Today is Saturday which is the day I am looking forward to every week. Everything moves slowly for me on Saturdays. There is no need for me to rush to anywhere. I just love to loiter around the house. Everyday, I discover something new through the internet. I can spend hours surfing the net. I am just an old man trying very hard to catch up with the youngs.

Forget the introduction and lets get down to some serious matters. By the way, I just put up a notice on the notice board telling the residents about my new discovery. I wonder how many residents would go to the notice board .

I promised to talk about the increase in the maintenance fees. The management people called me up and told me that the revenue ( amount of maintenance fees collected ) is not sufficient to finance their operating expenditure. They did not not mention anything about their intention to increase the maintenance fees but when I pressed further, they finally admitted. They wanted an increament of 3 sen per sq feet. I told them that it was ridiculous. I told them that any increament has to be justified by the audited account. I called for a committee meeting and we agreed that we would have to wait for the audited acc to be ready.

Finally, the audited account was given to us. The management acc indicated that there is a deficit of about RM 180,000. Their boss insisted on a 3 sen increament. I wrote a letter to them to appeal to them to reduce it to 2 sen which is a reasonable figure and it would not hurt the residents too much. We are really at their mercy although we are the owners of our own properties.

Well, I think have written a lot today. I shall continue later and explain why there was such a big deficit in the management account. Have an enjoyable weekend. Bye..............