Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts

March 14, 2012

Terrible low cost flat life in SS13 Subang Jaya

 Shady silhouettes against a vanilla sky, swaying gently in the cool evening breeze.
What's not to love?

MAYBE THE SIGHT AT THE FOOT OF THESE TREES 
i.e. THE SIGHT BELOW
IS WHAT YOU WOULD NOT LOVE:

 
Piles upon piles of trash, compressed over time, a habitat for rats as big as kittens — animals who do not fear the lazy cats of SS13, and who feed on toxic waste, including the rubber/plastic tubing in cars. Yuck...

  The stench of SS13 pasar malam leftovers (fishy smells, decaying fruits, etc). Plus rubbish flung randomly by the residents of the flats (many of whom are immigrants, their post-factory lives condensed into a 500 sq ft unit with about five others).

 Up close, the presence of loan sharks still very much intact. 


UGLY MALAYSIANA is disgusted that there are people in Subang Jaya (including UGLY MALAYSIANA'S VERY OWN PARENTS) and many other LOW COST FLATS living with such poor conditions. Poor hygiene, poor fumes, poor sight for our already sore eyes. Poor poor people! 

U.M. urges the city councils to do something about this mess. Tar up the horrible dirt roads that trap water and form toxic murky puddles that breed bacteria and flies. Even stray cats deserve cleaner water to drink from. Have a better trash-collecting system. Things can be low cost but decently done, not in this state of disregard.

Just because the SS13 flats are unoccupied by datins and important people who have power to raise issues does not mean that the current population of SS13 (and other low cost flat areas) have to suffer such appalling states of being. It is 2012 and it still looks like a war zone, tainted by neglect. 1Malaysia, where r u? This looks like the side of Malaysia that is tucked away because it is too ugly. It's hidden and rotting away, rotting the spirits of those who live there.

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, you spend RM80 million on a birthday bash. What about spending just a fraction of that to improve the daily sights (and therefore lives) of the tens of thousands of poor Malaysians affected by this malaise?


January 03, 2012

Guest Post: "New ticket system; same shite."

"Best part is, you can't top up touch n gone at the new machines, you have to que with the rakyat to get it topped up since the dedicated touch n gone top up machines don't usually work."


IN COMPARISON IS AN IMAGE TAKEN
IN THE BRAS BASAH MRT STATION IN SINGAPORE, MAY 2011:

 
SPECIAL GUEST POST by Azrul Kevin Abdullah, photographer.

September 11, 2011

GUEST POST by the pretty Ms Lar Kee Lim



"a prime piece of real estate in bangsar, with someone's fantasy castle. it's near bsc and it's very very tasteful! complete with spires, turrets and mostly in mud brown. um umh!"







August 02, 2011

Never give up: drive-through museum

 Seen during a traffic jam in Subang Jaya (next to SJMC). Highway flyover columns that have been severely vandalised, painted over with a grey 'cement tone' cover-up one shade too dark, and revandalised again. 

Some people may find the persistence very inspiring. Others will be persistently frustrated at the unstoppable amount of aesthetic damage. And Cy Twombly fans will rejoice at the uncanny similarities...

At least ada konon-kononnya 'seni moden' pabila lalu trafik jam kan? ;) Macam museum pandu-lalu... (Drive-through museum).

July 14, 2011

GUEST POST: Grace Chin




Seen at paramount garden. Awning without window is like baseball cap without the face.

June 10, 2011

TWO LESS-THAN-PERFECT BLOCKS


INDISTINGUISHABLE: 

Item 1: A block of shophouses in Subang Jaya with inconsistently sized, more-is-more rojak-style signages... stains and mold notwithstanding.

Item 2: A defaced parking ticket machine in Damansara Uptown that, 
in true Malaysiana form, did not work.

Not your average Monocle "Perfect City Block" lah...

(but at least we're not — Datin forbid — STERILE!!!?????)

(Illustrated by Gaku Nakagawa)

May 30, 2011

APARTMENT BLOCKS: A COMPARISON


An unfair comparison between two apartment blocks.
One in Bandar Kinrara, Puchong (taken by my crappy handphone camera)
and the other in Sweden somewhere lah. Snazzy photo.

Which would you prefer to live in?

Rustic chaos + character
VS
Clean modern lines + Sterile Singaporean look
(which can be a character in itself kan?)

November 22, 2010

Featuring Kenny G



I stumbled upon the above video while looking for home fixtures. The building materials from this company is not bad; I certainly am not dedicating them a post on this Journal because of their products (they supplied some ventilation blocks to the beautiful PJ Trade Centre [which to a lot of people is an Ugly Building]).

The essential discomfort lies within the pipey tune that automatically transports me to frizzy long hair (ala Mat Cintan), static government-propaganda graphics on RTM1, photoshop bevels and 'sexy' Chinese Ah Lian models advertising jacuzzis or home-based saunas!

October 26, 2010

Beck Hansen print on a tanktop

This is my neighbour's gate. Stainless steel (I think) – a popular termite-free option for house fixtures. What caught my eye is the familiar facial features of a Western singer I greatly enjoy in my SPM-days (ten years ago) — the face of Beck printed on the surface of a tanktop! Is my neighbour a fan!? Can we begin trading B-sides?!