My Condo Management

Today I felt so frustrated of the management of my condominium, I'm gonna tell you of their doings.

Anyone of you staying in a condominium/apartment with a lousy/sloppy management?

What made me so mad is that I have to take the stairs to reach my doorstep at 16th floor carrying so many things with me!!! Worse part is Elaine have to walk up with me too!! Because the $+up1D management have both elevators broken down on a Saturday night! OK, you would all say that probably it is just a coincidence but let me tell you what happened. There are 2 lifts in my block and Lift 1 have already broken down for a few days and no urgency was the repair. We residence already have to bear with a block running on a block serving and I had feared that it might break down upon high volume usage. I still wonder why Lift 1 took so long for repair (and are still non-functional this morning) but Lift 2 was repaired overnight! Personally I think all these could have been avoided if actions are taken with some urgency. With only Lift 2 working today, what if it breaks down again tonight? What if there is an emergency?

I really do not understand what am I paying for the maintenance for when nothing much is being maintained (The only area the management would have scored well is cleanliness, we have a team of a very diligent housekeepers and gardenera)

1. The guards.......
- they always let people double parking (Each residence have only one parking, visitors have to park outside) Some of these double parkers park overnight too and their cars are not clamped, as warned! Sometimes they double park and just block up the entry/exit of the block where you let passengers down/pick-up during the rain.
- I rarely see them patrolling the compound. Also the reason why the cars can park as they wish
- seems like they would open the gates for certain resident/visitors even when the management pinned up memo on the required use their card to enter/exit.
- Sometimes I see non-residence walk around without a tag neither have they registered at the guard post. The examples I can think of:
* there were 3 elevators mechanics on my floor that night neither any of them have a tag on them.
* Once I even found someone sleeping on the floor of my BIL's neighbour's place (he is staying in the same condo on another block. I did tell the guard of the problem that night but there was only one guy manning the post and another resident have another problem, someone parked in his parking lot)


Sorry for the poor lighting...... this was taken with my old SE K618i

2. No pets rule......
- Quite a number of residence have pet (dogs and cats) in their home. (I would be ok if they do not take them out to pee and poo in the garden within the vicinity.
- even the maintenance people feed the stray cats within the compound. I actually suspect that they were the ones rearing them.
- the stray cats scratch car tyres and sleep on the car bonnets. Every morning I can find cat prints on my windscreen, especially after the rain water dried up.
- some children have developed allergies and rashes when they came in contact with those animals, like our Nicole and another Nicole from the 11th Floor

3. In house maintenance......
- the in-house phone is not working (you know the one that links directly to the guard house)
- the power would always trip whenever it thunders. Once it tripped 3-4 times within an hour. They have informed us that they have changed the necessary fuse boxes but the problem still there. It tripped so bad that my BIL's surge protector kena fused (Luckily got warranty)
- whenever the power trip, the lighting at the parking lot also kaput. Right now the lights are on during daytime and it is all darkness at night. Now we are all scared if someone would sneak up on us in the darkness. Not all residents are good people, right?
- the aerial reception is horrible yet we are not allowed to fix our own antenna. So we have to depend on Astro lor
- the guards rarely patrol the floors of the blocks.
- the entry/exit barrier always broken at the guard house. Now this condition worsen the double parking problem.
- the road bump near the maintenance is built too high. I always scratch my car whenever I pass it carrying 4 people in it. My car is a stock car! They built the bumps overnight and we were not notified of it either. The manager had promised that he will lower it but till today nothing is done.

I am blogging this so that I can remember to write an official complaint letter to the management, as well as circulating a copy of it to all the residents. At least I can put up the points, that I see as important, here and access it whenever I needed it.
Sometimes really cannot tahan the place but Elaine liked the place so much that I have to let her have it her way lor. But I told her that I will do what I can to improve the situation as long as she doesn't nag me :P

As I returned home yesterday I found the maintenance sign is still on Lift 1


It seems like there is a paper stuck on the wall in between the lifts.


Comments penned by other residents

"The answer is to sue the management for neglect"

"Fully agree"

Seems like someone beats me to it. But I will still be writing my letter to the management. In fact I am more determined!!!! At least I am not the only one in this cause.

Edited
This morning we have to take the stairs down because no lift was running and Lift 2 was stuck at 17th floor with someone inside!!!!
Btw, the management is still under the developer so will have to waith till we got our strata title before we can do like what duckie's place

I have called the management and I was told them of the situation and how long more do we have to wait to have 2 functioning lifts. I was told that they were waiting for insurance claim on the Lift 1 after it was struck by lightning!!!

The misunderstood cousins

Nicole was actually trying to put her cheek against Keith's and from the picture it definitely looks like Keith don't take a liking out of that :P
Probably he is afraid that Nicole was trying to take some of his milk. Or is it just that he doen't like being disturbed during his meal.

To me it looked like this:
During Keith feeding, Nicole came over to sayang him


Keith is struggling to move away from the intruding toddler


Keith must be thinking,"If my head stay up higher and not look at her, she won't kacau me or take my milk away. If I don't see her, she won't see me, right?"

Nicole taken to the clinic

Yesterday, grandma, Nicole and I went out to see the doctor at 9am and we left Keith in Elaine's care. The purpose for the visit is because Nicole have been having cough for about a week and her skin peeling on her palm and the sole of her legs too.

Reached home at about 10.30am because we have an appointment with the Diamond Filter guy. We have decided to go ahead with the installation of a Master Filter (surprisingly we can install this although we were located at the 16th floor) and the water was much stronger too after having it installed. After the installation we were told to leave the taps running without the mesh filter for about 5 minutes to let the rust out and I was rather impressed how much rust came out.

I know I know, with all the controversy that Diamond is facing...... but that was regarding the Drinking Filter. Anyway I got this at a very special offer :)
Btw, I do not work for Diamond, neither am I promoting their product. I am merely suggesting that we needed some sort of filtration system for our home. Lately the rustic smell is getting bad in my place

When we were at the clinic Elaine managed to snap a few pictures of Keith, each with a different expression :)

Outing on my day off

Elaine went for her last check-up with the O&G this Tuesday. *And was advised to only think of getting preggy again in about 2 years time*
Grandma was feeling nausea so she stayed back at home with Nicole and the maid (but she took Nicole for a swim instead), while
Elaine, Keith and I went out to do some shopping. Keith behaved exceptionally quite good, other than his whining for his milk and diaper change **I guessed he inherited my genes here :P bcoz according to my MIL Elaine was rather a handful then while grandma told me I was even a much more easier to handle than Keith coz I was even less fussy. That makes Keith, the breakeven between Elaine and I :) **
We ended up buying a carry-cradle for Keith (good until 9 months/10kg), which will fit into the current stroller (and at least can also double as a car seat too) and a TollyJoy Milk warmer. Next week we will try to snap the cradle to show you all!

Upon returning home...... Nicole was rather curious of the cradle and as soon as Keith is out of it, she was playing with it..... Initially she wanted to sit on the cradle but grandma told her that she is too big for it and she will break it. Then she got busy trying to put her teddybear on the cradle, while I was trying to adjust the strap-on **shakehead**

I am still working on the "Sit" command with Nicole. She would start running around as soon as I am out of her sight. When someone mention to her, "Kiu kiu coming" she would run back to the chair and put her index finger to her mouth and "Shhh....!" -
the universal keep quiet sign, telling grandma, Elaine and the maid not to utter a word of her misbehaving **shakehead**

The picture of him in the stroller while we were leaving home


This is the picture of Keith in the new cradle I know we should have taken the picture of the whole thing..... but it was raning rather heavy that day and this picture was taken by Elaine at the back of the car, while I ran to Babyland to get the Milk warmer

Been busy with plumbing works

I've been rather busy the past few days, replacing the bursted pipes at my restaurant. There were two places that needed my attention.
First is the water tank, the water pressure have broke thru the sides of the joining PVC parts between the pipe and the elbow. I think the contractor have not used enough PVC Cement on it earlier. So I have to saw off that part and apply new ones.
Second is the stove place (this one is tough work), where I have to replace all the PVC pipes to steel/stainless steel parts (I wonder why the contractor have used PVC in the first place) I think the heat from the cooking stove (which is using high pressured LPG) have got to the water valve and made it stuck. I decided to go for the steel for replacement because water have bursted here before, might as well do it once and make sure that it will last.

I know most of you would ask me why I didn't let a plumber do the work, right?
Well I have let those "so-called" professional plumbers do the work for me and I am now cleaning up their mess :P Yes, this is very true. I am just clearing up the problem from the fix of 2 plumbers whom have claimed to have cleaned up the mess my contractor left me with. If they are that dependable or more responsible then I wouldn't have done it by myself. In fact I think I did a better work than them :P Also those plumbers charges a bomb on their fees too

A fight for the stroller

Here we go....... yesterday grandma and Foong Leng (my cousin) came over to my restaurant along with Keith, Nicole and the maid. I took the stroller out of my car for baby to sleep on, then the fight start.

Nicole: Nicole sit, Nicole sit.
Grandma: Don't disturb baby sleep, ok?
Nicole: Nicole sit, Nicole sit la!
Grandma: Look at "kiu kiu" (me)
I glared at her
She pretend to look elsewhere as though she didn't see me
Nicole: Grandma "pou" (carry)

When the rush hour slowed down, everyone took their turn to carry Keith and at the turn of head Nicole was already on the stroller, she immediately climbed up the stroller when I was not looking. Luckily grandma saw her and held onto the stroller, if not she would have fell off it :shakehead:

She's too long/tall for the stroller

The Young Photographer

Introducing our new young photographer, Nicole....... As I was snapping Keith's picture, she imitated me with my old T610, Might as well snap her pictures too...... Now at least I can show you all.

At least she knew that she need to press on the button to snap the pictures. And it looks like there is an imaginary viewfinder there, huh? :)
but how to take pictures with the phone terbalik la

Regarding Keith

Grandma have done all the hardwork in clearing all of Keith's cradle cap and putting on his cream everyday. We will be stopping the paed's cream and start to use the Sebamed moisturizer she had recommended us. Also Keith's intake have increased to 4oz at a time.

I've done a comparison between his picture taken with his eyes closed and another with his eyes open, so I'd like to show it to you all. It feels like his facial features are changing by the day too.


Normally Keith likes to move his hands all the time but while feeding he tries to hold onto the bottle while feeding :) In fact he held it quite firmly too

The Smooch

This is the picture of Keith getting a peck from Nicole :) In the inset is his reaction towards the smooch.



Keith was actually sleeping on the oversize pillow as usual, with me accompanying him. Nicole came over (I guess she is jealous of me giving more attention to Keith) She actually imitated me giving baby a smooch. Keith was actually turning his face away from Nicole. **Guess he wasn't prepared for his cousin's kiss**

Nowadays Nicole wanted to imitate what we all do and also at times act like baby too. She is beginning to take more milk than usual, as she saw Keith taking his. Sometimes she also imitate Elaine expressing her BM :P She would want some of the food that we are taking, especially soup.
She is also becoming more manja and wanted to be carried more. She also wanted to sit on the stroller too when we go out :shakehead: **Now where am I supposed to get another stroller leh, when Nicole already outgrew that stroller leh**
The worst part is she will really turn to be a BIG annoyance when you have your hands full. Example when you are changing Keith's diapers, she will come over and try to take some of it to play. Sigh! Want to act like an adult, it seems

Baby's Registration

I tried to register baby's birth with the NRD yesterday but got held up until leaving at 2pm. We had our lunch at Taman Maluri because there is a NRD there. I took Nicole along with me to the NRD and left Elaine, grandma and baby in Jusco.
Initially Nicole was calling out for Grandma but she became rather quiet as we travelled out of the parking. As we were walking towards the building to look for the photostat shop, I realised that I have forgotten to bring along Elaine's IC. **Darn, I have paid RM2 for the parking without actually parking at all**
Went back to Jusco to pick Elaine, grandma and baby. Upon reaching the NRD it started to drizzle. I ran to the photostat shop only to find a technician fixing it **Double darn, now I cannot go to the NRD**

This morning I got up at 8am and went to the NRD in Salak South. I was the only one in queue and got the birth cert in less than 30 mins. **Triple darn, they do not require a photocopy of my documents, as stated required in letter that TDMC have given to me**

Anyway....... now baby is officially named Keith Chin Cheng Yip (陳正曄 陈正晔)

(Just like what jazzmint have told me earlier, I didn't face any objection from the officer regarding "Keith", which my sis got her objection when she wanted to put "Nicole" - The funny thing here is why she faced objection when my sis does have her English name in her name officially)

More baby pictures too

Is he showing us a smirk?


This would his Superman flying look


His salute, I guess, to who? (No wonder he looked a bit lost too)


His half-smile look, I think


And I liked this picture taken with his eyes opened wide, but Elaine's hands wasnt that steady