Gated Community. . .

Selfish behaviour, stuck up mentalities, ignorance and arrogance comes in place in for alarming percentage of them. Some may ask, are they not educated?But we'll surprised because how many of them that are living in this community are a professionals ranking themselves as engineers, managers, bussinessman and consultants.

Living in the Gated Community comes with the synonym of the word itself.
YOU ARE GATED!

Most of us invest in such property and willing to pay a high sum of money to purchased this kind property and decided that it is where there will bring up our family. We envisioned that having a place with security, clubhouse, playground and good neighbours ( is it really a good neighbours?), it will give us a total peace of mind for a many many years to come. But the question is : is it a good choice or do U MADE A BIG MISTAKE!

WHY GATED?
"Did we make a wise choice? Apparently we did but at a price!"

ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY, isn't it?Well, it can probably say that because if you are not able to get a bank loan to cover 85% of the house value for a link house, u can't afford to come in into this community. For the bungalow lot seekers, it will cost a cool 400K-700K to invest on the right size of the plot and then, you build your dream house on it.

So, its a shared plot of link houses bungalow lots, surrounded by an acceptable height fence that is trusted to offer some fundamental protection from outsiders to come in this community.

Why does someone want to stay gated and not otherwise. SECURITY! That's why! It comes to the point that people would like to return home and have a peaceful sleep without the need to worry about somebody plans to break in to your house. Imagine middle of the night, around 4am or so, someone crawls in to your bedroom and decides that its his day of glory? Not only he robs you of any money and jewellery kept in the house, but also of your personal privacy and honour.

Then comes also neighbourhood. You don't want ur neighbours to bring their chicken coop and construction materials to store right in front of their house. You'd probably also don't want them to rip down their house one sudden day and decide to build an impression of mansion by plunging in two roman pillars leading to their rooftop. Simply said; ugly, damaging and nasty.

Dont expect people of better profile fits in this community. Just like when you might go on for a residence-committee interview when buying an exclusive apartment in America. They want to make sure that the person occupying the building, in total communal sense, are of good character, good will and neighbourly. They normally mind their own business but feel much better knowing that you are of a better person as well.

Fantasies or facts?Is it discrimination, as how some intellectuals quite sometime ago debated on the concept of gated communities in Malaysia? No,its not. Its a right to choice, a preferred option to stay, at the affordability to pay and overall to render our own privacy within the communal environment.

Update! - RESEARCH PROPOSAL -

Hyeeeee.....(he..he..he..), it's been a long long time i didn't update diz blog. .why eh?is it im too busy with something else or it is because of my lazineeeess...haha!okayh. .now I update this continue talking about our Discourse. Hmm. . .now in our studio, we were asked to do some research about Quality Of Life and for now I'll doing some research due to my topic 'Community and Social Aspects' and I have choose to do about GATED COMMUNITY. Besides that, we also running to our project no 3 which is we must do a survey. .!(okay, dat I'll post in another topic).

Now..back to my tittle of study. .Gated Community can be assume as a new form of residential community in Malaysia. It had been built in urban areas such as Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam and Penang. Gated Community is like a private club where access privileges ae required. The Gated Community is about the residential community dat built for safety reasons. Everyone wants to feel good and secure about their livelihood. However, if it were built to reduce crimes and what about the crimes that still occured outside?These also need to pay attention. And what we can see now, the Gated Community is about the social segregation or a form of social apartheid. It is because, usually, this area were occupied by the elitist group and they were lack of sense of community because they do not interact to each other. I was interested to make research on this topic after I've made some study..surfing internet of course! and I found there were many complaint from community that living outside the Gated Community and I think it was an interesting topic to talk about the Community and Social Aspects. Oookay. . dat for now. .I'll update later when I have something to share with u all.

Hmm. . .for friends outside, please give me ur comment or any suggestion on my topic...should I proceed on it or do u have any other suggestion for me to change or what?

Love Your Neighbourhoods. . .

A neighbourhood is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town or suburb. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Are you satisfied with the neighbourhood where you live?Are u satisfied with the neighbourhood where u work??And do u really really LOVE ur neigbourhoods??to make "our place" better, we should work together with the government. Our street is our street and we as a neigbors should all band together to avoid bad things from occur.

Prove that you care about ur community so let's participate!take action to make ur neigbourhood a safer place - but remember to make the action within the law. Bussiness and neigbourhood groups should also work together for COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT. May everyone on earth have true freedom.

Love ur Neigbourhoods!! ^_^

Community. . .A Health Promotion Approach to Understanding Community

Five principles guide the community quality of life approach. The approach adheres to World Health Organization concepts of health and health promotion. It also emphasizes the social determinants of health and well-being and uses a quality of life model to consider the effects of these determinants. The approach calls for a strong respect for the community and its members. And, it calls for seeing the world through their eyes and reporting it in their words.

To understand a community through the eyes of its members, specific methods are used. In group discussions and individual interviews, community residents, service providers and elected representatives are asked to consider aspects of their neighbourhoods and communities that either enhance or diminish their quality of life. The community portrait that emerges identifies strengths to be protected and community needs that should be addressed.

In brief, the steps involved in carrying out a community quality of life project include focusing and planning, carrying out data collection and analysis, and reporting and communicating results.

Finally, a community quality of life project is concerned with acting on findings and contributing to community action. Carrying out a community quality of life project is only the first step in working to improve the quality of life of community members.

(Sources : Quality Of Life Project)

Site Planning and Public Participation

Public participation is crucial to successful site planning. At the site planning level that and identifiable group of people can be expected to react with considered opinions about precisely defined spaces - the spaces which they or people like them will use.

The questionnaire is the most common means used by planners to try and find out what people want. There are, however, problems with all forms of questionnaire designed to involve the public in helping to plan or design a site.

Questionnaires can only deal with people's reactions to that with which they are already familiar. All of us can only respond to questions about facilities and environment within the limits of experience, whether these experiences are direct or indirect. Questionnaires are much less useful as a predictive planning tool. People can describe their reaction to what already exists, but are less good at describing what they would like in future.

With such strategic issues to be dealt with by the planning process, alongside the basic social and economic needs of a local population, it is perhaps not suprising that the less quantifiable aspects will influence the quality of human life.