You cannot have your cake and eat it.

We only have one choice, if you want to keep the cake then you cannot eat it, vice versa.
Our residents at Taman Lone Pine want to have good security but yet they refuse to follow set rules and regulations. Sad to say, many are self centered,focusing only on their own needs. This selfishness can be seen so clearly when they do not contribute to the community they live in but when it comes to making decision they have a lot to say.

It was so ironic, funny and yet sad, we sacked a guard that was always smelling of toddy and we also suspected the guard of committing thefts around the Taman. This guard came back and threatened the other guard supervisor with a knife. When we told this to a resident, the reply was that, why did the Management hire "Samseng" to work as guard? I guess I am not qualified to answer that question. I am only glad that we got rid of the bad apple and more incidents can be put to a stop.

A couple of days ago, a committee member found a foreign worker sleeping in the Taman's store room. We found out this was done by permission of the security supervisor. The foreign worker was immediately ejected out from the store room. An elderly resident passing by stopped and commented, "Aiyah, we already know that the guard always sleep in the store rooms since a few years back."
What baffles me is that, why did they keep silent all this while? Do they want to wait until someone is injured, raped, murdered before they start realizing that they could have been a part to make our Taman a better place but they did not and now it is too late.

Now the guard are starting to do their jobs to paste No Parking stickers on cars that have no stickers and now the residents with no car park stickers are making a fuss. They forgot how robber actually got into one of the Lone Pine Developer office house by pretending to be contractors moving house and they cut the lock of the house grill and ransacked the whole house for valuables. At that point, it is so easy to blame the security and the Management. If we look closer, if only cars with stickers with can come in, if only contractors which inform management and security can come in, then these "incidents" could have been somewhat prevented.
Soon we will be implementing the touch and go swipe card system and CCTV systems. This will be tabled in the upcoming EGM. I can only pray that the people in the Taman has the good sense to vote for it in majority so that we can go ahead and progress.