I remember leaving the house around 7pm one evening after some do it yourself job and it was like 10pm already. I thought to myself, was this a mistake?
But then, a police station is located about 500 metres away and a primary school, SKBB, was already in place.
Gradually, over the years, a wet market came into operation, followed by 7-11. Several mini markets, run by foreigners (I think) started mushrooming, operating 24-7.
There are now three petrol stations, two Esso and a Petronas,. You could see a perpetual queue at all the pumps, indicating there should be other stations as well.
Then two years later, the news we had been waiting for. A Tesco hypermarket was to be built in Bukit Beruntung, just a few kilometres away from our neighbourhood.
It turned out to be hoax. It was a hyper store to cater for all Tesco outlets in the North. We felt betrayed.
But then, Tesco, and Majlis Daerah Hulu Langat, sensing our anger, decided to build a hypermarket, believe it or not, a walking distance from my house.
It is being built and almost completed. It is rumoured that it is to be officially opened before Puasa month.
Suddenly, the property prices went skyhigh. My house, after renovation could easily fetch half a million now.
But that does not mean a thing to us as we are not keen to sell it off, even if it went up to RM1 million. simply because, if this house is worth that much, a terrace house in KL would have cost another half a million more.
But we can expect some congestion at the entrance.
Food outlets have sprung like mushrooms and recently, a police training centre (PULAPOL) has taken over Kolej Aman.
But the roads remain dark at night. However, the road where I live is as bright as day, at least for a few hundred-metre stretch.
We decided to sacrifice RM10 each month to pay for the street light.
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