Hello, Residents Of Tiara Damansara

The Tiara Management Council (TMC) is trying to revive its newsletter, Tiara Times, for residents (owners and tenants) and make it more frequent – with bi-monthly or even monthly issues. But for this to happen, the Editorial Committee would need articles from you.

Tiara Times (TT) is all about us who live in Tiara Damansara. TT tries to update Tiarans (let's call ourselves us that) about the happenings in this condominium. The happenings can be on anything. We just would like to hear from you. Whatever input we get from you is fine, since our aim is to get Tiarans who live here to interact, to get to know one another, to do things together, to laugh together - in short, be one big happy family!

As such, we would like to hear anything – well almost – from you. Tell us about your wedding anniversary, the scholarship your child obtained, the gold medal your child won at a sporting event or an elocution contest, even your job promotion, a fantastic recipe you got from a great restaurant or a friend and wish to share with others, a holiday trip you went on and which you feel you would like others to enjoy as well, your big lottery or numbers strike (so that we can help celebrate with you at our Canteen, at your expense, of course!), a skill you have which others may need and call you for an appointment (like reflexology, catering a dish for a function), a club you may like to form and get Tiarans with similar interests to join in (like philately, rock climbing, trekking, cooking, playing Bridge, chess, etc), your nature outings (watching the stars, eclipses, the fireflies ....maybe even a Bigfoot sighting?), a joke to share - in short, almost any topic is fine.

If you have a comment about the general conditions of Tiara, the cleanliness, the facilities, security or vehicle access or parking, please also write in. However, if you have specific complaints about your unit or another unit, please direct those complaints to the Tiara Management Office.

TMC has noted that when socials are held for Hari Raya, Chinese New Year, the Mooncake/Lantern Festival, Deepavali or Christmas, the turnout of Tiarans is normally very small. Not more than 50 turn up for the festivities and sometimes, as few as 30.

Surprise us by turning out in force. Let us know your attendance so that there will be sufficient food for all. Let's all eat, drink and be merry and get to know other Tiarans so that we will have even more friends.

If we get to know our neighbours better, our units may even be safer to live in. This is because, as we have discovered, break-ins are often inside jobs and not always committed by outsiders. Often, we have found that the units broken into, the residents/tenants are out or have gone outstation. This knowledge is known to the burglar, who is then bold enough to take his own time to sift through the entire unit, and maybe even have a bite from the fridge before making his way out.

TT will have a box in the Management Office for residents to drop their articles in. Or you can email your articles to tiaradamansara@yahoo.com

Please put your name, contact number and email address in your article, in case the Editor may wish to call and clarify a point or two. Only the Editor will have access to your articles so if you don’t wish your name to be published, your anonymity will be respected. If you would like your article printed in TT but prefer to use a pseudonym, you may do so.

We really look forward to hearing from you. Surprise us and inundate the box and / or email-box with articles.

Until then,

Goh See Meng

Editor