Meeting

Yesterday night, we managed to meet up with the operator of the nursery and cafe. It is kind of a last minutes decision to meet up. Reasons being to speed up the process of the establishment of the business particularly the cafe. And we're also looking at the details of the agreement signed between nursery and Plenitude.

Very likely, the reno work for the cafe will start anytime soon (somewhere in July) if nothing goes wrong. If the business concept is right, I'm sure the boss will laughing all the way to the bank. We're talking about few hundred potential customer based here. If only 20% of us dine in, it is more than enough to cover the overhead.

On tuesday morning, Adrian and i managed to meet up with the business manager from one of the broadband company. Indeed, it is not easy to implement and provide the broadband service. In order to cater to the need of resident here, major installation work needs to be carry out especially the system infrastructure required to be put in place. This actually convert to substantial high amount of capital investment. Due to that, we need to look for alternative ways of the solution. Besides that, monthly commitment fee is another issues that definitely affecting the take up rate for the service. We're expecting more company to submit their proposal soon.

We all are constantly monitored the performance of the security guards. No one actually satisfied with their improvement so far. We already start receiving the proposal from other security company. Personally, i think if they can't performance up to standard, it is time for them to go. If they failed to grab the opportunity given to them, too bad for them.

The due of 2 weeks is next week. Is the time the developer needs to get back to us on the proposal of upgrading works. I do not expect much from them but hope for the best. Let's us see what's the outcome of the meeting with them next week.

Note: All residents are required to get the resident card asap. Failing to do so, owners are not allowed to use the facilities within Changkat View Condo.

Service needed

We're still receiving proposal from company for the following service.

1) Centralised water filtered system
2) Laundry service
3) Broadband service

If your company are interested in providing a good quality service to our resident, kindly contact Mr Suthagar, management office.

Laundry service

If anyone of you keen to set up your business, kindly send your proposal to management office, attention Mr Suthagar.

Looking forward to see your business establishment in Changkat View Condominium.

Finally, minutes is done

Please refer to changkatview.net. I have uploaded the minutes.

Half day off

I'm taking half day off just for the sake of preparing the minutes. We need to get it done asap so that all others who attended the meeting know exactly what to do next.The meeting went on until 10.15 pm last night. We managed to discuss almost everything we had in our mind. At least there're 20 to-do list for Mr Ben, the Manager in charged for Changkat View.

Frankly, the chances of getting the developer to agree to all our request sound impossible. But at least we try our best to bring up to them. Fortunately, Mr Ben was willing to discuss it again with the management. If we failed to secure everything from them, anything of 10% will be considered a bonus for us.

We have decided to give chance to DU to perform. 2 months is the duration. If they failed, we have no choice to look for other company. From the interview we concluded that, one of the problem the guards had is lack of communication between them and those giving instruction. We hope they will improved on that and cherish the last chance given to them.

Laksa house cafetaria is coming to CV. We met up with the boss and chef yesterday. By right, they should start their operation in May. But due to some technical problem, it was delayed. Anyhow, we're looking forward to welcome them.

I'll upload the minutes after confirmation by Ellen, Chairperson. We had try to include all the issues we have either on going or pending. No major decision is made during the meeting especially when developer needs more time to consider. JMB and management will follow up closely with them. We have the due date so we hope by then, we can proceed with our plan.

New signage

For your information. Big signage was put up at the guard house yesterday.

Outdoor benches

When i discussed with Suthargar, he got mentioned the contact he has is only for getting plastic pool chair. I know this plastic material won't be lasting as the white will turned into yellow after exposing to sunlight for certain period of time.

Since our surrounding area are more toward resort-styled deco, I'm suggesting to have this made of wood benches deploy at pool area, multipurpose hall and bbq area. From the price i got from Ikea and Ace hardware, min is RM376. I not sure about the quality. I want the benches to be long lasting at least 3 to 5 years.
Here are some of the pic i took on Sun.








So, i'm going to bring up this to others committee members. It will be great i can give them substantial amount of info with worth for money product to be purchase.

Broadband service

So coincidentally, I know there's this company proposed to management for providing the broadband service in Changkat View Condo. Yes, the proposal covers the provision of internet service and a community telephony system to each unit in Changkat View Condo.

According to Suthargar during our meeting yesterday, they actually approached them last year. But at that time, the occupancy rate was low. Even, the service is up but definitely the no of user are limited to use the service. I think now is the right time.

I have study the proposal and i think the company can provide more than the one they're proposing. I have contacted the business manager and requesting them to come out with a better proposal. Expecting the revised proposal somewhere next few days.

I'm also meeting up another person in charged from another company later on at 10.15pm in Changakt View Condo. I'm not convenient to mention the names of the company but i know that there're the reputable one.

I hope we can obtain better service comes with more affordable monthly service charged. The package must be more attractive compared to existing package from Maxis, Digi, Celcom, Tm, P1 and Izzi.

I'll bring up this matter during the committee member's meeting this thursday. I'll let the committee members to decide on this matter. I'm sure the additional broadband internet facility will become an unique features to meet the new requirement for the property to increase in value.

Car speeding

On few occasion, few drivers are speeding within Changkat View Condo compound. Luckily, no one was hurt so far.

It is totally unacceptable, as pedestrians walked from one place to another are exposed to the danger of being hit. The design of the road way are made in such a way where drivers need to slow down when driving toward the multistorey car park building. I was told, car sped especially near the entrance. So for pedestrians, watch out too.

To stop someone from speeding is not easy as traffic police are trying their best to solve this problem but to no avail. Recorded deaths are increasing every year.

Few suggestion were put up like putting the road hump or signage on driving slowly. But in the end, it was still the person's attitude willingness to change. Next time, when you saw someone driving fast, waive to them to slow down their car. If you are the fast driver, hope you get the message. Drive safely, drive slowly!

Lift service is back again

The lift for block B is up again. It was done yesterday morning. The button also being replaced yesterday evening. It is not easy to replace just one button and not sure why the button can go missing. As for now, we must ensure that the lift must be well taken care of.

At least not to allow the contractor to use 2 serviced lift which will damage and scratch on the lift. The security guards will keep their eyes on that. But owners play an very important roles too. Please inform your contractor not to use the serviced lift to carry their bulky tools and renovation materials. And this applies to all blocks.

Multipurpose hall and BBQ

Would like to clear the doubt on the usage of multipurpose hall and bbq set.

For multipurpose hall: Rental RM100, deposit RM100
For bbq set: Rental RM0, deposit RM100

Busy weeks

So many things need to follow up. And the worse, network connection down in the auditorium of my hospital. I suppposed to give presentation to nurses in the hospital this afternoon. If i can't access to the network in my department, i dont have information to show them.

Who's know this thing happened at this point of time. But i can't expect people to solve the problem now as i don't understand what causes the problem and how to rectify it. So, for solution, now rushing to do the slides. In the mean time, I'll let the technician to do their job.

If you log on to the forum, then you can see the long list of issues we have for now. I encourages owners to highlight all the issues no matter what are the cause/impact. There're many things required immediate attention. Problem like security service, we have warned them to perform up to the standard. If they can't live up to the mark, we have no choice to get a alternate company to provide service to Changkat View. And for water filter, we got few contact preparing the quotation. These problem are the main one and we're giving full attention to it.

I have been following up with Suthargar on the action taken by the management based on the issues we refered to him. I did not received the list yet on what he had done for the past weeks but i can expect things are getting better now. I'm sure there're plenty of matter need to be done. Time is what we need now. Even all the ministry got quarterly report of KPI for their performance. And it is exactly what we asking for.

I have mentioned before and i need to say this again. We'll try our best to get things done. We priortised the issues based on concept of "first thing first". And definitely, we need your continous support and kind patience. But at the end of the day, we need to understand that ourselves not able to satisfy all but good enough if majority agreed with us.

Another update for Block D

Managed to take few pics on Block D. Seems like the progress is good. Expected completion date is end of the year.

Follow up on water issue

Ellen and I managed to meet up Suthagar yesterday evening to get updates and follow up on few things. Due to many complaints on the water supply, we decided to visit the water tank. Together with Suthagar, we went up to water tank room on the top floor in Block B to check out the condition there.

Indeed the water flow in our tank is bad in quality. This causes all the sendiment to accumulate beneath the tank. Few pictures to show how the cleaner do their job some time last month.












Suthagar shows us the water quality right on the spot. There's still murky water flowing out despite the tank was cleanse few days back. But just a little bit. After that, clear water was seen. Very likely, a layer of dirt already accumulated on the bottom of the tank.

For your information, we're trying to get few quotation on the water filter system for all the block. We can't promise anything and guranteed it can be done as recent reduction of the maintenance fee did affect our source of income. But don't worry, is not negative balance sheet. We're still finding ways to materialise it. So, we hope that, owners can stay calm and we'll try our best and get back to you soon.

Digi vs P1

While i searching for internet service provider, i found that Digi is having great promotion for their broadband service. Their download speed is superb, min is 700kbps but can reach up to 3.6Mbps. And is confirmed by my friend where the average speed is around 1-2Mbps depending on area. The package Explore is priced at RM108 and currently they're giving out free modem. The quota given is only 10GB. But is good enough for average user like me with limited downloading of music and movie.
Sound impressive! But when i check the coverage, Dutamas area is not in yet. It is scheduled by next quarter.

My second choice will be P1. Too bad, the sale teams stationed outside guard house not there anymore. They claimed their speed can reach up to 1.2mbps for downloading. The usage quota is 20GB. More than Digi(10GB). But the downsides, need to pay for registration fee RM100, activation fee RM60 and modem is not free. Need to pay Rm99 (after discount, before RM199) somemore. But the monthly committment fee is RM99 only. And the contract is for 12months.

So comparing head to head, both are winners. Unfortunately, if you required the service now, i think P1 will be the only choice.

I decided not to consider Maxis because expensive (Rm138) with 3GB usage only. Celcom limited usage quota, 5GB only. Streamyx priced almost similar but speed unpredictable all the time and tends to lag when downloading.

You may comment if you think otherwise.