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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

DIG AND DIG!!!

This is my unofficial alarm clock everyday for the past 7 mths or so. "rings" at 7am and never stops till lunch at 12 noon and ends at 7pm. 12 hours a day, 6 days a week (sunday light work only). freaking annoying. all the dust, in conveniences (have to park our cars elsewhere if not keep reversing for them to drive in their lorries and trucks), NOISEEEEE!!, and the way my house has cracked up due to the vibrations and endless pounding (even the main gate and door can't lock, garden's ground is tilting/slanting downwards and not to mention the five thousand cracks in my walls/floors. but at least they are compensating us with new flooring/ garden i think)

i just pray for rain everyday, more so during my exams. and even now during the holidays so i can sleep in. it's like like 1.5 meters from my room window, in other words right outside my house since we're at the corner.

the government just likes to dig, build, un-dig, build etc.. is there anywhere construction - free?around my area, major works like the one right outside my house, circle line mrt, woodsville interchange etc are concurrently ongoing. how naive am i to think i would escape all those hdb upgrading nonsense by staying here.

btw they've decided to cover up the long kang to make it into a connector cum park or sth so that people can commute thru here to the upcoming circle line. there goes the long kang i used to play fire and scale up and down. the once secluded ulu corner terrace has lost its privacy. i forsee the bengs n lians hanging out here making a din or lighting up illegally, the banglas having their picnics, the neighbourhood aunties gossiping, in other words, MORE PEOPLE = NO PRIVACY. people are gonna surpass my house, will they scratch the cars?do we have to park elsewhere? will they peep in?will they throw rubbish in? (i used to worry that someone might bribe joe with poison laced food so as to shut him up permanently) time to get a lock for the main gate and raise the gate and walls surrounding the house. time to built a FORTRESS!!!

my area used to be so ulu, at one point i was even afraid to return home. all thanks to my brother's gf who mentioned she saw a black man stepping out of the shrubs from the long kang. even nowadays at night, i wonder if anyone would pounce on me when i go out to call silly einstein home. would there be someone hiding behind the car, waiting to rob me at knife pt and hijack the car? hence i have developed the habit of locking the car doors immediately.

and i wasn't the only one to find it ulu. since my house faces the hdb flats and industrial factories, i've seen banglas and old men peeing at the corner of the void deck, lovers making out and gurka teens fooling around.

well, living in sucha ulu place has its good and bad. i know i will definitely miss the quietness (b4 the construction began) and my paranoia thoughts.