Quickie - 3/6/2009

Another RM few million in the dust, literally. The news that the still new-ish (1 year old if i'm not mistaked) sports complex (the main stadium) at Terengganu losing it's roof is rather embarassing. And a bit of a shocker. You see, last week we were shocked with the news of a building soon to be demolished crashing down and killing 7 in the process. Before, we heard of newly completed buildings cracking here and there, bursting it's water supply pipes, yada yada yada... the list goes on.

What bothers me is the fact that these buildings are made under the government with people's money (bar the one last week. Dunno why the don't do the controlled demolishing via explosives though, seemed like a better choice). And it doesn't come cheap. So if the buildings made are as strudy as cornflakes, where does the money spend on making them go? For heavens sake guys, if anyone out there reading this is involved in another project of making a public/government building and is currently choosing a contractor for it, please please please avoid the cheapest one AT ALL COST. We know it's good to save, but sometimes by spending more you get a whole whole lot more. And if by spending the extra money makes the buildings not detonate itself, leak or have any other embarrasing faults, then the people's money is better and well spent.