Attitude like rubbish

  Recently, my brother and I went to repair my car at a workshop in Pusat Bandar Utara, Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur near Pasar Borong Selayang Baru. I got a shock of my life when we entered that residential cum semi industrial area.

 

  My first question was: “Don’t they know where to throw their rubbish?”  To me it looks like the residents there have a bad attitude towards cleanliness and do not care about people’s health. 

  It is disgusting. I can’t imagine how the people there can put up with the stinking smell. It’s truly an eyesore.   

  According to a Malaysian shop owner there, for couple of years especially since the immigrant workers occupied these residential area they have turned most of the roadsides into a dumping ground.

  He said, residents have been putting up with maggots and flies that enter their homes and shops.

 As I went around that area, I saw some residents simply getting rid of their domestic and industrial waste wherever possible.   

  These shows how bad are the attitude of some people towards cleanliness. Hope the relevant authorities will take swift action before it causes other health related problems. 

  I also hope that this place will not turn into another dumpsite like the one along Kampung Retnam Pillay, Kuala Lumpur .

 Few days ago, The Star highlighted that the students of Chung Hwa Independent School and SK Sentul are greeted by flies and filth each time they walk to school along Kampung Retnam Pillay.

  The area in the village that is under a highway is the latest illegal dumping ground for people getting rid of their industrial and domestic waste. The pile has also extended to an empty plot of private land.

   I suggest that the government should soon launch a campaign with a slogan like: “Keep our country clean.” I believe, this will curb the rising dumping woes in our nation.

Posted on Star Citizen's Blog on Thursday, March 04, 2010

Comments

All it takes in any residential area are a few scumbags (usually low social standards immigrants)to filthy up a good neighbourhood and then you will see local scumbags joining them as it they are ia a pesta of rubbish throwing! Slogans and campaign may have a small effect because these scumbags don't really read anything you put up! The only way is to send in plain-clothes officers with hidden cameras and film all these scumbags throwing rubbish everywhere and then print out the photos and start to identify and arrest them for rubbish clearing punishment on Sundays! Once the see the filth in their hands and smell the disgusting smell of what they throw around, maybe they will learn!

By victorchew46, 4-Mar-2010

With the peoples'horrific attitude towards cleanliness, the Government should indeed launch a campaign with a slogan 'Keep our country dirty'. This I believe is also in line with the Government's dirty policy!

By darren5261, 4-Mar-2010

Slogans will not help us. The Gomen MUST do the RIGHT thing. All they ever do is SIT on their behind and wait for $$$ to fall on their lap. Go to any Gomen dept, sit down and observe what the public servants do, and you will come away, with disgust. Stop to look at those doing repair works for TNB, Jabatan AIR and so on, you will realise, Malaysians have a peculiar way of doing things. If work requires that 2 persons is sufficient, they will send 10, if not more to attend to it. So you may ask, how many technicians do they send, to change a light bulb? LOL.... you'll be surprised. That is why, the present Fed Gomen have to "FEED" such a BIG NUMBER of their "orang kita", with our tax $$$. (^_^)

By pierrelewis, 4-Mar-2010

kumarathevan, We can say the slogan in many places, KEEP our country clean. Shouting in front of police station, yelling in front of parliamentary building and everywhere, this slogan fits into very well. Selayang whole sale market and it surroundings are always filthy and smelly ever since I have known the place as old pasar borong and the new as well. Whose responsibility is to collect the rubbish whether it can be from household perishable, non perishable heavy items, garden waste and industrial waste? If we have to collect, pack and sent these to the dumpsters, why should we pay tax to the authorities? MPS building is not very far from this location. The relevant authorities also go for marketing in the same place which is not maintained regularly. Why do our wet markets look very dirty? Again whom should be blamed? Has The rubbish to be collected once every two days, if it is necessary dispose the rubbish once or twice a day to keep the place not only clean, but also prevent the wet items to decay in the market and the roadside. The conditions undervalued prestigious shop units, even few banks had vacated from this area and leave the upper units of these shop units to be rented out cheaply to the foreign workers. Building and having everything big, tall, technologically advanced and expensive is not important, but how do we maintain to have these facilities usable, intact and problem free is more important. Shall we send our civil servants and politicians to some crash course to educate them?

By lakshmiregu, 4-Mar-2010

Brother lakshmiregu, don't waste more public funds by sending our civil servants an dpoliticians to some crash courses to educate them lah! They cannot be further educated already! Cources are holidays for them where they are given top class accommodation and 5 to 6 meals a day. After a week they put on 10 Kg and work slower in the office! If you can find me 60% of the civil servants in any particular office that's not overweight, I give you a treat!

By victorchew46, 4-Mar-2010

I just hope the Selangor MBSA can read this, the back lane(public) at jalan 31/59 in Kota Kemuning Is piled up with rubbish thrown by those Bangladeshi workers at one of the factory. I once approached them and asked if they are the culprits and they just smile and answered 'YES'. To say that I was find( it took a group of 12 personnel to come into my factory to look for that offence I made) for a small piece of plastic behind my own factory compound is a million times less then what is found out there on the road!

By higs, 4-Mar-2010

In my neighbourhood at Century Gardens, a group of health fanatics come in the mornings from all over Johor Bahru to do TaiChee; they clean by sweeping their courts then dumping all the rubbish by the roadside. I confess if i know, where the said leader is staying, i'll employ and supervise someone to discard a lorry load of rubbish infront of his house - it a good deed deserves another. i am ashamed of myself that most of us, Malaysian Chinese do not care for the comfort of our fellow countrymen.

By stupidoldman, 4-Mar-2010

how to get the message thru? how to ask 'rubbish-in-the-form-of-humans' to take care of rubbish? might as well think of a way to throw out those 'walking rubbish' first.

By woody_invincible, 4-Mar-2010

Un-beetle-ble

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles... ...they call this muddle a puddle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battles. — Dr Seuss

Published in the Star thumbnails on Saturday, 27-February-2010


by Kumarathevan Balakrishnan


(A young man found a new pet - Goliath beetle in Cameron Highlands.)