Telaga Emas - Update

4th April 2011
Regarding the work which is being carried out right now by AIRMAS Sdn Bhd on Vista Bay building, they have set a dateline in making appointments with the house owner and the date is as following:

9th April 2011 (Saturday)

This has been correspond to us by their representative.
For those who has not make appointment with them due to heavy commitments, please make this a top priority.

Thanks and have a great day.

Telaga Emas - Update

1st April 2011
Good news to all of the residents in Vista Bay Apartment....... and I can assure you that this is not an April Fool's news. We receive a letter from MPSP yesterday as we are part of the recipient but the letter was actually intended for the AIRMAS Contractor beside.

Anyway, the letter was a feedback letter from MPSP to Saujana Desa Bina Sdn Bhd regarding their request to prolong their working time from existing 9.00am till 6.00pm from Monday to Saturday to add 1 hour at each end with the option of working on Sunday as well. This of course was turned down by us immediately as this would definitely effect our daily routine with the need to bear all the noise pollution coming from their side. Bear in mind that their project is about 50 feet away from our building only.

Telaga Emas Updates - Building Inspection

10th January 2011
Got a letter from AIRMAS Development Sdn Bhd regarding our complain today and seems they will be coming over to our place this week to inspect our building condition based on the cracks complaint we file to them earlier.

Bear in mind, this building inspection is about 2 months overdue and also after so many letters by MPPS as well as Board of Engineers, only then they just plan to come. Although some of you may think that it's better too late then never, for some, like me, I would say we should not be in this mess in the 1st place if not because of them.

Anyhow, the date and time of the inspection is as follows:

Date: 13th January 2011 (Thursday)
Time: 2.30pm
Vanue: Ground Floor of Bagan Vista Apartment.


Besides going to the building common area cracks, they would be going to units who is in this mess as well.
So, make sure the owner of the complainant should be at home to allow them to inspect the cracks inside your place.

Please be punctual as i'm not sure of the time of their starts and end but one thing for sure, we don't want to be blamed for causing them to fail to inspect as I don't think they would give you any second chance.

Telaga Emas Updates

5th November 2010
Another empty promises by the developer again...... This has become a very common trend in their work and we as people living surrounding their project will continue to be the victim. Victim of personal gain (this is a business after all) and this will always be around if our local council continue siding them in everything they do.
They have been dragging this issue all the way and by the time they try to do something, it's only 3 days left for the piling to finish. So, next time if you guys face the same issue as us where piling work is being done the incorrect way, take drastic action immediately and not like us, going through all the unnecessary bureaucracy way which turns out really not effective at all. Means if next time people say you should be going through the right channel to voice up your concern, think again, they are actually asking us not to pursue what we plan to do.

Anyway, just to update you guys a bit on this matter since my last post.

Everyday is actually a nightmare for us as we have been feeling the minor tremors almost on a daily basis where the injection piling produce really great vibration and noise. The noise we are not too worry about but the vibration itself. It's so loud till the senior citizens from our building would leave their home and wait outside at the gate. Imagine how serious this is. Cracks that could be avoided in the first place, happened and we will continue to complain about this even way after the piling has finish. Why MPSP approve this project but they are not monitoring it? We have been giving them plenty of information about this. Asking them to come and be there to witness everything seems to be an impossible task.

October 26th 2010, a meeting with local council (MPSP), the Telaga Emas Developers as well as our local representative was held at our apartment multipurpose hall. We have around 40 representatives from our side, 7 from AIRMAS Development, 2 MPSP and one local representative. MPSP on developer's behalf were asking for another 3 days piling so that we don't keep bothering them anymore and by this piling process finished, they would start to rectify all the cracks that happen around the project which they promised the following week. Just for your information, today is another working week finished and not a single call from them. Pretty pathetic don't you think. We were thinking, why MPSP asking us to give them another 3 days to do piling when i ask this meeting to be convened 3 weeks before when they start destroying our place. Why drag so long? Isn't it an obvious case where MPSP is actually playing wild card on behalf of the developer? It's pretty obvious to me.

For your information and surprise, when our local representative ask the piling engineer on why this machine produce this kind of vibration and noise when it should not have, the engineer said it's because the machine which is holding the pile SLIPS and the vibration is caused by the machine falling to the earth. Imagine 180 tonne machine falling down to earth. Besides that, the irresponsible engineer also said that this might be the fault of the driver which was controlling the machine at that time. They might not be skilled enough. Imagine he is saying this and local council think ok. Imagine this has been happening to us for the past 3 weeks. The engineer promise to increase the pressure holding the pile and also change to a new driver. Another yet empty promises. The problem continue for the next 3 days and calls to MPSP and developers yielded no result.
Imagine the piling engineer admitting it's their fault but still no action taken by local council but instead, asking us to let them continue piling.

Whatever happens now, we will still pursue this case as we know our rights and the rights of the people living surrounding this project. To those who is facing this issue elsewhere, do stand up and go against whoever you think is responsible and making your loving place home into a nightmare.

Telaga Emas Updates

11th October 2010
I thought asking them to change to injection piling would be a best way to save our building but seems I was wrong. Totally wrong. Seems to me it got worse. To be logical, injection piling is way much better then hammer piling since it manages to overcome the vibration as well as noise issue that happen when using hammer pile... at least according to the facts given out in the net that is.

So, question is, is this normal to have vibration as well as sound come out from injection pile every time it hits the deepest pile that is many time stronger then normal hammer pile? Correct me if i'm wrong but I think this is NOT normal at all. Injection pile should be noise and vibration free.

With only 2 days piling, our building on the side got cracks all side of the walls. Many residents start to become agitated with the developer's attitude and they want them to stop immediately and rectify this issue else, they should stop work permanently. From what we thought is that the developer purposely do this to our building as they told us, its normal to have the sound and vibration to be at this magnitude...... what a joker. If its normal then no one would recommend this method in the first place right?

So, what's next? Complain again to MPSP? I bet you we will but this time, we might go up a level to make our voice heard.

By the way, to those who has their walls crack because of this, please voice up so that stern action can be taken on the developer themselves.

Telaga Emas - Update

6th October 2010
This saga has been continuing since many weeks now and seems the fight has not been deem a failure.
Up to today, many things has happened..........from the day the Test Pile has been done.

As you guys may know, test pile has been done on the 15th September 2010 and based on the so called invisible report (which till today we have not receive it), they seems to follow all the rules and regulations set by our local government. From the test pile, what they need to achieved is to reduce the vibration as well as the sound. This of course was done under close scrutiny of MPSP staffs as well as our very own Vista Bay residents. Unfortunately i was not able to attend this test pile process. Once done with the test pile, seems the measurement that they have made was siding them. The measurement of vibration of 1.4mm/s to 1.5mm/s was way below the maximum limit of vibration measurement which is 5mm/s. Or course again, this was done under 2 feet distance of the hammer to the beam itself as well as putting some wooden plank in it to soften the blow but then, question is, can they sustain this environment for long? Wooden plank can be broken after a few piles, so replacing them everytime it breaks is practical enough? Furthermore, can they maintain the height of 2ft consistently? From the discussion on the test pile day, resident of Vista Bay would need to wait till the report to come out and if all favours the developer, then the piling would be proceeded.

Telaga Emas - Update

8th September 2010
Yesterday around late afternoon, member of AIRMAS called us up to inform us that the date they will be doing the test pile would be on 15th September 2010(Wednesday) at 10.00am for the reason of testing the soil, sound as well as vibration to determine whether it would effect the people living surrounding it or otherwise.

On this day, we would be having our guys over to their side to have discussion on this matter. We would hope that the residents of Bagan Vista would be preparing to embrace themselves in the shock waves or sound that might come out once the piling starts again. If the vibration or the sound is unbearable to you or any way disturb your daily routine , please voice up to us IMMEDIATELY so that we can ask MPSP to issue STOP WORK order to them again. Basically we want all the piling to stop as its really a nuisance to us living beside. We just want to them to change the method and nothing more. If the conventional piling still continue with no vibration and no disturbing sound, then we would not have this complaints in the first place.

Telaga Emas - Update

6th September 2010
Today was the day a meeting schedule with Telaga Emas developer, Bagan Vista Residents as well as MPSP to come out with a amicable solution to the piling issue which was highlighted back then.

We make known our intention to them saying that the current method of piling is actually not giving us a good day since day one in term or noise pollution as well as vibration which can cause severe damage to our building later. We were told by them that the noise as well as vibration can be reduced if they put in certain cushion to soften the blow of the piles. This reduction, as mention by their engineers, is about 25%-40% reduction but we were thinking of more to 80%-95% reduction. They said let them try out first before we jump into any conclusion and to give them a chance to amend their wrong. Before that, I even disagree with their suggestion to have a guarantee letter saying that if there are any cracks were to happen to our place, they will repair it immediately . Why want to wait till cracks happen then just fix our place up? How come cannot start changing their method of piling to avoid any unnecessary disturbance to the people staying nearby instead? Issue is, the method we have suggested is triple the amount they would normally pay for hammer pilling.

Telaga Emas - Update

3rd September 2010
STOP-WORK Order has been issued to the developer of Telaga Emas project this afternoon by our local council MPSP after they had a surprise visit to the project site today. Seems they found out some irregularities and hence the stop-work order. A meeting on this matter together with the Developer, Engineers, Architect and Complainants will be organized next week at MPSP office, Bandar Perda.

Basically this STOP-WORK order will only last till next week and the outcome of the meeting will determine whether the project will still carry on using their current method or they will make some changes to it.

Bear in mind again, we are not against any development in the area but without following proper guideline in regards of humanitarian ground,proper action will be taken against them.

Anyway, many Thanks to MPSP for taking some actions on this matter although this effect won't last long but at least there is something being done. For now, we should be grateful that we can enjoy our coming weekend without the sound of hacking and knocking on the ground. So, enjoy!!!!!!

Telaga Emas - Update

20th August 2010
Piling work seems to go on without caring for those effected and this time, we make another call to MPSP to complain but this time, this complain came back with an explanation. MPSP said that this project, Telaga Emas, has been approved back in 2007 but we only manage to get the OC in 2009, so, procedure wise, we do not have the rights to complain at all. Is this kind of explanation make any sense to you? The letter of informing us on this project which we got on 21st July 2010 was actually to ask us whether we have any objection to their change of building plan or otherwise and not to object to the building itself.

Well, one thing for sure, at this stage, we can't really stop them from building the tall 'statue' but we can still fight for our survival by making sure they change their method in doing the piling as well as making sure the hygiene and safety of people living around the area are well taken care of. It's not easy but it has to be done.

As this point of time, emails, letters as well as phone calls have been barraging MPSP offices together with other political members in the vicinity. A meeting will be done and we will send our message over to them (Telaga Emas Developer) that earning money does not only mean building a 'statue' as you like but also need to take care of the environment as well as the people effected by the project.

Telaga Emas - Update

19th August 2010
Another irresponsible behavior from the neighbour - Telaga Emas developer.
This morning around 10.20am, they have another round of piling again and this time, we wasted no time in making a complaint towards them. If MPSP people can't help us on this then we will go a level up. Simple as that. We just want them to be fair to us and everyone surrounding their development project and not just simply built a place, get profit and then move on to the next project without knowing the effect at the latter stage on the people living there since day one.

Anyhow, we will keep monitoring on their progress and this time, we will monitor how MPSP people will handle this case as well. Any lack of enforcement on this matter, we will have to question the local council on this as well as there will be no stone unturned.

Telaga Emas - Update

17th August 2010
Another round of irresponsible behavior by the contractors of Telaga Emas to disobey the law of local council  regarding building procedures has spark anger among the community of Apartment Vista Bay. Not only they continue with the piling work, they also disturb the peace and serenity of the surrounding area.

Around 10.20am this morning, they, the one who think they are on top of the law, start to do piling work again. For what we know and also for what the law tells us, they should not even have piling machines on the side at all as this is consider as start work already since they still don't have approval to this project just yet. How can they disregard the law and do as they like just for the sake of gaining profits. With this kind of disrespectful attitude towards the law as well as the surrounding occupants,  how do you expect them to have a responsibility attitude towards the building itself. If they would continue behaving like this, at the end of the day, the people who is going to buy and stay there would only have nightmares as the building that are staying in is being built by people who only think about profits and care less of what they are doing.

Telaga Emas - Where is Justice?

15th August 2010
As far as the owners of Vista Bay Apartment are concern, their building is one of their most valued investment, and to some, its their life time investment. Put in under jeopardy is the last thing in their mind and having one big apartment building beside them is really creating one dent in their hope of having a peaceful mind.

Can you imagine wake up everyday to a rowdy neighbour or worst still, a peeping Tom staring right in your face? Can you imagine waking up to a pair of underwear staring right in your face? Can you imagine having over guests or VIPs to your 'Home-Sweet-Home' and let them see other people clothing? Imagine living in a place where you need to close your windows or door panels with curtain well shut? Last time i checked, having a house is to have some where for us to shelter from rain or sun and certainly to have a place where we can have a peace of mind. Having one building next door which is so near sure beats the hell out of the latter reason.

Telaga Emas - Update

14th August 2010
On the 21st July 2010, we receive a letter from MPSP (Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Prai) regarding the project Telaga Emas by AIRMAS Development Sdn Bhd which is going to be built exactly (parallel)  beside our building/apartment Vista Bay. This letter is actually a notice that MPSP will normally send to every home or property which is neighbouring to the project being built. This letter also serve as a medium to all neighbours to object to the project if it really hamper our daily lives as well as violates any visible regulations. In order to object, one must provide all the details or evidence to back their case up and when the time they are being called for a meeting, they should be able to speak out and find a win win situation with all parties involve.

According to rules, once a developer submit their request or building plan to have it approve by MPSP, the local council would need inform and ask all the neighbouring people of this project to know whether they have any objections. If there is, MPSP would need to call a meeting to discuss and find out the best way out for this objection so that everyone would be happy on the matter. Until a meeting is called, the project is actually still pending for approval and therefore, developer should not start in building work on the so call project site. No construction vehicles should be moving in or out the place and certainly no heavy machineries as well as construction materials being place there as well.

Telaga Emas - Update

9th August 2010
Next door piling has started work today but the weird part is, do they have any permit to start work at all?!!! For a normal development, they would need to go through MPSP approval before work can be started and this requires them to submit a building plan, get approval on the plan and then, MPSP will submit a letter to all it's neighbouring houses to seek for permission. If there is any objection to it, they would need to organize a meeting between the one object to it together with MPSP as well as the developer themselves.

All this will take place before the developer get the green light to start work. So, why does this developer over rule the current regulation on this development process? Are they trying to hasten their work process and as we might know it, a day delay might cause them huge loses. Question is, would they compromise their building work in order to get the project going and finish on time? Take time to ponder on this and if you are one of the buyer, take note on this. Is your properties or investment secure with this kind of attitude by the developer towards law and order?

Telaga Emas - Updates

22nd July 2010
Here we go again for another round of update on our Nemesis, Telaga Emas. It's not that we hate them for having development at the side of our building but then, having a tall building being built at the side after most of us have move in is just .............is just......... not comforting at all. If they are building low-rise building or even shop lots, we don't have any qualms about it but, a 11 storeys tall building......?...........just unacceptable......!!!!
Anyway, what we can say is that we won't go down without fighting of course. We will fight till the end, using every option available to us.

So, what is the update you may ask.

Telaga Emas - Our Nemesis

20th February 2010
It has been months when we heard the news that nearby to our beloved building, Vista Bay, there will be a new apartment coming up. The new soft launch was done a few days after Chinese New Year 2010 and this news hit us really bad although, we can't really do anything as we can't stop development from happening.

With this launch, it has proven that AirMas Group is actually creating issue for people living in Vista Bay especially the one who is going to face them everyday. From the information I got from the sales guy at AirMas, the building is actually parallel with Vista Bay building and also, its pretty near to each other with only 50 feet(this fact was given to me by salesman) of space between these 2 buildings. So near and yet, they were given approval to build in that allocated space..... pretty weird don't you think?

Anyhow, with the small place, they are planning to build a building which will be the home to 144 owners (at the very least) with the space smaller then the one we have in Vista Bay although each unit build up area is bigger compare to us (relative to Type A in Vista Bay). Basically, they have 3 types of parcel although they claim to have only 2 types which is Corner Unit and Standard Unit. Corner Unit will have a build up area of 1336 sqft while Standard Unit will have 1330 sqft which has 6 sqft space of difference. Another type of unit which I saw is the one which is at the corner but the shape of a triangle that is around 1250 sqft in size (You can see the layout in Diagram 2.... Unit 16).