Public Reserved Land or Private Reserved Land?

In KL/PJ city, every inch of land is so precious that lot of people are trying to take advantage to gain extra inches of public land for private use.

This is original backyard view as built by the developer, a 10 feet buffer zone between the backyard with the road shoulder.


This is what had been extended by the house owner. The plants are cleared, and are replaced with a piece of concrete wall:


Is this legal? Can these house owners claim ownership of the 10 feet buffer zone land?

Better Public Transport for KL?

KL folks promised better public transport
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz | Jul 11, 08 6:25pm
Commuters in Kuala Lumpur have been assured of improvements in infrastructure and public transportation in line with the overall increase in transport costs.

As long as KL Monorail Stesen KL Sentral still remained in Brickfield, and not inside Stesen Sentral KL building, I doubt all the promises and plans.

By its name, public transport is meant for the use of the public, and not the local council, government or the operating company. Public interest should be put as the first priority in any public transport plan.

I used the KL Monorail to connect to Putra LRT at KL Sentral once. After that experience, I concluded that driving is still the better alternative to travel in KL, despite the traffic jams, occasional floods, and the recent petrol price hike.

News? Or Advertisement?

8pm is the prime time slot for news. For mandarin news viewers, you can choose either RTM2 or 8tv. 8tv definitely has the better newscasters and production crews. Their newscasters are fluent in delivering the message, and the messages are short and clear.

As opposed, though after the "rebranding" exercise, the only significant change I see in RTM2 Mandarin news is the recruitment of a batch of young and energetic newscasters. Technical glitches are still so frequent, volume is like yoyo, loud and soft and loud and soft, till you get intimidated. When there is a technical glitch, the newscaster will look stunned, and dunno what to do next.

If you think 8tv Mandarin news is good, not really. Watching 8tv Mandarin news is like watching advertisement. There are far too much advertisements in that half an hour slot. Often I felt I am not watching the news, but being brainwashed by certain advertisers. The negative effect is, I never buy that particular brand of product. Sorry, dear advertiser. You get what you deserved.

There are more important things to do!!

There are more important things for our leaders to do rather than just focusing on the Sri Damansara (S.D.) Kolomee.

- Inflation is at all time high, and we will see recession if nothing is being done.
- Crime rate is rocketing, you don't feel safe wherever you go.
- Dengue cases in Selangor are rising fast. Even if you choose to stay home to avoid being a crime victim, you might end up a dengue victim.
- ...

Come on! Let's do something for this country!

City Life? City Behaviour?

For those who are/were part of your RA committee, you will definite agree with me with the following human behaviors in a city community:

1. When you ring the door bell, whether to collect security fees, or to give away goodies, people inside the house will look out suspiciously, or send their maid to handle you. Or the best is still they will freeze themselves in the living hall, pretending that no one is at home.

2. If you are organizing a community event, and the event is a festive celebration event or makan event, the participation rate will be over whelming. But when it's a gotong royong event, ha.. ha ..

3. Still on gotong royong, not many people would want to dirty their hands to clean up the community, but won't mind dirty their hands for the free food. The best is still there are shameless people who just come for the food.

Ikut Kiri Jika Tidak Memotong

If you are driving along the new three lanes PLUS highway, you will notice the following drivers' behavior:

1. "Ikut Tengah Jika Tidak Memotong" - Keep Middle Lane Unless Overtaking
2. "Lorong Memotong Di Kiri Dan Kanan" - Use Left or Right Lanes For Overtaking

JPJ should really run a campaign to educate drivers on how to drive on a three lanes highway and "Ikut Kiri Jika Tidak Memotong" (or Keep Left Unless Overtaking).

Role of Police - Investigation or Administration?

Since young, I'd been watching a lot of Hong Kong drama and movies. I'd the impression that police's duty is to protect the citizens, and to investigate crimes.

In this country, we have half of the police forces (48.2%) doing administrations and logistics, where only a mere 9% is involved in crime investigation. (Read Minister of Home Affair's reply to Tony Pua's question here.)

When we are hoping that more polices will be recruited to fight crime, more police stations and "Pondok Polis Komuniti" were built indeed. Hope the authority can listen properly, what we need is more polices to protect us, and to investigate crime, we don't need more police stations for us to report crimes.