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.

DJROA Activities for the Month of May 2009

A short note to inform that DJROA will be organising the following:

•  17 May, Sunday 7pm @ HEALTH TALK ON LIVER at DJROA Centre

FOC for DJROA Members. Non-Members = RM5

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• 22-24 May @ 3D/2N PANGKOR ISLAND TRIP

DJROA Member=RM270 per pax (3-4 paxs to a room) or RM320 per pax (Twin Sharing)

*Non-DJROA Member Add RM20 per pax

Package includes:

- Air-conditioned bus ride to and from Lumut

- Ferry to and from Pangkor

- 2 Nights stay at Sea View Hotel

- 2 Breakfasts, 2 Lunches and 2 Dinners at hotel (inclusive of 1 BBQ dinner)

- 1 Lunch at Sitiawan

Full payment must be made upon booking and non-refundable to cancel. Priority to       

         DJROA members and on a first come first served basis.

 

For Registration, pls call Joyce Wong at 016-655311 or DJROA Centre 03-77299098

        (9am-12noon) 

 

What on Earth were they Thinking Of?!

I happen to drive out and found the site of this RORO bin for the renovation works ridiculously positioned on the road.  What was the contractor thinking about.  Look at how much space they took up on the road. Imagine the width of the road when the opposite house owner decides to park their car outside as well.  In the end, the passerby has to squeeze through.

Also the contractor's workers often post a concern for neighbours around. Do they stay in the house during renovation and if they do, do they walk around our residence night time when they are not working. Are they scouts for potential thieves? or can they potentially  break in your house?  Can they observe your schedule and know details of you. 

Hard to say and unfair to blame. But that thought does cross my mind.  So for now,  the Security Committee is looking into getting the contractors for renovation to record the details of their workers coming into our residence.  This would include records of their subcontractors as well and any other and their profiles as well. A temporary pass will then be issued to them.

Let us hope when this is done,  we are able to identify those people who are working at the renovation and hope we can monitor their movements instead of the vice versa.

Just when you let your guard down

  And i thought i was vigilant. After the break-into my neighbour's house about 1 month earlier, i would stay awake till about 4am and go to bed,though i would take a nap between 9pm-12am.  This routine was daily, until last night when i was feeling really tired and went off to bed earlier.  LO AND BEHOLD! my laptop got stolen when i woke up in the morning.  And the crime took place without the criminal even (literally) breaking into my house.  

 No doors nor locks were broken. No damage done except the one broken window pane.  Difficult to imagine how he could have stolen my laptop right. Incidentally he managed to get hold of my camera too, so i could not post any images.

My house has an outside patio after the dining hall and a sliding door (grilled and perspect/glass door) separate the outside patio. The glass door can be pushed out of the groove and slide open to the end.  Once the thug did that, he pushed a long rod thru the grillwork and shoved my laptop off the console table in dining hall. The laptop fell to the floor where he kept shoving it to the grill door.  There is a gap between the grill door and the wall at the end of the sliding doors. The thug moved inch by inch the laptop to that gap. And there it is, that's how my laptop exited my house without a break in (in the literal sense).

Though only from the compound, the damage was done.  With my laptop, the precious photographs of my little boys went along.  I can only guess the thug(s) must have come in from the belukar flanking roads 6 and 8. So be on the alert my neighbours. 

Also i did the mistake last nite by forgetting to take my laptop upstairs. So dont leave any thing (especially the portable ones) visible for them to pry.

Here's hoping everyone will be safe from these hopeless creature of earth who steal and make life miserable for people.

A More Efficient Guard

On Thursday, April 30, I showed a photo of a guardhouse with door left open and no one in the guardhouse.
If you drive pass Road 4 today, you will see a different and a more efficient guard in Pondok B. Much to our benefit, at least this guard looks up at the traffic that passes by Road 4.
The other guard who had exercise a poor discretion to leave his post with door left opened has since resigned. There are members in our security committee who will take turns to ensure that we some form of monitoring is done on the guards.

Are you a Resident? (Part II)

I am referring to my post on Sunday 3 May 2009 particularly on the rules and regulations of public roads. When i highlighted these rules and regulations, i wanted to show that there are also guidelines to allow limited barriers too as everyone would know that obstructing traffic is not legal.

The one guideline indicates that it is important for the majority of the residents agree to have the barrier down. In fact, it is the opinion a certain lawyer who has written articles on gated communities, that there should be an overwhelming support from the residents for the barrier to be down. Well, I have been informed that this Selangor guidelines now allows 75% instead of 85% support from residents.

So, my posting is actually to encourage us, residents, to garner more support among ourselves to close the barrier gates even during daytime off peak hours. And we should especially encourage They are the ones that may be stopped by our guards to query.
No dissent = no or less problems reports to the authorities. .

My thought is that It would be a good way to screen whoever is coming into our area. I hope all of you share my thoughts too. Thanks.