why i might actually consider moving out of a HDB estate

 

void decks.
my opinion is that yes, they should REMAIN void and be there solely for the purpose of the occasional kid cyclist/blader/heely-er who have not been given permission to cross the road.

no, i do not find it advisable to organize events there ESP. if they have big sound systems. no. no. no. especially! if it's karaoke. i don't care if your singers are /paid/ singers cuz darling, that is NO guarantee that they can sing and that the general masses would appreciate their Gift.
in fact! the only way i agree these events may be legitimized if it is made legally mandatory to have a Simon Cowell attend each of them. yes. i might even pop by to laugh at them.

why the topic?

my very 'active' RC [resident's council] are holding a yam seng sesh right now. which i suppose is all fine and good for the bonding that is deemed critical to make up for the lack of kampung unity that people always hype about. ok fine, so you want to hang out sitting in uncomfy red [i bet it's coloured tht way for luck], drinking syrup diluted with tapwater, laughing at the hosts [something that i would esp do, laugh AT -not with- them] and picking at the orange square puff things in the peanut mix.
fine.
do that.

but HONESTLY, do you need to turn up the volume so loud?? do they really think that we want to listen to all the Hokkien bantering that people laugh at for the sake of laughing? do they think that we actually like the music they blast out? do they think that we don't have our own radio or source of actually listen-able music? do they think that we are THAT deprived musically?

are they THAT delusioned??

cuz fine, if YOU want to go there, and put yourself in situation to be tortured, go on you masochistic freaks. i don't give a damn.

but fergod's sake, please remember the ppl who did NOT buy the $2 tickets to go. these are the people who did not buy because they do not want to go through this..this...nightmareous [OMG. their playing My Heart Will Go On] affair. they specifiaclly did not buy the tickets so they wouldn't have to experience it. PLEASE, respect us non-buyers.

*runs screaming and slams into the wall. dammit, she didn't fall unconscious*

the point is, these people need to just turn up the volume up enuff so that ppl sitting 50m away from the stage can hear. you do not [ok lah, ms 'celine dion' can sing not so bad. wait- i just heard her high parts. i take it back.] i repeat, do NOT have to let the entire of Teck Whye hear how lacking you are of talent. really, you don't.
there is NO POINT. we do NOT want to hear. 50m! im quite sure that less than half of the volume of what their playing now would suffice.

fuck, now this guy is singing the hokkien version. perfect.
*envisions pudgy old man stuffed with peanuts pretending he's Andy Lau*

*shudders*

i tried/was about to go down to politely to tell them to TURN down the volume. i already had my story about how the baby next door was wailing his head off cuz he can't get to sleep and i can't study for this really, really, important test on monday cuz it was just so distracting -cue Pity Me look-

but my dad stopped me. he told me that they'd hurl pig-flesh at me.
-rolls eyes-

gah, i was adamant about going but realized that i wouldn't be able to out-run the mob threatening to hurl their red plastic chairs at me with my cold.
hrmph.

you know what i'm going to do? im going to write a good ol letter of complaint. why not? it's good feedback from the public, and i'll ACTUALLY be putting what i learn in English to good use. and if they happen to not pay attention to my letter, i won't be a rebel without a cause anymore! i will then be able to excuse any future misdeamenours as my protest against LOUD events.

*oh yay, their being racially politically-correct. their now playing an equally horrid malay song. wait, it's hindi, not malay. i think.*

and hah! before anybody leaps at me attacking and accusing me of being racist for condemning this yam seng sesh, hah! i am hereby clearly stating that i am equally against LOUD malay weddings as well. i share NO appreciation for malay music blasting and spoiling my sunday. the drum bit is fine, cuz it lasts like only five minutes and not 5 bloody hours. i have also always contemplated going down to tell them to lower down as well but feared them hurling their large metal pots at me. think about all the good rendang wasted. so yeah, i finally had the nerve to go down today but no...my conservative dad was home. bah, humbug.

besides, why do you think i DON'T go to malay weddings especially if i don't know who YOU are and vice-versa. i only to my relative's when their the one who actually bother to interact with me.

AND, AND i'm sure there's a good lot of chinese residents out there who don't appreciate karaoke.

don't be delusional people!! you canNOT sing! think of us, your fellow humans! think of all the ears that are still functioning! think of all the complaining people are doing in the privacy of their own homes!

THINK OF YOUR KARMA SLIPPING DOWN THE DRAIN FOR PUTTING US INNOCENT + NOT-SO-INNOCENT ONES UNDER THIS TORTURE.

you are NOT kelly clarkson! you are not reuban studdard! and you are NOT clay aiken though you might share the same geeky aura he had pre-AI.

you are NOT anita mui. you are NOT aaron kwok.
you are not even the random and numerous mando-pop offspring of Hong Kong and Taiwan.













meep. save me.