Senior Serangoon Gardens residents can testify to this story.
About 20 years ago I used to frequent Serangoon Gardens market/hawker centre and Chomp Chomp eating outlet. There used to be a Chinese guy, in his fifties with a far-off look in his face, hanging out at these 2 places. The moment someone finishes his/her food and vacates the table, he will quickly settle himself in front of the leftovers and finish off the food. At first I thought he was a destitute but later I heard from the hawkers there that he owned a large house near the old Serangoon Gardens CC. Some hawkers would even scold him and called him seow. Now I found out that 3 terrace houses have come up at the site of his old house. I wonder what had happened to him?