Haven't been having the best of luck these days. On 3 non-consecutive days, when it was initially bright and sunny, after washing my clothes, the sky turned grey not long later resulting in having to bring the clothes back into the flat and the process of drying would be longer than expected.
Have been thinking of baking the awfully chocolate cake with banana and have been shopping at different places for the ingredients, which include coffee liquour. However, just yesterday, there's something wrong with the oven while mum was trying to use it and it caused a short-circuit in the house. It meant that the oven is 1 step into the grave.
Wanna watch a super hilarious movie at A's house but on the 2 (non-consecutive) days I was there, the downloading stopped halfway. He said that on the day between the 2 days when I was there, he managed to download the whole of it (just to test it out).
Finally, today when I wanted to continue to watch Xing Suo online, it stated that the website's temporarily unavailable. "-_-
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I finally finished reading the rather perverse book titled Perfume. About a guy with a super keen (almost inhuman) sense of smell who was obsessed with creating the most potent perfume in the world. He dreamt of even playing God by creating scents to lead people on. In the end, he did succeed in this ultimate task in his life, not before having to kill 25 virgins to rob them of their scent. This movie was shown in the cinemas (last year?).
Next on my list is non-fiction book about the author himself. Titled - My Story. It's by Dave Pelzer. I've just started reading it today although it's something I bought quite a while ago. 3 books in 1. All about this author. It revealed his life story. How he was tormented physically and emotionally by his perverse mother. Psychotic I would even say... Here are some of the inhuman acts she did to him...
1) She forced him to eat his baby brother shit from the diapers which of course he couldn't bring himself to do it and so she shoved his face into the diapers. The shove caused his nose to bleed and he was breathing in shit and blood because he shut his mouth real tight.
2) She didn't give him dinner (for days) and made him sleep under the table with only newspaper as blankets. Dinner was like only about once every 3 days and only when he managed to finish household chores by the stipulated time.
3) His breakfast consisted of cereal leftover in his brother's bowl. He was so hungry that he had to steal from his classmates' bags and even stole and ate frozen food from his school's cafeteria.
4) His mum found out about the theft of the frozen food and forced him to vomit out into the toilet bowl. She later made him scoop out the vomit from the toilet bowl and forced him to eat the vomit again.
5) His dad who was initially trying to help him secretly (dunno why so weak..) gave up trying too and that's when the author started to hate his dad too. Imagine he was stabbed by his mum who was drunk and when his dad came back, he didn't even bother to look at the wound and just asked the author to continue with the dishes so that his mum wouldn't get mad again "-_-
6) She forced him to drink ammonia, dishwashing liquid, etc. The ammonia burnt his tongue...
7) He resorted to digging from the trash can to look for any scraps of dinner and when his mum found out about it, she deliberately threw out a piece of meat which was already spoilt so as to teach him a lesson about digging from the trash can.
8) She wanted to burnt him on the stove but his siblings came back in time.
9) His mum after starving him for 6 days, put a plate of leftovers in front of him and told him to finish up in 2 min but when he started to reach for the food, she snatched away the plate and dumped the food into the trash can.
10) She made him lie naked in a bathtub of cold water with his face and body facing down (maybe just allow head to tilt so that could breathe...) even when there's a Halloween party going on downstairs where his siblings were enjoying themselves.
11) She made him look for neighbours' lawns to mow so as to earn the money herself.
12) A couple of days before the social worker came to visit them, she pretended to make up with him and promised to be a good mother. She led him on for the 2 days so that he would lie to the social worker. Upon his realization, he hated himself for believing in her charade.
It's so sick I tell you. He didn't know what caused the change in her. Just knew that she derived pleasure out of torturing him. She wasn't mean to the other siblings. So, somehow, he's the targeted one. The above were just some of the things that I read so far. However, it's really saddening and stirred up lots of emotions even for a reader. I can't believe that the dad didn't do anything helpful apart from sneaking him bits of food now and then. Why was he so afraid of the mum despite knowing full well that his son was suffering under her?
So far, I've finished 4 short chapters and I can tell you that it's a good read. Moreover it's based on a true story so it's worth the time.
Serendipity believed today at 8:52 PM
