Rain is all good but check your windows!

So the rain FINALLY arrived yday after a 2 week dry spell which turned nearly everything brown.

And boy, did it rain! In fact it rained all day, stopped in the evening and restarted somewhere in the middle of the night. There was ALOT of water!

Anyway, I realized yesterday that my windows/walls were leaking! I found wet patches on the wall that continued on as damp spots on the floor. 😦

Figure the sealant or whatever water proof thing they use at the window joints must have contracted during the hot and dry season and cannot hold up during a torrential thunder storm.

This happened previously as well but the guys from HH management fixed it for me. Or should I say, temporarily fixed it for me. My house is currently still under the warranty period so I can still get the management to do something about it but I have this sneaky feeling that this is going to be a recurring problem. And my warranty period is ending in a couple of months! 😦 Any one with any ideas on how I can resolve this issue once and for all? I don’t see my mom’s 30+ year old hdb flat leaking after a rain so im sure there must be a better solution than just using sealant at the window joints! 😦

So anyway, you guys might want to go check on your windows and walls soon. I find that the best time to inspect the finishing of a house is after a big rain! Don’t delay because once the wet patches dry, the faulty areas will be harder to spot!

It’s garbage!

Even though I have lived in Malaysia for 1 year, some things still never cease to amaze me. Perhaps I am just too used to the efficiency in Singapore where everything is fast, clean and done correctly.

The garbage collectors came by today. And they did the most AMAZING thing. They drove by my house in their truck with 3 or 4 people, pull the rubbish bins onto the road (why they do that instead of just leaving the bins where they are, I can’t understand), take out some of the trash, put the trash on the floor and then…………..FREAKING DRIVE OFF!!!

Like, seriously. They just left the rubbish half done and left it there.  And the best part is…they took my neighbours trash. WHY?????!!!??!?!?!?!!

So I ended up calling the waste company, which is outsourced, btw.

Sigh. Malaysia really boleh!

Annual pond cleaning

Today, we got our pond clean. Finally, after living here for slightly over a year.

It was very dirty. Actually, that’s an understatement. It was EXTREMELY dirty, with algae everywhere and worms (?!) buried in the algae.

Don’t understand where the worms came from though..maybe the filters were so choked that it was impossible for dirt to drain out and the pile up eventually created a nesting ground for worms!!! Yeech.

But I guess for a once a year clean, it’s cool. They didn’t even have to take out the fish or turtle while they worked on the pond. 🙂

For RM200, i’m not sure if it’s considered cheap or expensive..but I personally find it quite worth it to have have to muck around with worms and other gross, stinky stuff in the cleaning tank. :p