Holiday News Article 2

What a load of rubbish!


For 30 years, this family has to put up with the rubbish and the stench coming from thir neighbour's three room flat in Telok Blangah Rise. They have to keep their windows shut even when they are at home. They avoid going out their flat because the stemch is overpowering.

"It smells so disgusting I feel like vomiting," said Mr Leong Cheow Yeow, 80, who lives on the 13th floor of block 42. The retiree lives there with his wife, Madam Tam Ah Yuke, 74, and thier youngest son, who is in his 30s. The situation has become worse over years. They said they feared that the rubbish inside might be a fire hazard.

The New Paper visited the flat on Wednesday and found it so filled with rubbish that it was impossible to walk from one end to another. There are napkins, tins of butter cookies, empty food containers, books, old newspapers, plastic bags andeven sachets of 3-in-1 coffee mix lying around. They are piles that reach almost to the top of the ceiling of the flat, and the floor cannot be seen. Several of the flat's window panes are broken, and there are flies buzzing around. A foul smell hung think in the air.

The front door is held shut only by a piece of raffia string. The owner of the flat wasn't in. But according to Mr Leong, she is a woman in her 40s who livd there for about 20 years. She comes back three time a week. Mr Leong claimed that whenever the woman returns to the flat, she asks him for $10 to buy food. "I always give it to her because she looks so poor, with nobody to take pity on her," said Mr Leong. He added that she thanked him in return, and often said "God Bless You" to him.


My opinion:

I think the woman should have not accumulate rubbish in her flat. By doing this, she is being an inconsiderate and unhygenic neighbour. She should sell all her rubbish to the rag-and-bone man, so she could have money to buy food eat instead of asking Mr Leong for money.

But, I'm also glad that Mr Leong was willing to give the lady money. I think that he had done a right thing. If not the lady, would be starving to death.