Two of K Bawani's six children did not go to school yesterday morning.

The 37-year-old housewife said they were too "lazy" to walk down the nine flights of stairs from their two-bedroom low-cost unit at the Lembah Subang People's Housing Project (PPR Lembah Subang 1) in Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya.

The only one of the three elevators for the 1,000 residents at Block H of the 17-storey building, that has remained functioning, had broken down, for the third time in the past one week.

"Their bags are heavy. So they are lazy... But if I had known I would have 'whacked' them," Bawani told Malaysiakini, while resting before making the climb up back to her home.

She was also guarding her gas cylinder as the delivery man had refused to carry it up.

"Every week this (lift breakdown) will happen.

"Yesterday, one whole day, there was no water. Everything is difficult. Taking up the gas cylinder is difficult, carrying water is difficult," lamented Bawani, who has stayed in the building since 2011, 10 years after it was constructed by the Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry...