Feb 14 2012
What an uncivilized bunch of people
Just as I wrote about reason quitting a job, last night, in a very unplanned and impromptu state, I resigned from a volunteer job that I held since Oct last year.
Well, it is for the residence committee in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is a strata titled neighborhood, in the Deed of Mutual Covenant, it is clearly stated no pets are allowed. But we have an increasing number of dogs in our neighborhood, which most of us just keep a one-eye-close attitude on them, until mid last year where something happened.
A neighbor started to have issue, great issue, with his neighbor’s dog, and then his anger has channeled to all dog owners in the whole neighborhood. He stalked them, took photos of their dogs, and then keep sending in complaint letters to DBKL with evidences that he collected.
He kept bugging the authority until they visited one day to give out summon and ordered the dogs to be removed.
From then, the war began. Dog owners reacted, and there was an AGM, which they have worked together so hard to rally for votes to allow dog’s rules to be changed.
Where I stand? I am in the ‘opposition’ of them. I was grabbed in, nominated, and became part of the committee members, which was outnumbered by ‘them’.
Actually I just wanted peace, was trying to be a peace maker between the two parties, but inevitably I am in the opposition party due to legality stance. I just cannot support something that is illegal, against the by-law of DBKL.
Anyway, to cut the story short, although we are in the minority group in the committee, we managed to hold them until now, they couldn’t just change the house rules like that, due to our persistence in getting things legalized. I could sense the frustrations in them, and increasing rudeness from them.
Then… last night’s meeting has reached my final limit. The chairman BANGED the table. Not only that he banged, he banged it twice. Because one of my comrade asked a simple question, very politely: “May I know who have you spoken to in DBKL, to get the record straight?”
He didn’t even want to let other speaks, or even ask questions. He just banged the table. He thinks he is a hero by doing that, but I look really lowly at his behavior.
Finally, I resigned. I went in to serve, not to fight like uncivilized people. No point talking to people who don’t listen and rude. Honestly, I feel my safety is being threatened in that situation. Not worth working with people like that.
Big bully. What a shame we have such person as our chairman. Siasui.
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wow that is a big surprise to me, that NO DOGS in your neighbourhood?
i see dogs show, dogs parade at the park on weekends 
glad that you have resigned from the committee head by a headless chicken who barks and banged the table! LOL! else u will mengsia-suikan urself to work with that tin gao.
Pei Wei, good to see you here again! Exactly what I’ve thought –> Din Gao!! Rich people without lots of money but without any EQ and self control. Shame on him! And shame on the whole committee!!
Suzette, I thought you have a big problem with your resident-owners about the dogs, until today when we heard of an even bigger problem. One of our neighbours in our condo actually bought a python, purportedly to let it go back to the wild (“fong sang”) and he kept it in a cage till it is time to do that. Today he came down to our 3 neighbouring units to warn us that the snake had escaped and he is looking for it. Till now, still not found yet, and we live on very high floors, so it is unlikely that it has slithered down to the playground or greenery. I am so furious, how can he put his neighbours’ safety at stake. First of all, he should not even bring the pet to the condo. 2ndly, if he really has to do that, he should have put extra safety measure, like double cage or something. We are told the snake is 2 feet long, and can be anywhere. Talk about uncivilized people!!
Haruki, a python??? SIAO AR??? bought it and wanna fong sang? what’s wrong with him lah!
Haruki, that is so scary! In our meeting, we actually have jokingly talked about people keeping python as pet, and you have just confirmed it. Scary! So what the management going to do about it? Wow!!! >_<
Pei Wei, agreed, really siao! Anyway, hope the snake really slithered away somewhere, or took the lift to go downstairs and outside of the condo to the greens. No news of its sighting, and nope, management isn’t doing anything about it. Think they weren’t alerted as it happened on Sat, and by Mon everyone has forgotten and gone to work as usual. Sigh!
Haruki, I think you should go to the management office and lodge a formal complaint. Usually this is legal entity that can be sued by anyone, so nowadays the management office also got to be careful in handling things like this.
Pray that this python is not going to cause any harm. Monitor if any missing cats/pets, it is a sign it is still around, finding preys!
Ur neighbor really chi sin! Fong sang a python? Must be very sinful leer. Out of so many animals such as bird, fish or tortoise he choose python? Why not elephant? Tiger?
Hi Samantha, your comment was so funny!
I think the ‘fong sang’ thing is just an additional story to pacify us. He could have been keeping it as a pet. I think the title of this blog should be ‘siao bunch of people’.
LOL! ‘Siao’ or ‘Chisin”, both also suit them. Hahaha!