Goodbye Liberty! As a citizen of Malaysia, I don't even have the freedom to live a proper life.

This morning, yarl restaurant turned on its kitchen hood at 6.10 a.m. This is indeed a terrible nightmare for all its victims. The peace and quietness of all our mornings are destroyed by this unwanted, loud and deafening diesel truck noise. Whether we want it or not, it is time to leave our bedrooms. Before yarl restaurant started operation, this area was very quiet and peaceful but now the only thing that we can hear day and night is yarl restaurant's loud and deafening kitchen hood noise intruding into every aspect of our lives. Our lives are filled with noise all the time and this terrible noise is threatening our freedom to live a proper life.

Why say goodbye to liberty forever? Take for instance, last Saturday, when there was a water cut in this area due to a broken pipe at Jalan Tun Sambanthan. There was no water the whole day and when the water supply was finally restored after 10 p.m., guess what we did? In the past, we would take a bath and cook something to eat before we sleep but not now. Although we did not eat well that day, the idea of cooking something to eat after 10 p.m. was totally out. Cooking takes time and by the time we finish, it will be quite late which  means that we would not have enough sleep if yarl restaurant turns on its kitchen hood at 6 in the morning. We did not even take a bath that day because taking a bath also takes time and we can't afford to sleep late. So we went to bed hungry and without taking a bath that day because of yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise!

As citizens of Malaysia, we don't even have the liberty to take a bath whenever we want and we have to go to bed hungry like refugees. This is because we have to live up to yarl restaurant's expectations. What is even worse is nothing can be done to stop this nuisance in the neighbourhood because the Kuala Lumpur City Hall cannot differentiate between a speaker and a kitchen hood! In a way, it may also be true so say that even refugees have better rights than us because the United Nations really look after their rights well! As citizens of Malaysia, there is no one whom we can turn to when our basic rights are infringed.