that house....

seems empty again.

seems like yet another family in pieces.

seems to e cat that that house is cursed, & not just because e first owner always threatened to pour boiling water on any straycat that dared to wander in.

e anti-cat first owner lived there with her husband & two kids & a maid(s). 'maid(s)', cos they changed maids at least once. e husband slept with them (as in, e maids) all. first owner hated all those who were aware of this chou3 shi4 (lit. smelly matter), which was practically e entire neighbourhood. she also hated those who passed packs of instant noodles over e backyard wall to her maid(s) when her family went overseas, leaving e maid(s) behind locked up in e house without enough food & no $$.

suffer e maids.

after some time e husband stopped appearing.

first owner started to act really strange. standing up on chairs to look over her backyard wall into adjacent houses & shout at e neighbours, telling other maids that their employers were evil, picking fights with neighbours over where they placed their trash bins outside their gates & e direction in which water ran out of their driveways towards her gate when they washed their cars, calling e traffic police in whenever neighbours had visiting relatives/friends who parked their cars outside their (not hers!!) gates, pouring dirty soapy water (from washing her car) onto neighbours' plants, calling in NParks to complain about neighbours' plants growing too tall & obscuring her view & forcing them to cut them down, throwing dead lizards & roaches over e wall into neighbours' driveways & other peculiar stuff, apart from being nasty to e neighbourhood straycats. in one case e harrassment got so bad e case went to court a la E|v|e|r|i|t|t Road.

one day, first owner walked towards Marine Terrace & never came back. according to eyewitnesses & e Marine Terrace shopowners & e black straycat that lives at one corner of e Telok Kurau/Marine Parade junction, she threw herself in front of an oncoming SBS bus at that junction.

some of e neighbours didn't know about this till much later, when they came across an article in TODAY. all e while they just knew that e maid returned to Indonesia, that e kids went to Australia, & that that house was emptied out & put up for sale.

one night a neighbour found a police patrol car parked outside that house, & two police officers ringing e doorbell nonstop & shining torches at e windows, trying to see if anyone was at home. with them was a lady. e neighbour told them that e house had been vacant for some time, & that e husband had been seen moving all e furniture away.

some time later, e same neighbour was woken up one night by e incessant ringing of e doorbell. it was that lady, this time carrying a baby. she asked if anyone had any info that would allow her to track down e husband of e first owner. 'I am his mistress, & this is his baby.' she'd heard that e first owner had died, & thought that she could now come out of hiding after waiting in e wings for so long.

unfortunately, no one knows where he is. & no one knows if she is his one & only mistress, & if e baby is his one & only child out of wedlock.

suffer e children, who pay for e misdeeds of their parents. why do these people become parents?

meanwhile as that house stood empty, all e straycats in e neighbourhood turned it into their hangout & meeting place =P

until e new owners moved in, despite warnings from e neighbours to think twice about buying that house. e new owners were friendly to everyone, including e neighbourhood straycats. but unfortunately that didn't help them much. e family has been split apart, & that house has been put up for sale once again. but this time round e neighbourhood straycats seem to have lost interest in that house, even though it is vacant.

anyone wants to be e third owner?

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