Neighbours

How frustrating it is to have inconsiderate neighbours. For me, I have really nice left and right neighbours but definitely not the one who stays above us. Since I am the only one at home, I obviously help to do some simple chores like bringing out the clothes to receive some suntanning session right. And with the sun shinning so brightly, I'm sure the clothes will be dry within an hour. BUT THEN, my neighbour, "OH, look at the bright sun. I shall hand wash my clothes and make it DRIP. Who cares." And tadah, her WET clothes start dripping down and onto my clothes. So just when my clothes are about to dry, her wet clothes drip and drip and drip onto my clothes, causing it to be wet again. So instead of an hour, it takes two hours instead. Even after Mummy went up and tell her kindly that she shouldn't shine her wet clothes in the afternoon when almost everybody shine their almost dry clothes out. For us, we handwash our clothes at night and shine it out because it's at night. Nobody in the right mind will shine their clothes at night. That's why we shine it at night, just to let water drip. And we'll check if our neighbour below is hanging out any clothes before hanging out our clothes. Because of just 1 neighbour, all of us who stay below her have to suffer. Sometimes it's so irritating that you just feel like....

But definitely, I have nice neighbours staying on my right and left. For example, the neighbour staying on my left, a Muslim family, we always exhange gifts and red/green packets on festivals like CNY, Hari Raya... etc. Actually both my left and right neighbours are Muslims and they are nice people. Aunty Rose, the one staying on my right, she watched us grow since we're babies. Something similar about both our families are we have big families. We have four kids and they have five kids. But her kids are older than us, her youngest kid is my age. hahaa! Sometimes I don't like it when we have close neighbours because she always talk to Mummy and like when Mummy go overseas with her friend or what, she will tell Mummy like we very noisy or we quarreling. HAHAHAHAHA. Just kidding. We're so close that when we're younger and Mummy last minute decide to go out with her friends on a schooling day, she'll leave the keys with Aunty Rose and we'll just go over and get the keys from her. There was a time when Xiya came home early and no one was at home. So she stood outside and wait. Aunty Rose invited her over to her house and waited for us to return. How nice right :')

As for the neighbour staying on my right, also four kids and our age is about the same. In fact their youngest kid is in P1 this year. And oh both families' kids have three girls and one boy. I remember when we were younger, whenever we walk past their house, they will shout, "BYE!" or "HELLO!" at us and we will do it back. I think we still do it these days hahaha! Oppies. It's great to have neighbours like that. I have a neighbour who stay across us, he's quite old already but still he's not some grumpy old man but a really nice uncle. He even invited our whole family to his son's wedding! And that was my first time at a Malay wedding. The food was great! Delicious. But I also have another neighbour who stay on the 2nd storey, whenever we walked down, their dog will bark and the owner will glare at us. I mean what on earth? Imagine you walking down peacefully and suddenly a dog barks loudly at you. Obviously you'll get a shock right. Stare what stare. They never smile or say hi to us before. All they do is STARE. And first storey, a particular family has like many cats and surprisingly they never keep the cats at home. They let the cats roam anyway and the cats will only return when they're hungry. So the cats will climb the staircase and enter people's house!! Worse case was the cat entered my neighbour's house, went up (because my flat one side is one side of the block has two level, which means we have only storey 1,3,5,7,9,11 and the opposite side of the block is single level 1-12 and I stay on the two level side) and conquered the bed and the best part was..... IT PEED ON THE BED. My neighbour was so angry and she went to talk to the owner of the cats and demand them to do actions about it. But they did. The cats came into my house several times too and imagine the fear I have to stay in because I'm scared of cats. My mum hates it too. You should see how she chase the cats away. But the cats are very brave, not scared of her HAHAHA! 

So you see, in a typical hdb flat, there are many kinds of people you'll meet. Nice and friendly ones, grumpy and selfish ones... But never judge your whole block of neighbours just because of ONE neighbour okay? 

Have a great day ahead lovelies <3