How could anyone let this happen...?

 I wish I could wind back the clock...and stop this from happening.

Marang Resort and Safaris - recent pictures

 What used to be the management chalet. This is where we spent sleepless nights thinking, brainstorming ideas and planning our tomorrow. I loved spending time here. I would take the earliest flight from KL and have breakfast of nasi dagang just on this side of the Kuala Ibai bridge. it wasn't that early really by the the time I got here from the airport and if I am unfortunate, the nasi dagang could have been sold out.

At one time, I spent about 3 months living in this resort with my family including my maid, working on a project that will make part of this resort even more boutigue.

I have a small porta-cabin office about half a kilometer to the left of this bridge, on the beach right on the edge of a swamp. The cabin is wired to the main office ( we don't have broadband yet in those days ) and every morning I would 'remote access' my Mac in my office in KL. As far as my architects were concerned at that time, it was as if I was upstairs in my room. On quite a number of occassions I was visited by those boys who were selling Macs in Terengganu because they have probably never seen anybody worked virtually before. I mean theoretically and technically, they were experts and i used to sought their advise when things didn't quite go right. But these were tools to me. I determine how I want to work and where I want to work.

Marang Resort and Safaris - recent pictures

 It is so painful to see the resort that I once designed and built, abandoned and faded to dust. This used to be the 'gateway' to the resort where you find at the end of this bridge, an island on which is the reception, main office and the restaurant. All these were carefully inserted instead of imposed upon and the 'man-made' sat comfortably on the edge of nature in an almost seamless transition of space, neither one or the other.

I don't know how anyone could abandon this beautiful resort and left it to become something like this to rot.