We Have Moved !!

Hi all,

we will be putting all our post at this new blog site as our RC has been renamed and to avoid confusion, we start afresh. You can continue to read our blogs at

http://cckzone9.blogspot.com

See you there !!

Block 790, Litterbug again ...

On 20 Oct, at Block 790, the lower floors of unit 244, a bag of rice was thrown from the upper floor windows and landed on the walls. This caused the rice to splatter and it had affected the family's laundry, windows and to top it off, the waste is very hard to clean.

Our RC will put effort to do a house visit on the upper floors, but we can only hope such education will stop these acts - to make things worse, it happens periodically and hard to trace a pattern. CCTV or installing a temporary camera has been raised, but not justifiable.

May God really help us to apprehend this culprit.

Tree Collapsed

On 20 Sep, it was raining cats and dogs. The weather was very cool and it kept drizzling for long hours. It was due to the heavy rain and strong winds, a tree behind Block 771A MSCP collapse. Thankfully it was a small tree and no one was hurt.

The horticulture team was activated, and within an hour, they were seen cutting down the collapsed tree to smaller chunks for easy removal, and it was in the rain. Such efficiency but rarely seen or appreciated by others. I have the opportunity to see as when I parked my car, the tree just fell. After an hour, when I went back to the vehicle, the guys were busy removing it.

Sometimes we should appreciate and encourage if good work is done, but residents have a tendency to look at the negative side. It reminds me when I spoke to a resident on giving appreciation, the reply was "not necessary as we have paid for their services"

I simply replied, would you like your superior to say this to you ?

Humpty Dumpty ...at Block 769

On 21 Aug 2011, resident from Block 769 called up the hotline to feedback her frustration on what she saw on her window ... an egg thrown from above, and caused mess to 3 floors down ...

Of course, when they approach the neighbour directly above them and ask them did they have eggs on the window, the neighbour replied "we did not throw them" ... strange ... ask got egg, reply no throw ...

anyway, with no evidence at hand, this incident will be recorded as children learning the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" creatively ....

Service Road Parking

A resident have feedback to us on illegal parking along service road of Block 766, 768, 769 and 770 and have sent pictures to us and HDB to request for more enforcements, especially in the middle of the night.

Near accidents have almost took place as some vehicles parked on both sides of the roads, thus leaving drivers to drive like a "Daytona" driver.

For your info, any resident, can take a picture of your vehicle illegally parked with number plate, can sent the photo via email, and a summon will be issued based on the evidence given.

Resident of these vehicles, please do get a season parking ticket.

Cockroach, Cockroach everywhere ....

Today received quite a few calls on our RC Hotline of many cockroach at lift lobbies, drains and rubbish chutes ... some even called it mass infestation and another say seeing them would cause harm to their health !!

Well, most of the cockroaches will be "overturned" after a while as they came out for a breather due to their nests being fumigated, as such they have to find some place to evacuate ...

So next time, if you see many cockroaches and most of them are "upside down", no worries, they are on the way to heaven.

RC Hotline - You Share, We Respond

On 19 May 2011, a resident called to highlight about the debris at void deck of Block 766 left uncleared by a renovation contractor for about 3 weeks.

After a day of furious checking, HDB helped us to contact the renovation contractor and after 4 days (cos over the weekend), by 23 May 2011, Monday at 10am, the debris was cleared.

It is a fact that whatever we do, there is always 2 sides. Our RC Hotline, opened to residents since 2002, have been receiving regular calls. Some of the calls, we can offer immediate solution, some delayed due to checks to be made, some are out of our scope as such we can do nothing and some took us for granted ... cos residents thought we are full time staff with the RC - never did they expect volunteers is willing to offer such a convenient and personalized service to residents. We would like to appeal to callers that we will do our best, but sometimes we are in a meeting or busy in our own careers, we can only respond to missed calls when we are available.

Well, we are going to feature regularly, calls we have responded to and also in due time, collate those requests we received but are just as helpless, we can only show empathy.

Our commitment as a volunteer, we will always try our best but it does not mean we can do magic or wonders to accede to your request. Example, a resident called and asked RC to do more patrols as his home was a target for loansharks - but we will do only when the resident is willing to join us in the patrolling. He declined citing busyness, our volunteers likewise is in the same working situation as him.

GOT IT ??

We truly enjoy serving the residents of our estate as we also live here and are part of this estate.

Vandalism at Block 762A

Recently a resident feedback that his car got vandalized again and made a comment that the RC, police, HDB and Town Council have been informed, there was nothing done. It was also mentioned that his car was vandalized a few times, over the past 3 years.

From the RC perspective, what can we do ? CCTV ? Citizens on Patrol in the middle of the night ? Probably in my opinion, we have to weigh the few points before taking an action, like ...

1) Frequency of Vandalism - if happens 5 times over 3 years, we can literally do nothing

2) Quantity of Vandalism - How many were affected at a go, or just one car ? if just one car, it could be personal grudge, in that case, we will encourage owner to install his own CCTV. If a few affected at one go, we may arrange some watch groups among the affected owners - ownership of problem and solving it together.

RCs members are volunteers, who have a heart to put in time to serve the community in many ways, like event organising, sharing of interests, helping the needy and also putting our best foot forward in promoting neighborliness.

We apologise it our RC have not done well in some aspects, but we are proud to have 3 long term features (24 hours hotline, this blogsite and monthly newsletters) that many RCs do not have, to keep us connected to our residents.

Our RC is not a "YES MAN" type of committee. Come and join us and experience the way our volunteers serve. It will be satisfying and fulfilling.

Motorcycle Thefts and Youths

A media release from Singapore Police Force ...

Police have arrested four men aged between 18 and 21 years old and a 14-year-old female for stealing motorcycles from multi–storey car parks at Yew Tee housing estate.

http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2011/110511_thieves_arrested.htm

Nowadays the crooks are getting younger and bolder. While it is not an offence to loiter at void decks as long as they are not being a nuisance, we still have to keep an eye on their activities and do offer a friendly advice when they get a little too rowdy. I have done that many times, and they do listen.

Should you see youths loitering at places where they are not supposed to be, like corridors, staircase landings, car parks .... call the police to do a check on them.

Cats at Block 787

We received a call from resident, that cats are making lots of noise at void decks in the wee hours of the morning at Block 787. It is very difficult on our part to find ways to stop it, unless we catch them !! But the catch is that it is in the wee hours of the morning, and by the time we go there, our presence will scatter the cats.

Our RC and Town Council have managed to catch 2 cats in the day time, loitering at the void decks and we hope that the "meows" will be minimized. If the meowing persists, it means we caught the WRONG Cats !!