The suffferings of yarl restaurant's noise pollution victims

This video of yarl restaurant is taken at 6.05 a.m. this Sunday morning. You can also view it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMjuOh4dR_4&feature=youtu.be

The 2 photos above were taken before 8 a.m. on the same day (20 April 2014) in which the video was taken. If what you can see outside the kitchen can be so filthy, can you imagine what is going on inside the kitchen where you can't see? (This article was posted at 6.25 a.m. and was edited to add these 2 photos).

Last night, yarl restaurant only turned off the noisy hood at 11.00 p.m. However, at 6.05 a.m. this morning, yarl restaurant's loud and thunderous kitchen hood noise can be heard like thunder outside our windows usual. In other countries, restaurants are not allowed to make noise before 7 a.m. and even after 7 a.m., they cannot emit noise which is above 60dBA. But in Malaysia, you can be tortured with noise as loud as a diesel truck outside your window at 5 in the morning and you have no right to say or do anything about it! (I would like to make it known to the world that if anything were to happen to me, it will have something to do with yarl restaurant. Look at the guy in this video. He is staring at me. Please click to read yarl restaurant's criminal threatening).



On a Sunday morning, I should be sleeping until 8 a.m. especially when I am not working but this is no longer possible because of yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise. Since I am forced to wake up sleepy and tired by yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise to endure another day of sleep deprivation, I have no choice but to make my plight known to the whole world again. I am writing not because I want to but because I have to because we are suffering intensely because of the kitchen hood noise. I am writing because I am calling out for help in the hope that yarl restaurant's noise pollution problem can be solved. We are only asking yarl restaurant to turn on the kitchen after 7 a.m. Is that too much? This is because we can't stay in our bedroom when the noisy kitchen hood is turned on.No matter what time we sleep the night before, we have to wake up when yarl restaurant starts making loud and deafening noise with its kitchen hood early in the morning. For a long time we have not been having enough sleep. For a long time we do not know what having enough sleep means. We only know that when yarl restaurant's selfish and irresponsible boss turns on his loud and deafening kitchen hood in the wee hours of the morning, we have to leave our bedrooms immediately. I go to work sleepy and tired every day of my life. There is only one thing in our lives i.e noise

Do you know how much pain we have to endure as noise pollution victims?  Forcing our sleepy eyes to remain open and concentrate on what we are doing is really an uphill task. Sleepiness due to lack of sleep makes us unable to think properly and there are times when we don't know what we are doing. Sleep deprivation can even cause accidents. This is worse than physical torture in the fires of hell. We normally sleep 8-9 hours a day but now we have to do with 7 hours or even less. Does anyone have the right to stop someone from getting enough sleep? In Malaysia, anyone can have such a right. You can just rent a shoplot in any place, turn on your kitchen hood which is as loud as a diesel truck outside somebody's window at 5 - 6 a.m.in the morning to chase everyone out of their bedrooms and no one can stop you. Is this what is meant by "Malaysia Boleh" i.e. you can do anything in Malaysia?

Having to live up to yarl restaurant's noise pollution expectations is also an uphill task. We can no longer do many of the things that we used to so such as going out with friends at night, watching our favourite programs at night, calling friends at night, or even doing shopping at night. There is only one thing in mind, i.e. we must get up early because yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise will chase me out of my bedroom at around 6 in the morning or even earlier than that. As we look back, we really yearn for the freedom that we have lost and will never have as long as yarl restaurant's kitchen hood is making loud and deafening noise outside my window.

Everyone takes freedom for granted but for the victims of yarl restaurant's noise pollution program, freedom is only an illusion. If yarl restaurant says, "Don't attend your company's annual dinner or watch football at night because you must wake up early next morning as my kitchen hood noise is going to chase you out of your bedroom at 5 - 6 a.m.", we have no choice but to obey. If yarl restaurant says, "You cannot visit your sick relatives or go out with friends at night because I will make a lot of noise to wake you up in the morning before you can sleep well" we have to obey. In this era, even children wouldn't listen if you ask them not to watch football or go out at night. But what about me, as an adult, who have to live up to yarl restaurant's noise pollution expectations? Do you know how stressful it is to be a noise pollution victim? It is worse than cancer. Even refugees are given the right to an adequate standard of living but as a citizen of Malaysia, we have no such right! The failure of the Kuala Lumpur City Hall to do anything about yarl restaurant's noise pollution program clearly indicates that evil triumphs over justice in Malaysia.

In a way, yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution program also makes me fear for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to be implemented in 2015. This is because we cannot stay in our bedrooms without turning on some kind of sound to cover up yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise. This would mean that we have to pay extra for the electricity bill because of the noise. With the GST, we are going to suffer great financial woes because of yarl restaurant's endless and thunderous noise.

According to the United Nations on Human Rights, the right to an adequate standard of living requires, at a minimum, that everyone shall enjoy the necessary subsistence rights: adequate food and nutrition, clothing, housing and the necessary conditions of care when required. The essential point is that everyone shall be able, without shame and without unreasonable obstacles, to be a full participant in ordinary, everyday interaction with other people. Thus, people should be able to enjoy their basic needs in conditions of dignity. No one should have to live in conditions whereby the only way to satisfy their needs is by degrading themselves or depriving themselves of their basic freedoms, such as through begging, prostitution or forced labour. But what us, citizens of Malaysia, who don't even have the right to sleep 8 hours a day and have to endure loud and thunderous noise all the time?

 As citizens of Malaysia, we have to live in shame and with unreasonable obstacles in the form of yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise. We cannot be a full participant in ordinary, everyday interaction with other people. We can no longer go out with friends after work or attend wedding dinners as we have to rush home to sleep because yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise will chase us out of my bedroom at 6 (or even earlier than that) in the morning. We cannot enjoy my basic needs in conditions of dignity. In actual fact, we have no dignity now. We are only slaves to yarl restaurant's noise pollution program. We am living in conditions whereby yarl restaurant' is depriving us of our basic freedoms, such as chasing us out of my bedroom with its kitchen hood noise early in the morning at 5- 6 a.m., depriving us of sleep, preventing us from going out with friends, attending dinners, shopping, and watching football at night. These are the things that many people take for granted but do you know how hard we are fighting for these basic rights?