From: "hwabeng" <hwabeng1@streamyx.com>
To: "'royczen'" <royczen@tm.net.my>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:22 PM
Subject: RE: Malaysia is dying
> Dear Roy Chan,
>
> Wah, I sympathise with you.
>
> As for me, thank God that my wife and I were not harmed. However, there
> were many carjacked victims that were harmed, some very seriously or
> killed. The recent Puchong case was probably a carjacked case too.
>
> Carjack is one thing. House burglaries and snatch thieves are also very
> common. How come Malaysia came into such situation? I myself cannot
> understand too.
>
> In Subang Jaya, I have tried my very best, like promoting neighbourhood
> committees, Rukun Tetangga, allow construction of drop gates and guard
> houses, dialogue with police, buying motor bikes and cars for police,
> sms alerts, etc.
>
> Recently, MPSJ has agreed to install 100 CCTV's in Subang Jaya which
> cost us a lot of monies. With all these things, SJ/USJ is still not a
> safe area. However, it is much better than a lot of other places.
>
> On my proposal, SJ has become a separate police district. By this move,
> the area under SJ Police District become smaller and hence better
> covered.
>
> Sunway is a unique area. Over there, it practices Safe Town Concept.
> The developer, Sunway Group, works jointly with the Sunway sub police
> station to take care of security. Sunway Group built the police
> station, provides the vans, accommodation and other costs. They even
> have joint patrol everyday. As such, crime is very very low there.
>
> How many developers are like Sunway Group?
>
> Yours In Service,
>
> Lee Hwa Beng
> ADUN Subang Jaya
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: royczen [mailto:royczen@tm.net.my]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:22 AM
> To: hwabeng@pc.jaring.my
> Subject: Malaysia is dying
> Importance: High
>
> Dear YB Lee Hwa Beng,
> Having read the sunday star article about YB Lee being one of the
> victims of carjacking crime, I symphatise with you. This is not only an
> insult to VIPs like you, but a great disgrace to the Malaysian
> government. Having known that YB Lee is one of the scarce crop of good
> wakil rakyat who really care for the well-being of Malaysian people, I
> couldn't help but have to mention again that crime on Malaysian ground
> is already at a critical stage.
> Also, it really indicates that our government is made up of a whole
> bunch of lousy, cocky taikoh-style personalities. The reason I say this,
> point 1, street lights at my place is totally out, and I am not talking
> about a few, but the whole residential area. Countless calls have been
> made to the local council MPKj, also smses sent to the so called YB
> responsible for this place, duplicates of complaints filed at the PMO,
> but we are in the dark for 3 months, except for some lighting from
> illegal internet cafes, and restaurants that occupy whole stretches of
> roadside parking spaces.
> And to imagine that I bought a shoplot to do business but yet end up
> losing out to people who don't have shoplots, who don't pay cukai pintu
> at all, makes me feel that I shouldn't have bought a shoplot but to do
> the same as those bully restaurateurs.
> Only recently, someone fell victim to a snatch thief, and my car was
> broken into and got ransacked. This may not be entirely due to lack of
> streetlights, you may say,but you have to admit that the town council
> has a responsibility to it.
> Point 2, despite all this, the authorities even have the balls to ask
> for an increase in cukai pintu. Guess what, an increase of more than
> 120%!! What type of a government is this? No lights for 3 months, and
> still counting.
> Point 3, We are looking towards Vision 2020, but we still see political
> parties only being interested in elections, spending loads of cash in
> by-elections, playing up concerts, seminars, feasts gatherings just to
> woo votes. I haven't read so much of Ijok and Machap news all my life
> than in the 2-weeks counting down to polling day for this 2 places,
> which is a shame because we all know that someone representing that
> place just died not long ago, and all the leaders and rakyat do is to
> rejoice over their death!! Is this our Malaysian state of mentality?
> Seems to me that, the existence of those 2 wakil rakyat didn't bring as
> much joy and hope as their demise, which paved the way for a new leaf,
> right?
>
> Point 4, as if it is not enough, the brainless leaders of our government
> even spent millions of taxed ringgit to
> construct glamorous buildings which, in quality terms, couldn't even
> compare with my RM54,000 apartment. AIthough 10 years after completion,
> I haven't experienced one ceiling leak that can match that of our
> Imigresen HQ. The lights never fell either. So what's the point of
> spending so many millions and yet cannot even match the workmanship of
> the developer for my cheap apartment. Doesn't that deduce that our
> leaders are all brainless?
> Point 5, our JPJ and Road transport minister are always too keen to
> introduce 'new' and 'creative' ways to 'reduce fatalities in road
> accidents'. Then again, it is also a waste of everybody's money and
> time. The minister is also wasting his life as a minister, thinking up
> ridiculous excuses and 'solutions' when in fact he should have looked at
> the correct issues.
> When you look at road accidents, any idiot who has reasonably done his
> Physics subject well at school, should be able to pinpoint that the
> cause of road fatalities are but only a few: Carelessness, Hastiness,
> Bad road designs and construction, Road unworthiness of vehicles. Even
> this, you could get to read in the Daddy Fixit column in the Sunday
> Star, but I doubt how many people really digest the info from there.
> Many a time, I personally witness some idiots driving haphazardly on the
> streets, judging by the way they handle their cars, I could most
> certainly arrive at a conclusion that an accident is imminent, then more
> often than not, also to yours and my disbelief, it happened moments
> later. To me, it is like an equation waiting for an answer. Which
> explains Physics can be felt and seen in our daily lives.
> I think it is time the government engage people who are proficient in
> physical momentum and geometry to look hard into this problem, our
> education system, be it at school or on the road, is really in bad
> shape.
> Do something before the Malaysian mentality deteriorates into an
> irreversible stage, then everything would be too late.
>
> Roy Chan
>
>
>
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