcome few technical issue, but not major one, we hope if they can't cover these 3 areas as mentioned, at least they will do for foyer area, and once it's done then our residents can enjoy free wifi connection, especially those who doesn't have one in their house.
not sure this free wifi facilities has been made available for other apartment, of course penang free wifi can be found in some shopping center, coffee shop & other public places, but not apartment yet (this company is not related to penang free wifi), we do come across one condo project in Tg Bungah area do invest in some modems & routers, subscribed a internet service to make some common area wifi ready, but then they need to spend over hundred ringgit per month for the line, and also to maintain the equipment, not sure are they still doing so as last time we heard abt this was abt 3 years ago.
we are at the moment following up with the company for vista free wifi, once all settled then will announce it to our residents, when....? hopefully in the month of July.
thanks.
Friday, May 31, 2013
brief report on meeting with EXCO member
few of us managed to meet up with EXCO for housing matters, YB Jagdeep Singh on Wednesday, at his office at Komtar 53rd floor, mainly for building repainting.
well, didn't see much breakthrough as he insisted that the state government only will help those "government-built apartments" to repaint their building, as for Vista Condo, this financial aid will not be available as we are "private apartment" :(
and, instead, he ask us to write to "HAPPY" program, under this program, successful applicant will get federal gov't to pay 80% of the repainting cost, another 20% will be absorbed by state gov't, and so far out of nearby 100 applications from Penang for past few years, only one application be approved, but anyhow we will try.
so now we would not push hard for state gov't to help for repainting unless if any resident got very strong connection with them & strong reason to do it, but now the other 2 option will be sinking fund & long repayment.
we did mention to YB abt our sinking fund, as now we have managed to obtain the court order for developer to pay but they managed to find loophole not to pay us, YB willing to help on the matter, asking us to arrange the appointment for him to meet up with our lawyer, to our pleasant surprise actually they both worked under the same company before, know each other quite well, so now we try to fix the appointment for them to discuss on our court case, hopefully get recover our money soon.
so if there's any nice thing happened during our meeting on the Wednesday, it was not so much much on repainting, but perhaps through his help, our sinking fund will be recovered soon :)
well, didn't see much breakthrough as he insisted that the state government only will help those "government-built apartments" to repaint their building, as for Vista Condo, this financial aid will not be available as we are "private apartment" :(
and, instead, he ask us to write to "HAPPY" program, under this program, successful applicant will get federal gov't to pay 80% of the repainting cost, another 20% will be absorbed by state gov't, and so far out of nearby 100 applications from Penang for past few years, only one application be approved, but anyhow we will try.
so now we would not push hard for state gov't to help for repainting unless if any resident got very strong connection with them & strong reason to do it, but now the other 2 option will be sinking fund & long repayment.
we did mention to YB abt our sinking fund, as now we have managed to obtain the court order for developer to pay but they managed to find loophole not to pay us, YB willing to help on the matter, asking us to arrange the appointment for him to meet up with our lawyer, to our pleasant surprise actually they both worked under the same company before, know each other quite well, so now we try to fix the appointment for them to discuss on our court case, hopefully get recover our money soon.
so if there's any nice thing happened during our meeting on the Wednesday, it was not so much much on repainting, but perhaps through his help, our sinking fund will be recovered soon :)
Friday, May 24, 2013
no water supply Saturday morning!!!!
blk k residents wake up & shocked to find out the water supply was cut completely this morning, abt 6.30am.
we were informed of the incident at abt 7am, Deva the committee member went & check at pump room, found out no power at the control panel (which responsible to supply power to the pump), so he went the switch room to reset the MCB, but failed as saw spark too.
so we felt that it has something to do with electrical problem, we immediately rang up our electrician Mr Lee, he came 30 min later (by then a lot of blk k already woke up & complain to guard abt the problem), after he checked, it's confirmed that one of the main component MCCB already spoiled, but as he doesn't have the part with so he need to get it from somewhere, together with other necessary tools as well, so he came back at abt 9.30am & the pump were up again at abt 10am.
we have no complaint as it has been rectify in abt 3 hours, but of course we need to learn from this incident, one resident suggested install an alarm outside pump room to detect problem like this, which we thought it's good, so we will get vendor to install one.
few residents called & yelling, asking why nobody know that the pump had not been working for few days, (it take abt 3 days to finish all the water at the water tank of blk k rooftop if pump didn't send water up there), but when ask them have they recently noticed that the water turned yellowish (it's a sign of water level is low at water tank) almost all of them said yes, so we asked them again have they informed committee or office abt this, they said no....
if we know early abt the problem then we should be able to get the MCCB replace, and what happened this morning most likely can be avoided, so we will like to urge our residents to inform office or email us quickly if found any abnormality, thanks.
we were informed of the incident at abt 7am, Deva the committee member went & check at pump room, found out no power at the control panel (which responsible to supply power to the pump), so he went the switch room to reset the MCB, but failed as saw spark too.
so we felt that it has something to do with electrical problem, we immediately rang up our electrician Mr Lee, he came 30 min later (by then a lot of blk k already woke up & complain to guard abt the problem), after he checked, it's confirmed that one of the main component MCCB already spoiled, but as he doesn't have the part with so he need to get it from somewhere, together with other necessary tools as well, so he came back at abt 9.30am & the pump were up again at abt 10am.
we have no complaint as it has been rectify in abt 3 hours, but of course we need to learn from this incident, one resident suggested install an alarm outside pump room to detect problem like this, which we thought it's good, so we will get vendor to install one.
few residents called & yelling, asking why nobody know that the pump had not been working for few days, (it take abt 3 days to finish all the water at the water tank of blk k rooftop if pump didn't send water up there), but when ask them have they recently noticed that the water turned yellowish (it's a sign of water level is low at water tank) almost all of them said yes, so we asked them again have they informed committee or office abt this, they said no....
if we know early abt the problem then we should be able to get the MCCB replace, and what happened this morning most likely can be avoided, so we will like to urge our residents to inform office or email us quickly if found any abnormality, thanks.
Friday, May 17, 2013
repainting of blk J & K this year, is it possible?
while we are still waiting for the blk k lifts to be upgraded, which the state gov't will absorbed 80% of the cost involved, we are also impatiently looking into the options of repainting of blk J and blk K.
our target time is this year, well, it's a mission "almost" impossible :)
but as has been said earlier, we are a bit impatient...., so let's give it a try and perhaps by God's help again, we can see something happen.
sinking fund will not be the sure bet, but hopefully we don't need to wait long, anyhow we can't rely on it if we seriously want to paint the building this year.
another option is get a kind vendor (will need to get residents help to recommend if you know of any) who willing to let us to have VERY LONG repayment term, if go by RM4000 or RM5000 per month & total cost is RM350K, then will take abt 6 to 8 years, which is something achievable for us, anyone can recommend?
but the more pratical option, which we have started to work on it, ie to write to state gov't for help again, either 80%/20% or best they pay all, early this week we have snapped some photos of our building, especially those areas where the paint faded badly, put together with email & sent it to the new EXCO member who in charge of housing matters YB Jagdeep Singh Deo, now still waiting for his reply for meeting with him to discuss further.
but while waiting for EXCO's reply, we also have talked to a blk j resident (she holds high post in state secretary dept), for which we hope she will help us to arrange a meeting with EXCO soon, in fact she is one of the residents who has pushed us much for the building repainting, so now she got to do her part as well.... ;)
last night got another good news, it seems some blk k residents also friend of the new EXCO, still remember last year YB Karpal Singh visited a Hindu temple function in Vista? our blk k residents who organized the function know both YB Karpal Singh & YB Jagdeep Singh quite well (they are father & son, just for info), so we also get help from this blk k resident to talk to new EXCO member for our building repainting.
we welcome residents to share with us if got other suggestions, early on someone said can recommend a paint vendor to paint both blocks free for us, but must put their brand or logo to help them for advertising purpose, but already quite a while still no further news from him....
thanks.
our target time is this year, well, it's a mission "almost" impossible :)
but as has been said earlier, we are a bit impatient...., so let's give it a try and perhaps by God's help again, we can see something happen.
sinking fund will not be the sure bet, but hopefully we don't need to wait long, anyhow we can't rely on it if we seriously want to paint the building this year.
another option is get a kind vendor (will need to get residents help to recommend if you know of any) who willing to let us to have VERY LONG repayment term, if go by RM4000 or RM5000 per month & total cost is RM350K, then will take abt 6 to 8 years, which is something achievable for us, anyone can recommend?
but the more pratical option, which we have started to work on it, ie to write to state gov't for help again, either 80%/20% or best they pay all, early this week we have snapped some photos of our building, especially those areas where the paint faded badly, put together with email & sent it to the new EXCO member who in charge of housing matters YB Jagdeep Singh Deo, now still waiting for his reply for meeting with him to discuss further.
but while waiting for EXCO's reply, we also have talked to a blk j resident (she holds high post in state secretary dept), for which we hope she will help us to arrange a meeting with EXCO soon, in fact she is one of the residents who has pushed us much for the building repainting, so now she got to do her part as well.... ;)
last night got another good news, it seems some blk k residents also friend of the new EXCO, still remember last year YB Karpal Singh visited a Hindu temple function in Vista? our blk k residents who organized the function know both YB Karpal Singh & YB Jagdeep Singh quite well (they are father & son, just for info), so we also get help from this blk k resident to talk to new EXCO member for our building repainting.
we welcome residents to share with us if got other suggestions, early on someone said can recommend a paint vendor to paint both blocks free for us, but must put their brand or logo to help them for advertising purpose, but already quite a while still no further news from him....
thanks.
Friday, May 10, 2013
general updates as per 11/5/13....
few things to brief our beloved residents...
1) election has over, but still many are soaking in the election fever... ;) for us in Vista Condo, the result of GE do affect us a bit, well PR continue to be state gov't means we still have good support from them for common property management matters, especially YB Yeoh Soon Hin as we know him a person who is quite helpful. But the bad news is the the EXCO member YB Wong Hon Wai who has has helped us to get the fund for our blk K lift upgrade is no more an EXCO member, sad......:( because we have established good relationship with him, so now we got to talk to the new EXCO member (in charge of housing matters) YB Jagdeep Singh Deo, hopefully he will be as helpful as YB Wong.
2) Sink hole at main entrance, we decided to go for long term solution for this sink hole problem, it will cost 5K to 7K, depending on how bad the damage, the reason this sink hole can be patched with conventional way is the leaking (which caused the soil & sand be flushed away from that area) is due to the crack found in the internal sewage pipe, so now we have contacted few contractor, comparing their price & service, finalized it, choose the option we feel it's good & should start work next week, we hope it will solve the problem once & for all.
3) recently few owners managed to sell their house at 230K to 250K, this is a good development, it reflect that the properties here still in demand, our big project now is try to get fund to paint the building before 2014, for this will most likely to push the value of apartment here to 300K, few option to get the fund, sinking fund still a court case, can't predict when it will be available, so most probably we will get somebody to help to introduce us to new housing EXCO YB Jagdeep Singh Deo for financial help for painting, for we have hv a resident who is holding senior position in the state gov't office.....
thanks.
1) election has over, but still many are soaking in the election fever... ;) for us in Vista Condo, the result of GE do affect us a bit, well PR continue to be state gov't means we still have good support from them for common property management matters, especially YB Yeoh Soon Hin as we know him a person who is quite helpful. But the bad news is the the EXCO member YB Wong Hon Wai who has has helped us to get the fund for our blk K lift upgrade is no more an EXCO member, sad......:( because we have established good relationship with him, so now we got to talk to the new EXCO member (in charge of housing matters) YB Jagdeep Singh Deo, hopefully he will be as helpful as YB Wong.
2) Sink hole at main entrance, we decided to go for long term solution for this sink hole problem, it will cost 5K to 7K, depending on how bad the damage, the reason this sink hole can be patched with conventional way is the leaking (which caused the soil & sand be flushed away from that area) is due to the crack found in the internal sewage pipe, so now we have contacted few contractor, comparing their price & service, finalized it, choose the option we feel it's good & should start work next week, we hope it will solve the problem once & for all.
3) recently few owners managed to sell their house at 230K to 250K, this is a good development, it reflect that the properties here still in demand, our big project now is try to get fund to paint the building before 2014, for this will most likely to push the value of apartment here to 300K, few option to get the fund, sinking fund still a court case, can't predict when it will be available, so most probably we will get somebody to help to introduce us to new housing EXCO YB Jagdeep Singh Deo for financial help for painting, for we have hv a resident who is holding senior position in the state gov't office.....
thanks.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
resume after general election
hi,
will take a longer break, posting will resume after general election, because now everybody in the election fever, we can't get ourselves exempted, day & night follow election news, and even attended the ceramah & rally, so since can't find time to write quality article, might as well give way to election, so will write to u guys again after election.
thanks.
will take a longer break, posting will resume after general election, because now everybody in the election fever, we can't get ourselves exempted, day & night follow election news, and even attended the ceramah & rally, so since can't find time to write quality article, might as well give way to election, so will write to u guys again after election.
thanks.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
see u tonight at the party!
as at the moment, we have abt 40 families signed up for the annual party tonight, go by average of each family comprises of 2 adults & 2 kids, the we can expect the crowd size of >100, which consider as "big" compare to those annual party we had before, we normally have abt 80 ppl to 120 ppl turned up in the gathering, but last year was exceptional, far more than 120 (adult & kids), but again as we do expect some residents will do walk in registration later, so perhaps the number can hit 120 as well.
this year's party selling point will be the satay & ice kacang, which both got good commend last year, but too bad can't arrange the clown & DiGi to entertain the kids as we didn't have enough time to get it arranged, remember we were nearly skip the party because need to save money for lift upgrade, but thank God we did get fund from gov't for the project, but then with only 2 weeks' time we tried to put things together, then got to sacrifice few items.
lucky draw still good, total 16 items to offer, microwave oven, induction cooker, hampers, cash voucher....., actually each time when residents come for the party, they sure get more than what they have paid, imagine one adult will only to pay RM8 for at least 2 pcs of balacan chicken, abt 10 pcs of satay, ice kacang (besides fire rice, bee hoon, nugget, drink..), & even got good chance to bring home lucky draw item, then their kids will even enjoy more with games & prizes....
but if there's anything more significant than the above, then I will say is to build a caring community among Vista Residents, it's a real purpose to have the gathering every year, we hope that as residents come together, sit together having meal together, seeing their kids play together, thru this "togetherness" to bring our residents closer to each other, for it's a foundation for the caring community in Vista Condo.
of course this year's gathering is much more meaningful as we also make it an appreciation party for the 2 YBs, YB Wong Hon Wai for his approval to release the fund for the lifts upgrade, & for YB Yeoh Soon Hin for helping us in many matters, even the lift upgrade too, he has guided us how to go abt it for the fund application.
for those who has signed up, thank you very much....., for those who still want to join the gathering but hasn't sign up, pls do drop by also as tonight we plan to ask fund from YB for the building painting, so as more residents turn up to make this request hopefully he will give more consideration on our request (if he still an EXCO for housing matter) after election.
see u all.....
this year's party selling point will be the satay & ice kacang, which both got good commend last year, but too bad can't arrange the clown & DiGi to entertain the kids as we didn't have enough time to get it arranged, remember we were nearly skip the party because need to save money for lift upgrade, but thank God we did get fund from gov't for the project, but then with only 2 weeks' time we tried to put things together, then got to sacrifice few items.
lucky draw still good, total 16 items to offer, microwave oven, induction cooker, hampers, cash voucher....., actually each time when residents come for the party, they sure get more than what they have paid, imagine one adult will only to pay RM8 for at least 2 pcs of balacan chicken, abt 10 pcs of satay, ice kacang (besides fire rice, bee hoon, nugget, drink..), & even got good chance to bring home lucky draw item, then their kids will even enjoy more with games & prizes....
but if there's anything more significant than the above, then I will say is to build a caring community among Vista Residents, it's a real purpose to have the gathering every year, we hope that as residents come together, sit together having meal together, seeing their kids play together, thru this "togetherness" to bring our residents closer to each other, for it's a foundation for the caring community in Vista Condo.
of course this year's gathering is much more meaningful as we also make it an appreciation party for the 2 YBs, YB Wong Hon Wai for his approval to release the fund for the lifts upgrade, & for YB Yeoh Soon Hin for helping us in many matters, even the lift upgrade too, he has guided us how to go abt it for the fund application.
for those who has signed up, thank you very much....., for those who still want to join the gathering but hasn't sign up, pls do drop by also as tonight we plan to ask fund from YB for the building painting, so as more residents turn up to make this request hopefully he will give more consideration on our request (if he still an EXCO for housing matter) after election.
see u all.....
Friday, April 5, 2013
big projects, 2 down, 1 to go, what next?
gov't financial aid of 125K for the lifts really bring us much relief, financially speaking.
so now as we have settled the entrance shade & going to start the blk k lifts upgrade, thru God's grace & gov't's help, we have basically completed (and going to) 2 major projects, well, time to consider the next big project, the painting of vista condo.
we don't want to give false hope, but this will take awhile, again it will involve much prayer to God, calling gov't depts, sending in requests & other documents, meeting with them...., can't say how long can it be completed, but if it happen in 2013 then it's a great bonus for vista residents.
most likely after election, we will try to arrange an appointment with EXCO member, together with some contact inside gov't dept, present our request to them as low medium cost apartment, try to push for 80% - 20% arrangement, so if painting cost is 300K, then we hope they give 240K & from vista resident 60K.
give the best scenario, EXCO again approve our request, then we should check our account, if by then have huge saving like 60K, then we will straight away deposit our 20% to state treasury dept to seal the deal, but if fund is too low then will need residents to pay SC in advance or pay extra RM200 per unit, but it's still too early to discuss that, first thing first, wait for the election to be over.
well, another possible arrangement which without involve gov't aid, there will be talk to vendor who is kind enough to give us long year payment term, something like after job is completed then we pay them 30k as first payment, then monthly installment abt 4k which still affordable for us, by this it will take abt 5 to 6 years to complete, in fact now we are exploring that option....
(if sinking fund come during this period of time, then repayment need not to take that long)
but of course we are much more prefer to get fund from gov't, also like to promote our residents' annual party here, beside nice food (include ice kacang, satay...) & lucky draw (more than 15 items to be won!!!), YB Wong will be here with us too, we just want to make a simple request to our residents, can u pls come & say thanks to him, perhaps when he see our appreciative attitude, this will make it easier for us to talk to him again on future financial aid for the painting.
thanks.
so now as we have settled the entrance shade & going to start the blk k lifts upgrade, thru God's grace & gov't's help, we have basically completed (and going to) 2 major projects, well, time to consider the next big project, the painting of vista condo.
we don't want to give false hope, but this will take awhile, again it will involve much prayer to God, calling gov't depts, sending in requests & other documents, meeting with them...., can't say how long can it be completed, but if it happen in 2013 then it's a great bonus for vista residents.
most likely after election, we will try to arrange an appointment with EXCO member, together with some contact inside gov't dept, present our request to them as low medium cost apartment, try to push for 80% - 20% arrangement, so if painting cost is 300K, then we hope they give 240K & from vista resident 60K.
give the best scenario, EXCO again approve our request, then we should check our account, if by then have huge saving like 60K, then we will straight away deposit our 20% to state treasury dept to seal the deal, but if fund is too low then will need residents to pay SC in advance or pay extra RM200 per unit, but it's still too early to discuss that, first thing first, wait for the election to be over.
well, another possible arrangement which without involve gov't aid, there will be talk to vendor who is kind enough to give us long year payment term, something like after job is completed then we pay them 30k as first payment, then monthly installment abt 4k which still affordable for us, by this it will take abt 5 to 6 years to complete, in fact now we are exploring that option....
(if sinking fund come during this period of time, then repayment need not to take that long)
but of course we are much more prefer to get fund from gov't, also like to promote our residents' annual party here, beside nice food (include ice kacang, satay...) & lucky draw (more than 15 items to be won!!!), YB Wong will be here with us too, we just want to make a simple request to our residents, can u pls come & say thanks to him, perhaps when he see our appreciative attitude, this will make it easier for us to talk to him again on future financial aid for the painting.
thanks.
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