GREEN THROUGH NATURAL BEAUTY

Behold, our Creator is a great artist! Beautiful indeed! The nature is full of His glory.

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Nature has its own way of expression beyond imagination. Amazing!

GREEN SCHOOL IN BALI, INDONESIA

Welcome to the green school in Bali, Indonesia. It provides its students with an education about the amazing environment that we live in. It is a holistic and relevant education. During the construction, only bamboo, elephant grass and clay were used. Cement was used just in some places in the foundation. The central and the most important building is the "heart of the school." It is perhaps the largest building in the world built entirely from bamboo. Its dimensions are 18 meters high and 64 meters long. General area of the school includes a variety of structures: apartment buildings, classrooms, office building, and cafes. The school gets electricity from environmentally friendly sources of energy: hydraulic turbine generators and installed solar panels. It seems that considering the way we are polluting the earth, everyone should attend.

TOP 10 GREEN CITIES IN ASIA PACIFIC

TOP 10 GREEN CITIES IN ASIA PACIFIC

A very great day to everyone,

In today's article I write to bring you good news on Green Issues, which are the most important discussed issues amongst the world leaders. We can't afford to ignore it as the world's disasters happen not only more frequently but also become more damaging in term of its magnitude.

Here, I have a good news to share with you on the recent green city survey. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, has been named the greenest city in the Asia-Pacific region by the specialist consulting firm, Solidiance. Followed by the remaining top 10 cities in this region as follows:-

2) Seoul, South Korea

3) Melbourne, Australia

4) Singapore

5) Osaka, Japan

6) Sydey, Australia

7) Auckland, Australia

8) Busan, South Korea

9) Taipei, Taiwan

10) Hongkong, China

The evaluation criteria used are based on their CO2 emissions, energy usage, transportation facilities, air quality, water, waste treatment, "green space" and "environment government".  

Big congratulation to all the above countries. Their actions have really shown that they truly care and love this planet. Another worthy point to note is that making a country progress and at the same time maintaining a green country is possible and never discount on this. 

Here, they have set a good model for the rest to follow. Let us ask ourselves a simple question - If we don't care, who else on the earth will care? How could the thousand years of civilization that human beings are proud of, does not reflect these fundamental values?

Hope more of such assessment be done frequently so as to bring awareness and reminders to everyone of this significant issue. At the same time, this exercise will also bring good reputation to those countries that earned high rankings. 

In February, Vietnam became the latest country to develop greener urban areas, announcing the construction of a green-tech corridor outside the city of Hanoi and this worthy of praise.

  
This noble project is expected to be completed over the next 10-15 years, will include renewable energy-powered heating and cooling systems and rainwater collection points. Wish you success, Vietnam.

As shown above, this planet has a great hope as more countries are joining in to participate in these green initiatives. In this connection, it is always good to begin with one individual, no matter how small or big each the contribution. Surely this planet can be saved. 

Appreciate if you could do us a favour by reverting us your valuable feedback after you have read it. Thanks and seeing you again.




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Working to create GREEN environment to show our care and love,

Your chief servant

James Oh

Skype me at james.oh18

To read green at Bandar Utama, please click at the title of the post.

AUCTION PROPERTIES AND ITS TRAPS PART 2

AUCTIONS PROPERTIES AND ITS TRAPS 2

In conjunction with my previous article on Auction Property and its traps, I must say that the article below is also relevant to substantiate my advice not to touch those properties that are tenanted and the people living there are not willing to move out – no matter how cheap the property is. Choosing another property seems to be a better choice.

To refresh your memory, you may click at the title of this article to access to its previous article.

I say so because the tenants may use similar plot to trap its new owner. As such, I advise you to read the article below. For your easy reference, I also append the article for your easy reading.  

Beware the property trap, Chong tells owners

By HIU CHII FEN in the Star Newspapers dated April 16, 2010

newsdesk@thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: Do not break into your own property even if your tenant fails to pay the rent. It could be a trap.

This was the warning given by MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong to landlords who were thinking of doing this to reclaim their property.

Chong said any move by a landlord to break into the property, even when the tenant failed to pay the rent, was against the law.

He said many landlords had been brought to court by tenants for breaking into their properties and were sued for the loss of their tenants’ assets including cash.

“This could be a trap laid by tenants who are looking for easy cash. They could be conmen,” Chong told a press conference at his office in Wisma MCA here yesterday.

In the past three months, three such claims were made by tenants – all of them Malaysians – against their landlords.

Their claims amounted to a total of RM117,000 in cash and assets.

During the same period, he said he received 12 complaints of tenants who failed to pay a total of RM57,000 in rent.

Lawyer Leong Pak Yiew, who is a member of the department, advised landlords facing this problem to file for a distress order at a court.

“Under this order, landlords will be able to legally seize the premises and the tenant’s rent will be recovered through auctioning all assets found within it,” he said.

However, this process could take up to two months and might be costly in terms of legal and court fees.

Hope you find it relevant and helpful. Thanks and look forward to hearing from you,

James Oh

ROAD BUMP 2

Dear Residents and Visitors,

Further to our recent article on the road bump at Bandar Utama, I received feedback that  a serious accident had occurred after the speed bump was built. To view the previous article, please click at the title of the post. If you look carefully at the photo above, you will notice that the "speed bump" sign is almost being covered by the tree in front of it. This seems like we never learnt and lots of signboards are covered by overgrown trees around them. Here, we would like to remind readers that diligent and detailed  planning is required for any successful endeavour. This signboard is not very visible at night and it is too close  to the bump. We hope the authority can prove us wrong. We are certain that there must be certain guidelines as to the distance of its sign board and the bump. Otherwise it would impose danger to motorists especially when they applied their brake at the last minute after they had seen the sign board. As our precious article we also highlighted that the height of the bump is rather high. Most of the feedback obtained stated that this bump appeared to have made this road unsafe to road users especially at night. We sincerely hope the relevant authority will take appropriate action to address this issue before another accident happened.

Bear in mind that 3 vehicles were involved in the previous accident at night time and this may be avoided if the above issues were addressed much earlier. 

The feedback we received well illustrates that the residents here are caring and concern about the safety of the people. Thank you very much for the support shown and we urge the appropriate authority to rectify the issue without any delay.

No doubts that the bump is to slow down vehicles, but at the same time it must also address in an appropriate manner so as not to impose any harm to any road users especially those who are not familiar with this area. And last but not least, we can sense that this good neighbourly spirit is widespread in this prominent area and it really makes this area well known for its good neighbourhood.

We went to investigate further after receiving the above feedback, we found that the tree had been removed, now the signboard especially on the pedestrain lane is clearly visible from a distance. ( See the photo below, which will be loaded at later stage) . Thanks for the swift action taken by all parties, a well deserve praise for maintaining its good neighbourly spirit.

Thanks for your time to read this article and hope it does lift you up, in your daily life, as its name suggested. 

Your Chief Servant,

James Oh

Founder and Group CEO

Skype me at james.oh18

ROAD BUMP

Dear Residents,

We are pleased to inform you that  a road bump had been constructed along the BU main Jalan, before the entrance in BU7 and the Puay Chai (II) Primary School. This really surprised me as I was made to understand that this was something that wouldn't be possible in the past.

This is something we should give the credit to the association for being able to convince the new city council members to approve such a noble and wise plan, after a long and painful struggle. However, I find the bump is too high and wonder whether is there any standard to this type of bump along the main public road?

This serves its intended purpose well by slowing down vehicles from both directions, i.e the main road and the other junction road at a short distance from the traffic light. By having such a bump, the vehicle from the junction road will not be having difficulty to turn into the access road to BU 7 residential area. We also note that a few accidents happened before and we are uncertain of the real causes of these accidents.

Further down the road towards the KBU college, there is another turning point to BU 10/1. There were several severe accidents that happened in the past, but till date nothing have been done. Here, the traffic is even worse as most vehicles have not slowed down when approaching this access road. Instead, the vehicles  are speeding especially from those flowing along the main road, immediately after the college toward this turning point. This cause some dangers to vehicles that come into this residential area as well as those vehicles going out from this small access road.

Worst still, vehicles coming from the other access road between Centrepoint and the school of BU 2, have difficulties turning into this access road as the distance from the junction to that access road is rather short. Numerous accidents had happened in the past, and these have been forgotten as people here seems to have a short memory. Alternatively, it may be due to our attitude of waiting until a serious accident happen that involves life before action is taken. This norm seems to be very hard to be broken.

One thing we noticed is that the corner just outside the kindergarden has also been curved in so as to make the access road wider to cater for the outflow of traffic from this access road. This is a very wise move done by the people here.

However, we also noticed that vehicles heading towards Centrepoint are not keeping to the right so as to give way to the vehicle heading toward the left. This defeats the purpose of widening this access road. This could be due to the ignorance of the drivers. Secondly, it could also be caused by the big drum placed at the middle of the access road. Hence making drivers avoid keeping their vehicles to the right. As a result, it caused a long queue of traffic, at times, along this access road. Hence, vehicles flowing from BU 10/10 are having difficulties in moving into this access road as this access road does not have any yellow box at the T junction there.

Append below please find the sketch drawing for better understanding. ( TO BE APPEND AT LATER STAGE}

We, at the Lift You Up, hope that the above article will receive the attention of the committee members of BU 7 and 10 so as to improve this areas further. We strongly believe that by doing such activities, more residents will come forward to participate in this Security and Safety Scheme.

Your Chief Servant,

James Oh

Founder and Group CEO

Skype me at james.oh18

http://liftyouup.blogspot.com