KL – SK – KL – SK – KL
That is where I drive to and from just now, to meet up with my groupmates in starting the assignment on case studies based on Uniform Building By Law (UBBL), separated into good and bad categories. It’s the day before Hari Raya, and many would be already taking the leave today, or even already granted holiday…so I start from my destination in KL a bit late compared to usual timing which requires over 40 minutes to reach SK (Seri Kembangan).
There are surprisingly still quite a lot of cars on roads and highways at this time, despite many should have already went back to their hometown. I guess many people nowadays just preferred to stay to celebrate Hari Raya. At SK, we had a short discussion on the assignment before having our early lunch in a food court nearby, most famous in Equine Park. After that, I’m driving back to KL, together with my groupmates, to observe around low-cost housing available in the city, taking pictures and analyzing for the assignment.
There are a huge number of low-cost flats, double-storey, single-storey, and upper-linked housing (which previously shown before in slides by a professor lecturing on housing in Malaysia), which formed a perfect place for our case studies, either in bad or good categories. The area is at Taman Ikan Emas there in Cheras. Then, we went to another place in Cheras, at Taman Connaught to look at two flats that appeared to be very dilapidated and very low-cost. However, we are surprised by the better design, facilities and appearance inside these flats.
That’s it. There are actually many other available low-cost housing in KL, particularly in Cheras for us to complete our assignment, but let’s just end the so-called site visit of our own. Cheras is a very good place for that as it is a booming town near the capital where many low-cost housing are built back in around two to four decades ago. Then, I have to bring back my groupmates to SK, and then going back home, back in KL. So, that’s how my trip ended such way, from KL to SK, then to KL, then back to SK (where I experienced serious traffic congestion along the way at KL, probably the time for early leaving after work today), and finally back to KL, in a duration of over 6 hours (with approximately 2 hours 30 minutes spent on the driving alone). A bit tired after that, which is also due to the reason that I had a insomnia yesterday’s night.
