Yay!! Finally the pest has been asked to leave. “Asked to leave’ is definitely an understatement, more like ORDERED to leave and clear out his belongings from his illegitimate entertainment area.

His entertainment area is rightfully the public study corner at the void deck of my block, directly below my flat.  The study corner, as the name implies, is a place for residents to study. But more often than so, a hang out place.  I have to say, many have abused the use of the space.

Groups of youngsters would gather when night falls to chit chat all through to the early morning.  Talking loudly, revving their parked bikes, playing music from their latest mobile phone, making way too much noise at those hours.  We had to call on the patrol to check in on them a couple of times.  This was all tolerable, cuz eventually they knew they had to disband after a certain hour.

(This is going to be a rather long post, continue reading if you want to… the crux of the post is right at the end though… )

When this old man made his appearance at the study corner, it was good for a while cuz these youngsters stopped hanging out there.  But slowly he started setting up his camp here! He was putting up paintings on the pillars, fixing up bookshelves, putting vase and flora arrangements on the tables with table clothes and all.  Making the place look rather ‘homely’.  A group of old men regularly hang out there in the afternoons to pass time, so I guess making the place look like a recreation room wasn’t that bad.

He seems to be a rather talented person; he could draw, write chinese calligraphy, and had been seen teaching some senior citizens who were interested.  And he helped organise some estate party, decking out the study corner with handicrafts made by the group of old men.  That’s a constructive thing to do so I thought, enough to override the nuisance they create in the afternoon blaring the TV at crazy volume, making percussion out of pots and pans, or starting their weekend karaoke session too early on weekend morning.  I mean like, afterall, they’re a group of elderly men, who are just passing time.  And probably some of them had hearing problems, they tend to speak louder.  We never kicked up a fuss.

Don’t know when and how,  he ‘partitioned’ a little kitchen at the back of the study corner; fully furnished with a kitchen cabinet, refrigerator and cooking stove!  We were wondering if the residents’ committee had allowed him to do all that.  This was getting overboard, and had caused the displeasure of many residents in the estate, especially those on this side of the block.

Soon he was getting into trouble with other residents who also hang out at the study corner.  He was getting all too territorial, claiming ownership over the public area.  Quarrels starting happening more often, we could hear shouting and vulgarities hurled at one another, on a few occasions got into pushing matches.  We could hear what’s happening from our flat, 5 floors up.  I was more concerned about the old men hurting themselves in the jostling.

It got out of hand, more residents were affected by them, and I guess the authorities were called in.

He was seen ‘moving out’ last Friday.  Yayness!!!  But little did we know, he did the MOST SCRUPULOUS things!

It was in today’s Shin Min Daily News that he had stolen these some funeral banners and hang them across the block to curse the residents, for telling on him, for driving him out.  No wonder we had seen these said banners being put up around the study corner.  I’m now wondering if he was the one that sent us that 3 hell notes we received in mail some 3 weeks ago.  He might be have thought it was our family that lodged the complaint.

I’m not sure what next he might do.  He may no longer be hanging out here, but if he can use think of using those banners to curse, what else wouldn’t he think of??