Yarl restaurant's boss should pay for the soundproofing in all the flats affected by his kitchen hood noise

This is really madness. Sometimes I do wonder if yarl restaurant's boss has a brain or not. Today, he turned on the kitchen hood at 6.15 a.m. in the morning. At 6.15 a.m., there is absolute silence everywhere in the neighbourhood and many people are still sleeping but yarl restaurant's boss just couldn't be bothered. His business is more important than everyone's health. His kitchen hood noise is really loud and deafening. It's like having a diesel truck outside your window all the time. I'm trying to get a device to measure sound levels so that I can provide even more exact information about the yarl restaurant's loud and deafening kitchen hood noise.

In other countries, restaurants are only allowed to turn on the kitchen hood at 7 a.m. and they must turn it off at 10.00 p.m. How come in Malaysia, they are allowed to turn it on at 6 something or even at 5 something in the morning and turn it off at 11 something at night or even twelve midnight?
 Does is mean that the citizens of Malaysia are not protected by the law? Sleep is more important than food and sleep deprivation is listed by the Amnesty International as a form of torture. Since yarl restairant's kitchen hood is facing the front of our flats and continuously emitting noise into our bedrooms, this would mean that we have to endure this form of torture as long as the noisy and deafening kitchen hood is there. Would justice ever dawn on us one day? The question here is, "Why is the Malaysian government encouraging yarl restaurant to use this form of torture on us (by inaction)? We are not criminals or war prisoners. We are only ordinary citizens of Malaysia who yearn for a peaceful living.

Sleep is More Important than Food

by Tony Schwartz  |   10:37 AM March 3, 2011

Let’s cut to the chase.

Say you decide to go on a fast, and so you effectively starve yourself for a week. At the end of seven days, how would you be feeling? You’d probably be hungry, perhaps a little weak, and almost certainly somewhat thinner. But basically you’d be fine.
Now let’s say you deprive yourself of sleep for a week. Not so good. After several days, you’d be almost completely unable to function. That’s why Amnesty International lists sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
Here’s what former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had to say in his memoir White Nights about the experience of being deprived of sleep in a KGB prison: “In the head of the interrogated prisoner a haze begins to form. His spirit is wearied to death, his legs are unsteady, and he has one sole desire: to sleep … Anyone who has experienced this desire knows that not even hunger and thirst are comparable with it.”
So why is sleep one of the first things we’re willing to sacrifice as the demands in our lives keep rising? We continue to live by a remarkably durable myth: sleeping one hour less will give us one more hour of productivity. In reality, the research suggests that even small amounts of sleep deprivation take a significant toll on our health, our mood, our cognitive capacity and our productivity.
Many of the effects we suffer are invisible. Insufficient sleep, for example, deeply impairs our ability to consolidate and stabilize learning that occurs during the waking day. In other words, it wreaks havoc on our memory.
So how much sleep do you need? When researchers put test subjects in environments without clocks or windows and ask them to sleep any time they feel tired, 95 percent sleep between seven and eight hours out of every 24. Another 2.5 percent sleep more than eight hours. That means just 2.5 percent of us require less than 7 hours of sleep a night to feel fully rested. That’s 1 out of every 40 people.
When I ask people in my talks how many had fewer than 7 hours of sleep several nights during the past week, the vast majority raise their hands. That’s true whether it’s an audience of corporate executives, teachers, cops or government workers. We’ve literally lost touch with what it feels like to be fully awake.
Great performers are an exception. Typically, they sleep significantly more than the rest of us. In Anders Ericcson’s famous study of violinists, the top performers slept an average of 8 ½ hours out of every 24, including a 20 to 30 minute midafternoon nap some 2 hours a day more than the average American.
The top violinists also reported that except for practice itself, sleep was second most important factor in improving as violinists.
As I began to gather research about sleep, I felt increasingly compelled to give it higher priority in my own life. Today, I go to great lengths to assure that I get at least 8 hours every night, and ideally between 8 ½ and 9, even when I’m traveling.
I still take the overnight “redeye” from California to New York, but I’m asleep by takeoff — even if takes an Ambien. When I get home at 6 or 7 a.m., I go right to bed until I’ve had my 8 hours. What I’ve learned about those days is that I’d rather work at 100 percent for 5 or 6 hours, than at 60 percent for 8 or 9 hours.
With sufficient sleep, I feel better, I work with more focus, and I manage my emotions better, which is good for everyone around me. I dislike having even a single day where I haven’t gotten enough sleep, because the impact is immediate and unavoidable. On the rare days that I don’t get enough, I try hard to get at least a 20-30 minute nap in the afternoon. That’s a big help.