Gathering and Crying Banshee

Here I am still nursing my period pain, headache from not eating anything and regretting the fact I can't join puteri and others for a gathering at Delinn's place. I'm supposed to have a meeting with a client today too but have to cancel that. I kinda wish my boss will handle the meeting but he requested the client to postpone it. Can I rest peacefully at my apartment?

Nooo….. I started hearing a couple quarrelling on and off from about noon until just now, about 9 p.m. The woman is shouting at a high pitch voice unintelligibly while the man has a very low tone voice. I suspect the husband hit his wife once in a while too as then the wife would shout and cry even louder. While I did not agree the usage of physical force in any way, the way the woman shouted on and on makes me feel like I wanted to slap her myself. Can't she express herself in a more refined manner? Listening to her, I told myself this must be what a crying banshee sounds like. I could be wrong for I have never heard a crying banshee. But this is how I imagined it to be.

I know I'm not supposed to judge. I do not know her real situation. But I assumed the hitting started much later into the argument and once it started, it did not stop. Why tempt the husband in the first place? By the way, this is not the first time. It happened like 3-4 times since I rented this apartment but never this long. Probably then I was at work so did not hear the first part of their argument.

I wish someone can 'belasah' (beat) the husband too for using physical force on the wife. See if he likes being hit. Your wife is not your punching bag lah woi! No matter what the circumstances, there must be a better way to handle the situation. Later, my brother came back and this is the first time he heard the shouting. All these while, he only heard what I reported to him whenever I hear an argument from the same couple.

Listening to their argument can really get on our nerves. After some time, my brother shouted "Hoi!" from his bedroom window. Then he decided to pay them a visit. The problem is, we do not know from which apartment the voices came from. The sound came clearly from the kitchen area which is facing another kitchen area. So when we look out at the open kitchen area, the noise can come from any one of the apartment facing our kitchen. He decided to go and hear any sound coming from the front door of the suspected apartments.

While waiting for him to go down the stairs of our apartment to the next stairs, I decided to give another shout, as deep and loud as I can make, "Hoi! Panggil polis kang" and I also heard one or two more "Hoi!" from other neighbors if we can call them that. I did not know any of my neighbors. Not very neighborly of me and other people staying here but I believe a single lady staying alone shouldn't call attention to herself. My brother rarely comes back so I'm alone most of the time.

Not that the neighbors are interested to know anyway. I saw a Chinese couple with a baby when I first moved in. Talk to them a bit but never saw them since. I saw a Malay couple, staying next door to the Chinese couple. That's the only time I saw them too. The neighbor I had seen often and talk for a while is a Chinese couple staying across my apartment. They have their story too. This Chinese couple has an Indian baby. Must be adopted. They treat the baby nicely most of the time but sometimes I heard the mommy treat the baby like a dog.

Shut up! Sit! Stay there! She always let the baby cry when she's not in the mood to entertain the baby too. I'll pretend to be a kay-po-chee, open my windows directly facing their apartment and make loud disagreeing noise. After a while, she'll pick up the baby and cooed her. By the way, our apartment design is a 4-unit apartment at every floor. So that's all about my neighbor. The argument we heard come from an apartment on the next stairs.

And the several "Hoi!" managed to make them stop. Then my brother give me a call and said he couldn't figure out which apartment as it's very noisy at the other side of the apartment with kids voice, loud TV and all. So I told him they've stop quarrelling. I just hope the husband did not bound and gag his wife to silent her.

Then, I watched 'Dilema Wanita'. Not a good show to watch after listening to the couple arguing. It is about a mommy's boy where the mom follows him even on his honeymoon; make the wife's life miserable by always comparing her with the husband's ex-girlfriend whom is favored by the mom as a daughter-in-law. Makes me think why anyone wants to get married and subject themselves to one problem after another. Maybe I should blog about this in another entry.

I wonder how the gathering goes by now. I'm sure they'll give a detail update in their blog and I'll be so jealous. Sigh! Some other time lah kan puteri, Delinn and the rest. Thanks for inviting.