Monday, 25 June 2007

Welcome to new "settlers" to Janda Baik

Last Saturday we were pleasently surprised to receive a few visitors at our retreat in Janda Baik. A couple was in fact our neighbour who had bought over a beautiful chengal house from their friend.Like us, they fell in love with the charm of Janda Baik's cool all year round weather and fresh air. The other lady with them whose husband is a professor currently on assignment overseas, is building a holiday home on a nearbye piece of property to the chengal house. She has engaged a Cambridge trained young architect to design her dream home. I am sure this will add another fine structure to the many beautifully designed and landscaped villas of Janda Baik. However they are mostly hidden away behind wooded compounds.

Soon to be completed is also a multimillion dollar training centre for UMNO located close to confluence of the river Luro and Benus. It is also understood that the International Islamic University [UIA] has also started work on a MR400 million Pre-University campus at Sum Sum. However what the State and Federal Planners appear to forget is the roads leading to all these are still very much the same except for some minor attempts to improve the roadside drainage and replacements of badly worn out wooden bridges with equally narrow concrete bridges.

MSAbdullah.

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