ugly Kuantan

there is an old blog of mine called uglysydes which records some of the ugly sides of Kuantan, though some of the photoes in the URL are not of Kuantan, the majority of them are.


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Kuantan parking

Kuantan Town parking system uses a ticket system where one needs to scrape the correct year, month, day and time when one starts parking. To the best of my knowledge only Kuantan Town and Melaka use this system, but recently when I was in Ipoh (Perak, Malaysia) I saw the system being used.

In other towns in Malaysia they use parking meters of various types, some electronics, some mechanical and some produce paper tickets.

And Kuantan Town also have season parking tickets, but these are only for the duration of 1(one) month each. I wonder why they do not have parking tickets for the duration of 1(one) week only? That will be very useful for consumers, especially for visitors to Kuantan Town. And believe it or not I have seen Parking Attendants in Kuantan Town working up to 10.00 pm on weekdays. And I do not know if that is normal.


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Municipal Rate

Anyone who understand Malay, and care to analyse the above Kuantan Municipal Rate bill will find that the rate is (usually) for a super luxurious condominium. The apartment that I have is only about 1,100 sq. feet, 3 medium size rooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 sitting room, a small dining area, a small kitchen, and a drying area. I bought it about 10 years ago at about RM 150,000.00. Its on the first floor, of a 4 storey building. The rate (from the bill) is RM 1134.00 per annum. Which mean that I am paying about RM 1.00 per year per sq. foot. Is that right? Expensive?

In other towns in Malaysia, and even in Kuala Lumpur, I might just be paying about half that amount. What does my Kuantan apartment has that makes it 'so luxurious'? Just a small swimming pool, a small children playground, a small garden, parking spaces and security. And we are paying about RM 150.00 per month for maintenance for all those facilities.

Life is expensive for those living in apartments in Kuantan.

Note: USD 1.00 = RM 3.30 as of present.


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Itroduction.

I thought that this is a good introduction to this blog.

http://when-i-m-65.blogspot.com/2008/07/wasps-again.html

And the apartments are listed under,

http://realestate.net.my/photoclass/showproduct.php?product=432

and,

http://ejenhartanah.tripod.com/id17.html
though this second listing is too far fetched to be believed. Someone must have been living in a dream.