miniature coconut trees of Kuantan

These are beautiful miniature coconut trees planted especially in places where people can walk near them or under them without endangering the people from fallen ripe coconuts. The Municipal Council must be given credits for their good thoughts on public safety and comfort.

Prominently displayed

Some of the prominently displayed billboards in Kuantan Town.

Amir Hamzah

Meet Amir Hamzah, the guy who cleans the beautifully tiled promenade of The Kuantan River every morning, collecting the rubbish left by irresponsible people who walks the promenade, day and night. Without the people the like of him, Kuantan residents would be walking in rubbish when strolling or running on that promenade.

Do they care?

This is right below our apartment.Everyone sees it every day. But does anyone care?

The management probably knows. Their action?

The owner probably knows. But the owner does not live here.

My Apartment

This is an interesting correspondence from one of the apartment owners. I have faith that the person concerned will allow me to print the correspondence in this blog. The person will be doing a great service to us all, and what the person says are exactly what most of the apartments' owners/buyers/ tenants suffer from. There is no solution currently, and one of the owners said to my wife recently "The Apartment is now just like poor peoples' residence". Maybe its like that.

I am a new member of this group. My unit is …….. I got to know about this group ……………..I read his blog. I am so glad that we have this kind of group in order for us to communicate among each other. I really hope other residents could join this group too.

I have to change the floor of my apartment because water from the toilet had absorbed into the floor and wall of the living room and the middle bedroom. I am not sure if there is any leakage in the wall. The only way I can check is by breaking the wall. Any ideas what I should do? Should I inform the management?
Who should bear the cost?

The tiles in the bathroom (wall) have come out. So, I could see that those tiles were not properly done by the developer. If I knock the wall, it's hollow. Now I have to take out all the tiles and re-put them back.

The toilet in the master bedroom has another door. If I open the door, I could see rubbish, i.e. plastic bags, papers, condoms, clothes, etc. thrown by the people who live above my unit. Because of this, my house becomes so dirty and water cannot flow freely through the rain hole. When this happen, the water
will absorb into the wall and floor, and my house now is full of fungi! Anyone has this problem too? How did you overcome this problem? I was thinking to cover the place with "overhead grill" (I am sorry, I don't know what to call it), so that if people on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor throw anything, the rubbish will
not fall into my "compound".

There's a water pump motor under the staircase too and the motor is making a very loud sound till I could hear it from the master bedroom.

I really hope you can help me with some of the issues above. I will attend meetings if any in the future, as I will be in Kuantan ………year.

Thank you.

Pool Repairs

When I left the apartment about two or three weeks ago I saw the notice saying that the apartment’s swimming pool will be shutdown for maintenance. Well and good, I thought, its time.

When I came back last week I saw what had been done. They have repaired the children’s swings in the children’s playgrounds., also well and good.

The swimming pool seemed to have been repaired. But on closure look I saw that the work had not been properly done. My main concern is on the safety to the pool users. I saw that the cracks on the outskirt floors have not been repaired. That is not is not too bad I thought. But when I saw the edges of the pool I was shocked. The edge had been raised (or repaired) but the sharp broken edges have not been made ‘safe’. It’s dangerous to have edges repaired like that, one may trip the edge or even cut ones feet on the sharp part of the edges. These people do not have the sense of safety.

Now I do not know if the management will approve the work of the repairs or not, but to my mind the edges of the pool are not safe.