We have a rather overbearing neighbour in this HDB neighbourhood aka 10th floor of Block X of a HDB community.
Living in the smallest unit of all on this floor he decided to occupy as much space outside as possible to make his life grander than his neighbours. He decided to have a row of potted plants along the corrider, placed close to the front wall overlooking the open air space, in order to get the maximun sunlight. Along the wall of his unit he has put a shoe shelf and a mini ‘incinerator’ (a bin like thing where he can burn his incence paper). As a result of that the walkway that is in between has become much narrower, just sufficient for a medium sized person to move through without banging into his things. If you have come back from shopping with two hands full of things it would be impossible to walk pass without hitting his things unless you did a bit of maneuvouring of your limbs and torso. Being stiff from ageing I found this quite challenging.
As his unit is next to the stairway(actually that is the reason why his unit is the smallest) he decided his unit is not bad at all and have made the space on top of the stairway his own by putting an armchair there where he can sit and enjoy a puff or two. He could not care less if his second hand smoke got into his neighbour’s bedroom or the scratching sound of his armchair on his neighbour’s bedroom wall had annoyed them. He could not bother if his neighbours liked the smoke from the burning joss sticks which he used every evening for his prayers. He could not bother about the smoke from the burning incense paper that had got into his neighbours house and nearly choked them to death every first and fifteenth day of the Chinese month.
Living in the smallest unit of all on this floor he decided to occupy as much space outside as possible to make his life grander than his neighbours. He decided to have a row of potted plants along the corrider, placed close to the front wall overlooking the open air space, in order to get the maximun sunlight. Along the wall of his unit he has put a shoe shelf and a mini ‘incinerator’ (a bin like thing where he can burn his incence paper). As a result of that the walkway that is in between has become much narrower, just sufficient for a medium sized person to move through without banging into his things. If you have come back from shopping with two hands full of things it would be impossible to walk pass without hitting his things unless you did a bit of maneuvouring of your limbs and torso. Being stiff from ageing I found this quite challenging.
As his unit is next to the stairway(actually that is the reason why his unit is the smallest) he decided his unit is not bad at all and have made the space on top of the stairway his own by putting an armchair there where he can sit and enjoy a puff or two. He could not care less if his second hand smoke got into his neighbour’s bedroom or the scratching sound of his armchair on his neighbour’s bedroom wall had annoyed them. He could not bother if his neighbours liked the smoke from the burning joss sticks which he used every evening for his prayers. He could not bother about the smoke from the burning incense paper that had got into his neighbours house and nearly choked them to death every first and fifteenth day of the Chinese month.
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