Ah yes I read that one.
Frankly speaking, for him to insinuate that an elderly neighbour
had died because of the noise and dust was a very, very low
blow.
He could have just written a polite letter to the family asking
them to help address problems caused by the renovation. But with
this sort of letter, he's going to get a huge backlash.
Anyway, parallels can be made between the rants of Daniel Ong
and Amy Cheong. Amy could have simply gone down to the wedding,
talked to the parents of the bride/groom, and politely asked them
to ask the DJ to turn down the volume a little.
Most likely they would have apologised profusely for the noise,
turned the volume down, and asked her to help herself to the mutton
briyani at the buffet table.
And she would still have a job come Monday.
As a society this is where we've failed. We're so averse to
confrontation that we try to cut out face-to-face meetings as far
as possible and turn to social media or higher powers
like the police or MPs to express our grievances. The
issue gets blown out of proportion sometimes as it did with AC, and
also with the dying man and his cats.
As you say, a lot of trouble can be save with a short walk and a
civilised conversation. We left our ability to empathise and our EQ
behind somewhere along the road to prosperity.
