over the past few months, i've been hearing complaints and sceptical remarks about the payouts, that i unfortunately wont be receiving since i'm not 21..yet. remarks include:

'aiyaa.. the only reason why they're giving payouts is because of the election lorrr'
'money can buy support mah... so their actions are pretty obvious lor'
and so on.

i'm starting to think that some, or most singaporeans are not appreciative. if you get the money, you get the money. just shut the hell up about it. if you don't receive money, you complain. when you do, you complain. at the end of the day, it is still your damn choice who you want to vote on. so, just take the money, and prepare for the great singapore sales.

i guess the ones who complain are those who haven't really gone to other countries (not including holidays). i've never been that much of a proponent of the singapore government. and i must admit, i still am not. but i'm beginning to see their strength and motivation especially over the past month.

but i'm still pretty upset about the recent things that have been happening between my uncle, my neighbours and the town council. i wrote a letter to the straits times to question the town council. but as expected, they'd rather post up letters on the election, so i'll continue bombarding the press with my letters until it shows. i'll copy the email i sent to straits times:

[I live in a HDB flat, and having close neighbours have never been an issue. Until they drilled a hook outside their unit and fixed a punching bag. I would like to question the departments involved, namely the Town Council on the abovementioned matter.

The first time we filed a complaint letter to the Town Council, we complained mainly of the noise. The Town Council then sent a letter to the neighbours, on 7th March, stating that the neighbours remove the hook by 15 March. Surprisingly, their letter did not state anything about us complaining of the noise. Instead, it was drafted that the hook has caused great inconvenience to the neighbours 'passing by'. How could their hanging of the punching bag cause inconvenience to the neighbours passing by, when they live at the corner of the corridor? We said noise, not blockage. If simple terms can lead to confusion, then I am at a total lost of words of what to say or do.

I called the Senior Property Manager of the Town Council that was in charge and asked him to answer my questions. The first question I asked was, if it was allowed to have a hole drilled on the ceiling of the corridor. He said, 'Strictly speaking, it is not allowed unless they have approval from the Town Council'. The second question I asked was, if the Town Council had approved of the neighbour's act of drilling the hole and fixing a punching bag. He said that the Town Council did not, at any time approve of it.

So, what is the problem? If it is not allowed, its just not allowed. There was no approval, therefore, as a department citizens turn to, the Town Council should be taking effective measures. And not redirecting the case to the Mediation Centre to come up with a compromise between neighbours. I find it rather absurd. Singapore has so many sports facilities. Whats the point of building these facilities if people prefer to punch bags right at their corridors?

The neighbours came up, with an even more absurd explanation when asked why they refuse to fix the punching bags inside their unit. They said that by doing so, the noise would disturb the neighbours on the upper and lower levels. So, are we any different? We are their neighbours too. And they know it is disturbing, yet they carry on without any consideration of others.

To me, all these seem like a case of washing their hands off any disputes and therefore, pushing us from one department to another just to rid them of extra work.]

this is just the beginning. the war has begun. hehe. oh well, i'll just be patient about it, for the time being.

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