Video: Slapped for cooking at 5am and waking housemate, who blames reaction on her ‘mild anxiety’

A woman who was cooking at 5am one day was shocked when her housemate slapped her for making too much noise.

Vestene Wong related in a  post on her own Facebook page on Tuesday what had happened to her last Sunday morning. She prefaced her recount by saying that she shared a house with three housemates; a woman who had a room on the ground floor and two men who stayed on the upper floor.

On Sunday morning, she had planned to go hiking with her friends and had told her housemates the night before that she would be cooking early the next morning.

She writes on Facebook that she went to the kitchen to prepare food at 5am. Less than 10 minutes later. her female housemate walked in and slapped her  on the face. “The reason was because I woke her up,” said Ms Wong.

The housemate abused her with “foul language” and questioned why she did not carry her stove into the living room to cook. Ms Wong said she was shocked. She had checked with theirr landlord and learnt there were no curfews imposed on the use of common areas.

“I told her I will be filing a report to the police and she told me she could get away with it by engaging a lawyer and sue me because she got anxiety”, Ms Wong says. She adds that when she went to the police station, her housemate brought unlabelled pills claiming that it was for her anxiety.

Ms Wong says that when the police  sergeant asked the woman if she had a card to show that she did have a mental illness, she  said it was a mild anxiety and there’s no card to verify her mental illness. “One can’t just simply slap someone else and cover it up with ‘mild anxiety’,” says Ms Wong.

When a police officer asked the housemate to apologise, the woman said she was willing to do so only if Ms Wong acknowledged  she had been inconsiderate by cooking in the morning.

Sharing a video of the incident from the CCTV footage and her cheek, red from the slap, Ms Wong writes: “I can’t believe it’s 2022, and this kind of thing still happened. I understand that I may need to be considerate which was why I had informed her the night before that I’ll be using the kitchen and not to mention, it was my first time cooking at 5am and that she chooses to stay in the room in front of the kitchen from the very beginning.”