Two Sides of the Coin

You know only what you know and how true that is. Limited knowledge is dangerous. Knowledge from hear say even more dangerous. Perception which is often one sided can be easilty distorted and manipulated at will.
On last Saturday, we retuend home to see that three large trees in fron of our apartment block had been chopped down. My two children were furious, "Daddy, It takes ten years for the tree to grow so big and how come you don't know the trees are to be chopped down. Do you know it is bad for the environment that the trees are chopped down. The plane will become hotter and hotter."
Wow! I was dumb founded by the questions. I was a little ashamed. I was in the Committee and I did not know why. I promised that I would find out and let them know when we had our committee meeting the coming Monday.
Our Chairman finally explained to us how urgently the trees needed to be chopped down.
Due to poor planning by the developer, the trees, planted too close to the apartment blocks had now threatened the foundatin structure and was about to rupture our piping and septic tanks beneath. (I will update with photos soon) WHat surprised me even more was when we were walking home after the meeting, I was shown how bad some parts of the retaining walls were already cracking under the presssure of the surrounding trees growing roots.
Well in this case, I guess we have no choice but to destroy the trees before they destroy our homes and property.

Beware of Trees Growing on Your Roof Top

There is a tree growing on the edge of my unit’s roof top. On the 26th August 2010, my master bedroom toilet flush was jammed up for the third time within the last 6 months. Luckily for us the third plumber was able to figure out the root cause. The toilet flush main pipe was filled with tree roots. (Attached picture attached)
So the next time you see a tree growing on your roof, be alert and get rid of it before it jams up your bathroom toilet.

Farewell and Thank You Mr. Goh Thean Heng

Mr. Goh Thean Heng our Perbadanan Pengurusan Taman Lone Pine has recently moved house. Mr. Goh has relinquished his post as our PPTLP Chairman. He however remains as our faithful advisor

A Shameful Act of Abuse of Power for Personal Interest

Today 9th June 2010 at around 10am a resident complained to the PPTLP and even better sent photographs as proof of what has happened. A Toyota car WRN 5392 was parked in a no parking zone in between parking lot number 20 and 21. This space is meant to provide residents with a passage way to go in and out of the lagoon and jogging track. What this means is that this car does not have a proper parking place and certainly has no vehicle access card but somehow has managed to come into our Taman. This can only happen if there are accomplices within the midst of our residents or the security guards have been cheated into letting this car in.



What is even more interesting is that at 5.38pm today, the same car was parked in parking lot No. 20. I could not believe it when I found out that the parking lot No. 20 actually belonged to a resident Mr. Heng who also happened to be one of the inactive and self important committee members who by the way is also owing 2 months of maintenance fees to the PPTLP.
What was worse is that on top of owning 4 Vehicle access cards, he needs to have even more parking lots. This terrible person is displaying a shameful behaviour by trying to abuse his position as a committee member to get information and special privileges. I guess Mr. Heng still thinks this is the old Lone Pine / CLC Management Corporation where favouritism and abuse of power can take place with no one being accountable.
Recently, during the AGM, it was approved to amend and increase the maintenance charges for shop lots. Since then Mr. Heng has not been paying his maintenance fees since April 2010. This silly man does not realise that it will only attract interest and possible further legal action may be taken.
That is not all, if you look at the shop lot beside the letter box of block 1, you can see how Mr. Heng has used potted plants to block the common area outside the shop lot. This same selfish act can be seen by taking a look at his ground floor unit where a garden has been made and once again a fence has been made to barrier out common area. Soon we will address all this issues one by one.
The first step is to expel this Mr. Heng from the committee due to disruptive behaviour by citing him a show cause as to why he should not be removed from the committee for his bad examples and poor track record which includes poor attendance to meetings, non paying of maintenance fees, encroachment of common area, instigating others against management Corporation, lying, harassment of other ex-committee members parents and so many more other incidents.

Complaint Against Developer Brought By Penang Tiger

LONE PINE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR, SOME ACTION IS BEING TAKEN BY THE HOUSING MINISTRY.
LET US PRAY THAT THIS WILL BEAR SOME FRUIT AND THE DEVELOPER GETS HIS JUST PUNISHMENT.

ROLAND BARBOSA
(PENANG TIGER)



--- On Wed, 9/6/10, alexander@kpkt.gov.my wrote:


From: alexander@kpkt.gov.my
Subject: Aduan/Pertanyaan penduduk Taman Lone Pine Resort & Condominium, Paya Terubong, Pulau Pinang
To: farazimah@penang.gov.my, "Roland Barbosa"
Cc: mohdnasrul@kpkt.gov.my, musadad@kpkt.gov.my, salina@kpkt.gov.my, saodah@penang.gov.my, kamaruddin@penang.gov.my, mridzwan@kpkt.gov.my
Date: Wednesday, 9 June, 2010, 2:27 AM


Tuan/Puan,

Adalah dimaklumkan, Bahagian Penguatkuasaan Jabatan Perumahan Negara telah menerima aduan/pertanyaan melibatkan Akta Hakmilik Strata 1985 daripada pengadu Encik Roland Barbosa berhubung beberapa isu seperti berikut:

i) Bolehkah Pemaju mengambil surau sementara dan masukkan unit tersebut dalam parcelnya?
ii) Bolehkah Pemaju ambil common property dan masukkannya dalam aksesorinya?
iii) Bolehkah pemaju menukarkan premis komersial kepada kediaman?
iv)Bolehkah Pemaju melengah-lengahkan menyerahakan strata titile kepada pembeli?
v) Bolehkah pemaju yang masih aktif menggunakan liquidator untuk menyerahkan strata title kepada pembeli dan cas pembeli untuk perkhidmatan tersebut?
vi)Bolehkah pemaju ambil alih tempat letak kereta untuk pelawat dan masukkannya ke dalam aksesorinya?
Bersama - sama ini juga dilampirkan gambar-gambar yang diberikan oleh pengadu untuk rujukan selanjutnya.
Sehubungan itu, aduan/pertanyaan ini dipanjangkan ke pihak tuan/puan untuk tindakan selanjutnya dan dipohon untuk memaklumkan terus kepada pengadu. Adalah dipohon juga untuk memberikan salinan maklumbalas tersebut ke Bahagian ini untuk tujuan rekod.
Kerjasama tuan/puan dalam perkara ini amatlah dihargai.
Sekian, terima kasih.

`1MALAYSIA: RAKYAT DIDAHULUKAN, PENCAPAIAN DIUTAMAKAN,

`BERKHIDMAT UNTUK NEGARA,

ALEXANDER L. ALOYSIUS
Bahagian Penguatkuasaan
Jabatan Perumahan Negara

LUNATICS IN THE TAMAN

Today morning as early as 8.30am a tenant renting a unit in Block 22 Driving Black Mercedes PFY97 wanted his girlfriend's car Wira PFJ1093 to come into the Taman. The security Guard initially refused to allow entry because they had no access card and the the other car was already in the Taman. If you want Wira PFJ1093 to come in, please move out your Mercedes PFY97.
The crazy lunatic then threatened the security guard with harm and purposely parked the PFJ1093 Wira to block the exit. The lunatic knocked a Toyota Vios from the rear. The lunatic left the PFJ1093 Wira and went back to his rented unit in Block 22. He returned a few minutes later with a kitchen knife hidden behind his hand to threaten the guard and the owner of the Toyota Vios.
The security supervisor arrived in time with the police. The lunatic like the coward he is begged for forgiveness and promised the Toyota Vios owner that he would pay for damages and he quickly removed his girlfriend's Wira PFJ1093.
A police report will be lodged against this lunatic tenant for obstruction, threat to harm and wielding dangerous weapon. The security guards will from now onwards stop the girlfriend's Wira PFJ1093 from coming into the Taman. Any future case will be referred to the Police for investigation and prosecution.
It is allegedly reported that this lunatic Mercedes PFY97 is a failed contractor, out of job and living on and off his girlfriend. It seems that his wife left him with his kids and his previous girlfriend also left him. While in the Taman this seems to be girlfriend no. 2 and counting. I am sure this girlfriend will also leave the lunatic because he is crazy.
We hope unit owners do not simply rent out their units to lunatics like this crazy person.

Wheel Clamp is in Taman Lone Pine

Watch Out The Wheel Clamps are in and we have already started using them. Please look out for the memorandums and signes on all the wall of our taman. Gone are the days when we have cars trespassing or hoodwinking our security guards, we will clamp their wheels. This morning a resident in Block 22 who owes maintenance fee for the last few years sneaked in on the pretense of heavy rain. His car Waja Silver color PFP 1133 was clamped. Padan muka.

Memorandums on the wheel clamp announcement and notices have been placed at all areas of the Taman. Ignorance is no excuse.

To: All Residents and Visitors of Taman Lone Pine
From: The Building Management Corporation Committee of Taman Lone Pine (PPTLP)
Date: 26th April 2010
Subject: Wheel Clamping of Vehicles within Taman Lone Pine

With reference to the last AGM, Wheel Clamping has been approved to be part and parcel of our Taman Lone Rules and Regulations.
The Perbadanan Pengurusan Taman Lone Pine (PPTLP) has acquired two sets of wheel clamps and our security company JW Kawalan shall be authorised to act on the PPTLP behalf to enforce Wheel Clamping for errant vehicles that do not follow our rules and regulations.
All residents are to advise their visitors to comply with the rules and regulations and to heed the advice of the Security Guards on duty.
Any vehicle found to be entering illegally or parking in another resident’s lot shall be clamped.
The fee to release the clamping will be RM100.00 for the first offence. Subsequent offence by the same vehicle / driver / visitor may result in Police Case under illegal entering into a private residential area.
In order to prevent any misunderstanding, it is hoped that full cooperation will be given to our security. This will ensure our common interests are safeguarded.

Thank you for your support.

By Order

Copies to:
Resident Notice Boards (10 Copies), JW Kawalan (Security Company), Lone Pine Development (Developer)
Pejabat Polis Air Itam, Pejabat Polis Bandar Baru Air Itam