Sunday, December 05, 2004
the days been bz wif festive visiting, as my parents didnt seem to end the visiting list! but the most important day was last fri, 26 Nov. we were at my neighbour's house at abt 10pm when i overheard my dad's conversation on his hp, n i, as usual, eavesdropped the conversation. it turned out my close cousin had a misunderstanding wif her dad, resulting in her dad chasing her out of the house. wat made me furious dat she was chased out juz coz she lost her entire bag containing her wallet, IC, other cards, house keys n her office clothes while she was jogging at yishun stadium.
it was my cousin's stubbornness dat led to the bag's disappearance. she assumed dat if she were to leave it on the grandstand like she'd done before, it wont be stolen. like as if there werent any lockers avaible for use. fortunately she was holding onto her hp as she ran. else, more problems would arise.
her father has long disliked her own daughter. imagine having a father who didnt want to send his own wife for medical checkup when she was bearing u in her wombs? n imagine dis.. how would u feel when ur own father gingerly offered ppl to buy her own daughter when she had just been born. n now when confronted, he denied being serious abt it!!! ok wait, we'll go to dat part later.
so when we left the neighbours house, we drove straight to woodlands to find out wat really happened. as we were reaching, her mom called to say we didnt need to come over coz its been settled. i reached the house, seeing my poor cousin, eyes swollen from crying buckets earlier. i pulled her to her room while my parents tried to cool her father down. i asked my cousin wat she felt at dat time. as expected, she felt like leaving at dat instant. bear in mind, she had oredi packed almost the entire belongings. soon after, my dad came in, n asked how she was. we decided to take her over to my house while things cooled down in a week. her dad could even say "u f*** off dis house" n refused to "salam"! my dad insisted n he gave way to let her daughter "salam" him.
lucky for us, there's a spare room for my cousin to use. to cut the whole story short, we called my dad's eldest bro coz her father said the only ppl dat can interfere would be my dad n his bro. we were furious coz he threatened her own wife on sunday morning by saying "kalau dia balik, tau lah ape aku nak buat". so we confronted her father dat night. it started out diplomatically, then the conversation got heated. i got involved coz he kept on blaming her daughter for not calling home to inform she wanted to go jogging. in other words, he accused her of lying behind his back, while we all know if my cousin were to call, he would definitely say no. i even raised my voice to get my point across as he kept on accusing me of disrespecting him, while at dat point of time i argued back saying "u said im disrespecting u, but did i use any vulgar word like u using at me now?" i was mad, really mad. crazier to see dat my cousins mom didnt even side her a single bit, kept staring at my cousin as if her husband's an angel! n when we shot at the father saying dat he likes to bad mouth our family, my aunt totally denied dat she conveyed those things to us, when in actual fact she was the one who complained to my parents abt the badmouthing! i hate it when we were there to help the mother from being a victim, but she protected the very person who abused her n the family, n not helping herself. i give up. i've lost respect to my own aunt whom i've been empathising but lost dat faith when she didnt want to stand up to her rights when we were there to back her up.
in short, we got my cousin to be accepted. but we warned them dat if my cousin were to be chased out again, we'll pick her up, send her to my cousin's place at bedok, n make a report to MCD n Syariah Court the very next day. all becoz the father feels disrespected when my cousin didnt share the same dining table, didnt talk to him, when he himself didnt show love n care to the entire family...
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