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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

the real ugly people

*NOTE: this is going to be a rather LONG post, so bear with me. if you find you do not have the patience or time once you've read this notice, i don't blame you for not carrying on. :D (but it'd be nice if you could!)

we all hear about annoying people, specifically, neighbours who annoy us to our wits end.

it's like they're fatefully placed to live next to us as punishment or something, to make our lives, well, LITERALLY, a living hell.

a few months back, this small family consisiting of a filipino lady and a british man, with a baby, moved into our block. their unit is below ours.

we never had any real problems with our neighbours at all. in fact, the family who lives just adjacent to this new family are pretty good friends of ours, to say the least.

so we didn't expect anything extraordinary or anything short of a nuisance from this new family.

then the first few days after they moved in, they played their big, plasma screen television set at an incredulous level, that the entire block could hear MTV was on.

what's more, they left they're door and front gate open so the world would be tempted to run into their house with a gun and shoot the stereo so that it can fucking shut up.

maybe this is not new to alot of us. but it's an old-age problem that's never a pretty situation to tolerate.

then, a few weeks after they got comfortable aurally harrassing their neighbours, they conveniently dumped their barbeque grill in our parking lot, so my mom couldn't park. so she grabbed a camera from our house, and started snapping pictures of their ignorance and sheer display of rudeness, so that she could show it to the condominium council, who would hopefully take action. the filipino lady came home, and she saw my mom snapping away.

let's get this straight: my mom wants to stop this mindless behaviour, and that family, is in the WRONG. so what does this filipino lady do? she starts telling off my mother with vulgarities and say that she has no right to do anything with that bloody grill. in fact, they said it isn't their fault, because their friends were the ones who dropped the grill off and they just dumped it anywhere they liked, obviously.

as a RESPONSIBLE friend, if you knew someone was dropping something off at your place, and it's bulky, wouldn't you tell them WHERE to put it, so you won't obstruct other people's parking lots or spaces? and that's not the best part, that pompous lady added that she was about to ask the (mind you) old, malay cleaner to bring the grill round the back to her garden.

excuse me, DON'T YOU HAVE AN ABLE-BODIED HUSBAND WHO IS MUCH MORE CAPABLE OF HANDLING SUCH HEAVY THINGS? DON'T YOU HAVE ANY SENSE OF RESPONSIBILTY OR GUILT?

maybe i'm overreacting, but no one, and i mean NO ONE has ever asked pakcik to do any personal duties for them, because we appreciate all the hard work he has done for us so far. bless his kind soul. :)

that effing family has 3 ABLE-BODIED PEOPLE to carry that fucking grill: the pompous wife, the even more stuck-up husband and the dumb maid.

the list of things can go on, but in short, here's how they go about their plot to the terrorise the neighhbours:

1) turn on their television/music full blast AND leave their door and front gate open (for what reason, only the devil will know).

2) reverse out of their carpark so recklessly that you think they're about to crush your vehicle (or at least, help you lose your driver's door) to a pulp, if not for their lucky precision-turning skills.

3) slam their door and gate shut EVERY SINGLE TIME they get home (mind you, we have a very "echo-ey" stair well and that slam travels up very effeciently).

4) litter the stairs with empty drink cans and food wrappers. how do we know it's them? because her maid is so bloody free that she can sit there and chit chat with other maids and they can have a mini-party just staring at you walking up. plus, the litter is mainly near our carpark lot (i think they already have a "thing" against us. i say BRING IT, BITCH!).

5) the fact that they're in the wrong, and yet whenever we try to tell them to turn down the music/television, they start saying the "F" word like it's the most beautiful word in the world.

one thing that personally bugs ME, is that the wife is a housewife. and yet, she has the maid take her baby out for a stroll every morning and afternoon, while she sits at home blasting on the television/music on (yes, door and gate open) and yakking on the phone over all the din (how do i know this? i walk past her unit on my way out, more than once, and it's happened more times that i can count!) it's YOUR kid for God's sake! get off your ass and take the walk YOURSELF! i see the kid with maid, all the bloody time. where's the mother? out. where's the mother? on the phone. where's the mother? definitely not where she should be, doing what she should do!

i'm no mother. but i think we all know how much time a mother needs to spend with her baby.

i heard that some people complained against ANOTHER neighbour, an australian family this time, with 2 dogs. people felt that they could not control their dogs well enough because they were hysterically barking ther heads off when neither owner was at home. so what did the people do?

send a notice of EVICTION.

mind you, this australian family also just moved in. and i assume the dogs needed to get used to a new environment, because now, they're so quiet. yes, they're still here. i think after talking to higher authority, they got a 2nd chance. i think this is ridiculous. you send a notice of eviction to people who innocently have 2 dogs, who can't help but feel alien in a new environment. so, of course, they bark. they're only ANIMALS. they don't know what the HELL is going on.

this jack-ass of a family below us, though, are homosapiens, with (what i hope!) brains. and yet they continue to lash out their uncivilised behaviour, not so much on other neighbours, but now, particularly on US. because, the filipino lady said that we're a whole family of complaints.

hmm, i WONDER WHY???! the only reason other people haven't said anything is because they choose to be ignorant. or either they actually enjoy the racket that's bursting out of the walls of the house.

either way, the one question i asked my mom and dad at dinner last night was, "is there any way we could EVICT THEM?"