Comments on: The construction of noise – Singapore de-constructed http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/ Singapore's #1 Socio-Political Site Thu, 24 May 2012 15:26:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lene Leng http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-232278 Lene Leng Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:50:58 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-232278 465, Crawford Lane. The construction is going on everyway.. causing extreme noise pollution, anywhere to complaint? 465, Crawford Lane. The construction is going on everyway.. causing extreme noise pollution, anywhere to complaint?

]]> By: Hamsavani http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-211815 Hamsavani Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:48:06 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-211815 I am astudent at CHIJ and am doing a project on noise pollustion in Singapore. Can I contact you if I need more infomation, please> I am astudent at CHIJ and am doing a project on noise pollustion in Singapore. Can I contact you if I need more infomation, please>

]]> By: Is http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-126283 Is Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:47:29 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-126283 Congratulations everyone!! TV Mobile (that scum) is dead and gone! to Cynthia: you do have a point, there are many other factors. But noise pollution CAN drive you mad. I live in a place where there's a construction site right next door. Some housing estate development that the Far East crooks are constructing. The noise is non stop. Imagine waking up to KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK everyday. Gone are the peaceful days of being at home. I've tried ear plugs but it's so loud that ear plugs don't help much. I'm going mad really. Congratulations everyone!! TV Mobile (that scum) is dead and gone!

to Cynthia: you do have a point, there are many other factors.

But noise pollution CAN drive you mad. I live in a place where there’s a construction site right next door. Some housing estate development that the Far East crooks are constructing.

The noise is non stop. Imagine waking up to KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK everyday. Gone are the peaceful days of being at home. I’ve tried ear plugs but it’s so loud that ear plugs don’t help much.

I’m going mad really.

]]> By: Cythia Poon http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-120707 Cythia Poon Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:15:07 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-120707 Dear Sir/madam, with regardas to your stand that noise pollution seems to be responsible for the fact that Singaporeans are ranked 131st in the Happiness Index worldwide. But should we not consider the fact that there are also other significant factors like increased workload, increased competition and higher living costs? Dear Sir/madam, with regardas to your stand that noise pollution seems to be responsible for the fact that Singaporeans are ranked 131st in the Happiness Index worldwide. But should we not consider the fact that there are also other significant factors like increased workload, increased competition and higher living costs?

]]> By: mice is nice http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-96505 mice is nice Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:12:17 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-96505 "no choice, must give companies some business mah, you all only know how to make noise about noise." :P “no choice, must give companies some business mah, you all only know how to make noise about noise.”

:P

]]> By: racco http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-96500 racco Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:58:04 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-96500 I should add that they have been working like this for the last month I have complained multiple times to the NEA with no results I should add that they have been working like this for the last month I have complained multiple times to the NEA with no results

]]> By: racco http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-96498 racco Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:53:51 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-96498 It is currently midnight on Monday and I am sat watching concrete lorries turn up at the construction site opposite. I would go to bed but there seems very little point as it is far to loud and I am losing to the will to live. It is currently midnight on Monday and I am sat watching concrete lorries turn up at the construction site opposite. I would go to bed but there seems very little point as it is far to loud and I am losing to the will to live.

]]> By: singapore! http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-90187 singapore! Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:10:29 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-90187 it's so noisy near the construction sites, my office is at orchard road and we can hear all the drilling noises ( from like Ion, scotts etc.) it's really disturbing it’s so noisy near the construction sites, my office is at orchard road and we can hear all the drilling noises ( from like Ion, scotts etc.) it’s really disturbing

]]> By: EXPAT EXODUS http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-84063 EXPAT EXODUS Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:32:06 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-84063 If Singapore wants to increase BIRTH RATE, or at the least PREVENT PROPERTY MARKET VOLATILITY, the first thing they have to do, is to REDUCE NOISE POLLUTION. All EXPAT ENCLAVES have been turned into NOISE HELL ENCLAVES. Thanks to DEVELOPMENT GREED and RAMPANT CONSTRUCTION. Good units in prime areas are being dumped. People keep looking around for quieter units, yet being trapped few months down the line by yet ANOTHER HOT NEW CONSTRUCTION! This madness creates AN ARTIFICIAL DEMAND for high end properties in the last two years. But IT WILL NOT LAST. Soon REALITY WILL CATCH UP WITH INHUMAN PUBLIC POLICIES. Singapore boasts itself as a"GARDEN CITY". Visually, yes, Singapore is green. But do you want to among greenness and posh furnishing - yet tormented by NEXT DOOR PILING POUNDING JACKHAMMERING 24/7 365? NO. People may tolerate for a while, but if the wife continues to miscarry or not conceive, if Saturday Sunday restfulness get robbed by NOISE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR, people cannot risk GOING CRAZY. They will leave. Break lease, dump their unrentable, UNLIVABLE HELL - IN "PRIME" AREAS!!! Prime areas primed for? MORE EXPLOITATION! Followed by DESTRUCTION! Of the silenced citizens's basic right to AURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH. It is absurb, living in million dollar condos, yet YOU CAN'T WAKE UP TO A PIECEFUL SUNDAY MORNING. NOT EVEN ONE DAY IN A WEEK. Development has to go on. Yes. Singapore NEEDS high turnover activities to keep things going. BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO COME WITH SUCH HIGH PRICE TO THE CITIZENS. There has to be a BALANCE. THERE ARE THESE HUMAN BEINGS CALLED CITIZENS, who needs to LIVE. To LIVE 5 days in hell, and 2 days in normalcy, is not too much to ask of a supposedly enlightened city nation administration???? UNLESS THE ONE-TRACK-MIND URA AND THAT USELESS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL, instead of their current PATHETIC NOISE METER MANUEVER NONSENSE, UNLESS THE CITY PLANNERS ENACT RESTRICTIVE HOURS AND BAN WEEKENDS FROM CONSTRUCTION, SINGAPORE = NOISE HELL GARDEN CITY. An Expat with Family and Friends who LEFT for QUIETER pastures. If Singapore wants to increase BIRTH RATE, or at the least PREVENT PROPERTY MARKET VOLATILITY, the first thing they have to do, is to REDUCE NOISE POLLUTION.

All EXPAT ENCLAVES have been turned into NOISE HELL ENCLAVES. Thanks to DEVELOPMENT GREED and RAMPANT CONSTRUCTION. Good units in prime areas are being dumped. People keep looking around for quieter units, yet being trapped few months down the line by yet ANOTHER HOT NEW CONSTRUCTION! This madness creates AN ARTIFICIAL DEMAND for high end properties in the last two years. But IT WILL NOT LAST. Soon REALITY WILL CATCH UP WITH INHUMAN PUBLIC POLICIES.

Singapore boasts itself as a”GARDEN CITY”. Visually, yes, Singapore is green. But do you want to among greenness and posh furnishing – yet tormented by NEXT DOOR PILING POUNDING JACKHAMMERING 24/7 365?

NO. People may tolerate for a while, but if the wife continues to miscarry or not conceive, if Saturday Sunday restfulness get robbed by NOISE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR, people cannot risk GOING CRAZY. They will leave. Break lease, dump their unrentable, UNLIVABLE HELL – IN “PRIME” AREAS!!!

Prime areas primed for? MORE EXPLOITATION! Followed by DESTRUCTION! Of the silenced citizens’s basic right to AURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH.

It is absurb, living in million dollar condos, yet YOU CAN’T WAKE UP TO A PIECEFUL SUNDAY MORNING. NOT EVEN ONE DAY IN A WEEK.

Development has to go on. Yes. Singapore NEEDS high turnover activities to keep things going. BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO COME WITH SUCH HIGH PRICE TO THE CITIZENS.

There has to be a BALANCE. THERE ARE THESE HUMAN BEINGS CALLED CITIZENS, who needs to LIVE.

To LIVE 5 days in hell, and 2 days in normalcy, is not too much to ask of a supposedly enlightened city nation administration????

UNLESS THE ONE-TRACK-MIND URA AND THAT USELESS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL, instead of their current PATHETIC NOISE METER MANUEVER NONSENSE, UNLESS THE CITY PLANNERS ENACT RESTRICTIVE HOURS AND BAN WEEKENDS FROM CONSTRUCTION, SINGAPORE = NOISE HELL GARDEN CITY.

An Expat with Family and Friends who LEFT for QUIETER pastures.

]]> By: gemami http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-45537 gemami Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:19:53 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-45537 Forget about going after tvMobile. Here is the reason offered by LSS. "<i>Currently…. 5 million of the total 7 million (trips on public transport) made every day, comprising 3 million on buses, 1 million on the mass rapid transit trains and another 1 million in taxis.</i>" Now, we all know why tvMobile was introduced in the first place. It is targeted at people like you and I, who do not read the Shitty Times, nor listen to MSM radio and neither do some of us even watch our MSM tv news. With tvMobile, there is nowhere for us to hide. We cannot escape the brainwashing materials that comes out from these channels. Look at the effectiveness of such a device. 5 million trips in just one day. It means 5 million opportunities to brainwash you. If the news is important enough to them, they can continue to report it according to the number of days they decide to do so. Imagine having tvMobile telling you that the old Ong guy is insane and mad, for performing his thinner and fire trick, and; telling it 5 million times in a day, 10 million times in 2 days, and; 15 million times in 3 days? Won't you be taken in? tvMobile is here to stay, my friend, and with as loud a noise as it possibility can, just in case you might be sleeping or in dreamland. Forget about going after tvMobile. Here is the reason offered by LSS.

“Currently…. 5 million of the total 7 million (trips on public transport) made every day, comprising 3 million on buses, 1 million on the mass rapid transit trains and another 1 million in taxis.”

Now, we all know why tvMobile was introduced in the first place. It is targeted at people like you and I, who do not read the Shitty Times, nor listen to MSM radio and neither do some of us even watch our MSM tv news.

With tvMobile, there is nowhere for us to hide. We cannot escape the brainwashing materials that comes out from these channels.

Look at the effectiveness of such a device. 5 million trips in just one day. It means 5 million opportunities to brainwash you. If the news is important enough to them, they can continue to report it according to the number of days they decide to do so.

Imagine having tvMobile telling you that the old Ong guy is insane and mad, for performing his thinner and fire trick, and; telling it 5 million times in a day, 10 million times in 2 days, and; 15 million times in 3 days? Won’t you be taken in?

tvMobile is here to stay, my friend, and with as loud a noise as it possibility can, just in case you might be sleeping or in dreamland.

]]> By: Interested http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-45530 Interested Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:53:04 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-45530 Hi GNEL, I'm doing a show on noise pollution in Singapore and I'm interested to have a look at your video. You think we can arrange something? Hi GNEL,

I’m doing a show on noise pollution in Singapore and I’m interested to have a look at your video.

You think we can arrange something?

]]> By: GNEL http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-22813 GNEL Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:49:27 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-22813 Hi, I am strongly against noise pollution in Singapore, especially from construction sites. In fact, I have a video recording of a construction site causing extreme noise pollution which I want to make know to the relevant parties and authorities that should look into this. It is not about the fact the construction is necessarily noisy, but about construction processes that produces extreme noise and which can be avoided. Hi, I am strongly against noise pollution in Singapore, especially from construction sites. In fact, I have a video recording of a construction site causing extreme noise pollution which I want to make know to the relevant parties and authorities that should look into this. It is not about the fact the construction is necessarily noisy, but about construction processes that produces extreme noise and which can be avoided.

]]> By: sgBlogs http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/comment-page-1/#comment-404 sgBlogs Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:32:28 +0000 http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/20/the-construction-of-noise-singapore-de-constructed/#comment-404 Forced to listen to TVMobile?! OMG it must be horrible. Quick let's get a SHUT UP TVMOBILE campaign started. Everybody start writing to your MPs!!! Forced to listen to TVMobile?! OMG it must be horrible. Quick let’s get a SHUT UP TVMOBILE campaign started. Everybody start writing to your MPs!!!

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