Get to Know your Security Guard (Part IV)

This is Liwon. He is one of the 2 supervisors for the guards. A familiar face and always very attentive. One of the longer standing guards and i think(let me confirm this later) has been around as our guard for close to 2 years. Takes his work very seriously. He was the one guard who would alight from his bike and walk around the fringes of the belukar during his night shift. Now with the extra guard, the 2 of them make a good team ensuring the road 6 and road 8 are safer.

Get To Know the Security Guard (Part III)

This is Anandurai, another local guard who is the night shift guard only. He is responsible for the patrolling along Road 6 and Road 8 from 2am to 6am in the morning. This is the time frame that many attempted break-ins or break-ins happened prior to the extra guard shift. Thank goodness for him!

Get to Know the Security Guard (Part II)

This is Zainal Abidin, (no not the famous malaysia footballer but our guard). This one of the local guards during the morning shift.

Get to Know The Security Guard (Part I)

This is my first part of posting photo of our security guards for easier identification of our guards. Sure, we can identify them from the uniform they wear ie the Blue shirt with a yellow vest and the company logo- Wahad Securities, but if you have yet to see how they look up close, this postings will help.

This is the morning shift security guard and his name is Mohan Ole. He is a Nepalese. My apologies for not being able to supply bio-datas. When i get it, i will edit this post. All i kind say now, is he is not very tall huh? (nasty me).

For those who do not know the schedule of the guards shift. The morning shift starts from 745am to 745pm. The night shift guards take the next 12 hours.

Updates on Break-ins

Firstly, i must say, i never expected to hear from readers that i havent been blogging. Mere rantings of mine but at least it keeps some residents who are away from our neighbourhood in touch with what is going on around. Thanks to those reminding me to do my rantings more frequently. :-)

As we recall, the spate of break-ins at Road 6 and Road 8 houses, brought about plenty of worries. I for one, took to waking up at 4am every morning. I would switched on the lights in my house to make known that the people in the house are awake....ie DONT COME STEAL MY STUFF AGAIN!! Other neighbours also observed some night duties from inside their homes. We stayed vigilant! 6 break-ins in 2 1/2 months (from March to June). We were furious!

There were police dialogues to which Community Policing was brought up and the police sent patrolling cars which pretty much did not create an impact by coming in during daytime when the thugs were coming in at night.

But one incident lead me to call the police and they reacted very ....i say it again very promptly (within 5minutes). Our own security guards saw 2 men going into the belukar that flanks road 6 and road 8 about 130am and i got up upon hearing the rev of the guards motorbike approaching the belukar. My house is the 2nd houses away from the belukar. So i went out to ask the guard who was pacing up and down making sure, no one would have come through. But i decided to call the police and asked for police patrol to show their presence thus warding off those 2 men if they were still hiding in the belukar.

To my surprise, not only did the police come promptly, 2 patrol cars came. I didnt know whether that was efficient use of their patrolling schedules but their presence, surely would have been intimidating. There they were, 5 police officers, tall and well- build making their presence known. Unfortunately, i wouldnt have said it was any heroic attempt because they didnt go into the belukar to hunt down those 2 thugs (who are probably drug addicts too).

Also by then, the residents along Road 6 and Road 8 had collected funds to put up barbed wires at the fringe of the belukar along the fence.

Even then, there were still some attempted break in along Road 8 and the thugs were coming in from the squatters area. All they have to do is just jump across the Monsoon drain. One of the neighbour woke up when his alarm went off and when he came downstairs, he could hear people talking at the back of his house. Together with our guard and his immediate neighbour(my vote as the most helpful neighbour), they surveyed the back of his house the early hours of the morning. Of course by then, the thugs would have left.

Alarms would ring nitghtly and strayed dogs were barked constantly towards the belukar. So the residents discussed and decided that a 4th guard patrolling along Road 6 and Road 8 was a necessity. Else no one would sleep!

Now, there there is a 4th guard for the night shift. He patrols only along road 6 and road 8 from 2am to 6am everyday.

With this, there is less worry and more sleep.........

Parents' Day Celebration

DJROA has organised a Parents' Day celebration (supposedly Mothers' and Fathers' Day celebration altogether) on 20th June 2009 730pm at the DJROA Community Center, 1A Jalan ss 22/26, Damansara Jaya.

It is a potluck do, so you may bring food suitable for all. Programs for the nite include Karaoke, Line Dancing, Carom, Mahjong and games.

For further information you may call the Community Center @ 03-77299098 or Joyce Wong @ 016 3553111.

Thanks.

Multiracial neighbours

Today, as i read Anas Zubedy's uniquely conscientious efforts to recolour May 13th (as he calls it),  I somehow, thought about the forms to fill in for setting up Rukun Tetangga(which is now under purview of the Unity Department).  One of the requirements was to list out the percentage of the different races that resides in our area.  

Hence, this photo caption.  Here is a Malay (Indian Muslim i believe) and a Chinese-run coffee shop as its neighbour.  This is good, i said to myself. There is multiracial integration.

Nonetheless, within our residential, it is not so. In SS22A,  we only have a handful of Malay families and Indian families.  We are predominantly Chinese.  It is funny how residential areas progressed to set a disparity in the racial distribution of the community.  And it will become a pattern for intended house buyers for this area too.  One Malay family may say that there too many Chinese living in this area and hence may not consider this most welcoming.

I fear this is some form of polarisation.  When i was growing up, my parents  had a Singhalese neighbour who married a chinese wife. He had 16 children who in turn married other races as well.  There was fun in that family, big and like a melting pot of everything, they were still Malaysians. It was nice to have different race neighbours.  We can learn much about their cultures, beliefs and practices. It is always good to be able to learn their good values and adopt it in our lives.  

But why then, is our area predominantly a chinese area?  Did See Hoy Chan(/Paramount garden) group only targetted at Chinese buyers when they were developing this area? Was this development more appealing to Chinese? if so, why? 

As Anas Zubedy, launches his book "Have a Meaningful Malaysia" to unite Malaysians,  I cant help thinking that we should also find a way to make more races of Malaysia to stay or live together in a community. 

Here's  hoping for unity of community without disparity.