Thursday, February 28, 2013

Birds and Earthquakes

So apparently a bird flew in and shat on our Kitchen table. Unfortunately Kent cleaned the table before I could come down to take a picture of it. So this is purely anecdotal. Anyway we are also constantly besieged by fruit flies downstairs. They will go to far as to fly headlong into a frying pan full of hot oil, frying up and dying instantly and causing me to have to discard the entire pan of oil because I am superparanoid about food hygiene like that. WHY FRUIT FLIES, WHY?????

I also gave a call to the National Environmental Agency earlier this week to lodge a complaint report of "earthquake tremors" coming from the construction site of Vacanza@East not more than 150 metres from us. I'll bet they are often exceeding the allowed sound limits, gathering from the fact that they have installed a noise monitor not more than a few metres from my window - so they must be trying to cover their asses in case of NEA checks by showing that they have noise monitors around the neighbouring estates. And I know its usually quite useless to report noise violations, because the men will probably stop for a while when the NEA officers come, and then just resume another time because they simply have to finish the work. But the tremors and quaking effect it was having on our apartment in an old building was really the last straw. They followed up with another call today, but I don't expect the construction or quaking to stop. I'm just glad that the sounds haven't scared all the birds away, since they're clearly still living in the tree next to my window, and coming into our kitchen to take a shit on our table.

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