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Of estate upgrades and elections
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Recently, I received a notification from the Town Council for the HDB estate I am staying in, informing that there will be installation works going on in the month of January. This is something that many people in the neighbourhood have been looking forward to.
Here's the story.
Fernvale is situated on the outskirts of Seng Kang. Surrounding the three estates that are currently there, are nothing more than trees, grass fields and private houses (most of which are not more than 2 storeys high). As such, you can expect Fernvale to be a pretty windy place - and WINDY it sure is!
On rainy days, the rain water will be blown right into the flats and even if you kept your wooden doors closed, the water will collect and seep from under them!
Residents have written in to the town council and the HDB to request for something to be done and there was a pilot project where a select few units were installed with 'blinds' right along the corridors to test for usefulness.
After much dialogue and discussions between MPs, residents, the authorities, etc., the decision has finally been made to install 'rain blinds' along the corridor for ALL units that are affected by the seasonal heavy rain and strong winds. All these after almost two years of waiting! Hooray!!!
Yep! This sounds great, but I am beginning to suspect if this had anything to do with the impending General Elections that are widely speculated to take place sometime in March 2006? Let me see... my mum's place just had their lift lobbies re-tiled and whole estate given a fresh coat of paint... my friend's estate just had a major project completed... they had sheltered linkways linking all the blocks built! Oh, and the white elephantBuangkok MRT station will be opening on 15th January 2006 as well... Hmm... :-)
In any case, I am happy that I have finally got what I wanted. Luckily, I did not proceed to install a blind there myself! Nothing wasted!! Heheheh! Damn heng!
PS: I know I have been writing a lot about HDB-related stuff... but what the hell!!! Heheheh!
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moe at 1/05/2006 09:17:00 AM
