Our Letter Concerning Students

This letter has been sent to our neighbouring university college, having the most population at our housing area.


DATE : 15th May 2009



Dear Sir/ Madam,

RE : Students Staying at Desa Kolej, Putra Nilai

On behalf of the residents of Desa Kolej, we would like to draw your attention on the matters concerning students of your institute who are staying at our premise.

Desa Kolej has been identified as a housing area for the elites, with its strategic location between KLIA and Seremban, serves many types of demographic groups for this region. Many of the residents are working people and have family, of which most of them have children who are still schooling or babies.

With the grown-up students staying here in Desa Kolej, there have been many problems caused by them that tarnish the peace and harmonious of this place. We have no objection of the type of people staying here, but we would like to seek your kind consideration and cooperation to assist us, the Residents Association of Desa Kolej to bring back the healthy and peaceful environment of this area we once had.

We received numerous complaints from the residents regarding the students especially concerning the noise, manners and rubbish dumping problem. We regret to say that most students either local or international are not respecting their neighbors and do not bother the time to carry out any form of activities. They often make lots of noise by partying, shouting, singing, playing music, games and so forth at night and sometimes until the next morning, while the neighbors were struggling to catch up some sleep. Liquor bottles, cans, wrappers, food waste were just been dumped not only within the house compound but also in the drains and on the children playground, though they are not supposed to conduct any party on the children playground!

The international students, especially Africans have been marked as inconsiderate and reckless drivers. We appreciate if you could help us to avoid any casualty caused by them. They also seemed to be very proud with excessive volume of their car sound systems which cause unpleasant phenomenon to the neighbors.

We believe that the accommodations of some students are managed by your institute. For this, we believe that you would have ways to attend to the above-said problems. However, for the students who arranged their own accommodation here, we would like to suggest to your respective department to create awareness among the students, perhaps through students’ society to ‘care and love their neighbors’. We are sure that other neighboring housing areas are also facing similar problems.

Should you need to have a dialogue between us to overcome the problems as said above, we are much delighted to come forward. It would also be a good idea to invite authorities into the dialogue to gain better input and feedback. Hopefully, an effective solution would be reached.

We are pleased to share our updates with you which is available on our website http://desakolej.blogspot.com

Thank you so much for the anticipation and your promptness to attend to the above-mentioned problems.




Yours sincerely;

BAHARIN BIN REJAB, KMN
The Chairman
Resident Association of Desa Kolej

Kebersihan Kawasan Kita

Salam dari Pengerusi DK untuk semua ............

Saya menyeru agar kita semua bersama-sama menjaga kebersihan kawasan DK khususnya di sepanjang jalan masuk utama. Terdapat botol2 air, kertas2 tisu, bekas bungkusan dsb dicampak merata2. Kita baru sahaja lakukan gotong royong membersihkan kawasan.. letih penduduk yang inginkan kawasan DK bersih belum hilang lagi. Diharap semua dapat memberi kerjasama dalam menjadikan taman DK bersih dan indah.

Marilah kita sama2 bertanggungjawab menjaga kawasan perumahan kita ini. Matlamat kita .... menjadikan Desa Kolej kawasan kediaman elit yang berprestij. Sudah pasti kita mahukan kawasan kita bersih. Jangan hannya harapkan MPN membersihkan sampah sarap yang kita sendiri sepahkan. Kebersihan bermula dari kita sendiri.

Saya juga ingin mengucapkan TERIMAKSIH kepada segelintir penduduk yang betul2 perihatin terhadap kebersihan. Satu contoh yang baik, ada joggers (En. Salman dan ada seorang lagi wanita India) yang memungut bekas2 plastik, botol, dsb di padang permainan sambil berjogging. Semangat beginilah yang kita mahu pada setiap penduduk. Diharap lebih ramai lagi sukarelawan yang tampil seperti ini.

Saya menyeru sekali lagi, marilah kita bersama2 menjaga kebersihan kawasan kita. Terimakasih.

Baharin Rejab
Pengerusi

4P FOKUS UTAMA PERSATUAN

Sebagai Pengerusi saya merasakan penduduk DK perlulah bersatu tanpa mengira batas etnik, bahasa,agama dan kefahaman dengan matlamat untuk menjadikan kawasan perumahan ini sebagai contoh, berprestij dan elit memandangkan kita semua terdiri daripada orang berpendidikan tinggi dan profesional.

Bagi mencapai matlamat ini kita perlu mengambil pendekatan 4P yang merangkumi:
1. Perhubungan(communication);
2. Penggembelingan(coordination);
3. Pelaksanaan(implementation) dan
4. Perkongsian(sharing).

"Perhubungan" bermaksud kita perlu saling kenal mengenali satu sama lain(know your neighbours) samada melalui interaksi face to face atau menggunakan media teknologi(telefon, SMS, email, blog dsb), "Penggembelingan" bermaksud kita bersama-sama berpadu tenaga dan pemikiran menggunakan segala kebolehan dan bakat yang ada, " Pelaksanaan" ialah selepas segala halangan mental dan fizikal diketepikan/disingkirkan, kita gabungkan kesemua idea/kebolehan serta bakat lalu kita sama-sama lakukan sesuatu untuk kebajikan masyarakat setempat, dan hasil terakhir ialah"Perkongsian" bermaksud kesemua kita mendapat faedah daripada 3P di atas. Di dalam konteks ini AJK Persatuan adalah berperanan sebagai jentera pelaksana dan bertanggungjawab kepada ahli-ahli. Insya Allah melalui pendekatan ini isu-isu utama di hadapan kita akan dapat diatasi-Baharin b. Rejab.