At 6.25 a.m. this morning, I was still in my deep sleep after having worked late last night when I was suddenly wakened up by yarl restaurant's loud and deafening kitchen hood noise. It is really frustrating to be wakened up by yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise every morning particularly when we are having a beautiful dream at that time! At 6.25 a.m., the entire neighbourhood is still very quiet, so quiet that you can even hear a pin drop and all we can hear now is yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise permeating the entire atmosphere. Chasing us out of our bedrooms in the wee hours of the morning everyday is nothing new to yarl restaurant's boss and he has done it as early as 5.20 a.m. in the morning. Whenever anyone complains, he would turn on his noisy kitchen hood a little bit later e.g. 6.40 a.m. but after a few days, he would revert back to his old habit - turning on his loud and deafening kitchen hood earlier and earlier with each passing day. Why am I writing this article? Because I am feeling sleepy and tired but cannot sleep as yarl restaurant is making a lot of noise with its noisy kitchen hood now. Despite having been threatened by yarl restaurant (there is a threatening comment in my blog for the article entitled Kuala Lumpur City Hall: The Greatest Joke on Earth which I believe is from yarl restaurant), I will continue to write because I really cannot stand the kitchen hood noise anymore. Having endured yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise since January last year, we have now reached a breaking point where we really cannot take it anymore. It is worse than suffering in hell. Have you ever imagined how painful it is to endure yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution program? As yarl restaurant's victims,
It is indeed a shameful thing to say that yarl restaurant's boss is torturing us with noise day and night with his eyes wide open ignoring all the sufferings that he is causing to others and even more shameful to say that he still has the guts to threaten to harm us for complaining about his kitchen hood noise. There is a threatening comment in my blog for the article Kuala Lumpur City Hall: The Greatest Joke on Earth which I believe is from yarl restaurant. Guess what this comment is? Here it goes:
Anonymous9 February 2014 02:49
So, lu cari pasal dekat itu kopitiam?! Lu pernah kena penampar kangkung?!
What kind of person yarl restaurant's boss is? From the kind of language that is used here, it is obvious that whoever writes this comment in my blog is:
- uneducated with no knowledge of English and only knows broken Malay
- uncivilized and that is why he thinks he has the right to threaten us when we complain about his air and noise pollution program.
- irrational as he refuses to do anything to reduce his kitchen hood noise and continues to plague us with noise without any remorse on his part i.e. he should apologize to us for the evil things that he has done to us instead of threatening to harm us
- selfish i.e. thinks only of the profit that he is going to make at the expense of others and even goes to the extent of threatening to harm all those who stand in his way
- behaving like a thug because he is threatening to harm us with "penampar kangkung" if we complain about his air and noise pollution program
- violent because he is threatening to use force on us
The comment So, lu cari pasal dekat itu kopitiam?! Lu pernah kena penampar kangkung?! is obviously a form of criminal threatening. As defined by Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia: Criminal threatening is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of imminent bodily injury.
There is no legal definition in English law as to what constitutes criminal threatening behaviour, so it is up to the courts to decide on a case by case basis. However, if somebody threatens violence against somebody, then this may be a criminal offense. Criminal threatening can be the result of verbal threats of violence, physical conduct (such as hand gestures or raised fists), actual physical contact, or even simply the placing of an object or graffiti on the property of another person with the purpose of coercing or terrorizing in reckless disregard for causing fear, terror or inconvenience;
"Terrorizing" generally means to cause alarm, fright, or dread in another person or inducing apprehension of violence from a hostile or threatening event, person or object. What kind of man yarl restaurant's boss is? Actions speak louder than words and in a way, this criminal threatening So, lu cari pasal dekat itu kopitiam?! Lu pernah kena penampar kangkung?! clearly represents the true nature of the person who wrote this comment in my blog.
Since actions speak louder than words, each time yarl restaurant's selfish and irresponsible boss turns on his loud and deafening kitchen hood, it is as though we can hear him saying boldly:
Hey, you fools, GET UP, GET UP, GET UP. I want to make big bucks today. I want to turn on my loud and deafening kitchen hood now because it cannot function properly without making loud and deafening noise so please leave your bedrooms immediately. I will only lower the volume of my kitchen hood whenever anyone comes to check on my restaurant. When no one is there to check on me, I will turn on my kitchen hood to its maximum capacity. I don't care how my kitchen hood noise is affecting you. I only want to do business and make lots of money. If you can't stand my kitchen hood noise, you can shift elsewhere. If you want to stay here, you must bear all the sufferings that my noise pollution program is causing you with fortitude. In this lawless cowboy town, I am the law and I can do what I want. Even the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) people can't do anything to me. That is why I am so daring. If these DBKL fellows ever come to check on my restaurant, I'll just show them the speaker and tell them that the speaker is the kitchen hood and they will believe me. No one can do anything to me. I am in control here because I own a restaurant. My skin is very thick and I don't know how to feel ashamed of myself. I know very well that my kitchen hood is making a lot of noise but I don't care. I am also a liar. Sometime in August 2013, I lied to Fong Kui Lun's (MP of this area) assistant that I would reduce the noise in the neighbourhood without any intention to do so. Since he came to see me to ask me to reduce the noise after complaints from the neighbours, I might as well lie to him because I know that he cannot do anything to me. I am not going to spend a single sen to solve the noise problem. Let the neighbours suffer as long as I can make money. It is really amusing to make everyone in the neighbourhood suffer for the sake of my business. The entire neighbourhood is very quiet at this hour of the day, so quiet that you can even hear a pin drop, and the only noise you can hear is my kitchen hood noise. Each morning, when I turn on my noisy kitchen hood, everyone has to flee from their bedrooms. At night, long after bedtime hour, I can still make loud and deafening noise so that my victims cannot sleep. How funny! Sleep deprivation is a beautiful thing! See how my victims suffer? This clearly shows how grand I am! The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has given me the authority to do so through their inaction. These DBKL fellows dare not do anything to me. I can make others suffer under my noise pollution program and they cannot do anything to me. No one can do anything to me. Can we torture others for the sake of our business? Well, Malaysia Boleh and that is why I am doing it! MONEY FOR ME, NOISE FOR YOU-this is the motto of my life. Ha! Ha! Ha!
In actual fact, there is actually no difference between yarl restaurant's noise pollution program and the Lynas Case or Gold for me, Cyanide for You Case because the health hazards caused by noise pollution are no less serious than radiation and cyanide. Yarl restaurant's noise pollution program is really too stressful for us to bear and we have come to a point where we cannot take it anymore. Our health is also deteriorating because of it. Just exactly how do we suffer? Please click A Year in Hell with Yarl Restaurant to read what kind of hell we have been going through with yarl restaurant's noise pollution program. The articles in this blog represent our voiceless pleas for help from the public since there isn't anything that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) could do to solve the problem. Apart from increasing our property taxes, it seems that there isn't anything which that the DBKL could do. The reason why the DBKL suddenly increased our property taxes on the grounds that the value of our property has increased is really ridiculous. Think of it! Can the value of our flats increase when we are dying slowly from noise pollution due to DBKL's inaction?
PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT THE NOISE THAT YARL RESTAURANT IS GENERATING IS THE KIND OF LOUD AND DEAFENING MOTOR SOUND THAT CAN EVEN BE HEARD ON THE FOURTH FLOOR! WONDER WHY IT IS ALLOWED IN MALAYSIA AND AT SUCH AN EARLY HOUR IN THE MORNING TOO? IS THIS WHAT WE MEAN BY "MALAYSIA BOLEH" - i.e. WE CAN DO ANYTHING IN MALAYSIA INCLUDING KILLING PEOPLE SLOWLY WITH NOISE AND THREATENING THEM WITH VIOLENCE SHOULD THEY COMPLAIN?
In Malaysia, there are no laws to protects our basic rights. If someone were to put up a loud and deafening kitchen hood outside your window and turns it on for 17-18 hours a day, torturing you day and night with the noise i.e. chasing you out of your bedroom at 5.30 a.m. and forbidding you to sleep at 11.50 p.m., you cannot say or do anything about it. You can only bear the noise with fortitude. If you can't bear it, then go and buy a new house and move away. How many Malaysians are suffering from tinnitus because of this kind of noise? Similarly, if someone were to build a nuclear plant in front of your house, you will have to bear the radiation that comes from it with fortitude. Malaysians are not rich. Many of them can only afford to buy one house in their lifetime and even that they have to pay like hell. If they cannot stay in the house that they have worked so hard to pay for, where can they go? Should we allow selfish and irresponsible people who only think of their business to triumph in their evil deeds? Let us hope that the public would sympathize with our plight and sufferings and help us to put an end to yarl restaurant's noise pollution program. We are really dying from yarl restaurant's noise pollution program. PLEASE HELP US. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP US! WE REALLY CAN'T GO ON LIVING LIKE THIS ANYMORE. IT IS LIKE BEING TORTURED IN HELL. YES, WE ARE ACTUALLY LIVING IN HELL NOW WITH YARL RESTAURANT'S AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION PROGRAM. PLEASE HELP US! If there is nothing to cook, then yarl restaurant's noise pollution victims do not have to suffer anymore. Please do not let selfish and irresponsible people who sacrifice others for the sake of their business to triumph over their evil deeds. We may not be protected by the law but there is something which all of us can do. Let us all boycott this kind of people and their business so that they will not triumph over their evil deeds. Even though there isn't any laws to protect us, we can still do something to tell these selfish and irresponsible people that as human beings, we should be given our most basic rights i.e. the right to a safe and peaceful living.
