Is our voice faded... or just got covered by the noise

This might be a lengthy entry... but please go ahead and spend some time to read through this as this is the voice of the resident who stay near the irresponsible DUKE Highway Construction company who polluted and took away the quiet moment of the residents ...

Noise Noise why are you following me... I wanted a quiet moment in the evening... but the noise was kept bothering me ... first is the party @ downstair of my condo, Secondly is a bunch of noisy people shouting away in the quiet Starbucks... but the worst was to have to bear with this Bolehland Mighty project Duke Highway construction noise pollution.

This is how the noise in the morning within the working hour slot everyday ... which i could not make too much of complain and the only place i could avoid this noisy is bunk myself in Starbucks everyday. Sigh!

When i came back in the evening... The noise continues... hey, how could this happen as the DBKL authority have already set guideline that there is no work after 6pm and no work on Sunday too...

Starting last Saturday night (Dec 13th 2008), the DUKE highway construction company has became worst...they has started to ignore resident's complain and just went ahead with the construction. The work overtime thingy has continued through until yesterday (Dec 18th 2008)... The noise was unbearable especially after a stressful day in the workplace ... when came back home still need to bear with the noise @ home.

December 13th 2008 - Saturday

DUKE Highway construction company has continued its operation until very late at night which they basically has ignored the resident's complain and came back with this text

" I have checked with my contractor no one is working. Maybe its the KTM project."

No doubt, there is a KTM project but there was not work done on that night. I was standing from my balcony and i could overlook who is working and who is not. Moreover, since when the KTM project went over to help out in the DUKE highway project ... what a joke!

And here is the truth and i took this from my balcony...

Please don't ask me what are they doing ... I'm not in the position to answer this question but even a kids also know they are working on something and it's definitely not KTM who were working... Is not a railway track eh!...

December 14th 2008 - Sunday

Sunday! no work day right? No! ... the construction still on with all the knocking, banning and even the machine... again, the resident did not have a peaceful Sunday... Sigh! Especially the condominium as voice travel up and amplified... the highest the louder it is ... again no action was taken ... construction still on.

Lots of knocking and hammering, sawing etc...

Crane is working on digging ... errrr... another noise pollution.

Even work @ Sunday night :(

December 15th 2008 - Monday

This was an interesting day ... why i say so? We received a notification on the text from our lovely DUKE Highway Construction company

"we are still concreting bored pile @ condo area. Pile 23m deep. Works delay due to drilling machine breakdown. Work expected to complete by 9:00pm. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. from XXXXXX"

I went back about 8pm what i noticed it was not only concreting the bored but they were doing all others stuff... And immediately the resident launched a complain again as it was too noisy even more noise then in the morning... It got worsen then the other two days. Basically they have totally ignored us... Just wondered whether is our voice got faded ... *Sad Sad* Again without failed i took couple of pictures. Btw, as a resident, shall we pity them as they were basically playing a fool on us... thought we don't know what is concreting the bored means... hey Duke Highway Construction project director.. please do not think we are dump... :-(

This is bored pile concreting... I agreed!

Is this bored pile concreting too beyond the ground... hahahah, joke of the year?

How about this ? Bored pile concreting eh!... What a big joke?

What were they doing? Only the DUKE Highway Construction Company knew...

Bird eye view of the construction company work over the allocated working hour

December 16th 2008 - Tuesday

Again ... the same thing happened in Tuesday... I was not at home so i didn't take any picture One of my friend from the neighborhood did took this picture shown that they were lying again on the concreting bored pile... Should we belief them again in the future ... What should we do to stop this nightmare?

December 17th 2008 - Wednesday

The Duke Highway Construction person contact basically switched off his phone... I could not get hold of him but i managed to get hold the operation director and commanded him to ceased the operation immediately as it's was over the limit. Already 5th day on the row. Later the committee has decided to wrote an urgent letter to DBKL to request the DBKL to enforce the guideline on this construction site....

Working after 6pm on bored pile... :( concrete truck still delivering.

Violated DBKL guideline - working over the 6pm

December 18th 2008 - Thursday

I went back about 8pm, still they were working as i managed to take another shots of light on construction sites... what are they doing? Please ask the DUKE Highway construction... wheather they tell the truth or not ? You have to judge yourself as the residents have lost trust on the construction company.

What are they doing? errrrr... I have no idea

December 19th 2008

Will they work overtime again ... Yet to know but i would say likely they will work overtime today too... given outside is raining now. Sigh! another day of none quiet evening.

Anyway, it's a nightmare for the residents near the DUKE Highway Construction site... With the lose control from the authorities has even placed an additional nightmare to the resident... I wish the authority could enforce the DUKE Highway Construction company to a bid to the construction working hour guideline and help the residents to gain back their peaceful evening. The residents in need of this as after the whole day of noise pollution and stressful day @ work.

More pictures on DUKE Highway construction

Others entries on Duke Highway Construction

Note:

DBKL = Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur ( Kuala Lumpur City Hall)

DUKE = Duta Ulu Klang Expressway

Thank you for your time on reading through this lengthy entry and appreciate for your comments... :)

It's an aimless Monday again...

Everyone is so busy catching up their work before Xmas... I was so bored sitting in front of the computer and become an unproductive object ... Sigh! 

Nothing much happening and i don't know what to have for lunch. Lazy to hit the gym too as i have a tough workout during the weekend... 2hrs pilate class on Saturday @ FF-Maxis and 2 hrs weight training @ FF-Axis yesterday...  

I gotta deal with the noisy construction site if i stay @ home ... Sigh!

taken from my balcony... 

Sigh! I gotta to go to the starbucks to avoid the noise pollution from the construction site. :(  In the meantime, My friend need some help on his .Net coding ... I was not technical enough to help him ... Sigh!

What an aimless Monday for TZ!...

I will follow you... who?

I was having my peaceful moment in Starbucks Jaya One in the Friday evening since 9:30pm sipping my customized made coffee from the barrister... The Jaya One Starbucks is a nice place to have a peaceful moment. The music was just nice for the volume, the barrister were so friendly and the environment is so comfortable with a nice library type of table. In short i was enjoying the quiet moment and doing some reading...

The quiet moment in the lovely Starbucks has destroyed by this bunch of people that came in and generate all the annoying laugh, shouting away... even a child @ the other table was sitting quietly... Hey, this is Starbucks not Old Town Cafe, if you wanted to shout out loud... there is a Old Town Cafe @ one floor down... there you could shout out loud until you lost your voice. People who are visited Starbucks usually whisper and speak softly. I just don't know where was this bunch of people came from... jungle! errrr... shouting and laughing like nobody business. I was so pissed and i would describe them with a single word " Uncivilized" :p

The noisy bunch sitting @ the couch

Guess what? There were another three more uncivilized people just walked in... *Sad Sad* I think i should make a move.

What a noisy Friday Night @ the expected quiet Starbucks... Sigh!
Two nights in a row... Sigh! <-- noise pollution.

Noise Pollution...

Annoying neighbor (not my direct neighbor) who were throwing a poolside wedding party... has produced unbearable noise pollution to the whole community. The music was blasted super duper loud as if i switched on my own radio @ my own unit. 

9:00pm: The moment i opened the door and walked into my unit... I heard loud music. I was surprised that my parent were listening to the radio... when i listened carefully it was some tamil songs... errrr... then i realized the sound was coming from downstair.

9:10pm: I didn't bother to make any complain as i was busy washing my gym clothing at the same time taking my shower. 

9:30pm: The music was getting louder and louder until i could not stand anymore... that's it TZ was going insane with the music if he's not complaining on the loud music. I straightaway picked up the intercom and called for the security guard @ the guardhouse.

Security: Good evening, May i help you? 

Me: Good evening... Yes! I just wondered is it possible to request the party organizer to slow down the music. 

Security: Sir, they are having the wedding party @ the poolside.

Me: I know...

Security: But sir... it's a wedding party...

Me: Wedding party, so what? they don't have the rights to blast the music and bother the whole community. I would suggest them to slow down the music immediately... (my tone was a bit unhappy, i belief the security guard felt that)

Security: Sir, let me handle and get back to you.

Me: Ok! Thank you for your help. 

I just hang up the intercom caller back to the wall. I told my dad that i would give the security guard about 15mins to settle the matter before i launched my 2nd complain. I patiently waited for the 15 mins.

9:45pm: The party was getting even hotter and the volume of the music was increasing rather than decreasing... moreover, the party organizer had triggered a mini fireworks @ the poolside which i personally thinks that it's too dangerous to have it especially within the 4 blocks of the high rise building. I was so pissed and tried to take a picture unfortunately i was too later. When i was about to call the security and launched the 2nd complain. The loudness music has slowed down. No complain needed :) 

Guess what? The security didn't even get back to me, anyway, they have solved the issue... 

Dear Security, thanks you for the quick response... 

The loud music didn't bother me anymore... 

10:15pm: The music was bearable and hardly could hear it from my room... Half and hour later the music has totally stopped. We have gained back the quiet Thursday night.

Anyway, I'm going to pay a visit to the management office to iron two main items
1. Request the management to have a house rules on how loud the volume of the music could be for every single party @ the poolside. In regardless of which day of the week.
2. No fireworks display within the premises. This is for safety concern. The condominium compound is too small to have fireworks display.

As i got up early today to drive over to Fitness First Axis for my gym session. I was planning to hit the bed as early as 10pm but until now i still could not fall asleep... i bet i was so pissed off with the noise pollution... sigh! 

What a noisy and pissed night!