After years of waiting, the new Seria pasar was opened and all the old stalls located near the telecom tower was moved to the old old Seria pasar location (that was the exact location of the old pasar during the 1960s - 1970s).
At first impression, the pasar looks very big and its good that the authorities allowed Chinese and Muslims to do business in the Pasar, although the Chinese i guess are not allowed to serve pork.
However, as I was just back from Miri that day, and urgently want to go to the toilet, I was horrified to know that there's no toilet in the new pasar! How can this be? This is the 21st Century and all the architects I presumed will be "foreign" educated, how can they missed an important feature of a "pasar" makan - the toilets!!
How in the first place can the building be approved? The Municipal Board could have tendered out the cleaning of the toilet to some cleaning company and entry to the toilet must be paid, to ensure its always clean. Sigh.... any architect who want to design a food court better study the Singaporean style since in Singapore food court part of the country's building design...
One has to go to the Seria Plaza to go to find the nearest toilet and even there, the condition of the toilet is quite appaling.
We used to enjoy the cool breeze whenever we eat at the old pasar, but now with the building being designed such a way, there's no more cool breeze....
But one thing which is maintained, the quality of my favourite "Seria Keow Tiaw" is that, it still cost $1.50 to eat and the portion they give is huge man.... Thanks Mr. Seria Keow Tiaw.... heheh...
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Ps... . Govt should not allow architects to design building without putting a limit on the amount or price of a particular government building. Architects always build things more grander, hence this will make it more expensive. With more expensive buildings, the more higher the architect fees (5% to 10% of the total amount of the whole building).
And how can Govt be sure that the specified materials are the ones used? There are many cases where contractors change to cheaper materials so that the costs can be reduced and some $$ are given to ....... ahem... orang orang tertentu...
