Noises, stay away

At about 5.10 p.m. this evening, I was back at my seat in the office, and I heard this loud "thumbing" noise. In fact, the vibrations from the source of the noise was so strong, I can feel them in my bones.

It took me a while to realise that someone was playing with a drumset, and the sound was badly amplified by loud speakers. As my office was located at the void deck area of a residential flat, I had thought that the noise came from one of the residents living above my office units.

I tried not to be bothered by the sound of the drumset, but really, the rhythms played were boring, and more importantly, the amplification was totally horrible. Imagine muffled sounds, unclear amplication, and too unbearable bass sounds. By 6.15 p.m., my ears could tolerate no more! I decided I shall not continue to stay in the office. Anyway, the official time to end work was 5.35 p.m.

When I left office, I realised that the source of the noise was from a temporary ge tai (stage). There was a function in the evening, and a temporary stage had been set up. There was a person playing the drum on the stage. Indeed the speakers produced pretty poor amplification. I could only hear muffled loud noises and not a single interesting sound from those speakers near the stage.

It was an unwise move when I later decided to have dinner at the coffeeshop located nearby the stage. That meant that I had to bear with more noises.

Noises, please stay away. My legs have been hurting and aching, and my health hasn't been at its best. One of the things that I would hate to face would be noises. If music inspires and recharges; noises agitates and can kill.