I am not Xenophobic

I resorted to putting up a not-so-friendly note at the common rubbish chute a few weeks ago when my *ahem* not-so-proficient-in-English neighbours refused to - or more accurately, were too lazy to - place their rubbish into the chute. Instead, they left them lying around the chute area. At the time when this picture was taken, there was another packet of rubbish TIED to the pipe next to the chute, and yet another leaning against the wall opposite the chute!

It was not the first time that this happened.

It started getting too frequent for comfort when our neighbour decided to increase their tenancy. Let's see ... there are four ready-made rooms in the flat, and not too long ago, they created two more rooms in the living room using partition boards.

They probably forgot to educate the new tenants on the need to throw away their own rubbish, and so the note had to go up.

I was not too optimistic about the note being up there for too long. I had reckoned it would not even survive a day of being put up. Surprise, surprise ... it is still up there today. And it has served its purpose well. Ever since it went up, the chute area stops having bags of rubbish around it. Even when there are rubbish, they are always bulky items that cannot be thrown down the chute.

I don't care if they are upset with the note. They probably are, but for the sake of not antagonising the note writer, which might result in him or her reporting the outrageous tenancy rate in an HDB flat to the authority, they have complied to the practice of throwing their own rubbish since.