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**noti.** · 09-12-2007, 11:00 AM

I just had to get this out of my chest.. and it's going to be a longgggg post.

The family living directly below us has this habit of using a bamboo pole to whack their ceiling every morning.. and at intervals (there's even a beat to it -_-). My family actually tolerated with it for almost a few years until my mum had the better of it. She confronted the guy from the kitchen window (by yelling downstairs and asking them to stop) and the man actually yelled back and said that we started it all 1st by throwing cig buds into their windows. Seriously, logically speaking there's no way cig buds can enter their house from any of their windows. If you live in SK buildings you'd proobably know the structure. In the first place, they have a cloth covering the windows and nothing can go in, and next, none of my family members smoke.

Subsequently the noise didn't stop and my mum reported to the police about it, and after which when the police left, the man came upstairs to confront my mum. Was very aggressive and demanded why my mum didn't go down to talk to him. But it ended off with them mutually shaking hands and letting the matter rest (or so we think....) Until we started getting regular visits from the police about 2-3 times per week. wtf right?

The complaint was always the same. We were too noisy. Deliberately dragging something across the floor. Always making noise at xx time, always banging and slamming the door at xx time. I mean come on lah, if you're living in a HDB apartment, things being dragged across the floor is common, people slamming doors also common what. Who is so eng to do it deliberately?! In the 1st place, at those timing he stated, nobody is even at home. What a retarded fella. They are the ones making even more noise... as and when there's a sound from my house and they can feel it below, they'll grab the bamboo pole and whack the ceiling REALLY hard. You can literally feel the pole below you if you stand at the point where they hit. And what's best? They hit from kitchen.. all the way to each and every part of the house.. power right?

The police came down to settle the issue once and for all a couple of days ago and came to a verdict that the guy (and probably his entire family) is abit "off " in the head and told us to be understanding and not to provoke them.

All was well until I slipped on a puddle of water on the floor last night and fell really hard on the ground. This created a huge noise (well of course when you fall the sound's damn loud even for the people downstairs to hear) and there again, they started the bamboo thing all around the house for the next hour. I had the better of it and decided to go down to explain to them and apologise and to tell them it wasn't deliberate. Then the accusations started, and my dad got REALLY agitated and almost picked up the fight with them and the police came again............

Well basically, I'm done with my ranting. I don't think this will probably ever end considering the family below are kukus in the head but this has caused distress in my family definitely. My parents went to the extent of getting a brand new vacuum cleaner that had rubbers on the wheels to prevent noise from being created.. They got rubber paddings for every chair in the house. We had to carrry up the chairs now and don't even dare to drag it. And still , till today, every little noise made, they use the bamboo stick thingy and we'll just have to tolerate. It's just such luck that I have nutty neighbours .

So guys, neighbour conflicts are hard to resolve. Even if you guys were told to go to CMC for mediation, if neither party agrees, the issue won't be settled. Whatever it is, just be tolerant since everyone is living under one block. Well, unless one of you decides to move out, once the problem starts, it won't end.