Last night, after I came back from the night market at around 9.30 p.m., I quickly dumped everything on the floor, took a bath and wanted to sleep. I did not have the time to put the things in the fridge because I was rushing to go to bed early knowing that yarl restaurant would turn on the kitchen hood at around 6 and this means that I must sleep by 10 pm in order to to get my 8 hours sleep. But yarl restaurant only turned off the kitchen hood at 10.30 p.m. last night. I could only sleep at 10.30 p.m. However, this morning at 6.15 a.m., yarl restaurant has already turned on its loud and deafening kitchen hood again to wake me up from my deep sleep before I could sleep for 8 hours.
Why is the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) so ineffective in dealing with noise pollution? Here, I would like to share with you one of the greatest jokes of the century entitled "The Day the kitchen hood turned into the speaker". One day, after repeated complaints from the residents, the DBKL officers finally went to check on yarl restaurant. However, instead of looking for the real kitchen hood, they assumed that the kitchen hood was the speaker inside the restaurant. In their email to me, I was told that the speaker was only temporary and according to yarl restaurant's boss, it was intended to attract customers during Deepavali. Sounds ridiculous, isn't it? We are complaining about the kitchen hood but they are dealing with the speaker. Yarl restaurant's boss must have shut the gate at the back of the restaurant so that the DBKL officers couldn't see the kitchen hood. However, these DBKL officers should have gone to the back of the restaurant to check if they have some intelligence but they did not. (Though I do wonder how this mistake could be made when the photo of the kitchen hood is so clear in my blog article and I have provided a link to this blog article in my email to DBKL). What happened to the kitchen hood that I was talking about? It is very obvious that yarl restaurant's boss turns it off whenever someone comes to check. But the question is why on earth did these DBKL fellows focus on the speaker and did not try to look for the kitchen hood at all? Why is it that they refuse to take any action at all despite repeated complaints? Even as I am typing out this article now, yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise is so loud and deafening that I feel like fleeing from my bedroom. Does yarl restaurant's boss have the right to torture us to such an extent and for more than 17 hours a day? Does yarl restaurant's boss have the right to prevent sleep? I send a complaint email to them every morning but so far they have done nothing except for their "magic show" i.e. turned the kitchen hood into the speaker. There is a saying "With money even the kitchen hood can turn into the speaker". Just how true is it? Well, it is for the Kuala Lumpur City Hall to answer this question. Since Malaysia is known as one of the most corrupt nations, anything can happen here. Let the public be the judge! Oh yes, the Kuala Lumpur City Council did something very grand recently i.e. raising our property taxes. Why is it so? According to them, the value of our property has increased. Increased in what way? Yarl restaurant's noise pollution program has rendered our flats totally uninhabitable and we are living in extremely degrading conditions. So do we have to pay for our degrading living conditions brought about by the DBKL's inaction? The DBKL is really funny!
Please read the following email from the Kuala Lumpur City Council to find out how they performed their "magic show" by turning the kitchenhood into the speaker.
Siasatan / Tindakan :
1.Tarikh siasatan pada 29/10/2013@10.00mlm.
2.Premis yang diadukan merupakan restoran menjual makanan/hidangan SriLanka(Tamil).
3.Terdapat sebuah speaker didalam premis digunakan untuk menarik pelanggan semperna Pesta Deepavali.
4.Pesta akan tamat pada 3/11/2013.
Tarikh Tindakan Diambil : 01-11-2013 08:38
Kenalpasti Punca :
1.Tiada kacauganggu bunyi bising semasa siasatan.
2.Pemantauan akan diteruskan.
Tarikh : 01-11-2013 08:38
Tindakan Pencegahan Yang Diambil :
1.Amaran dan teguran kpd pengusaha restoran.
2.Notis kacauganggu akan dikeluarkan.
Nama Pegawai : Thilagenthiran A/L S.Somasundram
Jawatan : Penolong Pegawai Kesihatan Persekitaran
Tarikh : 01-11-2013 08:38
Walau bagaimana pun pihak kami akan membuat aduan baru untuk tuan, dan pihak kami akan memaklumkan perkara ini kepada jabatan yang berkenaan.
Sekian, terima kasih.
ith noise pollution despite repeated complaints? What can they do when they can even tell the difference between the speaker and the kitchen hood?
So is this the reason why the Kuala Lumpur City Hall wants to increase the CUKAI TAKSIRAN? For what purpose? For its ineffectiveness? For being unable to differentiate between the speaker and the kitchen hood?
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