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Looking for good house builder from ground up

diversenature — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:27:02 +0800

Hi, I am looking for a good and reliable contractor to build a house from ground up. Any recommendations?
I want to build either a one storey or one and a half storey 30x50 feet house on a bungalow plot depending on quotation.
Also anybody knows nowadays roughly how much to build per sq foot? I don't need luxury, just normal livable quality.
The land doesn't need piling according to engineer and approval part I will settle separately. Just need to find out about cost of construction according to architect plans.

Permit for tearing down house

diversenature — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:42:32 +0800

Hi anyone knows whether is there a need to apply a permit to tear down a house? Its an old house(bottom half bricks top half wood) and bungalow style...meaning its walls doesn't share with neighbours.
I asked the mpsj personnel on the phone and he says to submit plan for the new house first and to get architect's service to do everything.
I already have people that can bulldoze the house and also disposal bin service.
Can't I just get rid of the house first before I go for architect plans?(which I am in the process of designing and also sourcing).

<WTB> National Geographic 1996 November Issue

diversenature — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:24:49 +0800

Please offer me thanks

Getting Results - Passion vs Self-Discipline

diversenature — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:20:04 +0800

Argument for Passion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznJqxon4zE

vs

Argument for Self-Discipline
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/p...elf-discipline/

Our Dying Environment

diversenature — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:58:07 +0800

I remember studying this chart in biology classes in secondary school, how bacteria in a nutrient rich test tube will explode in population but the growth phase will taper off and eventually a mass die off will ensue because all the nutrients would have been used up and toxic waste would have built up to a lethal level in a limited environment.
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Aren't we humans in the same situation? Only on a grander scale? Our earth resources are limited, and our population is growing like crazy.
Right now, we are all in the growth phase, being happy and feeling rich with all the seemingly unlimited products and services we are able to buy.
It may or may not be in our lifetime that a catastrophic mass die off of humans will happen but the signs are all there to show us we are trashing our environment like there is no tomorow. We are definately trading our species future for the economic success we are having now.

Today's star
Fouling our world
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?...6&sec=lifefocus

Where your plastic waste are ending up...
Digging into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/digging...-143049093.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

It's a dilemma for all of us. We all want to be successful. We(or at least, a lot of us) want to have children to have a happy family. Governments want to have economic growth. We all want better products and better services. We build and build, make and make.
In the end, the more consumption we have, the more guilty we are, actually, at destroying our natural world.
We, as consumers of products and services, are actually the pay masters of all the forest clearing, logging and digging to build more and more roads, houses, malls, factories, airports, sports arenas etc etc to satisfy our unending desires.

At the most fundamental level, it seems the best way to prevent future destruction to our environment is to stop breeding like mad. And to reduce consumption. Yet, governments, as well as practically everybody, will not want that to happen because that would mean a recession because growth itself supports tons of industries.

It seems we, as humans, have no choice but to drive ourselves eventually to an inevitable end.

Discuss.