Town council asks seniors to remove chairs from 'cosy corner'

[tioliaohuat]

Goh Yan Han and Derek WongThe New Paper
Sunday, May 18, 2014

He had just suffered a stroke, and made it a point to walk every day for exercise.

When he is tired, Mr Tan Chew Lim would sit near the HDB staircase to chat with his friends.


Soon, people started donating and bringing along their own chairs. And then, a "cosy corner" was born.
But the assortment of 11 chairs and two benches at Block 121 Teck Whye Lane will have to go.


On Wednesday afternoon, the residents who have gathered there for their regular chit-chat sessions for the past six years, found a notice informing them that the chairs would be removed within a week.


The notice was issued by the Chua Chu Kang Town Council.


Mr Tan was confused as to why the town council would want to remove the chairs.
"They have been aware of the place for years, but suddenly they are asking us to remove the chairs," said the retiree, 75.


Sad that the chairs will have to go, Mr Tan, who has been going to the corner three times a day for the last six years, added: "We won't have anywhere to go. If I stay at home, I will be bored to death."


FELLOWSHIP BROKEN


Fellow resident and friend, Mr Peh Lian Huat, 66, who also visits the spot three times a day, said: "The friendships we have made will be broken."


Mr Tan lives on the fourth storey of Block 121. The closest resting spot, a concrete round table, is at Block 122, but there are only four seats.


"They are very uncomfortable for the elderly. Our chairs have backrests, so they are more comfortable," said Mr Tan.


Besides residents of Block 121, patients from the nearby kidney dialysis centre and residents of Block 113 and 122 would also join them.


"This is a multiracial and inter-generational gathering spot," said Mr Tan.


Mr Peh, who lives at Block 122, said: "There are many people who used to come but have passed away. Now there are about eight regulars. It is a very close-knit community."


He said the residents who use the corner make an effort to keep the place clean.
But the chairs and benches have not always been safe.


Vandals have broken their benches on previous occasions. But one of the regulars, Mr Wang Guang Tong, 74, would always repair them.


And when teenagers take the chairs and leave them elsewhere, the regulars recover them.
Mr Tan and Mr Peh have since chained the chairs to the wall.


A town council spokesman confirmed the notice and said the obstruction at the common area is a potential fire hazard.


The spokesman said: "There will be upcoming upgrading projects, and the town council will take their needs into consideration and have proper seats in the area if necessary."


Mr Alvin Yeo, vice-chairman of the town council and Member of Parliament for Chua Chu Kang GRC, said: "If it is brought to the attention of the town council, we will look into the residents' requests very seriously."

http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/town-council-asks-seniors-remove-chairs-cosy-corner

 

[tioliaohuat]

fucking Town council, where is your "leong sim"?[h=2][/h]

 

[escher]

Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.


GET RID OF THE POISON IN SINGAPORE
HANG ALL THOSE FUCKING PAPs AND THEIR COLLABORATORS
BBQ THE BASTARD PAPs

AND SINGAPORE CAN BE AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN SWITZERLAND

OR REMAIN HEAD DOWN DOWN AND ARSEHOLES UP HIGH HIGH TO BE FUCKED TO BE TIEWED TO BE KANNED BY THE PAP MAGGOTS COCKROACHES

Kill them all PAPs
Let GOD sort out the good from the really bad ones
The good PAPs can then eat joss sticks and candle wax from time to time
The bad PAPs like smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY will be raped and tiewed and kanned by legions of ghouls and demons and not ever
get time off to eat joss sticks and candle wax

Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.


None of those in PAP work for anyone but that smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY, to help him hold down Singaporeans to screw and fuck hundreds of BILLIONs from us all into smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY stinkapore sovereign funds.

They are there in PAP because LKY know that they are a bunch of self serving greedy bastards and scrapings of scums of society. To call them maggots cockroaches will be to insult real maggots and real cockroaches.
LKY will never allow good decent people into the PAP and good decent people will not want to get into the PAP.

Those in PAP are the most corrupt and moral degenerates and moral bankrupts and moral filths that are being presented to stinkaporeans as moral compasses.

Despite the leeching and fucking of singaporeans by the cheebye PAP and LKY, Singapore still managed to survive to date.
Despite their being hung as a fucking millstones around the necks of Singaporeans and the idiocy and corrupt manipulations of PAP and LKY, Singapore still not dead yet.

WE ALL ARE NOW WAITING FOR THE DEATH OF LKY IN COMING DAYS OR WEEKS.
WE ALL WILL YUM SENG AND YUM SENG AND YUM SENG AGAIN AND AGAIN DANCING SINGING ON TABLE TOPS AND STREETS

WE THEN WILL SEE THOSE IN PAP WITH SHARPENED KNIVES HOOTING ARSEHLOON A DOZEN NEW ARSEHOLES AND THE DEATH OF THE ENTIRE LEE KWA CLAN

WE THEN WILL PICK UP PIANO WIRES AND HANG ALL THOSE REMAINING PAP AND THEIR COLLABORATORS FROM LAMP POSTS AND SEE THOSE BASTARDS AND BITCHES DANCE.
AND HAPPINESS WILL RETURN TO OUR LAND.

AND STINKAPORE WILL BECOME SINGAPORE ONCE MORE.

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[spotter542]

Who did they vote for ?

 

[golden tongue]

Town Council is really hopeless. Doesn't do much for its residents. Only know how to create problems for its resident.
They only know how to send remainder letter to residents who didn't pay their Conservercy Charges before the month end. And if any residents didn't or couldn't afford to pay for some reasons or another, they will ask their lawyer's office to send threatening letter to their house.
I don't see them sending cleaner to sweep the corridor outside my house.
Hopeless Town Council.

 

[winnipegjets]

Mr Alvin Yeo, vice-chairman of the town council and Member of Parliament for Chua Chu Kang GRC, said: "If it is brought to the attention of the town council, we will look into the residents' requests very seriously."

The residents have spoken out to the press ...the article is in the newspaper , isn't that sufficient to bring it to the moronic PAP MP's attention? Does he need the Ah Peks to beat him up to get the TC's attention?

And the TC will only CONSIDER very seriously. What a waste of our money to have such an idiot.

 

[red amoeba]

dunch worry...under the pioneer package...these citizens will be packed into old folks home in JB...no nid anymore to sit downstairs and cause noise pollution.