Neighbour

My adjacent neighbour’s house is vacant. For 2 years we’ve stayed here, we have hardly seen the owner. Especially for the first year we were here, we never seen the owner at all. This 2nd year is slightly betterm he would turned up like once in sixth month to clean the weeds (maybe got complaint from the authority after the dengue incident in this taman) and each time he came, he just clear the weeds in the front and side compound and not doing anything to the back yard. The weeds at the garden compound is as tall as a adult human.  So many times I have to get my maid to go over (sometimes even climbing over the fence) to clear the weeds near our house (scared of creepy crawler invading our house and put the kids in danger)

Today he has finally decided to get someone to really clear out all the weeds. But before he does that he never informed us, eventhough he saw that we have full loads of laundry hanging on the fence to dry. (At least have the courtesy to tell us … the grass will surely “FLY” up and stick on the laundry)

OK..nevermind about that , I manage to get my maid to move the laundry to dry somewhere else before he even started to cut the grass. But what makes me really angry is that after the cutting of the grass, instead packing it up and throw it in the thrash, he started burning the cut grass. Not just one spot, but TWO. One at the back of the house and one infront. Hey…. the haze is just over and we finally get to see blue sky and breath fresh air, but this incosiderate idiot started the fire and trying to choke us to death.  Due to the wind direction, the smoke comes choking into our house. Before I manage to get into the room, I have already inhale enough of smoke to make me choke and coughed. And not to mention all the cleaned cloths hanging outside to dry, all is stain with smokey smell (The maid have to re-wash all the laundry..damn)

The only thing I can do is quickly ushered the kids back to the master bedroom and put on the air con. I dont know why these people has got no brain. Open burning is hazardous!!!  (by the way , what’s the number that I can dial to complaint??)

People in this small town really have this kind of small mentality. Everywhere i can see open burning.  How can they stand the smokey smell which is so suffocating?

While we were hiding in the room, my opposite neighbour insisting of coming in to play.  (Got the maid to tell them that we have to hide in the room due to the smoke, but still they insist of coming in.) The kids and me remain in the room while my maid entertained my neighbour. Still no sign of them leaving despite us not coming out from the room, so I ended up “invited” them (the girl and her grandmother) into the room.

The 2 gals played blocks, colouring and I have to entertained aunty by chatting with her. Then the girls started fighting over JS’s mini education computer.

 Before the fight, both very “good friend” shared the same colouring book.

To distract them, i have to get them out of the room and let them do something else. Art & Craft safe them from quarrelling.

 Good friend again.

 JS’s made this butterfly.

The aunty even brought over the girl lunch to feed her at our place and they didn’t leave until 2pm. (Each time when the girls visited each other, they refuse to go home and I’m very reluctant to let JS go over to their house, i realize each time she got back from the neighbour’s place she would cough none stop ..maybe due to some allergic reaction)