I have an urge to send a complain email to the those in charge to vent all frustrations that accumulated throughout my two-year stay in this hostel. The hostel people seem to indulge themselves in a perverted joy of irritating and upsetting me with all sorts of funny events.
And now, it's really blowing my top because they have come to ignore - and neglect - our safety issues. Weeks ago, I noticed a faulty ceiling fan in the lounge. Sensing that this is hazardous and is potentially life threatening, I thought it would be fixed real soon. When that ceiling fan still continued to threaten to drop and cut off people's heads AFTER my prelims, I stormed into the office and sounded the doomsday alarm. Guess what kind of response I got from Miss C when I forced the sence of urgency is the severity of the problem to her?
"Well that we have to depend on when the technician is free to come by and check."
Whoa. Like I'm supposed to be assured of my head won't be chopped off. Hello excuse me, this is a hazard. What has happened to the MOE standard of safety in hostels? Has it become some useless piece of guideline nobody adhere to nowadays? What do you call yourselves, staffs who work with the MOE as? You don't even bloody hell care if the fan really drops when it was spinning and the next day, your hostel makes it to national headlines of being the first hostel having decapitated borders in Singapore's history, except the fact that it isn't some psycho slicing people up but the
FAN?
What's more baffling is, despite my doomsday alarm which was sounded some one/two weeks ago, THE CEILING FAN WAS STILL DETACHED WHEN I WALKED PAST THE LOUNGE JUST NOW! Tell me, are the technicians having a hard time finding their way here (which means they took one/two weeks and still couldn't see past the construction sites), OR you haven't called the technicians yet?
And why, something tells me it must be the latter, and I'm not the least surprised at all.
At this juncture, I really think I have all the reasons in the world to just file a long complain list. The question is, who should I direct my mail to? It must be someone who will give a damn about it, and certainly won't be those bumming around in the office below.
