I’ve just heard from a reliable source that a PR firm, Fox Communication, is going around meeting NGO representatives to find out their views on the Penang Global City Centre project. The project is located on that vast plot of prime land used by the Penang Turf Club, which will be relocated to the mainland. The PGCC is being developed by Equine Capital. Isn’t that a Patrick Lim company? I hate to think what the traffic will be like along Scotland Road, already congested during peak hours, if they go ahead with the PGCC and build, what, 40 tower blocks on the Turf Club land. This project will in all likelihood spell the deathknell for Komtar, that mega project of the 1970s. The 65-storey tower block is fast turning into a white elephant even before all the planned phases are completed. As one veteran activist said, the PGCC project “looks [Read more]
Sometimes its hard to understand the meaning of suffering and misfortune. I spent most of today running around taking the first step towards getting all my cards replaced. And discovered that it is an expensive affair to get burgled. The fee for replacing each card (whether bank ATM card, identity card, driver’s licence) ranges from RM12 to RM50. It’s back to my old desktop PC now after the laptop was stolen. My Samsung monitor, for some reason, looks blur. Maybe because it is past its prime. Yesterday, I discovered a book that I thought had gone missing. It was on wisdom spirituality based largely on material from the Old Testament. I found it lying strategically on the CPU of my desktop. I flipped the book open to where I had left a book-mark inside to indicate where I had last stopped. The next chapter was all about Job. How apt, [Read more]
Today was not a great day. I woke up this morning to find that my home had been broken into while I was asleep. Here’s what they took: A laptop (yes, they took the power adapter, the modem… and even the poor mouse, but no, they weren’t interested in my older desktop PC, which was next to it); Wallet with around RM600 in cash (of which RM500 was actually donations passed to me to hand over to Aliran for its 30th anniversary dinner), identity card, driving licence, bank cards (not just mine but family members’ as well); Computer case with thumbdrive and bank pass books inside; Handphone. Total loss: close to RM4,000. And, oh, what a hassle, all those cards gone. Whoever it was must have been pretty desperate to break into my home as there really wasn’t much else to take. It wasn’t a great feeling to be stripped [Read more]
