CNYE/TIL

> Woken up with an urgent call to consume the heavenly goodness of a croissant-like pastry, aside scrambled eggs and smoked salmon.
> Pretty much best brekkie in bed ever, prepared and cooked while i was asleep.
> Immediately after i rolled back into bed while the dishes magically washed themselves, i think.
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> Went home for a reunion at my place, mum scrubbing the house till pink.
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> My fourth uncle comes, he never usually appears in gatherings. He's happy. He brought a bottle of whisky.
> Aunt scolds him. Nags.
> It escalates, and we talk among ourselves for distraction.
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> "How can you drive and drive?!"
> "It's okag before i came i already had a bottle"
> "That's even worse! Your health is already so bad-"
> "Aiyah if i'm going to die soon just let me do what i want can? I'm not like you i every day work work work i dont have anything else i can do"
> And it goes on.
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> Dinner was pretty good, can't believe mother made two trips down to parkway to order, and collect $25 worth of paltry yam cubes.
> Cant believe aunt blew a three figure sum on a pot of cai png.
> Dinner was not so awkward.
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> "So, graduating soon?"
> Studies, studies. Oops, havent been doing work.
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> Uncle goes and gets his drink. Arguement ensues.
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> I, however, indignant that anyone should rob anyone of simple pleasures like destroying oneself, taps him on the shoulder -he seems to be hard of hearing, i often repeat myself till i physically nudge him- and asks "gugu, do you want some ice?"
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> Another aunt smirks, laughs, chortles, i dont know, "whoa so nice somemore ask if want ice"
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> A quick glance at her.
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> Everyone heard me say that.
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> Later on after everyone leaves, the debate continues.
> And i learnt something.
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> "Just let him drink la! I mean he can hold his liquor, he likes it, what's wrong?" questions the fighting-for-all-rights activist in me.
> "It's not only dangerous to him, if he gets tested, what if he gets into an accident and kills someone?"
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> I stopped short.
> It was when i realized that i had been so myopic in looking at hedonism in my uncle that i failed to consider the rights-right to life- of others who might be affected in the course of actions undertaken by him.
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> I learnt my mistake, and it impacted me so much that i am typing this on my "phablet" (hate this word, reminds me of farts), which i dislike typing on. One, doesnt exist in a vacuum sphere. Nothing is really ever isolated.
> All actions are interconnected and implicated by everything one does. Hence i believe in the infinity of parallel universes spawned each instant based on paths that could have followed from one's action.
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> This so often happens, we are so focused on rights of one issue, that we miss out the implications.
> It brings me back to the first and second amendment in the US of A. Freedom of speech- but others deserve their freedom not to be discriminated based on this freedom. Freedom to bear arms- but others have a freedom to life, to live.
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