why i love the night … and why silence is being murdered.

I love the night for its stillness and complete noiselessness। Everyone is asleep. I can only work in a silent environment, that’s why I love the night especially after the clock strikes twelve. Tonight I walked the web to write।
Why silence is being murdered?
What defines noise? Noise is relative. For example, a person can lis ten to music as loud as he can and he doesn’t consider it noise. It ONLY becomes noise when it invades another person’s space.
In Wikipedia, there is such a term as “Personal space, an updated form of Edward T. Hall's 1966 proxemics, is the region surrounding each person, or that area which a person considers their domain or territory.[1] Often if entered by another being without this being desired, it makes them feel uncomfortable. The amount of space a being (person, plant, animal) needs falls into two categories, immediate individual physical space (determined by imagined boundaries), and the space an individual considers theirs to live in (often called habitat).”
My personal space is being intruded by karaoke as regularly as neighbors itch to belt out their signature song. Residents consider a karaoke player (the big box type like slot machines) as a major necessity like a refrigerator. It’s great for occasional merry-making, not so for residents who want to rest and get a night’s sleep before waking up another busy day at work. I learned that calling the local police station will not get your complaint going but make the police irate and shout at you until you know that its time to call the barangay tanod (local patrol) as the police “suggested”. So I contacted the barangay tanod who merely got my name and contact number and logged them with the nature of the complaint. At the end, the barangay tanod said they are patrolling their route and have NOT gotten any similar complaints and did NOT hear any karaoke singing as loud as cows belting within the vicinity I mentioned. Have the patrols joined the singing or what?
I am glad the Philippine government has website and a space dedicated to opinions and suggestions. I just read that someone had written to ask if there are any laws that aid citizens in keeping the peace in their neighborhood. Thankfully, someone answered there are P.D. 856 Chapter XIX Sec. 85 on Nuisances and P.D. 1152 Sec. 5 Community Noise Standards. I checked these Presidential Decrees and they are old laws and I don’t know if they are still laws. Regretfully, I do not know if they are being enforced or if any noise pollution laws are being enacted and enforced.
In New York USA, the Department of Environmental Protection have a Noise Code dated 1998 with provisions, noise quality criteria and standards, allowable sound levels, enforcement including citizen’s complaint, and penalties. I do not know why lawmakers are active in controversial Senate hearings or they don’t think that my money as a taxpayer is not worth a damn if I go deaf or not --- this country where I am residing and I am a citizen.
Apart from the karaoke, there are fastfood chains that play music NOT pipe in BUT as high as their acoustics could take. When did restaurants (not music lounges) become concert venues? Who needs top-10 hit music at 7am while you’re bent on eating hotcakes and drinking coffee for breakfast with peace? Or why is the service crew shouting at you to repeat your order and why is your throat aching from shouting back that you only want a burger not fries for a meal? Aren’t there regulations for appropriate commercial music within appropriate sound levels?
I think that certain manufacturers of portable music players have opted to put a noise reduction level to regulate volume when playing their units. I think that all of us have own level of tolerance when sound becomes noise. The motto of Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is "Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves." Isn’t it time we all did?