NUS prof apologises to Chip Bee Gardens neighbours
By Goh Shi Ting
RazorTV
Thursday, Jan 12, 2012
NUS Professor Dr Denisa Kera has apologised to her neighbours at Chip Bee Gardens for their loss of peace and privacy in the midst of a dispute between her and her next-door neighbour Mr Ivan Loh.
Mr Loh has called in the police six times over the past nine months to complain about the noise levels at Dr Kera's house parties.
However, Dr Kera insists she has not stepped out of line.
"I'm just a researcher, a normal person in my late 30s. I don't think I make much more noise than any person in their late 30s," said Dr Kera who is from Prague and has been staying in Singapore since 2008.
Even though Mr Loh observed that his neighbour has kept quiet since the first media reports were published last week, he is not letting the matter rest.
"My course has moved slightly because Singapore needs to know what kind of lecturer we have," said the 41-year-old photographer who lives with his wife and a 1-year-old baby.
"The moral standards of the person must be upheld, if not how do you teach our children of the future?"
Mr Loh told RazorTV that he made sound recordings of the noise coming from his neighbour's, while he was in his living room.
On one occasion, he said the police was called in but after they had left, the noise level from Dr Kera's house was still the same.
What appalled Mr Loh further was that he could hear the words "Asian assholes" in the conversations which took place subsequently.
"What kind of foreigners are these people, coming to our country and saying things like that?" he said.
Dr Kera, however, said that her friends were watching a foreign film that evening and were merely commenting on the plot; the remark had nothing to do with her neighours.
"We were watching a Serbian movie with some very negative stereotypes about Serbs. It was a comedy, about a Singaporean delegation of businessmen visiting Serbia and being shocked to see what Serbians do," she explained. [RT: yeah right! What movie was that?]
"I honestly don't understand why they [her neighbours] get the feeling it concerns them.
"I find it strange that people stalk other people and take recordings of what goes on in someone's house.
"I also want to apologise just to Singaporeans to have to witness this ridiculous dispute about expats and Singaporeans, which has nothing to do with one noise dispute.
"If people start to use this dangerous argument any time they have a personal problem with someone, where will we end?"
Dr Kera said that she had apologised to Mr Loh repeatedly for an incident last April, when she was out of town and a party was held at her house.
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By Goh Shi Ting
RazorTV
Thursday, Jan 12, 2012
NUS Professor Dr Denisa Kera has apologised to her neighbours at Chip Bee Gardens for their loss of peace and privacy in the midst of a dispute between her and her next-door neighbour Mr Ivan Loh.
Mr Loh has called in the police six times over the past nine months to complain about the noise levels at Dr Kera's house parties.
However, Dr Kera insists she has not stepped out of line.
"I'm just a researcher, a normal person in my late 30s. I don't think I make much more noise than any person in their late 30s," said Dr Kera who is from Prague and has been staying in Singapore since 2008.
Even though Mr Loh observed that his neighbour has kept quiet since the first media reports were published last week, he is not letting the matter rest.
"My course has moved slightly because Singapore needs to know what kind of lecturer we have," said the 41-year-old photographer who lives with his wife and a 1-year-old baby.
"The moral standards of the person must be upheld, if not how do you teach our children of the future?"
Mr Loh told RazorTV that he made sound recordings of the noise coming from his neighbour's, while he was in his living room.
On one occasion, he said the police was called in but after they had left, the noise level from Dr Kera's house was still the same.
What appalled Mr Loh further was that he could hear the words "Asian assholes" in the conversations which took place subsequently.
"What kind of foreigners are these people, coming to our country and saying things like that?" he said.
Dr Kera, however, said that her friends were watching a foreign film that evening and were merely commenting on the plot; the remark had nothing to do with her neighours.
"We were watching a Serbian movie with some very negative stereotypes about Serbs. It was a comedy, about a Singaporean delegation of businessmen visiting Serbia and being shocked to see what Serbians do," she explained. [RT: yeah right! What movie was that?]
"I honestly don't understand why they [her neighbours] get the feeling it concerns them.
"I find it strange that people stalk other people and take recordings of what goes on in someone's house.
"I also want to apologise just to Singaporeans to have to witness this ridiculous dispute about expats and Singaporeans, which has nothing to do with one noise dispute.
"If people start to use this dangerous argument any time they have a personal problem with someone, where will we end?"
Dr Kera said that she had apologised to Mr Loh repeatedly for an incident last April, when she was out of town and a party was held at her house.
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