Dear Suhaila / residents,
Sorry that the reply has to come so late when everything is over. Hope you did attend the meeting at Oakleaf. There was no agenda and the residents were generally not happy because the panel has no answers to most questions. To start with, I received an email forwarded to me by MPAJ on 13 Feb, Friday evening. I've been quite known to MPAJ because I have been actively involved in almost everything after the disaster took place. In fact, on Friday morning, committee and myself had a meeting with Dato YDP MPAJ so that's how I came about. The email also been forwarded to our Bukit Antarabangsa counselor, Encik Izzudin, who is supposed to take the prerogative to inform the residents. Since my name appeared so instead of questioning who does the job, I went ahead to inform as many residents / Tamans as possible. Of course, I have not much clue of who are the committee, so I sent to my fellow friends whom I know, who live in most of the Tamans here. So I guess that's how it gets to you. To come to your wanting to know the agenda, I guess I am in the same situation. How this meeting came about is an instruction from our Tan Sri MB to ask MPAJ to hold a forum with the presence of developers / land owners together with residents of the whole Bukit Antarabangsa to address issues faced by us. (you may refer to the Malay Mail and the Sun dated 11th Feb 2009). Therefore to me, MPAJ was merely carrying out the instruction. Well, here's how I look at it: 1) MB is very concern over our issues here, therefore this forum was called. 2) It could also be an eyewash, like authorities are trying to do their best to be seen working when in actual fact, nothing has been done so far.
Exactly what the motive is, I wouldn't have a clue. What I failed to understand from the State Government's point of view is we have already had a situation here which has to be immediately attended to. We have been kept in the dark for exactly two months ten days so is this forum going to answer our hopes? The committee had wanted to meet the developer, MRCB, since the day it all happened and we just didn't get to do so or rather MRCB had been avoiding us. I remember on 2 occasions we were expecting them and they failed to turn up. In fact, for today's meeting, we were wondering if ever MRCB was going to turn up. Surprise! MRCB turned up but sad to say it is just as good as not to because they sent 2 representatives who hardly know the situations we are in and are not in the least position to answer our requests. So again, where do we go from here? Our insistence of meeting up with MRCB eventually answered. So we now can no longer blame whoever for not letting us meeting up with MRCB. Good, isn't it?
The committee has been following up on all the issues and we know well where we are heading but our authorities administrations are always in our way. Sometimes it is like heading nowhere or just going in circles. I am really surprised by how the residents have lashing it out on MPAJ, developer and authorities this evening. This is really out of my expectation, so in a way, I am glad that many of you out there understand this whole issue of dealing with authorities. Initially, I was very worried that the Tamans' committee will bring up its very own issue, eg. various complaints to be looked into. Having said this, not due to being selfish, I was worried that the slope failure issue would be very much diluted in such a big forum. The concentration would have been directed to other "small" issues.
What we achieved today is very much telling MPAJ how inefficient they have been as an acting body to safeguard our interest. We come back to square one again for they have no answers as to when they / MRCB going to start commencing the remedial work on the failed slope.
This is as much as I would like to say. I have a blog if you do not know about it. It is http://yenhee.blogspot.com/ for you to understand most issues in relations to this tragedy. I started the blog which is a way from the website with the intention of serving as a documentation file for my work. This is because I am one of the evacuees and somehow or rather, my blog has blossomed to some kind of information centre. A lot of work of our initial crisis management has not been posted in. I just couldn't get to do it having to be allocated twice before getting my family a temporary permanent home. Until today, I have not found time to fix a land line therefore my access to the Internet has not been stable for communication purposes.
Thanks for writing in. I will have to say that this is the very first ever longest email I have replied since 6th of December 2008. I don't know you but it has been great corresponding to you as a resident.I would also like to inform you that this correspondence will be posted on my blog for those who could not make it to the forum.
The outcome of the forum has summarised my new motto! - WHO DOES WHAT AND BY WHEN?
I take this opportunity to thank residents who have come to support. Thank you every much and good night.
Regards,
YENHEE
Sorry that the reply has to come so late when everything is over. Hope you did attend the meeting at Oakleaf. There was no agenda and the residents were generally not happy because the panel has no answers to most questions. To start with, I received an email forwarded to me by MPAJ on 13 Feb, Friday evening. I've been quite known to MPAJ because I have been actively involved in almost everything after the disaster took place. In fact, on Friday morning, committee and myself had a meeting with Dato YDP MPAJ so that's how I came about. The email also been forwarded to our Bukit Antarabangsa counselor, Encik Izzudin, who is supposed to take the prerogative to inform the residents. Since my name appeared so instead of questioning who does the job, I went ahead to inform as many residents / Tamans as possible. Of course, I have not much clue of who are the committee, so I sent to my fellow friends whom I know, who live in most of the Tamans here. So I guess that's how it gets to you. To come to your wanting to know the agenda, I guess I am in the same situation. How this meeting came about is an instruction from our Tan Sri MB to ask MPAJ to hold a forum with the presence of developers / land owners together with residents of the whole Bukit Antarabangsa to address issues faced by us. (you may refer to the Malay Mail and the Sun dated 11th Feb 2009). Therefore to me, MPAJ was merely carrying out the instruction. Well, here's how I look at it: 1) MB is very concern over our issues here, therefore this forum was called. 2) It could also be an eyewash, like authorities are trying to do their best to be seen working when in actual fact, nothing has been done so far.
Exactly what the motive is, I wouldn't have a clue. What I failed to understand from the State Government's point of view is we have already had a situation here which has to be immediately attended to. We have been kept in the dark for exactly two months ten days so is this forum going to answer our hopes? The committee had wanted to meet the developer, MRCB, since the day it all happened and we just didn't get to do so or rather MRCB had been avoiding us. I remember on 2 occasions we were expecting them and they failed to turn up. In fact, for today's meeting, we were wondering if ever MRCB was going to turn up. Surprise! MRCB turned up but sad to say it is just as good as not to because they sent 2 representatives who hardly know the situations we are in and are not in the least position to answer our requests. So again, where do we go from here? Our insistence of meeting up with MRCB eventually answered. So we now can no longer blame whoever for not letting us meeting up with MRCB. Good, isn't it?
The committee has been following up on all the issues and we know well where we are heading but our authorities administrations are always in our way. Sometimes it is like heading nowhere or just going in circles. I am really surprised by how the residents have lashing it out on MPAJ, developer and authorities this evening. This is really out of my expectation, so in a way, I am glad that many of you out there understand this whole issue of dealing with authorities. Initially, I was very worried that the Tamans' committee will bring up its very own issue, eg. various complaints to be looked into. Having said this, not due to being selfish, I was worried that the slope failure issue would be very much diluted in such a big forum. The concentration would have been directed to other "small" issues.
What we achieved today is very much telling MPAJ how inefficient they have been as an acting body to safeguard our interest. We come back to square one again for they have no answers as to when they / MRCB going to start commencing the remedial work on the failed slope.
This is as much as I would like to say. I have a blog if you do not know about it. It is http://yenhee.blogspot.com/ for you to understand most issues in relations to this tragedy. I started the blog which is a way from the website with the intention of serving as a documentation file for my work. This is because I am one of the evacuees and somehow or rather, my blog has blossomed to some kind of information centre. A lot of work of our initial crisis management has not been posted in. I just couldn't get to do it having to be allocated twice before getting my family a temporary permanent home. Until today, I have not found time to fix a land line therefore my access to the Internet has not been stable for communication purposes.
Thanks for writing in. I will have to say that this is the very first ever longest email I have replied since 6th of December 2008. I don't know you but it has been great corresponding to you as a resident.I would also like to inform you that this correspondence will be posted on my blog for those who could not make it to the forum.
The outcome of the forum has summarised my new motto! - WHO DOES WHAT AND BY WHEN?
I take this opportunity to thank residents who have come to support. Thank you every much and good night.
Regards,
YENHEE
