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Good Neighbours.

Are good neighbours hard to come by? I am not too sure, cuz for the past few years, we hardly felt the existence of our neighbour, ie. the guys who moved into the unit opposite our flat two years ago. Why? Cuz they pretty much treat their flat as a chalet. And by that I mean the only time that I saw them was the one time I came back to see their house all brightened up. Why? Cuz they rented out their house as a set for some film production. And the other times I saw them were mostly weekends when they invited their friends over for mahjong. Probably overnight mahjong and made lotsa noise, cuz somebody complained to the police and they probably thought it was us. They decided to protest by putting a shoe rack over our potted plants*** (please note that these potted plants in front of our door were there since we moved in, yes, for more than sixteen years). Btw, it was a ugly looking shoe rack which they don't use at all. So I guess it was either to "mark their territory" or for revenge? Oh btw again, they had bought over the tiny stretch corridor in front of their corner flat, and built a "cage" over it. So I guess they decided it was only right for them to "extend" their "door" to where our potted plants were. If HDB let us buy over the space in front of our flat, probably they can either stay in their flat forever or we can set up a booth to collect toll. Haha!

Anyway, these "part-time" neighbours finally decided to move out. By now you should have guessed, they bought the flat probably for some sorta investment. Unfortunately, the price of flats depreciated in the past few years, and they had not choice but to sell the flat to minimize their loss.

I was looking forward for some friendly neighbours. But the future for a amiable relationship looks grim now. A few weeks ago, our new neighbours requested us to shift the altar outside our door as they feared that the renovation workers may knock it accidentally. Being the understanding neighbour and grateful for their consideration, we were obliged to shift it in, from the original position of more than sixteen years (yes, it had also been in the same position since we moved in). Yesterday, they requested my Dad to move our potted plants*** as they were "bad for their fengshui". My Dad said he'll consider moving them. Amazingly, our plants automagically "moved by themselves" to another neighbour's door front today. It is no mystery how our plants "gained those special powers".

One lil' selfish move may annoy two families. Why do such neighbour exist?

Rich families at landed properties and condos "fight" over parking lots (such as the recent case of a new resident at some condo parking at a "personal-parking-lot" of seven(?) years, and the famous Joo Chiat law suits), but here at the heartlanders, people wanna "fight" over our "public-corridor-of-more-than-sixteen-years" ar? he he. Luckily my Dad was calm and decided to move the plants into our balcony. He said, "No point getting all upset. I am not afraid of them, but I don't see a need to pick up a fight." Hopefully, after all that bad feelings are gone, they'll knock on our door often, with delicious curry chicken or kueh kuehs lah, now and then. I have always dreamt of having such good neighbours! =p

Comments

▐≤¡Γ≡ said…
I think your's still manageable. haha...

In a fren's block, I saw 2 families who were living opp one another in e same storey. 1 of the families placed their shoes on top of newspapers obituaries(faced towards their neighbours somemore) to mark their territory(the little space infront of their flat).

haiz... good neighbours are hard to come by sia.

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