If you had read my very early posts, you would have heard me mentioning a zillion times that I am a complaint queen.
Well, Town Council has kindly helped us to hire contractors to paint the exterior and interior walls of all the blocks in my estate. Since I live at the top floor (technically not the top because there is still the roof level), I often have to bear with A LOT of noise. The workers tend to throw their machinery (all metal stuffs) around, causing a lot of banging sound. On top of that, they have this really sucky pulley system which is used to transport the workers up and down as they paint the walls. The pulley has this really loud rotating sound, as if there is a heavy chain being dragged across for a long distance.
I had complained earlier to Tanjong Pagar Town Council on 2 matters (some of you would say I am fussy, but imagine them happening to you):
1) The workers are seen chatting and playing tamil music while working. I think they talk more than they paint. Seriously, it is fine if they seek leisure while working, but I have noticed HOW SLOWLY they paint as a result of their chatting and enjoying of music. Since I have to tahan all that noise on the roof and from the pulley, of course I complained, saying that if they were to delay the completion of the painting works, I am not going to condone any noise beyond the scheduled completion date. Afterall, they had so much time to chat and enjoy music what.
2) Can the workers stop treating the public tap at my 30th storey as a convenient source of water to bathe? They tend to wash their legs, hands, hair, face, etc. using the public tap at my rubbish chute area, causing the whole area to be very dirty and wet after their “bath”. As a result, I requested Town Council to clean up the mess thay have created.
After my long complaint letter, the ONLY response Town Council had was –> “We will give your feedback to the contractors. Thank you.” As an ex-civil servant, I can imagine this is their typical taiji response and how useless they can be at solving problems. Most of the time, if they really want to and are dedicated enough, they would do something about it and give a more comprehensive response like “We note your feedback and will inform the contractors to minimise the noise. Sorry for the inconvenience. We will arrange for the rubbish chute area at your area to be washed thoroughly. etc etc etc” However, their response does not serve to commit anything and does not address my complaint on the dirty rubbish chute area! Sigh…… Why are we paying so much income tax to feed these people?
Last Sat, being the light sleeper that I am, I was awakened by their pulley system AGAIN, at 8.30 am sharp. According to NEA guidelines on noise, I thought such works should not be carried on Saturdays and Sundays? Yh could not stand the noise too and called TP Town Council to complain. This time, when he called, they were EVEN MORE TAIJI! Their immediate response when they heard that we live at Redhill Road was “Redhill? I don’t think that is under Tanjong Pagar Town Council” HAHAHAHAHA. That’s funny, totally brushing us aside. Yh was very fed up and shouted back at them. And he requested for real action to be done, i.e. for them to lubricate the pulley system so that there wouldn’t be that noise. Hmmm I think it worked a little ‘cos there is really less noise today. Why couldn’t they have done that earlier? Sigh…. Anyway, towards Yh’s complaint, TP Town Council had the cheek to “blame us” saying that there should be “accommodation”, meaning we should give in to the contractors and vice versa. What if all this nonsense happened to this Town Council guy? He also said that the works can be carried out on Saturdays (I will check the NEA website later on this, good luck to them)
