Chee's (W9) SMS in Response to The Sun

Dear Dato M & Raymond,

I was disturbed to see you quoted a saying that everything is ok with the repair works at Bkt Antarabangsa this morning. Works are behind schedule, security at Wangsa 9 is a problem. Yen's house was broken into just last week and the contractor says it is not his responsibility, while we are still barred from going back to the units. Contractor claimed he hasn't been paid by JKR. So things are NOT all okay if you had checked some facts before making a statement to the press. By the way, the road quoted should be Wangsa 9 and not Wangsa 5. So, Please check with Yen before making a statement or we may have to issue a separate statement for Wangsa 9 contrary to yours and we do not want to look disunited to the press.

Chee C.C.: Yen, Bismi

Respond to Article on The Sun

Dear Wangsa 9 residents,

With reference to THE SUN PG4 today reported that we are happy with remedial work, few of Wangsa 9 owners are NOT AT ALL happy with the statement made by Dato Muniandy when:

1. Two houses had been broken in recently;
2. Remedial work slowed down - can we go back at the end of this year? Where many rental tenancy will expire, where many are still trying to adapt ourselves in rented places, rental places are not 'justifiable';
3. Cracks appeared after remedial work has started;
4. Issue on handling d job by JKR to MPAJ still in question.

All these claim that we are happy? Are we? Have the above been attended to? Maybe THE SUN should talk to the victims to understand the real situation. It is definitely UNFAIR for someone to put words in our mouth. I don't understand why the camouflage is for? We are already the victims and we don't want to be victims of any political advantages to any party. Kindly note.

C.c.: Dato Muniandy, Raymond, Chee.

Thank you and regards,

YENHEE

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The Sun 3 August 09

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Malay Mail 28 June 09

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Malay Mail 8 June 09

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Malay Mail 8 June 2009 page 21

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6 Months down the road

9 pm -

In conjunction to 6th month of Bukit Antarabangsa landslide tragedy, a dear friend Sheila, someone I call 'woman with a heart of gold' called me to ask "how's the going" and if there are issues to be addressed or highlighted in the media. I am very much thankful to her for the fact that she still remembers. I am not sure how many of us do. Somehow I am conscious over the number 6! Sheila focuses on the overall issues from grievances to forthcoming. After my teleconversation with her, I spoke to 2 chairmen from 2 adjacent neighbourhood to the landslide. Syed Bokhari (Impian Selatan condo) and Farid Faiz (Taman Bukit Jaya - 8 houses evacuated).

Issues concerned (Wangsa 9):

1. JKR- lack of communication with residents though assurance was given that we can count on them - with recent collapsed stadium in Terengganu which was under JKR- how to restore confidence to the general public especially to 44 evacuees waiting to go home?
2. Residents are concerned and would like to know about the cracks that appear after stabilizing job on failed slope commenced.
3. Case on a house buyer, a foreigner whose outfront payment was forfeited due to housing loan was being withdrawn by bank.

Thank you and regards,

YENHEE

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Star Interview 29Apr09 : Work Progress on W9 Failed Slope

I was interviewed by Sin Chew (Chinese media) too last week and the article appeared on Saturday 25 Apr where my feedback is residents are rather contented with the progression of work. What is still lacking is the technical communication from between JKR and residents. We have been advised not to intervene with their work and leave this to JKR which will deliver the job in qualified standard of requirement.

As on Tuesday 28 April, house owners from Wangsa 9 discovered cracks on their properties which only happened after the remedial work started by HCM. The cracks were not there before. We would like to know WHO and HOW are they going to make good of the houses? Is the stabilization work on the failed slope been carried out to the standard of expectation? What are the causes of the new cracks? Reason being as a layman's point of view, the cracks appeared due to earth movement. Apart from soil nailing on the failed slope, there suppose be micro pile on the whole stretch of Wangsa 9. This understanding was given to us in JKR BRIEFING in Menara MPAJ on 26 February 2009. To date we have not seen machinery set up for that. The failed area is an area by itself, can micro pile start at the other end of Wangsa 9 ? We were told that with proper progression of work 44 households would be able to go back to their homes by OCTOBER this year. We would like to appeal again to the MINISTRY OF WORKS and with our newly appointed Minister to address our concerns of our problems.

Thank you and regards,

YENHEE

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Response to Developer's Remark (the Star)

The Star, Saturday 21 February 2009 Click on the image for a clearer view.

With reference to the article above, it is really true that Superview Sdn Bhd had no building projects for over 20 years. NOT FOR THE REASON they don’t want to. Their proposed project in between year 2002-2003 (I cannot remember at this moment on the year but I have newspaper cutting somewhere), to revive the abandoned houses on Wangsa 9 and also to rebuild new block of buildings right in front of Wangsa 9 were not approved. For your information, we were the ones protesting against the proposal. So can I say that if we hadn’t had protested, we would have seen some new developments happening on Wangsa 9?

Superview Sdn Bhd stated that they have been periodically maintaining the work on the land, I don’t think so at all. I think my fellow residents will agree with me. Then again, we would be interested to ask what maintenance work has been done. One very good example is, if you have a chance to walk Wangsa 9, you will see how overly-grown trees as high as 50 to 60 feet from the ground and higher than our houses. Each time when it’s going to rain, we can see from our houses the swaying of the trees fears us. I believe the “swaying” is vastly contributing to the fact of destabilizing the ground. Residents themselves will get someone to clean up their roofs at least once a year to avoid clogging by the leaves. We had a few occasions where these trees were uprooted and fell right in front of our properties. Missing a bit, it would have hit our existing homes. When that happened, Wangsa 9 would be cut off from electricity and would have to inform MPAJ to come and cut the trees. Come to think of it, these occasions had been quite good as not to damage cars parked along Wangsa 9. Two occasions which I remember vividly were on houses no. 37 and 39. Of course, we have no evidence going down the slope right in front of us to check on any clogged drains. Residents did bring up complaints about the trees before and after they fell but they have all fallen to deaf ears. At one point of time, the residents themselves took the initiative to collect some money to get a contractor to prune the trees. So how valid is it that Superview SB now claiming that they have been maintaining their land?


Lastly, just a recap for many who are not aware, I would like to highlight again the failed slope (6th Dec) where the cave in comes from Wangsa 9 was also the place where buildings erected by Superview way back in 1985 had collapsed before. As residents, we know that the collapsed buildings were nicely swept and cleaned up as well as some terracing work had been done to put things back, what we would really be interested to find out is, whether a proper remedial work to maintain the stability on the said failed slope was being done way back then. I suppose IKRAM and JKR reports will have full investigation of this failed development parallel to landslide on 6th December. If Superview SB has stated in the write up for their inability to comment on the causes of the landslide, I am recommending that this is one of the causes.

For your information, Superview SB is a subsidiary of MRCB. A separate section of my blog has a collection of newspaper clips and even brochure on Wangsa Ukay way back in 1984. Please refer to The Day Taman UKAY Was Born:1984 - History Archive that will link you to my other blog.

Regards,

YENHEE

70 Million to be spent on Slope in Bkt A

Great, great News!

At 3.54 pm, Zaman sent breaking news - 20/2 Works Ministry will spend RM 70 million to stabelize Bukit Antarabangsa Slope; 44 houses deemed unfit will be safe to reside in 6 months; Minister / STAR will see full news tomorrow. Please share good news with the whole of Bukit Antarabangsa. I have informed all key leaders.

Regards,
YENHEE
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Response to 17FEB Forum by MPAJ

FORUM TO BE HOLD TOMORROW BY MPAJ TUES 17FEB09

In my capacity, I have tried to make sure that all residents are aware of this meeting. Well, some would have shared the same wondering on what is the agenda for the forum. To me, perhaps Tan Sri MB's instruction to MPAJ to do so within 7 days is with the intention of looking after the public interest BUT don't they now see it that we have already has one in hand yet to be solved and nothing is done about it? So I may interpret the forum to be an eye wash to lead residents / rakyat to think they are listening and doing something for us. We want them TO ATTEND TO OUR PROBLEMS NOT JUST LISTENING. Anyway, it makes no sense when we already have ONE MAJOR ISSUE THAT REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION WITH ONE DEVELOPER AND THAT CANNOT BE FIXED AND TOMORROW THE WHOLE BUKIT ANTARABANGSA WILL BE IN A FORUM OF COMMUNICATING WITH 11 OTHER DEVELOPERS. To me, this is just an equation of 'if you have a child who is already sicked and instead of treating your sick child you check with your other children if they are sick'. I am sure other residents in this vincinity have other issues so i did propose to TYDP (meeting Friday 13th Feb) if the forum on the failed slope and directly affected residents be attended separately. We had no reply to the request. I don't know what is the purpose or agenda, we are not interested in them just listening, we should only be interested in WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, IF NOT YOU THEN WHO AND BY WHEN.

Regards,
YENHEE
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Response to Hillside Projects to go on

Sunday Star 15th February 2009

HILLSIDE PROJECTS TO GO ON

With reference to the above, statements made 'total prevention of landslide and freezing construction, both not practical; professional engineers can minimise landslide' - Mohd Zin.

This is just saying landslide cannot be eliminated which is as good as saying instead of risking 10 lives, it can be minimised to 2. As far as the public is concerned, many are against hillside development purely because they are in fear of the consequences of collapse buildings where lives will be sacrificed disregard of other losses.

Mohd Zin also made it clear that hillslope development 'fell under the supervision of local authorities as they are the ones to issue approvals'. I have a simple question to ask, is our local authority or in our case MPAJ fit to uphold such responsibilities? Answer is NO. If they are capable, we as residents wouldn't have to wait more than 2 months and pestering for something to be done. And we are still waiting. In other words, it is just as good as saying we can build and allow it to collapse. It is only a matter of time knowingly our local authorities, MPAJ (in our case) has NO OR POOR

1. BIGGER BUDGET SET ASIDE by developer SUPERVIEW or may just refused to come up with the money
2. Geotechnique or hillslope EXPERTS
3. MAINTAINANCE responsibilities
4. FOLLOW THROUGH
5. IMPLEMENTATION and ENFORCEMENT process.

Does MPAJ have all these criteria to act as a body to protect the public interest or act on our behalf to ensure landslide doesn't take place anymore. The answer is NO. Along with these, I would also like to highlight that bribery and corruption go hand in hand for any work need to be carried out and this is also directed to fellow developers who offer. That was as much for MPAJ. So the Work Ministry as an advising agent has not come up with it's JKR report which we requested over and over again for it to be made public. In our Bukit Antarabangsa case, we were all anxiously waiting for the 1st JKR report which was supposed to be announced to us on 18th December 2008 and the said report turned out to be just a KENYATAAN MEDIA 20 December 2008 to inform us who is to be evacuated! So far, the public has not been given access to any of these landslide reports including Highland towers. Our committee most recent meeting with MPAJ , TYDP Dato M. Yaacob also said that they are waiting for the JKR report. We are in the situation or society if we don't hassle the authorities NOTHING IS GOING TO GET DONE! We are dealing with a lot of inefficiencies in our authorities and government departments, we are human beings with feelings so naturally we get furious after too long the wait. I agree and thank our DPM to call on local authorities to BAN hillside development. So we see the conflict in our government administrations now that WORK MINISTRY as on 15th February say they are going ahead. We have a situation where either our DPM does not honour what he said or the ministry goes against what DPM had instructed. It is really unfair to lead to such confusion. Stop fooling us! By the way, if hillslope developments are to go on, I would think that members of our community are on their feet to even buy a property near a slope.

Regards,

YENHEE

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YDP MPAJ Dato M.Yaacob Will Meet Committee-FRI 13FEB09

With the concurrent happenings:

1. TAN SRI MB ORDER (the Sun & Malay Mail)
2. PETITION WAS HANDED IN.

Both on the same day yesterday morning. This morning at 8.50 am, I received a call from MPAJ for a few key committee to meet up with YDP. Agenda of meeting not told.

Regards,

YENHEE

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Desperate Cry for Action MMAIL(thurs 12/2/09)

4.30 pm -

I was called up by the press on my view yersterday based on SELANGOR GOVERMENT ORDERED MPAJ TO HOLD MEETING WITH RESIDENTS AND LANDOWNERS.....WITHIN A WEEK. I did post the statements made in my blog. Today's article says it all. My only comment is the photo on this article is not justifiable as we described 'torn and tattered' tarps. Tarpaulins seen on this picture are just newly laid after the 5th Feb landslip. (2nd occurence after 6 Dec)

Regards,
YENHEE
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Malay Mail 2/2/09 pg11

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CNY News Coverage on Bukit Antarabangsa

28th January 2009 (third day of Chinese New Year), RTM 1 Mandarin News 8 pm Chinese New Year special coverage on Bukit Antarabangsa: My family and I were interviewed and it was aired on RTM 1Mandarin News. The actual interview took about total of 4 hours. I was trying to put through a lot more emphasizing the urgency for state government and MPAJ as well as Superview to rectify the immediate situation of the slope. What you see in this 2.38 minutes coverage has been very much edited. I was very much taken by surprise that my son, Edred even pleaded to MPAJ to immediately look into this problem. (Not featured) Please click on the google video link on the top right OR click on the following link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3893551044926115251

to view the video.

Regards,

YENHEE

RTM & Malay Mail

9.30 am

Did a small coverage (RTM-Mandarin) for the coming CNY. Message; CNY will not be the same for all evacuees in our new places as we are still adjusting and our main worries are our 'abandoned' properties. Wish and hope for this CNY is to be able to go back to our homes for 2010 CNY.

1 pm

- Malay Mail at Wangsa 9:

1. Highlighted theft attempt on house No. 31 on Saturday 17 January.
2. Readdressed slope issues.
3. Requested authorities to put back electricity, water (which temporary can easily be solved), upkeep the cleanliness of Wangsa 9 and most importantly police booth at emergency exit. All these have been repeatedly reminded and it has come to a stage we need the media.
4. Maintenance of water tank at Wangsa 7 which holds approximately 130 000 sq3m precariously located at the slope edge of 80 deg.
5. Timely Mrs How house no. 31 (showing the evidents) and Mr & Mrs Hon house No. 1 were present, so they were also been interviewed.
6. JKR first month report which we expected to be notified is now overdue. We have to constantly create public awareness. We have tried our level best to deal amicably with respective authorities but responses are lame. We want positive responds with given time frame. We have waited , waiting and no longer want to wait anymore! All these waitings leave us no choice that we have to resort to the press and media. We are in need of solutions... We are just striving for our OWN RIGHTS to go back to our homes with LONG TERM SAFETY.

Will follow up on the administration of rental subsidy with our local counsel tomorrow. I had mentioned and asked specifically on this matter at least two times but no one has come back to me. We would like to know when is the date of the payment effected and what are the required documents. My understanding is payment will be made before CNY yet we have not been informed on how to go about it. All these angered the residents.

Regards,
YENHEE
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Looting Attempts at Wgsa 9

11.09 pm

Dear residents,

At 8.45 pm , I was in a shopping mall with my family (1st time since the mudslide) wanting to do CNY shopping when Ganesan, our gardener and caretaker called to inform me:

- house 31 water filter pipe was cut and some screws were taken out with the clear attempt of stealing.

IMMEDIATE ACTIONS -

1. Called TYDP MPAJ to reach out MPAJ tent (24hrs) to send someone to tighten the security. I had requested for the police to be stationed at emergency exit many times to the attention of MPAJ, YB Adun office, MB's office, YB MP Ampang and local counsel. Residents themselves made personal effort too. To date nothing has been done. It is a tradition that our BOLEH always wait for something to happen first.
2. Informed the respective owners to check and make police report which when I was at the site, owner of house No. 31 was already making his police report at the police station.
3. Called Raymond to see if he could go to site.
4. With such disruption, I decided to go to site. The police escorted my husband and I to the end of Jalan Wangsa 9 at about 9.20 pm. Raymond came and we concluded that we need more lightings and Ray will see OCPD tomorrow.

Tomorrow I shall be in Bukit Antarabangsa with RTM to do a small coverage in conjunction to CNY. The press is keen to be there too.

Regards,
YENHEE
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Follow up on MPAJ and ADUN

Thursday 15th January 2009
11.26 pm

Dear residents,

On TUESDAY (13th January 2009), I called both offices and with much dismay NOTHING HAS COME BACK TO THEM on rental subsidy and developer's letter to MPAJ pending state goverment reply. The same day there is an article in MALAY MAIL on the same issues. AGAIN, all these have been addressed in MALAY MAIL dated 15th January 2009.

Regards,

YENHEE

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Malay Mail 15/1/09 pg2

Malay Mail - Thursday - 15th January 2009 - page 2

Headline: SELANGOR GOVT MUST ACT FAST

A very well written article. Please read.

Regards,

YENHEE

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NST 10/1/09 Property pg5

10th January 2009
10:36 AM

Dear residents,

Please refer to NST Saturday 10th Jan 09 Property pg5
The write up was rather tone down. 2 major issues were brought up: slope to be addressed and the rental subsidy. FYI, I was interviewed weeks ago. Today Chee, Chek, Tengku, Tuan Syed, Henry and myself will work on the letter to relevant authorities and next step.

Regards,

YENHEE

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