Double Storey House FOR RENT in TAMAN BUKIT INDAH

I  want to rent out a Double Storey Link House in the guarded area Taman Bukit Indah (located besides OUG/Happy Gdn).

Partially furnished with ceiling fans, One aircond, One water heater, 2 wardrobe closets and kitchen top

Walking distance to shops in Happy Gdn/ famous Dim Sum/ Fried noodles /Pasar Malam. 1km from OUG wet market and 2 km from Parkson (OUG).  Easy access to KL/PJ/Klang/Subang Jaya.

Pse contact me at 012-3820793

Integrated Tasik Selatan Bus station is a waste of pulic money

On Monday before Deepavali, I drove to the Integrated Tasik Selatan Bus station with a friend who wanted to buy bus ticket to JB.  I drove across the flyover and the bridge to the Station, and drove up the wide ramp to L6's carpark. Worried if I could find parking because of the holiday season for travellers. WOW.. what an impressive car park, and lots of empty bays; tall ceiling, wide span like an aircraft hangar. Must be the most expensive ever carpark ever built in Malaysia!.

We then went to the main hall where few counters  were opened to sell bus tickets. I looked around the hall which seems  like a KLIA hall; there is a hanging large board to advise buses's arrival/departure/destination etc,  pair of polis bantuan at the 2  departures  to check  tickets of passengers getting down the escalator to board buses at the bus platforms (but wonder why necessary because when the buses arrive at Duta Complex, passenegers are free to get up/down the buses and walk about!). The hall was not crowded, less than 100 ppl that includes ppl quequing to buy tickst at the few sale counters, ppl sitting on chairs or walking around. 

From afar, this complex of Integrated Bus station is huge. Now having been inside and  seen the humongous carpark and the KLIZ-like hall,  it is obvious that this mega bus station project is a plain waste of public money.   Even with the adjoining  LRT/Sri Petaling line to feed-in the passengers,  there are just too few of them, as desmonstrated in the  lack of patrons using  this station during  this peak holiday season (year end school holiday & Deepavali)  for travellers.

Another wasteful project that sucked away my hard earned taxed money!

There went my hard earned tax money

EACH AES system garners at least RM300k per month

Daily, I drive past the AES monitored junction of United Garden- Jalan Klang Lama. At every traffic light change (where the AES is 'looking'), at least 3 cars are caught (i.e. light flashed). At this junction, peak traffic is from morning 7am till evening 7pm, but lets take 10 hours when 3 cars are 'caught'  by AES at every change of traffic light.  Let see, how much summon fees are collected every month at this junction:

(i) assume traffic changes every 5 min (traffic light changes faster than this 5 min), so there are 12 traffic changes each hour;
(ii) at least 3 cars are 'caught' by AES  at every traffic light change
(iii) 10 hours of 'active' operation, i.e AES keeps catching motorists
(iv) Summon RM300/-

TOTAL SUMMON  FEES AT THIS JUNCTION ALONE
=30 days x  10 hr/ day  x 12 traffic changes/ hr x 3 cars/ traffic change  x RM300 /summon
~~ RM300,000 per month !!!

If 1,000 AES as planned, - RM300 MILLION PER MONTH !!

AES at junction United Gdn-Jalan Klang Lama , KL

For past many days since the AES was installed at this junction of United Garden - Jalan Klang Lama, I as many drivers have been stressed by the traffic light change. There was only about 3-sec change of Green light to Red light. My car was 'snapped' by the AES when I was crossing the junction while the light was still Green, but then the light turned Amber and rapidly to Red before I completed my crossing. I could not speed across the junction when Isaw the light changed to Amber while in middle of junction as there were still cars moving infront (i.e. Not void of any cars infront of me!).

Today, while approaching the same junction, I noted the green light flicked about 5 times, then only changed to Amber. Phew, what a relief. This flickering is giving lots of warning time to drivers approaching the junction. I stopped my car at the white line even before the light turned to Amber.

Road Transport Department should immdiately implement same ' green light flcikering' at all junctions. It should not be expensive, just a fine tuning of the software (may be additional 20 lines of computer codings) that controls the traffic light.

Appropriate site offshore Tawau for the Tsunami buoy?

On Friday 19/10/2012, media reported a fatal accident during deployment of a tsunami buoy near Pulau Sipadan. This is the first ever fatal accident in such deployment. I have been personnaly involved or supervised contractor to deploy similar buoy on seasurface in water depth up to 2,000m. With proper vessel equipped with A- frame and experienced contractor to release buoy to seasurface under favourable sea condition, the work is safe. (we stopped work when condition was unfavourable), 

Meanwhile, I am concerned on the intended positioning of such a tsunami buoy in the Celebes Sea. Tsunami travels very fast, up to 400 kt, as fast as the cruising speed of a commercial airline.   The buoy must be located far from coast to detect the tsunami signal and gives warning to the local authority who then issues warning to the ppl. If there is an auto-trigger of the warning (i.e. with human intervention), the  buoy should be at least 20 -min time from the coast of Sabah, which then requires the buoy to be placed about 120 nautical miles from coast of Sabah. Picture shows the preferred locations of the buoy (indicated by the white lines). If the buoy is placed too near to shore, the tsunami will reach the coast, kills many ppl before  warning is received.

Putting a buoy is expensive..my experience 6 years ago (i)  cost of mob and demob a vessel (<1 ---="---" cost="cost" day="day" deployment="deployment" gross="gross" ii="ii" just="just" nbsp="nbsp" of="of" one-off="one-off" per="per" port="port" rate="rate" rm300k="rm300k" rm500k="rm500k" so="so" tawau="tawau" the="the" this="this" to="to" ton="ton" using="using" vessel="vessel"> RM1 mill, (iii) monthly rental of buoy, weights, chain, satellite trasnponders etc RM 300k per month, or> RM3mill per year. Thereafter every 6-9 months, service visit to buoy using same type of vessel, recurrence cost ~>RM1 million (today vessel's mob/demob cost and its  day rate should be significantly  higher!)

Thus, this tsunami project must be done with great care and prudence

AES system- 2-sec not enough clear traffic light junction

Did senior management who approved the 2-sec system of the AES try out this method , or they will use their 'connection' to remove picture of their vehicles snapped by the AES camera while committing this 'crime'?

 

In late Sept 2012, I might have my first 'crime' with the AES at junction of United Garden/Jalan Klang Lama. 

 

I noted GREEN light while driving towards this junction traffic light (and to OUG). While at the white line on the road, the light was still GREEN and I pressed the pedal but not to accelerate because there were moving cars inside the yellow box ahead. At that same instant, light turned AMBER, then RED, and I saw flashes light of the AES before my car could cross over completely!! 

 

We demand the power-that-be to demonstrate to us that he can do such magic trick of 2-sec crossing, 

with other cars ahead   still   crossing the junction  or moving ahead while inside the yellow box.

Acupuncture helps to relieve my pain

Recently I sprained my lower back while packing some old newspapers. No relief despite massage and applying the 'deep heating' plaster. Meanwhile, my right  knee has been aching for past few months despite acupuncture and other treatment(and daily been applying  the plaster).

Friends introduced me to the TDM centrer at the Wisma Buddhist. I went there last Saturday (Eve of Mooncake Festival) and saw a small crowd. I  registered for acupuncture treatment. Guidance note explains RM10/- for such treatment (Tung Shin  Hospital charges RM20/- while other private acupuncturists charge RM35/- for a session).

Waited only 15 minutes. I was  called to a room to meet  this very young 'sinseh'. and in my heart- OMG a trainee?! I explained to him my problems and thereafter he asked me to go to another room where the acupuncturist  directed me a to a bed with a sign 'just sanitized'. I laid on the bed and he poked needles to my back. After 20 minutes, he removed the needle and asked me to sit on a chair. He then put 3 needles on my right  knee (my previous acupuncturists put more needles on this knee and also on the right leg!), and he placed a moxa on one of the needles. While sitting, I noted the young ppl here really cleaned (and sanitized) each bed after use.

On my way home, I felt no more pain in my lower back and relief in my right  knee. Damn, I must vist these young sinseh again to get  further treament for my knee (and other aches).

This TDM centre closes on Monday; daily session 8:45am till 11:45am, abd 1:45pm till 4:45pm

Flood Kajang 9 Sept 2012

Merdeka Eve 2012

My trip to celebrate the eve of MERDEKA DAY 30/08/2012 at the Dataran Merdeka since last trip > 20 years ago with my small children. I took LRT at Taman Jaya (PJ) at 11.00pm and got down at Masjid Jamek. There was no crowd inside the coaches or at Masjid Jamek. However,once I stepped outside the station, it was noisy with many ppl blowing the horns (vendors rs were selling these items like hotcakes). Many ppl, mostly young ppl, were wearing the yellow T- Shirt (JANJI BERSIH) walking towards Dataran Merdeka. The police had put up barricades, but lucky no barb wire! at either side (old post office/Wisma trading, and the DBKL junctions) of the Dataran Merdeka. Significantly bigger crowd gathered at the junction DBKL vs the crowd at junction of the old post office. The young policemen were laid-back and did not bother with the few who ventured onto the padang area. I relaxed under the gigantic flagpole, admiring the lightings of the surrounding buildings, esp the Clock tower, but I left the area at about 11.45pm-- did not feel like celebrating the Merdeka

Massive earthquake 4.30PM (Malaysia time) 11/04/2011

USGS reported many ppl in Malaysia felt the shake, but I at home in Jalan Klang Lama (KL) did not feel anything. A tsunami would hv already happened along the coast facing the epicentre, but no news of any tsunami was reported by 8pm. Phew. Lucky this time.

A rat ran into my kitchen. Wife managed to press it down with a broom but my shout distracted her that the rat escaped and ran towards lower edge of kitchen cabinet. There it disappeared. We searched everywhere in kitchen yet failed to find the rat. Finally my fingers found a 50cents size hole in lower part of cabinet. The contractor did not seal this small hole!!. How the hell am I to find out if the rat has gone inside this hole?? I removed the oven in upper part of cabinet. Behind this oven is an opening from which I can see the floor but not the underbelly of the cabinet. Ah-hah My webcam. I fixed my web cam with a torch light to end of a metal bar which I then lowered from this opening to the underbelly of cabinet. Luckily the cable from webcam to lap top is long enough for webcam to reach the floor. Behold! as I turned the metalbar, the webcam gave me a wide view of the whole hollow underbelly of the cabinet. I could see small spiders crawling, dust and stones , BUT NO RAT! where has it gone? I bought mousetrap, fixed a BBQ sotong (yummy) and for 3 days,NO RAT. I hv sealed all exits in kitchen and hall, in case more rats run in, but where the heck is this damn rat. Hope it is not dead inside small holes beneath the kitchen cabinet, which will be costly to engage contractor to remove and fix back. I think I hv to hire a snake and let it run loose (of course tie a rope to it ) in the hollow underbelly of the kitchen cabinet. But one thing I learned, my webcam is really useful beside just for skyping. Hope I can find a similar joint (like the ADSL splitter) that can accert the USB port to extend the wire from webcam to laptop. I then can attach webcam+torchlight to a long bamboo stick to scan the wooden beams in the attic to check for white ants. No need to climb inside attic (fell once from attic to floor of room and broke few bones)