Tomorrow my classmates and I are performing a modern take on Hamlet. We're supposed to be wearing our " costumes",but you could hardly call T-shirt and jeans costumes. I have no major role in this production (no surprise there). I'm one of the performers for the performance within the performance ( all you William Shakespeare fans out there,you should know the story).
Speaking of drama, there was real life drama in my family last week during the CNY celebrations. My 10-year-old cousin who has Down's syndrome got lost in a huge shopping complex. My cousins and I ran around looking for her (it was tiring)and asked every security guard visible if they'd seen her.Other security guards were alerted(thank god they were so helpful). One of the guards looked at the recordings of the CCTV cameras and saw her going down the escalator and then she just disappeared from the recordings,OMG.One of my cousins and I went looking together(everybody split up)and what do you know,we actually found her!!!We were going down the escalator and we heard a little girl's voice saying "uh oh",the moment we heard it we knew it was her.There was no mistaking her low,unique voice.She thought she was playing a game of hide-and-seek so she actually hid in a narrow space beside the escalator.Relief!!Her mother so worried she cried.=(
More drama to come for that day. Another 10-year-old cousin of mine (I'll call him Joe) has a mother who's depressed (I think).So she's sooo possessive she wouldn't let him sleep under the same roof as her husband's family(my uncle). Easier said, she hates us and her husband. We were going to have a reunion dinner that night(CNY tradition),and Joe,being a member of our family too,was expected to join in too.However, Joe's mother set a rule for my uncle(uncle X) to bring him back home by 1 PM, or else she wouldn't allow him to come out and meet us the next day.I mean,being a 10-year-old,you would want to go out on a weekend and just have fun with your visiting cousins instead of going home so early to do maths and science homework,right? And uncle X was supposed to drive his son all the way back home and then drive back to be with his family again? He can't even spend some time with his son on a weekend (trust me,he's a good father and husband). My mother was soooo MAD her own brother was being bullied by his own wife (actually,they don't have any love for each other anymore,it's amazing they can still live together under one roof)she decided to pay her a visit,to demand an explanation.All 12 of us(my grandma too)drove to my uncle's house.Uncle X reached home first and called my mother to say his wife was breaking his stuff at the moment.When finally everybody arrived, there was shouting, a small table crashing to the floor,finger-pointing,arguing,crying...Joe's mother avoided questions and gave unreasonable explanations.Like why was Joe's father not allowed to spend more time with his son, she shouted " BECAUSE I'M THE MOTHER!!!" oh, so did that mean Uncle x has no right as a father to want to spend time with his only son?sheesh!!Alas,Joe was indeed not allowed to go out anymore,and there was no point in fighting over him anymore. The worse part was that when Joe's mother asked him if he wanted to be with his mom or dad, he said "mom".That really broke my uncle's heart.Maybe he was too afraid to say "dad" in case his mother would punish him. Everybody advised Uncle X to get a divorce, but he was too afraid he might lose his one and only son.=((
