DEAFENING Construction Noises

For those of you staying at Viz, the construction noise is just starting to drive people potty, I'm sure. For those of you staying at Holland Peak or Olina Lodge, it must be worse for you, given that Holland Crest construction has just started and is compounded by Parvis's construction as well. I shudder to think how bad Holland Hill road is with all the massive trucks moving and and down the hill.



There are regulations on noise pollution in Singapore, and judging by the rapid speed at which Holland Crest is being torn down, it looks like the developers are now desperate to build up the new condo. And possibly ignoring construction noise regulations.

So here's the number to contact the National Environment Agency if you want to complain about the noise pollution from the Holland Crest construction:

1800-CALL-NEA or 1800-2255 632

More information can be found here (NEA Website).

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Staining the White

Here we go again. Thought they'd stopped but this is happening again. I blogged about it earlier here and here's a photo taken today (31 Oct afternoon).


Coloured shirts may drip and stain the white ledges of the floors below. Please be considerate! Maybe I should send the bill for cleaning up my ledge to them?

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What's wrong with cats?

I've noticed a prevalence of notices on the lift lobby 'e-noticeboards' that seemed to target cats as nuisances or pests or worse, carriers of diseases. The last I checked, we are now living in the 21st century, and in the pecking order of disease carriers, I'd say rodents, roaches, mosquitoes, birds rank far higher than cats.

I've seen an errant owner who let her dog pee on the side of a lift lobby entrance, and then walking away without bothering to clean up. Likewise, spotted from the upper floors is a dog doing the poopies on the garden below, and then happily walking away with the owner in tow. No cleaning up either. And last I checked, dogs do not distinguish between discrete pooping/peeing locations in the public, as opposed to cats that are far more concerned about hiding where they poop/pee.

I hope kids are not running around in the gardens before the cleaners get to the poop/pee. I'm sure anyone can google to turn up the number of diseases carried by dog poop. But most owners leave it to the grounds cleaning crew to do the cleaning up. After all, they paid for the service right?

And we have notices about both indoor and stray cats threatening the estate. I think a little bit of balance is in order here. The fact is that the number of potential disease that can be spread from cats to humans are about the same as those from dogs to humans, especially through fecal matter.

So stop with the cat bashing.

Here's a picture of a cat that is not likely to be causing any illnesses aside from panic attacks from his/her owner(s) whenever he/she does this:


Now BIRDS, particularly mynah birds that love to fly into our homes and do a liquid bombing run around the flat... they deserve to be ***CENSORED***!

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High Rise Annoyances

I think people living in condos are sometimes not aware of the consequences of their actions when they don't know where the boundaries of their home end, and where another begins. Take for example, the 'innocent' action of hanging your clothes out to dry, or your mop. This isn't usually a problem if there's no 'property' underneath yours that risks being damaged.

But at Viz, there is someone (often a few someones) staying above you, and doing this with their clothes:



Or this with their mops or assorted cleaning stuff (pails, rags):



Can result in very bad stainings like this (on the ceiling):



Or more recently, this (on our front balcony ledge):



We don't know what these green stains are, only that they came from upstairs . You can see in the last picture how some people tend to leave things on the ledge, and given the strong winds we get at Viz, this will only result in high rise litter (intentional or otherwise).

Also spotted are people who like to enjoy the view from their front balcony, smoking a ciggie, and just flicking the ashes down the sides of the balcony.

Please please please be considerate to others!! Don't hang stuff over ANY ledge, especially if there's a chance any liquids might drip down to someone else's home. If you don't like that happening to you, do think of what you are doing to other residents.

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Can't People PARK PROPERLY? My Car Got DENTED!!

Over the past few months, I've seen cars that are improperly parked, occupying more than one parking lot, people opening their doors so hard dents were created, and now...







My < 1 mth old Honda Civic got scratched while in the Viz parking lot! This is it!! I got so damn upset... Grrrrr. From the look of it, the culprit car has either a white or light (eg silver) coloured bumper. The damage looks worst at the 56-68cm height range. From the direction of the scratches on my front right headlights/bumper (I was parked reversed in, and I was completely within my lot), it looks like the culprit was attempting to reverse into the lot right of me, moving from left turning in rightwards (If it was right turning in leftwards, the dent would be far deeper). I parked my car yesterday night, and only noticed it when I drove off and parked for lunch, so it had to have occurred within the Viz parking lot. Looks like it's likely to be a resident too, as there were no parties (at the bbq pits) yesterday. I'm installing security cameras in my car, as obviously the WIMP didn't even bother to own up to the accident caused....!! No note of apology, nothing!! GRRRR!!!

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Diarrhoeic Mynahs are back!!! Beware of their LETHAL POOP!

Damn mynahs are back. For those of you with open backyards, and don't have a maid, keep an eye out for the mynahs. They'll come into your kitchen if unattended, and fly into the house even. It happened to us last year, around this time... one flew into the house and when we tried to chase it out, proceeded to offer diarrhoeic poop EVERYWHERE in our living room and kitchen. It took us a whole day just to clorox the place (bird poop = bird flu). And it came back to our ledge again.

The birds nest at Holland Peak and eat the fruits off trees in between our two estates. Contacted NEA regarding this and they said they'd get Holland Peak to prune the trees. Of course that never happened.

So please beware of the mynahs. I spotted one at our condensors perched and pooping, daring me to do anything.

And yes, went to bird shops to see if they have traps to capture the mynahs, but they said the birds are very smart and hard to catch. The only solution - look up your place tight, or put up nettings to prevent them from coming in. Since the latter is illegal according to our condo rules, we're really stuck. Using reflective materials such as CDs, windmills, etc do not help :(

I complained about this to management but there's been no response whatsoever regarding this at all. Typical. I'm sure management thinks we're specifically targetted by the birds, and noone else has this problem. Can't be the case because I can see the amount of diarrhoeic stains on the white ledges of the backyards of Blk C (looking down).

If anyone else has this problem, please put a comment here.