Let’s Goyang!

I turned 27 on Friday.

The day started out quite good; with me waking up in high spirits and a bright sunshine outside my window.

However by the mid-morning, our construction site was filled with police cars, crime-scene tape and reporters because a lady hung herself in the laborers’ living-quarters - only a few meters away from my office!

Apparently she and her drunkard-of-a-husband had been arguing the night before. He left to drink somemore to return home in the wee hours of the morning drunk and arguing with the wife again. He passed out on his bed only to wake up in the morning to find his wife hanging lifeless from the ceiling of their room.

The other thing is that she is about one month pregnant. Now I’m not superstitious, but if I recall, these are the recipes for a Pontianak in the making!

In any case, I think its quite sad that this tragedy had to happen. To me, having a dead-beat husband is not enough of a reason to take your own life and that of your unborn child’s. There are so many other options that I feel she could have picked.

But what do I know? I’m a lucky bastard who lives in a nice house and is fat from over-eating and drinking. I’m not a laborer’s wife from the poor village living on RM$50 a day and sleeping in a building made from plywood with about 100 other laborers and their families.

So anyway, talk about bad omens on your birthday!

Aside from that, my birthday was quite nice. Thanks to my friends for all the birthday wishes!

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