Do you want your door and gate painted?

Hello... another neighbourhood service announcement -

if you own a flat in blocks 55- 82, you should have received the following notice - asking if you want your original door/gate to be repainted as part of the current redecoration exercise.

See picture here.



Do remember to respond by 18 August 09.

Cheers!

And now, a view of something old and new...

Walking out to Tiong Bahru Road a couple of days ago, it was really nice to see the effect of the new paint, the old green windows, and the profile and shadow of the old old Sea Almond Tree cast on the facades of the repainted buildings.



Hope that more owners will keep their old windows - the colours really work with each other. And it's charming too.

Also hope that the trees don't get chopped down and upgraded to new ones - the ones we have here have really seen the passage of time in this neighbourhood!

Bins Bins Bins - Part 2

And we have here, feedback from a concerned resident for all to consider - who wants better recycling facilities? Thanks to Jason, for taking time to share!



Dear Fellow Residents & Town Council,

With the recent repainting & sprucing of our neighbourhood Tiong Bahru is taking Shape as an interesting Conservation Town. To those who has contributed in this effort, I Thank You personally for organising the rubbish for a start!!. But I have noticed the bins available are really too small & insufficient to cater to the mass amount of rubbish thrown out by the TB residents. Take Block 55 & 56 Eng Hoon St as an example , I have just thrown my daily bag of rubbish this morning at the back alley of 55 & 56 but have also seen piles of gypsum ceiling boards lying around but the 2 rubbish cart was no where to be seen.(assume to be towed to the dump sites for dumping)

We will first have to tackle contractors rubbish which should not be dump at these sites as they will easily fill up the rubbish carts. The problem is also the carts are located at a public areas which makes monitoring undue rubbish dumping difficult. There must be assigned locations with strategic public view to prevent illegal dumping for such purpose and signs that warn about illegal dumping to prevent illegal dumping like those in HDBs areas.

The mere “insufficient and undersize bins” will already contribute to reasons residents rubbish get left behind on convenient locations not meant for rubbish dumping .I am for the idea of recycling and the 3 tiny bins located at the hawkers centre ground floor entrance certainly is not a reflection of the town council strong support in this area. I have made several attempts to deposit plastic bottles and found the bins full or too small to put in Detergent bottles.They ended up on the floor nearby or crowding the bins areas.

We should make conscious effort in making recycling an easy task for resident wanting to participate to this worthy cause by incorporating such bins at convenient Public locations with Large bins and equally large depositing holes to cater to this effort with convenience.

Lets work together to make Tiong Bahru a better place to call “HOME”

Thank You & Regards,

Jason Choo

Blk 56 #02-58

Paint and bricks and Paint

Hola Amigos!

Back from my hols and came away with lots and lots of ideas for how the physical environment can be improved in our hood.... but FIRST - the update on the news on how will the painting be done for the 'brick' at Chay Yan Street blocks....

TC has informed me that the reason they cannot recover the brick surface now is that the bricks, have not just been painted over years ago, but that there is actually a layer of thin plaster that was applied over them years ago too... so, there is no way of restoring them for now...

And taking on board feedback from residents who have voiced it, that the available paints make the painting to simulate 'brick' look FAKE, they will take the option of painting everything white.

So, that is that for now....

Let me sort out the images and post them up for your comments....