Gombak Post Office at Fifth Mile

Where do you go if you need to do postal transactions after office hours?

Try the Gombak Post Office. It opens from 8am to 10pm daily and serves a variety of services - from stamps to road tax payments, as well as parcel collection and sending Poslaju parcels.



Located right opposite Kg Lee Kong Chian, this post office came into being some time in the 90s. The counters have been increased and today the queue system is pretty good.

Over the last two months, I have been observing how the staff work and to my surprise, they are quite efficient in clearing the queue.

In fact after the last Ramadan puasa period, the counter girls have been extremely efficient.

Setapak Town Gets A Better Bridge

Thanks to the Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (hence the acronym DUKE), Setapak town will now get a better and stronger bridge. This one's studier than the rickety steel bridge that looked like an eyesore stretching from one side of the road to the other at the Setapak Mosque. This one runs parallel to the DUKE section which runs across Setapak town. I hope the bridge will be properly maintained and well-lit and that pedestrians will be visible when they are on the bridge. One cannot be too careful here since a closed bridge is a potential hideout for robbers or worse.

Merry Christmas To Readers Of Wangsa Maju

Here's to wishing everyone who reads this post a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!

Do You Know This Soya Bean Milk Man

This soya bean milk seller used to ply his trade at the gates of the Setapak High School in the yesteryears. At that time, he was much younger. He used to have a partner who sells sour plum drink (air asamboi).

Within the blink of an eye, the years have come and gone. Does anyone know his name? He now sells his drink at the gates of the Air Panas market in the afternoons. It is rare to find someone dedicate himself to the same profession for decades. If you are in Wangsa Maju, especially in the Setapak or Air Panas area (including Genting Kelang), I am sure you can see many familiar faces who plied their trades since you were a teen or younger.

Former Nursing Home Building For Sale

If you know the Taman Titiwangsa area well, you would have remembered this building for in the 90s, it was used as the Seavoy Nursing Home, housing the aged parents from well-to-do families.

This is qwhere the able spend their twillight years under the care of professional nurses. I guess if you are wealthy, you get sent to nursing homes. If you are not so wealthy, or have unfilial children who have an axe to grind with you, you get sent to old folk's home. Either way it is not a good way to spend the dusk of one's years.

This building is now up for sale. How much I dont know. But many who have sent their parents there, and are reading this post right now, must have had some memories of the place I am sure.

Metered Parking Introduced But Where Is The Enforcement?

THIS is Taman Seri Rampai and what you are looking at is a motorist obediently using the parking coupon dispenser to purchase parking coupons to be placed on the dashboard of his car.

Yes, ticketed parking system has been introduced in Taman Seri Rampai and the entire Wangsa Maju constituency. It will not be long when the same is introduced in Gombak and further down to Setapak.

Why these parking meters were not yet installed in Gombak - which is also partly under the Wangsa Maju constituency - is left best answered by Mayor Fuad Ismail who has assumed office recently.

However, why some shops in Wangsa Maju still act as though they own the parking lots is best answered here. You and me. And I think it is the lack of enforcement by officers of City Hall is a contributory factor.

Perhaps the MP or even the good Mayor can look into this for good measure?

Look at the blatant 'booking' of this parking lot as shown below. Who put the plastic cannister there is as good a guess from you as it is from me.

Hallo friend, your farder own the parking lot ah?

Why put up metered parking systems when you don't want to enforce its use? Why allow some people to deprive others from parking and City Hall from collecting parking revenue? Can someone please answer this?

Seri Titiwangsa Posh Condo

This is Seri Titiwangsa, a low-density multi-storey condo you see in the bend in Jalan Pahang opposite the Chong Hwa primary school. This high-priced high-rise comes equipped with the full fledged security and facilities.

The building was built some time in the 90s and left abandoned for years until work resumed again. Today it stands tall overlooking the city and some parts of the Wangsa Maju consituency. The condo is within walking distance to Lake Titiwangsa and enjoys the quietitude of the post Titiwangsa neighbourhood. Next door too is the BHP petrol station. How convenient!



Petrol station at your doorsteps. How convenient!