Emporium Blog

There is a meeting scheduled for tonight that I did not attend. It is a meeting between the resident’s association of my apartment and the maintenance company.

They are to discuss about the implementation of an autogate system with CCTV surveillance camera. Security is bad at the apartment where I am staying. There has been a constant spate of break-ins. Car thefts are rampant too. All the residents are very angry and demanded something to be done in order to prevent further incidents.

The autogate system is something that should have been implemented more than ten years ago. It is in the brochure when the developer launches the property. Somehow the Evil Developer did not deliver what they promised and gets away with it.

The interesting part is the cost of the whole autogate system is to be financed by the residents themselves. Money is to be collected from every unit of apartment. Each car will also be imposed a RM150.00 annual “parking fee” and an entry card will be issued for those who paid. Those who did not pay will have to park their vehicles outside the apartment’s compound.

I expect sparks to fly and I have better things to do than to attend a meeting to see monkeys fight. I am not running away from my responsibilities to see that the place I am staying in turns to be better. For the benefit of all, asking the residents to bear the cost of the autogate system is fine but for the maintenance company to make profit from it annually from “parking fees” is just out of bound.

Seriously, the people in Malaysia is still not ready for communal living.