Yesterday was a fine day and the first thing I did in the morning was to go to Bukit Jalil Park to lead a gotong-royong to clean up the Park.
In the past, I used to go to this Park to walk and exercise at least once a week, but I am unable to do so lately due to Parliament sittings. After I received complaints from some jogger friends who used to jog in this Park, I instructed my assistants to organise this gotong-royong activity starting 9am.
When I arrived at the Park, I was told by my jogger friends that the Park had been cleaned up in the past few days, and the contractor of the Park even re-installed the pillar of the gate which was broken for half a year. They told me that they had been blamed by the management of the Park for inviting me to interfere into the Park’s “affairs”.
My presence there made the new management of the Park quickly clean up all rubbish in the Park. Hi hi, I am quite delighted to hear that.
See, we really meant business. We cleaned up leaves and rubbish along the walk path of the Park.
Many people who jogged in the Park smiled at me when they saw me. A couple complained to me about the broken wooden bridge. The woman said she almost fell down.
This boy who passed by the bridge is very cooperative to the request of photographers and us. He then posed for this photo. 🙂
This jogger complained that the toilet door was locked. When we complained to the management guys, they said the steel pipes were stolen, so the toilet could not be used.
I had my press conference and walked around the Park to pick up rubbish for about an hour. Then I rushed back to take a quick shower and rushed to church to fulfil my Sunday obligation.
You know what, my body is aching after all that. I had a great appetite during lunch. After I went back home after lunch, I slept for two and a half hour. Oh my God, I have not slept for so long in the afternoons for long time. I then cut my night activity and slept a bit earlier that night (11.40pm).
Haiyah, age catching up. I did not realised my body had been so exhausted after that one hour gotong-royong thingy.
You know, the joke is, I hardly have time to clean up my own home, I used to hire a part-time maid to do it, and now I went to sweep and clean up the Park. Ha ha!! 🙂
That’s very glad to hear.
Hope more leaders will get their hands “dirty” as well in helping the people, not just by talk or by doing “promotion”.
I believe you can and are setting a good example to all other leaders.
Keep up the good work!
the sad thing about Malaysia is that it is getting to be a damn dirty country.
in Pasar Seni area everyday, I come across people who throw rubbish and spit on his / her own country. these undesirable people have made Malaysian go backwards. Hong Kongers used to laugh at mainland chinese for being dirty, uncultured, spitting hill-billies but now this joke is on Malaysians, who talk about Wawasan 2020, Bersih, Reformasi, Gemilnag Terbilang, Glokal and all that bullcrap.
If DBKL position their officers to collect fine on the spot, they can slash takings from quit rent and assessment and still maintain a healthy source of funds!
but good to see YB getting a bit of physical activity. if you can’t find a part time maid, gimme a call. I can use some side income earned on weekends!
Over in Kuching where the city consists of 1 parliamentary and 4 state seats all held under your party DAP, all our parks are well maintained and clean. So far, there is only 1 park under private management of a GLC among the many parks around Kuching. Yet all are clean and well maintained.The beauty of our cleanliness stemmed from the civic conscious of people using the parks.
YB Teresa, perhaps you may organize a cleanliness aware campaign among the users of the park rather than having the gotong-royong which I believe is temporary, and the worse thing affecting you being having ache pain all over your body. No more gotong- royong the next time. Take care.
Haiyah YB, you still young la. Body aching is due to not enough exercise. Every morning must at least do a little bit of simple stretching exercise ma.
Anyway, well done and hopefully the effort by you will be followed by the rest to keep our park and the whole nation clean.
But don’t forget that the contractor must be made responsible as they are being paid to do the job according to their contract document and don’t bikin kerja cincai cincai one. This is a real problem which the local council can assist in educating our garbage contractors. What we need is the understanding and the importance of cleanliness and a happy environment.
It good that your present is made known and counters balance and check against the public service effectiveness.
There is a lot of more serious implication that need to also clean up in particular more commercial density area. Whereby the drains are clog, the place fill with rubbish and litter all over. Full of mice’s and rats running over. The stink amount is tantamount to Indah Water sluts.
Excellence fleet in the cleaning campaign that you have represented adios this is what is for the “rakyat” and to the “rakyat”.
KEEP UP THE TESTIMONY!