What next?

Leaking pipe brings Immigration HQ to a halt

First a hospital, now the Immigration HQ, so who's next? And these are the ones that attract media attention...what about those that were quitely hushed?

You can blame shoddy workmanship, poor maintenance, so on and so forth, but the telling question is that these are happening to buildings barely three years old!! What is happening here? Are our so-called local main contractors so pathetic that they couldn't do a good job, or are the sub-contractors to blame? If this is happening locally what would happen to the multitude of buildings oversease where our construction companies are plying their trade nowadays?


Easy answer: we Malaysians are being treated like second-rate citizens in our country! First it was the Proton cars - an open secret that export-model Protons are first-rate while the local ones are no more than tin-cans. So now it's government buildings...I suppose 'government' because there is always other parties to blame. But I'm sure nothing like this will happen overseas because the main contractors' reputation is at stake - so they use the best of everything: companies, workforce, materials etc....

And where is the PWD in all this? I'm sure their so-called preventive maintenance is nothing to shout about - it's all about repairs now, because that's where all the money is...

So I ask what's next? Let's just wait for the next juicy story...