Putra Jaya – Park and Ride…
Are you going to Putra Jaya, especially visiting the government head quarters? Do you know that if you were to drive into the area where most of the ministry head quarters located, for example Parcel E, you might not be able to find a place to park? Look at this:
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This is how the traffic on the main road (Precint 1) looks like in the Friday afternoon.
The cars parked almost every single corner of the surrounding area within Parcel E Government Complex.
An alternative way to access to the government offices, that exist but not that much people aware of, is called “PARK AND RIDE”. It simply means, you just drive down and park your car in the park and ride terminal, there are buses that could bring you to where you want to go. There are a few park and ride terminals for people traveling to Putra Jaya and Cyberjaya. The problem is there is not a lot of awareness campaign for the public on the facilities.
The website information that I could find about it:
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And, according to this news clip, the initiative of building monorail facility to link the Putrajaya township has been halted for 4 years. The relationship here is, the monorail was meant to facilitate patron that drive and park their cars in the terminal, then could take the monorail to visit places in Putrajaya. Click here for the original report.
So, just to share some of my personal experience when I tried to go Alamanda with Nadi Putra (suttle bus service that surrounds Putrajaya). I drove from Cyberjaya to Putrajaya Central, which you could easily find it by just follow “PARK AND RIDE” signage on the highway. I went into the terminal, and easily find a place to park, since not much public that knows and willing to use this facility.
Sign board that is easy for you to identify the right bus to ride.
The problem is, even there are many routes that could bring me to Alamanda, there weren’t any buses there. Then I start to wait. The bus only came after almost half an hour of waiting.
From the same terminal, we can access to ERL, Putrajaya station (if we take ERL from here then can actually end up in KL Central or KLIA) as well as some other buses to Cyberjaya and other towns around Klang Valley. I saw one that go to One Utama.
Alright, the bus finally came. We can not just pay with TouchnGo. It have to be coins of RM 0.50 or their special card which I don’t have. If you don’t have the change, you just end up paying extra. Or you may want to partner with another person that have small change and pay RM 1.00 for 2 person.
Going travelling into Putrajaya township was a great experience. You have the feel as you are in another country. No doubt, it is very highly organized and managed. It is really a huge investment that has been put in to build this township. However, due to aging and bad user attitude (standard la for Malaysian), some of the facilities is having visible damage and flaw.
The bus trip took me half an hour to reach Alamanda because it need to go through the housing area and round the government quarters. I am not sure whether I took the correct route, maybe it is other route that may take shorter time to reach Alamanda.
So instead of driving straight to where you want to go, end up facing difficulties to find a place to park, do consider park and ride. The caveat is you are not in damn rushing mode. Waiting for the bus and “eat wind” in the bus could just take you more than 1 hour from the terminal to where you want to be.
H1N1 – Fortune for Certain People
It was a sad news yesterday which 8 person died due to H1N1 outbreak, and today, 7 more. It does indicate that most likely the influenza had start to spread fast. However, this could be good news for certain people running certain business. This is about economy, please bear with it. It is real that the no matter what situation it is, there are people who is at the winning edge.
Do not believe? Look at this news:
From corridor chat, we also know that there are people who making a good fortune selling surgical masks. A colleague of mine who have children in one of the school having suspected H1N1 case and therefore the school administration encourage the kids to wear mask in the school. He told us that he bought the mask for RM 7.50 per piece, which normal price is only 1 – 2 Ringgits. What a good profit.
Jokingly, or some what seriously if we have a good supply of mask, we could just get a wind fall during this very period. May I know who can supply to me? (Haha…)
In a nutshell, we do not have to always look things from the negative side. No matter how bad the situation is, there is a way out of it. Wish that everybody is in good health and we see the future with a better view.
Posted by Er Chong Yee Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Categories: Diary, Life, Money
Tags: economy, H1N1, positive thinking
Missing Wiper??
The day just past and now is about to switch for the day. Just have one funny thing to record which is about the poor wiper of my car. It had just missing like that with knowing when and where. If not because of the rain I might not even know it is no more there.
Just wish the poor guy who had broken it all the best. If you ever seen this post maybe we could just be friend. Please don’t doubt my sincerity.
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I have not yet go and replace it. Therefore wish don’t rain tomorrow, because the broken one is on the driver seat side.
Web Server Slow
By when this post is online the problem should already been solve. It is now difficult to logon to my website because the web server do respond slowly. I am not sure what is the problem yet. Could be some problem with the internet connection or maybe the web hosting services is having disruption. Wish that the web service is come back to normal as soon as possible.
A few ideas today. Will work on it at later stage.
1. Create a discussion forum “by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs”. Mainly focus on discussing what can an entrepreneurs work on, how to build real entrepreneurship and how to be successful in the businesses.
2. Ideal data center concepts, research and discussion. Build a group of passionate people on contributing ideas and effort to develop so called ideal data center for the globe.
3. Build site for financial planning/consulting business so that can provide more professional articles related to investment, financing and risk management. Mainly to focus on personal and business advisory and planning.
4. Improve English mastering skills. Learn and share at least 5 vocabulary a day on this blog site. Shall see, I can definitely write better English soon after this.
