I take today to be a personal Black day, and this long post is to lament the nonsensical goings-on in this taman. And this blog will go mute indefinitely until the taman regenerates (and hopefully it will soon) from on-going absurd supposedly beautification works.
Today is day 6 of the CMCO, and the first day the taman is allowed to open to fitness enthusiasts simply because the authority finally realised that it defied logic that places like gyms (an enclosed area) and golf courses (playgrounds for the haves) could be open but not public parks. So I was eager to see how the taman was doing after these 5 days, of quietness I thought, and how wrong I was!
It simply looked like the taman had endured terribly much, as someone so aptly put it that the taman is being put through a thousand cuts!
And so after a prolonged walk, I felt utterly dismayed, absolutely heartbroken, after failing absolutely to find any thing uplifting, at least presently, about the taman. There had been, and still going on, much digging and unsightly cover ups all over the place to accommodate laying of electricity cables, and drilling and knocking and more digging everywhere, and clouds of dust flying about that even the resident park birds were hardly seen.
It looked like the authority aka so-called planner of the taman seem intent on turning the park eventually into a 'radiantly' lit spectacle, that there are now so many lamp post stands planted, to my layman's estimate about 20ft apart, (hence all that digging to lay the cables from one end of the taman to the other) that when these posts are finally installed, and the lights turned on, the adjacent residential apartments can probably save money on electricity by not turning on their compound lights! And to add to the ludicrous situation, the park will probably be closed to night visits (as another park close by is as a matter of rule) yet the innumerable lights will be on! What wastage then!
One can see that so much resources (?!) have been expended to supposedly upgrade the taman like planting countless trees (visibly done at random), creating flower plots, and installing lamp posts.
I've been walking the taman for so many years now and so love it because this is, to me, the most unique public park in the city, by virtue that it's flanked by a river and close to Bukit Kiara. It has thus received the best of effects of the proximity of a hill and a waterway. It's unique too because it was allowed to expand naturally, rather 'wild' then and it's this naturalness that has attracted especially rare avian visitors.
So all the authority needs to do is simply maintain the taman as it is, for example, trim trees not chop them down, and repair or replace the walkways.
Looking at the present goings-on that may just stretch on till the end of the year, I guess it may not be premature to say that this is going to be a lacklustre year for the taman in terms of migratory avian sightings. (I earnestly hope I will be proved wrong!)
Even this vociferous and long time resident was nowhere in sight, nor heard!
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