7th Month noise pollution
Sorry about this… this has nothing to do with biking but this is really quite…. argggg…
It’s the lunar 7th month and the noise pollution is really unbearable considering that my family do not have air conditioning system @ home.
Lion Dance
Dragon Dance,
Wayang…
You name it…
it’s 1130pm and they are still @ it.
SG has this law that there are not supposed to be such "noisy" activities after 11pm but like these people care.
So I decided to give a call to the Houguang NPC @ 11.10pm. Sgt Sharifa answered and told me that they will look into it. Dun ask me how I got to know this but it’s from experience… They (The cops) have set "priorities" for cases and for "noise pollution" cases… they are supposed to attend to it in 30 mins.
After 20 mins… I tried my luck and called them again… Sgt Shariffa answered and I asked her what was going on…. You will not believe their answer.
"Sorry but we are short of resources"
"We will attend to it once we have the man power"
I was like… WHAT!!!!!!
It’s not the resoultion of the noise pollution that I am concerned about…
But what happens if there are other cases??
e.g. Emergancy like gang fight… etc??
Same thing??
Sorry……..
IMHO…. There are some things that we… I as a citizen do not "expect" to hear from people like the police, and one of them is
"Sorry but we are short of resources"
"We will attend to it once we have the man power"
Anyway, it’s 11.40pm now… The noise juz stopped…
exactly 30 mins… But the thing is… I really never did expect the police to tell me such a thing.
It’s like hearing from your teacher from school…
"Sorry class, I forgot to revise this chapter before today… let’s do this lesson another time"
Are the authorities so reactive now a day?
e.g. An event that goes wrong…
Are they only waiting for something to happen then say… "Oh we are short of man power??"
Juz to side step alittle more…
Even for the case of the recent MRT break down….
Who is answering for this?? Is there a POR aka Post Outage Review or RCA Root Cause Analysis done?
Seems like the NKF lesson has not been fully been learnt yet.
*Sorry, has gotta be a Job hazzard… I work on SOX.
July 31st, 2006 at 8:37 am
Hum…let your humble govt servant explain this.
Basically there are only a few police patrol cars on duty at 1 time and they are on 2 shifts daily. And from my knowledge, there are quite a few policeman on leave or on MC everyday thus like there should be 5 patrol cars but becos of that it can cut down to 3-4 cars. So resources is indeed tight. And noise pollution takes a lower priority as there are other major crimes to take care of like thefts and outrage of modesty. Believe it or not, there are like on the average 5-7 cases of outrage of modesty at my place alone so can’t imagine how it’s like for other places.
But in any case…I hope u manage to catch some rest. Take care.
And 7th Month is always like that. There will be biddings, burnings, wayangs, singing etc. I guess we just have to tolerate it. We are a multi-racial country and thus we need to understand each other’s culture and religion and accept one another. And you know some of these biddings are for a good cause. This money is actually donated to the welfare homes and organisations etc and some are also given to the needy students as bursaries. So we should not just see things from the surface.
Hum…I hope I have paint a clearer picture
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:54 am
Hi Sista,
Thanx for the expalination. But even the officer also admitted that they were quite short handed and that’s why I did not persue further… Unlike of me in the past…
*Hint - Many pple actually nick named me Complaint King.
As for the GeTai… Well, it was not the bidding type… It was the TangKi Type… Possession + Wayang + Lion Dance + Dragon Dance + Chantings + Singing. (I thought I lived in a temple)
1. It was like a Street Evan for them cos many curious pple went to see, and they were “trying” to convince the people to “come”.
2. It was not for 1 day… It went on for a couple of dayz… Pengz.
3. The people who were there did not look friendly @ all… I was really worried for my family who sometimes go downstairs @ night.
What you mentioned is right but I really needed the sleep and to wake up really early the next morning.
