Weekend Getaway

The evening after Shaffik and his family returned to Bintulu, Friday 28th. we decided to make a trip to Port Dickson. The PJ house had been too quiet with their departure. Furthermore we have not been to our PD condominium for quite a while, four months in fact. The last time we were there, the elevator was not functioning and we had to lug our stuff four floors up. I feel sorry for those on the higher floors as there are eight floors altogether in our block. The other blocks of condos surrounding ours are twenty floors high, and if their elevator fails ……… phew!!!

The Manager of the complex in PD is in receivership and a new management company had been appointed by the Liquidator to take over. They had called for a meeting of the owners, scheduled for Saturday 29th. to establish contacts and at the same time sort out the problems facing the complex. Basically, its money, collection of various arrears from owners. The failure of the elevator in the last few months is thus explained!!

We half-expected high tea to be served and thus skipped lunch and true enough there was high tea. Meeting initially went cordially until the agenda on collection of money came up when there was no more cordiality but arguments and more arguments, pandemonium even!! Finally it was agreed that since this is a meeting of Owners’, Liquidator and Complex Manager, the first being a large group of individuals and the other two are individual entities, the owners form a committee of representatives and take up the various issues with Liquidator and Manager. A committee was immediately formed and the outspoken ones, yours sincerely included, are in the committee. The Committee will meet up soon to discuss the issues accordingly. It was everyone’s hope that this arrangement will work.

Spent the rest of the day reading, watching TV and movies. After breakfast on Sunday we took a drive around PD town and stopped for lunch at a sea side food-court “Coconut Grove” near a Serviced Apartment complex in Tanjung Tuan. It was a breezy afternoon and coupled with the good service and good food served, we really had a relaxing lunch. We originally planned to return to PJ after lunch, but changed our minds after the lovely lunch and decided to take a nap, which turned out to be an extended snooze till later in the afternoon!! Finally returned to PJ in the late evening

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