A Good Night's Rest.

I haven't been having a great deal of rest lately, due to the sickness that have plagued me since February the 15th as most of you might know. Yes, I have been sick, like, terribly sick for more than a month but nonetheless, today, I would like to believe that I am better than most days in the past month already. I swear yesterday was one of the best nights ever because I finally had a great, long, uninterrupted sleep and a very pleasant dream.

They said a dream is a window into the soul, the longing of one's wants.

So, if it's true then, that a dream mirrors one's deep heart's desire, then let me share with you my dream for a little.

I dreamt that I was at the kitchen, helping out my family to cook. We were preparing our annual New Year dinner and almost everyone was there, helping out to cook. The food that particularly struck my interest the most is the crab and stingray. I suggested the stingray to be deep fried with flour while the crab should be cooked Chinese-style with black pepper. Though it's not the food that I want to talk about. It's the people in my dream.

Everyone in my family; my aunts, my uncles, my mum, my dad, my grandmother, my cousins, my siblings, all of them were there and the best part is, everyone is happy, just.. happy being there together as a family. It felt so surreal that just living in that dream was quite enough for me. I'm not implying that my family condition currently is in a turmoil, but it's probably because of late, things haven't been quite smooth I guess.

Sometimes, amongst us cousins, we always tell ourselves "Let the adults deal with their own problems themselves." while we happily gamble with cards or play Monopoly Deal in our respective rooms.

Or then again, it has been quite the Asian family value that we are not to interfere in adult matter because adults always think they are right.

Sometimes, adults always think they are right, which is pretty sad, because wouldn't that sound like an authoritarianism or Hitlerism? We don't have the opportunity to voice out our opinion or ideas to solve a matter. Funny how we are taught to speak the truth, encourage peace and whatnots, but then again, it's pretty hard to do that even at home.