Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Traffic Congestion - Open Letter to KL Mayor

Dear Mr.Mayor,

As you are aware of the current horrendous condition of KL traffic especially during peak hours (it is normal to take about 60 minutes just to travel 10 km within KL to go home after work!!!), and it is getting worse by days lately.

We also understand that this requires a long term solution to resolve for good. Building more roads or more widening would be nice but this takes time, money and also causing more traffic congestion during construction.

It is an irony that most often than not, by the time the construction completed, the traffic volume has changed so much so that new road widening probably required as the project keeps dragging on with extension after extension of time without getting the contractor to pay penalty as preventive measure/deterrent.

The good news is there are still some rooms for us to improve on the current conditions at least for now without spending a King's ransom with instant results but need discipline from all parties concerned:

1). Ensure effective enforcement for no double or even treble parking especially along busy streets/road e.g. Jalan Binjai KL between 6pm to 8pm

2). Stop extending the deadlines for all road improvements works e.g. Jalan Cheras near Phoenix Plaza & 3rd mile Cheras roundabout near Velodrome - projects could have been completed long time ago and the obviously there is no urgency shown currently i.e. no night works and no works during weekend or public holidays? Can you image those Cheras folks have to go thru that crawl daily unnecessarily?

3). Effective programming of traffic lights timing for variation during weekday and weekends, morning and night (peak and non-peak). The timing programming for traffic lights at critical junctions could be easily refined and conducted every quarterly to make traffic control more effective during different time of the day or during weekday and weekends.

4). Do not issue permits for construction during peak hours (morning and evening peak) e.g. construction in front of US Embassy. No works allowed during those peak periods.

5). Enforcement on off-the-road policy during peak hours for heavy vehicles such as tractors, bulldozers, trucks, and big lorries as they are holding back traffic (before 7 am and after 7 pm during weekdays)

6). Implement new rules with effective enforcement for motorcycles to use only leftest lane instead of encouraging zig-zag riding behaviour which might also cause serious accident and massive traffic jams

7). Do not issue permits for (or ban) all road closure within city centre for any non-national or State typed events especially for private enterprises

8). Enforcement of illegal parking by buses and coaches along main streets and create special parking area for them after their normal operating hours (stadium parking area say after 10pm or their events) e.g. Illegal parking by outstation coaches along Jalan Davidson

These suggestion might require helps from other government agencies (Police, Transport & Works ministries, CLVB/Licensing boards ...etc) to implement but please do take the lead as we KLites are going thru hells daily (please check out Jalan Tun Razak after office hours!). It would help much more if you could take a ride on DBKL helicopter during peak hours to reconfirm the sources of the problems and to identify the bottlenecks. This would give you an immediate bird's eye view of the whole traffic condition during peak hours.

Mr. Mayor, please do something fast and something effective to resolve our daily agony and traffic chaos!

Thank you!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

"We are the Champion, my friend!"

Glitter Words

Manchester United is magics! One more trophy to the pool.... Charity Shield Winner 08/09, World Club Championship Champion 08/09, Barclays League Cup Champion 08/09 , and EPL Champion 08/09 for now.

Push on for the Europe Championship.... another trophy waiting for us to collect! Come on MU! Come on MU! Come on MU!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Life Is About Making Choices!

Socrates (469-399BC)
"I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living" (Apology 38a)

Life is also about making choices... which way you want to go?

God is fair, we are all gifted and have all the rights to choose. The question for each one of us is which life path is the right route for us? And there is not just one or right path, each one of us have our own preferences... we have the right to choose!

Making decision is the best things can happen to us in our life journey. There are no "rights" or "wrongs", just follow your conscience and make the right decision for yourself which is relevant at the point of time as long as it does NOT hurt anybody including ourselves. Thereafter, don't look back and keep moving forward and manage it even if the decision made was not the best at all time! If needed, to examine where we went wrong, fix it and move forward! Most often than not, it turns out to be some great decisions made of our lives!

Our perspective changes when we move forward with time, so decision might or might not be relevant at different points of time or when we grow older!

Making BAD decision is BETTER than making none and keep procrastinating..... In the extreme, if no decision could be made, then leave it with "do nothing" as the "decision"! Enjoy........! Life is beautiful!

Friday, May 15, 2009

A(H1N1) - Food For Thoughts

We were all shocked yesterday but not surprised over the news that this Flu strain finally reaches our shore due to the movement of people of this globalized world!

Based on the details from the newspapers, the patient arrived on Wednesday morning assuming he went thru the health screening for fever at the airport twice, he then went home and only hospitalized on Thursday and the announcement to public came in on Friday.

The whole journey lasted at least for more than 48 hours since he touched down in KLIA before our authority made such announcement to the public. Is it not too slow? What wrong if we make this announcement on Wednesday that there is a patient admitted to a hospital and suspected to have A(H1N1) flu-like syndrome but subject to further testing? We have exposed those people who are at the hospital to say the least on Wednesday by the late announcement!

He could have met, to say the least, or infected lots of people i.e. co-passenger, immigration officer, duty free shop/cafe assistant, taxi drivers, his family, friends, hospital staff/visitors, ....etc whom he came to contact with. Is it not this sounds alarming!

Are the measures put in place at the airport adequate to protect the people? Did the officers in charged of this health screening at KLIA or even at the point of departure at Newark NY conducted their duties diligently?

Have we, the authorities or W.H.O. done enough? Even people should think before traveling during this period if they do not feel comfortable or have flu like syndrome... are they ignorant, naive, or just stupidity? Was it that the flu did not manifest during the said journey back home from NY?

I do not have an answer for this.......

Thursday, May 14, 2009

If you put your heart to it and work hard enough.....

Whenever we try our best and the best is still not good enough, what shall we do ...?

Looking back in my life, I have many of such situations and things just did not work out at all but thankfully I did not give up but keep trying, working harder, and putting my heart to it (as I did not have a choice... LOL), I was amazed many times over that the final results as it turned out to be much much better than I could ever hope for... and I was happy!

It is true and scientifically proven to be possible due to the inner mental strength of each of us which we did not even know about. It was reported clinically that normal human beings limit oursleves to only about 15% of our capabilities and mental strength .... yes, we could still push further and you would be amazed with what we could achieve!

Give it a try and you would be amazed with how powerful your inner mental strength is and you will love the final results and be happy!

"If you can dream, it, you can do it" - Walt Disney

Monday, May 11, 2009

Life is alway beautiful beyond what we are doing?

When we are under tremendous pressure and stressed out, it is always good to take a breather by doing something differently even by walking around a different shopping mall/pasar malam to get some fresh air!

Life is more than just work (or studying for that matter!), we work because we need to maintain our family and to have a life. We do not live to work but work to live!

Life is how we want it to be instead of what life wants us to be. We take control of our life and not vice versa... If things are not working out right, there is something wrong. Either we change the situation or we change ourselves to adapt to the environment. Do not be afraid of change, it is always not pleasant initially as we are out of comfort zone beyond which, it opens up with lots of other new opportunities and possibilities!

Life is always great beyond what we are doing now... you can literally SMELL the freshness of it!

Give it a try and you would get a different perspective of things by taking a break or slow down your speed during daily life to see what LIFE is really about! Have fun!!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

What An Angel - Connie Talbot

If there is a passion in what we are doing like this of the little darling, Connie, everything is so much easier, enjoyable and fun!

BTW, this is the greatest voice that I have ever heard and she rendered this song so well...... she is so natural, gutsy and gifted! She is definitely over the rainbow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnRXmMn2Ag

Friday, May 8, 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Life is About How Well We Manage Disappointments


Life is a journey and not a destination ...

Life is not about celebration of success as success is no brainer and not challenging.

Life is about how well we manage our disappointments to rebound, recover and refresh to move on to scale further heights.

Every single disappointment brings us valuable lessons and make us stronger each time, and position us to take up further challenges ahead of us.

Take each disappointment as a blessing and makes us more resilient to the next ones to come ..... until we reach our final destination.

Cheer up. It can only be better tomorrow!