Know your Survey Number Thank You Family Gupta. Sakrama maze or Our Karma. The New MC team has begun work. Status of LW Important Notice  Happy Rain!! ...21st Apr Water ...11th Apr

 

Know your Survey Number

23-May-2008

Our Property Document states of Survey # 105 , 106 and 120 –

Now a rough demarcation is one click away!. Visit http://laughingwaters.pbwiki.com/Services#PropertyTax/Survey

 

Laughing Waters New SMS service.

Yes!,  if the Bore-well is down , no water supply or  power shutdown – get instant message onto your Phone!. Service is free. You don’t pay for SMS.  Subscribe to the new service Via SMS. Visit smsService

 

Marathon was completed by Smita and Sabita.

Sabita completed the 5.7 kilometer in 37 minutes, while Smita took 1 hr 10 minutes for the 10Km run.

 

 

Thank You Family Gupta.

9-May-2008.

 

A walk across the 12th main and 1st cross shows  a perfect example of resident’s own initiative of keeping the surrounding area clean. Credit must go to Mrs Gupta and Gopi Gupta for putting up a concrete road shoulder on either side of their home. With a touch of paint to mthe shoulders , that entire area would look very clean and neat. Thank you Mrs Gupta.

 

Shubha Menon, Shubha Girish , Sabita and Smita  are practicing hard to complete the 10K  Sunfeast  Marathon. Currently, they practice every morning from 5.am onwards. From LW gate to Kundana Halli gate and back ensures a 4.5 KM run. All in ½ hour. Please do join them at 5am  and participate or at least wake up and cheer them!. Please call Shuba Menon to give you a wake up call , Sabita  for the morning  Cha. 

 

Go green initiative at Whitefield. An ambitious plan to plant over 100,000 trees within 22 sq km around Whitefield has been taken up by the Rotary club Whitefield and few residents of Palm meadows. Please call on Tharun / Sabita  , if you wish to plant a tree near/ next to your home. The team will do the needful.

 

 Please , please vote tommorow. The booth is open from 7AM to 5Pm RG Halli school. The early we go the better to avoid any rush.

 

 

Sakrama maze or Our Karma.

Mail sent on 19th November 2007.

Laughing Waters Layout as such has been approved by Panchayat - BBMP states that Panchayat are not authprising body .. we have to Pay Regularizing charges....read on.. RegulariseInfo 

The New MC team has begun work.

Mail Sent on July 6th 2007

 

My morning tea was interrupted by –  2 drongos , Maina and ‘DidYouDoIt’ pair (Lapwings). Their yakketyaakkkk sounded like they were annoyed. Puthari converses with them well – after a 15 minute talk – Puthari asks me :  “Has the new committee started their Work ?”  I said “yes” – they are a smart and proactive set of people.

 

 She then looked surprised and asked me to go to the Main entrance .  Our Good young Lady “Figgy” was in tears – her branches were cut out of shape. She has always provided  great amount shade and plenty of Fruity figs to all the little birds and squirrels. She now appears to be in a bad state. She asked me the reason for cutting down her branches which she had taken a long while to grow – “after all I have been careful enough not to go over the Electric lines !! – Why were my branches brought down??

 

 

I had NO answer . When I thought about it I figured the reason why the birds sounded depressed/ distressed. I told figgy and my neigh-birds that I will definitely  convey their anguish to the MC and request them not to cause such harm to them again. On the other hand, I told figgy and team – be happy the NEW TEAM has BEGUN WORK!!! Rest assured the MC will ensure that you will have more friends and lots more color and greenery in just a short while...

 

 

Status of LW Important Notice 

Mail Sent on June 7th 2007

 

As you are aware, the present government has appointed AK Ramaswamy to ascertain the government land encroached in around the city. LW appears on the report , a copy of the report is attached ...  ReadOn

 

Happy Rain!! ...21st Apr

 Mail Sent on April 21st

 

Vinod has been kept busy by the Contractor  - the contractor absconds every other day. However, Vinod is confident of completing the fencing of the entire Compound Wall of L Waters. So far the barbed fence has come up to Prakash’s home – another 50% to go  

 

I have to admit that I am impressed by Col B’s leadership skills. After taking over the responsibility of managing the Street and general Maintenance, I see him giving instructions at 8 in the morning. We ought to thank him for ensuring his presence when the weeds were cleared. With the Rains and our Trees blooming, I am told that his focus is on clearing up the Drains. Thank you Col. It is also nice to see the Working committee team meet up at the gate in the mornings – this does give an assurance that work indeed is going on .

 

You will soon find Sandeep experimenting on the Rain Water re charge. The idea is to remove the slab at a distance from each other , fill it with jelly – this ensures that rain water percolates into the ground. Please, if you find him working under the hot sun – do care him for a glass of juice. Once again, Puthari , told me that he likes LIME juice!

 

The Last week, the rain water harvest group visited our place – they have provided designs and implementation of Ground water Re charge. The Plan is available at http://laughingwaters.pbwiki.com/Ground

 

The tree planting group has been formed – Mukherjee, Tharun, Sandeep, Amit and Vinod have agreed to take care and maintain the saplings. Medha agrees to instruct her contractors to water the saplings on her lane. The ever enthusiastic Prathima wants few Gulmohars’ – and has agreed to  care over 15 saplings on her lane. So far over

40 small pits have been dug up – manure and Soil ready -  in all probability we could plant them next week or by the month end.

 

The STP work is going on – probably slow according to Col and Prathima’s – however, they have agreed to complete the Civil work within 40 Days.

 

The Road work has hit a Road Block J - the BSNL contractor is once again absconding.

 

Miss a heart beat

• The Registration office has been shifted from koramangala to Varthur.
• The rumor is that the new Registrar now claims that the Survey 104/06 is Government land. I shall update you all with more info in couple of days time. Right now no Property is being registered at L waters. Again the above may be due to some clear documentation – this is not serious right now. 

 

 

 

Water ...11th Apr

April 11th email sent to a select group of members 

A good Day to all!.

On the first note, I would want to request to send me an email if you do not want to receive emails from me.   

 

• Water – In case you are not aware, AECS , brooke-fields are with out water.  L waters residents are indeed lucky to have maintained a steady water supply till date. While this is good, it is time that we take care of the situation. We have requested Ground water recharge experts to provide their suggestion to charge ground  water. Experts are expected this Saturday. Along the same lines, a thought has been initiated; why not let the rain water be allowed to seep into the ground? Should we not block the drains so that the water, say in few hours gets into the ground?  Preetha and I are aware that it takes close to 4 hours for the water to seep in.

 

 

 

• Avenue Trees - Most of them are old, unhealthy – while we take care of them, it is about time we plant new ones.  The plan is to plant short/ shrub kind of tree on one end where electricity lines are present, while long / bush / fruit bearing which ensure that our water/sewage line don’t get affected  can be planted on the other side of our roads. My morning walks with Puthari and her pups, I get an opportunity to peep into every home garden – Amit and Mr Mukherjee stand out !. Amit will have to share how he manages to grow strawberry at his home garden! – Amit, you have a Green thumb!.  Dear Amit , can you transform the know how  with the rest – or please can you spend one day in a week and ensure you take on the responsibility of growing avenue trees on the main road ? You need not be part of any Committee for this – just the 100 trees on the main avenue – you will have to choose / plan and grow them.  Mr. Mukherjee – please can you take ownership on Prathima’s lane – right now it is barren.  Yours truly will run around, organize plants / manure /  water and look after 2 lanes which ever is assigned to us. Criteria is that it should not be near our home.

 

 

• Sandeep’s – theory for termites has really helped. Col B has started to water the trees opposite his home and they are now termite less. I tried the same on the main avenue and on the 2^nd main – Water is through the tanker – once a week  . Results to be seen by next week.
• Smiling Waters –

1. Grewals home – which has 2 sites of 10,000 sqft and a huge House  has been bought out by X who now wants to demolish and re construct. Why ?? because the current home is a Vaasthu disaster!!. And how much ?? – the tree next to their house whispered to me that it was settled for whopping X crore. Wait…. Before Preetha and Mrs M ask – Yes – the STP charges will be cleared and all dues – to the tune of 50K will also be settled.
2. Simba ,says his master enjoys the morning walk , and he listens to  Rahul gandhi’s UP speech when he walks. Please ,simba , can you ask him to measure the distance around the walk way  - meaning , how many rounds of the walk way would be it be a KM .
3. Puthari , requests Uncle Sandeep to provide lighting to the park. Once done, she has asked me to treat uncle Sandeep to a “roomali with a View” lunch! Kashmiri food is the specialty is what she tells me!. 

 

 AMit Writes in a separate Email ..

Naveen, Thanks for your kind words. I think planting trees is an extremely divine task and I would really want to do it for our layout. I will meet you sometime this weekend and discuss the logistics. AMit