Hi all! Welcome to “What A Waste!” series. In this series, I shall show you the ugliest thing that others build using from taxpayers money. See how buildings get abandoned and construction projects being halted. A blatant and cruel way to drain the national fund. No thanks to those irresponsible people out there.
The first series - an abandoned hawker centre near my home, a waste of we taxpayers’ money! You will see how vandalised the building is now - and now you wonder, where did your taxes go.
Completed in mid-2000, this hawker centre is never well-received in my neighbourhood. Out of more than 10 stalls, only 3 were rented out to 2 hawkers who sold nasi lemak (coconut rice) and other food stuff and a shopowner who opened a convenience shop. After 3 months or so, they all moved out due to poor business. It was left vacant since then.
And now is 2006. After years of being abandoned by the neighbourhood, it is still being abandoned. The residents of the neighbourhood never even thought it ever existed. Wasted. I bet at least 1 million is wasted, and all from our money! And worse still, drug addicts that are eager to get their hands on another dose of carcinogenic heroine stripped the building from wires and small metal compartments. The reason? To sell them to some metal scrapping site and get some money so that they can buy drugs.
Today evening I grabbed the chance to enter the building and take some photos. Everytime there is this gang of people who gather near it, and I do not even think of getting near them because of the poor security of my area. Ahem.
Let’s start from the ground floor. Anyway, the building has 2 floors.
Now let’s move upstairs. The stairs ain’t in good condition. The creaking sound make me feel that it will give way sooner or later. Since my birth country is a Muslim nation, there have to be a Bilik Sembahyang (Praying Room) for the Malays.
And now the function hall.
As I move closer, I discovered something very shocking and ridiculous! The drug addicts even removed all the windows from the function hall! Gosh! And they also removed the door and sold it!
What a waste of taxpayers’ money! Hope this doesn’t happen again…
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June 11th, 2006 at 4:42 am
What a waste indeed! Abandonded buildings lead to urban blight which in turn increases the crime rate and decreases the value of the property surrounding the blighted area. Good for you for noticing and trying to do something about it! You need to get the adults in your community involved. Let them know that these abandoned, poorly executed buildings hurt their homes’ value and their businesses for a very long time! They should try to get their local council that no new structures are to be built until these abandonded ones are cleared away or mended and occupied!
Very nice blog you have, by the way. Greetings from New Jersey, in the US!
June 11th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Sigh. Now the problem is the entire city council is near useless. They have problem with all the lousy road maintainene and with the big big million doller structure some few miles away from my home. Argh~
I do hope that adults can help. But they seemed to be unaware of the building. They’ve never thought it’ve existed.
If the government would want to somehwat revive the building, they’ll have to pump in extra money, which they do not want since they want to keep their wallet FAT. That’s the FACT. Sigh~
June 12th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
yeah wat a waste okay, there’s this highway that their building right in front oh my house area!! only 3 metres away from the houses. Wall cracking and stuffs, giving the residents a headache as it is very very dangerous!! Especially when there are kids in the house, who knows whether the building might collapse or not! But then again, although we did some stuffs and discussion to stop the construction thingy, the government still insist that it is a project bla bla years ago, so they still continue with it. N btw that highway is a useless thing