Location: Friendship Park, Jalan Song
Date: 3 October 2007

The wonderful pond with schools of tilapia and koi are no more. Most of them died. We went -happily- yesterday for our Wednesday-afternoon-outing but ended up feeling like we were attending a funeral for those lovable fish.
When we got there, the pond was 3/4 drained and a group of men (as well as passerby volunteers) were desperately trying to scoop stinking dead fish out in order to save the still living (decomposition in a stagnant pool ain't all that great for living creatures). The water looked like the green slushee from 7-11. My guess would be pump & filter failure and an exceptional occurance of algae bloom caused by the extremely hot weather which could have suffocated the fishes. I overheard some cynical gentleman who thought someone had poisoned the pond. I think that to be rather unlikely... or is it?

What happened?

an update:

Well done for typical Malaysia Boleh incompetency. We can build but we can't even maintain what we have. The fishes died due to "a lack of water in the pond" (what the...???). The jokers in charge of repairs decided to drain the water to fix the pump (ok, that's logical) but didn't know what to do with the fishes. So, again in line with typical Malaysian apathy, they decided to screw the fishes and replace them later when "the repairs have been completed" (huh?). Folks don't care if you're going to put in bloody arowanas or expensive kois later; they care about the fish which have been there since the inception of the park. No one is responsible for feeding them really, people just took it upon themselves to care for the "upbringing" of those critters. Imagine if someone drowned your pet dog / cat / hamster?

Shame, I say... Shame.