Vote for 1Malaysia Song

Sending all the ss22A residents a link to select 1Malaysia song. Best do it, or the most horrible grunchy music gets selected. My recommendation for you to listen:

(i) Siti Nurhaliza/Aubrey Suwito's - Satu Malaysia
(ii) Audi Mok/Faizal Tahir - Malaysia Satu
(Siti Nurhaliza must have diva-ed her way to get that title before the rest did!!)
(iii) Ashroff Shariff's - Kami Anak Malaysia (not Sudirman's version)

Enjoy some of the others. Do select one.happy merdeka day.

http://www.1malaysia.com.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3334&Itemid=122

Beware of Bag Snatchers Even while You are driving.

Just the other night, one of our neighbour's daughter came home about 10.30pm. She hadn't realised that she was being followed by a motorist with a pillion rider. She passed our guardhouse and the barrier opened for her because she had the residents' car sticker but the motorcyclist rode quickly through the barrier by the side of her car. Within a few minutes, they managed to steal her handbag.

How? When she got home, she did see the motorbike coming towards so she didnt alight from her car but when they rode pass her, she thought the coast was clear and she got down from her car. Little did she know, that these thugs would ride back to her and break her car window (passenger side) and grab her handbag. By the time, the guards were alerted, the motorbike had zoomed out the barrier gate.

We ought to realise that when we see a motorcyclist, and as alert as we can be, we must anticipate them coming a second round. I was followed once(before the barrier gates were up) and when i got home, i realised a motorbike behind me. I drove on and believe it or not, he actually followed me for 3 rounds in the neighbourhood before they gave up on me.

Now, our security guards did take down the registration number of the motorbike but what they could not do in time was to locate where the motorbike had gone to. To this, i would suggest that they must buff up their response time. So it be told to the security company. However, we the residents ESPECIALLY ladies if we are coming home and driving alone, must also be alert for motorbikes, wherever we are and make sure that if they are tailing us within our neighborhood:

(i) drive to the guardhouse and wait there. tell the guards what is happening
(ii) or ask the patrolling guard to accompany you back to your house.
(iii)if he is still there, get the security guard to chase him off or get the security guard to call the police. or you may call the police yourself.
03-7726 2222 (the damansara utama police station)- they are quite prompt.

Take care.

Is this your Neighbour (Part 3)

The belukar of Roads 6 and 8 maybe a welcoming sight to its residents before the trees were cleared. The trees did prevent undergrowth and creepers which now poses as security treat because they cover view and creates a good hiding place for thugs to come into our residential area from the main road (ss22/43).

There is a dilapitated house by the side of the last house on Road 8 as seen in the photo. This house is a drug addict haunt as it has been left vacated for too long. Most of the part of the house are in ruins.

Now, this is definitely neighbours that we dont want. The land however, has been sold to a developer, who is in process of making this property and the adjacent property they bought into a 16 semid-d unit and 2 bungalow residential area. Just behind Road 8 and next to it.

What becomes more a headache for the people in Road 8 or even Road 6 is the traffic flow that will come when this new residential area opens. We, the residents of Road 6 and Road 8 do not want an access from the main road through to Road 6 or Road 8 to accommodate for ingress and egress into this residential area.

Should this happen the residents from this new area will come in and out via Roads 6 and 8. The width of our road cannot possibly accommodate for this influx of traffic flow. Each households have at least 2 cars parked outside of their house and this narrows the road.

In addition, allowing traffic to come through from the main road (ss22/43) will definitely pose a security problem for our residential area. We will have to increase our security measures and system throughout to accommodate for this change of traffic too.

We are also concerned if all the roads in SS22A can accommodate for the new development. Firstly, Road 1 is often congested with the school traffic plus the trucks coming in and out of the TOLs (temporary occupation with license). Then Road 4 is also a main thoroughfare for transporting picking up school kids. Road 2 is also congested with people parking their cars while waiting for school dismissal. If the residents of the new development are allowed to use our roads as entry point into their new development, we may have a mini traffic jam at the end of road 1.

Presently, the residents on Roads 6 and 8 have gathered to object this development and only agreeing to the developmental plans if there will be a small section of green lung as a barricade to a through road to Road 8 from ss22/43 (slip road therefrom).

It is with greatest hope that this matter which has gone to court will succeed and that the green lung we so hope for will be gazetted by the state authority. The developer has to apply for this gazette but before it is done, the developer must get its plans approved by MBPJ where it is utmostly hoped that money has not been used to buy favour.

All the best to us!! anyhow, we neighbours other than neighbours of Road 6 & 8 ought to stand together and be firm that we do not want more traffic into our area.

Is this your Neighbour? (Part 2)

After the TOLs area, comes a more shocking sight. To demarcate the land in SS22A, there is a big monsoon drain that runs tributary to the Sungai Kayu Ara on the West side of SS22A (ie behind Road 1).

Across the monsoon drain, there is an illegal settlement of squatters!. This squatters are situated inner side of Jalan Jenjarum which if you are coming in from SS23 you will see the Damansara Village Steamboat Restaurant supposedly to be owned by Patrick Teoh, the famous radio dj in the 70s -80s.

More shocking if you look into the monsoon drain. There are bushes, so it was difficult for me to capture a photo to show the rubbish strewn along the drain which comes from these squatters.

When the neighbourhood group met with the ADUN for this area, Elizabeth Wong, she said she will look into this matter. Apparently, squatters issue is a delicate issue amongst PKR's policies. For whatever reasons, we submitted that we feel these squatters have to be gotten rid off as they pose security threat to our area. These squatters house the very thieves that come into our area. All they have to do is jump over that measly monsoon drain which stinks but is not imposing enough nor wide or deep enough for these thieves to come across. Thereafter all they have to do is climb over a flimsy fence and there they are, at the end of Road 1 (on the TOLs section).

We have spoken to the TOLs to get their cooperation for barbed wires to put up on the fences as well. Hitherto, we are still waiting for their response.

Is this your Neighbour? (Part 1)

SS22A is an enclave community if you want to see it that way. Nice little high end kampung with close to 300 houses. Demographically, it is nestled in between Kampung Kayu Ara on the West and South West, SS23 on the South and SS22 of Damansara Jaya on the North and East.

Unfortunately, some of us(ss22A residents) have the misfortune to have nestled closer to somewhat a neighbour we dont particularly fancy.

At the end of Road 1, we have some TOLs (Temporary Operating Licence) holders where their residence plus place of business is situated. It creates quite an uncomfortable feel for the residents nearing the end of the road. Road 8 residents are also exposed to their operation by virtue of their backyard.

As neighbours, they may have left us alone and not really socialising with us. They do however, have vehicles carrying our their operation and they have 5tonne and above vehicles which are not a happy sight in our roads. On top of this, their suppliers or buyers vehicles come in to get their wares.

I have asked the TOLs operators about the number of vehicles that come in daily into the TOLs, they have told me that under normal circumstances, there are 70 vehicles (including motorbikes and vehicles of employees).

That is quite a lot of traffic flow when coupled up with the school vehicles ie vehicles of parents taking their children home from school.

The owner for the lots next to No.97 Road 1 ie the semi-d house on the road said that they have the title to their property and is known as No. 99 of Road 1.

In this caption, i wanted to show that although they may create heavy traffic flow, they do actually carry out some responsibility as good neighbours. Here, they are seen to carry out fogging, which they do quite periodically to ensure that mosquitoes level is kept at bay. In fact, they have even given me the registration numbers of all the vehicles that come and go into the TOLs area. Well, i havent done anything to do this. Perhaps i will propose something for the security committee.