go to MCA  ..do a press conference..half of yarl restaurant customers are PDRM fellas.they won do sh*t cause they always lepak there...

Thanks for your advice. I am beginning to see it now. No wonder the police didn't want to do anything. I suppose one roti canai and teh tarik would be enough to shut them up. After all, Malaysia is well-known for its corruption. You can read "Malaysia One of the Most Corrupt Nations" at http://malaysianinsider.com/malaysia/artic...ns-survey-shows

now u know, good for you

why you no use your god given tongkat to escape poverty?

Brickfields is actually getting worse towards Deepavali.

I understand that it's normal to have festivities towards a celebration but to play extremely loud music and mercun until 1 am every weekday for a month is really badlah...

This happens every year - DBKL and police complaints have done nothing! Not sure if the parliament rep even wants to do anything because they're scared of losing votes in this area.

I remember when the election campaign was on - Najib  personally came down here to make tremendous amounts of noise with a whole RTM (Radio Teruk) concert and fireworks. It was really terrible and uncivilized.

He's so desperate that he even made 1001 empty promises to Hindraf. Takut gila...

I guess if all the MAS and AirAsia pilots who live around here can't get good sleep then well...you know the cause of accidents.

I hope they can institute a noise ban or something here from 10pm to 9am. But my hopes aren't high. After all we did trap ourselves into this fallacy of democracy after so many years. And those in power will keep us trapped...

Well... and they're still going at it at 3 am...

Today is Sunday and I am supposed to sleep late but I can't. At 6.20 am I was awakened by the loud noise emanating from the kitchen hood of a nearby restaurant. Just can't afford to sleep anymore. Today (8 September 2013), I lost my self-control and instead of enjoying my beauty sleep, here I am sitting down in front of my computer and writing this article even though I am still very sleepy.

Well, before I proceed any further, I would like to ask my readers these questions? Would any one of you like to be told that you must wake up at a certain hour in the morning (at 5.00 - 6.00 a.m.) irrespective of what time you may sleep the night before every day even on Sundays? Would you mind if you were not allowed to stay in your bedroom from morning until night? You can only go into your bedroom to sleep at night. For months, nine months, this is what I have been suffering. Since January this year, Yarl restaurant (the kitchen hood of this restaurant is shown in the picture below) has been emanating continuous loud noise from morning till around midnight. Once (31st March 2013) it even started operation at about 5.20 am making it impossible for the flat dwellers of Tong Fatt Building, Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad to sleep as the kitchen hood is just opposite their bedroom windows (to be precise No 123-135, Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad - the flats with bedroom windows facing the back of the building). And when did Yarl Restaurant close the night before (30th March 2013)? At 12 midnight. Would you mind if you were allowed to sleep for only 5 hours and 20 minutes and on a Sunday too? I do not know what the rights of an ordinary citizen in Malaysia are but the Lynas case makes me feel that if you were unlucky enough to have some new business operating in your area causing you a lot of inconvenience, the only thing you can do is to buy a new house and move away. If you can't afford a new house, just admit that it's your fate.

I am writing this article on behalf of the Tong Fatt Buidling flat dwellers (Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad) who have been suffering from endless noise since this restaurant started operation in January this year. Prior to that, we enjoyed a peaceful life but this peace is no more. The whole area is polluted with noise and of course there is always curry in the air. This means that if you put out your clothes to dry in the balcony, your clothes would have curry smell on them. And if you were these clothes, you would smell of curry too. How would you like that? The whole building seems to be vibrating with noise and school children can no longer study in their own rooms. They have to stay in the living room with their parents who are watching TV to do their revision in front of the TV. When I was a kid, I used to sit on the balcony to study but this is no longer possible now. If you sit on the balcony to study, it is likely that you will end up deaf. We can't even go into our rooms until around midnight after the restaurant closes. In the mornings, there is a natural alarm clock that makes you jump out of bed when the restaurant turns the kitchen hood on. Just have to pray to God that we won't fall sick because we can't rest in our rooms until around midnight. We can only sleep on the sofa in the living room if we were sick. I just can't imagine what would happen to my mom if she were still alive now. She died of cancer - just imagine how a cancer patient could cope if she can't even sleep in her bedroom without being disturb continuously by the noise from the kitchen hood? One of my neighbors even lost her tenants because they can't bear the noise. Can't blame them. The noise is unbearable. No doubt, the value of the flats would also drop because no one would buy a flat that is polluted with noise. If we have no choice but to stay in the room then we must turn on the CD player loudly to cover the deafening motor noise from the restaurant. As I am typing this article, I have to turn on my CD player. At least the songs can cover up part of the kitchen hood noise.

I have reported the case to the police (sometime in May) but they are not doing anything about it. I lodged a police report again this morning at 6.20 a.m. at the Brickfields police station which I was told is located in Jalan Klang Lama but so far there isn't any news from them. I hope to get some advice from my readers. Who can I report this incident to and what action can be taken against the selfish and irresponsible restaurant owner? This noise is affecting our health terribly. I understand now what it means to have a house but you cannot live in it because your health is threatened. I am beginning to admire the animals in the zoo because they are living in a much more peaceful environment than the flat dwellers of Tong Fatt Building, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

In the photo below you can see the back of Yarl Restaurant and its kitchen hood - where the noise comes from. The front of the restaurant is facing the YMCA field. This is the back lane with lots of rubbish around and flies of course since rubbish attracts flies. Walk straight along the back lane and you can see the market. Brickfields Asia College is further down. The address of the restaurant is 50, Jalan Padang Belia, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. If the selfish and irresponsible owner of this restaurant wants to do his business, he can do so as long as he does not interfere with the health and well-being of others. Why sacrifice others for his business? Restaurant Lee Tong Kee next to it has been operating for years without any noise. Restaurant Vogue opens at 10.00 a.m. and closes at 10.00 p.m. It's kitchen hood is facing the kitchen of the flat and therefore doesn't affect anyone. Why is Yarl restaurant a nuisance in the neighbourhood? The major reason is because its operating hours are too long and therefore its victims have no chance of escape. Why should Yarl Restaurant put its kitchen hood right in front of people's bedroom windows and starts making loud, deafening, and continuous noise so early in the morning and late into the night? Please read Part 2 of this article at http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2962198 and part 3 at https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2975198

You can also visit our Facebook at "Pencemaran Bunyi di Brickfields" and our blog at http://zorro2013questforjustice.blogspot.com/
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This morning (5 October 2013), Yarl restaurant started operation at 6.10 a.m. As usual, I had to jump out of my bed and look for a place where I could sleep without being disturbed by noise in my bedroom but of course there was none. I worked late last night and although I tried to sleep as early as possible knowing that I couldn't sleep when Yarl restaurant turns on the kitchen hood, I could only sleep at 12 midnight. I had no choice but to press two pillows on my earlobes for two hours and tried to sleep because I have a lot of things to settle today and I don't want to feel sleepy the whole day. . I am having painful earlobes now. I also feel guilty for not being able to provide a proper place for my wife and children to sleep (on a Saturday, my children do not go to school and my wife does not work. At 6.10 a.m., when Yarl restaurant turned on the kitchen hood, theyrushed to the living room and slept on the floor). Despite having reported repeatedly to DBKL and still no action is taken, I have lost all my patience and have made up my mind to start a blog and write about human rights in Malaysia. Why human rights? Because my family and I are suffering like dogs being deprived of the most basic human rights.
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This morning (Saturday, 12 October 2013), I was awaken once again at 5.55 a.m. by Yarl restaurant's loud and deafening kitchen hood noise. Not only do I have painful earlobes but a stiff neck as well because I had to press two pillows hard on one year whilst the other ear was pressed onto the mattress making it impossible for me to move my head when I sleep. But even though I tried to cover my ears with the pillows and mattress, the loud and deafening noise of the kitchen hood could  still be heard clearly. I used to ask my wife not to use the blender at such an early hour in the morning because the loud noise from the blender would disturb the neighbours. Yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise is much, much, much, much more louder than the blender and at 5.55 a.m. in the morning, when there is pindrop silence everywhere in the neighbourhood, yarl retaurant's kitchen hood noise is indeed a great nuisance to everyone. This is because the kitchen hood noise is waking everyone up irrespective of who they are failing to take into consideration the fact that many people do not work during the weekends and prefer to wake up later than usual. There are also people who work in shifts and do not have to get up that early in the morning. Since this is what is happening to the yarl restaurant victims everyday, it not only shows how selfish and irresponsible yarl restaurant's owner is but is also a gross violation of human rights - depriving the Malaysian citizens the right to sleep. It's time we put a stop to this kind of nuisance so that there will be peace once more in the neighbourhood.

Ooi, you melei right?

You suppose to wake up at 6 to sembahyang.

I also wake up at 6 to sembahyang though i not melei...because near my house got indication to wake up at 6.

Remember, once you get up to pray, you will never get to sleep again because of yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise and you will suffer from lack of sleep all the time. That's why I am saying that my every move is controlled by yarl restaurant. Cannot watch football till the wee hours of the morning - have to give up football for yarl restaurant's sake even though I love football. Cannot go out at night - no more night shopping, no more visiting friends at night, no more parties at night, no more midnight movies, and no more telephone conversations at night because I must sleep once yarl restaurant turns off its kitchen hood. I have to give up all the things that I loved to do because of yarl restaurant including my prayers. Why am I complaining? Because there are so many things that yarl restaurant prohibits me to do. I am just like a prisoner without the rights to do what I should do. More at Yarl restaurant's boss should be fined for noise pollution

I also forced to wake up at 6am and rearrange my whole time table but i am not complaining. \

Would it be too much if we were to ask you to perhaps provide a video recording of what's going on?

sorry to hear this, and btw, good command of english

Why you dont rent elsewhere

This is my own house. Rental is expensive in Kuala Lumpur.

dude now its time 4 u to use the Bumiputera/Malay card

go complain u cannot hear call to prayer because of the Yarl's kitchen hood. complain dat the noise makes it hard for u to pray 5 times a day.

after highlighting the religious points den only u highlight how the kitchen hood noise affects other aspects of your daily life.

i know its a misuse of religion but in Malaysia this is the only thing that will give u a fast solution to your prob.

Would it be too much if we were to ask you to perhaps provide a video recording of what's going on?

But installing something inside the kitchen hood would mean that the restaurant owner would have to pay more. I don't think he will. I lodged another police report at the Brickfields police station (Jalan Klang Lama) this morning at 6.30 a.m. The police came and warned the restaurant owner. Now is already 11.00 p.m. but the noise from the kitchen hood is as loud as ever. The restaurant owner only thinks of himself and his business.

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