Living with avida.

  When I talk about condominium here in the Philippines, actually for me it is a totally fresh word just after I came here. In the begining I lived in an apartment which is named Zen tower located in ermita Manila, I thought it was the traditional way to live with where people here in the Philippines, cause for me I call it domitary because there are few of us live under the same roof.Everyday everyone has different things to do, so after a long time , there will be contradiction among all of us.  More or like, I am that kind of man who is prefering the natural normal schedule, for example, I will do my works during the day time, I go to bed every night when the moom is very high and the stars are twinkling. But someone does get into high when I am going to the bed. I could bear those party times for once, twice, thrice. But I can not go through with it always. So after all at the middle of my contract with the owner of the apartment I made the decision which is move out of the place.
  I was looking for other places one month before I moved out from the old one. I went to several buildings and finally decided to rent the place where is located near in my school. That is avida tower san lazaro.
  I only know this avida tower beside SM san lazaro , although there are still some other towers also owned by avida land corp. The service here in avida has different kinds. I rented this condominium with one year contract and I paid in cash all in all the owner of the unit gave me a discount for reducing one month rental fee.Before I moved in , I noticed there is nothing in the unit except for some necessary equipments like cabinets and water faucets. It means there is no furnitures  before I moved into the unit. The maintenance helped me to transfer my furnitures and things from the ground floor to my unit and actually there were house keepers cleaned the room for me already before I arrived, I could cee it because there is no dust. When I moved into the unit, the security guard asked for the move-in pass and the photocopy of my contract of lease. Two fast speed elevators serve for the building, and the building has 20 plus floors.
  One of my hobby is playing basketball, there is a  basketball court just beside the building within the community. Almost everyday basketball fans play on the  court from morning to the evening. If I get up early,around 6 a.m. There are already players on the court. The house keepers also clean the basketball court every time after the raining. When it is still wet, they will drop a marker which is "caution" and  "the floor is wet" something like that.But the basketball court is not always for free using, it can be reserved if you want ot use is during the night time before 9 pm and yo have to pay for it, but in fact the resevation fee is not expensive. Anyway the basketball court somehow is a bonded sevice for the tenants of the avida.

  There is also a swimming pool for the swimming fans, it is not that big very clean, they always change the pool water and maintain the cleanliness.Some bamboo long chairs beside the swimming pool, provide the chance for people that may lay down on the chairs and enjoy the sunshine.
  Beside the swimming pool , there is a lobby called party space, it provides the tenants a space to hold party, almost every week I could see there are some people hold birthday party there and singing, dancing together.But sometimes the push through the party until the midnight, it is a ruled action cause I think they did not considered what other people's thoughts.

  The community provides a lot of parking slots for the tenants of course. I walked around the buildings and I noticed there are almost every parking slot has a number, that meams it is occuppied by the tenants already.The parking slots , some of them occuppied by cars, some of them occupied by trucks, and some of them occuppied by motorcycles.
  Every building has its house keepers and maintenances, they are available everyday and they have three-time shifts working schedule. The funny thing is there are housekeepers walk around in the building everyday for collecting the garbage bags , tenants just need put the garbage bags beside the unit door and even no need to wait for the housekeepers, they will collect and throw the garbage bags three times a day, around 8 am and 2pm and 7 pm. Every time they will shout at the hall "Good morning/afternoon/evening ma'am sir, garbage collection", when you hear that, it's time for you to put your trash out of your room. House keepers also clean the halls everyday.
  The water pressure is good, once my friend visited me and he took a shower at my unit,after that he said he likes the water pressure here in my unit, its strong enough and provide the need for people. Indeed, in his place the water pressure is really poor and can not satisfy daile needs sometimes. The electricity also steady, at the beginning, the building owner proposed with tenants  that there is no need to pay for the electricity fee because it was not bonded with Meralco company.But after the Meralco company came in with tha building, it is the time for me to save electricity everyday to avoid the high charge from the electricity bill.
  The unit does not have a balcony but the building procided metal cases for tenants for hanging their wet cloths and for necessary needs.