we got new neighbors who moved in about a month back and the family’s fairly eccentric - rearing fishes in a tank outside their flat, having windwheels installed over the place though their youngest kid’s 13?, having stools all over the corridor though they don’t have visitors.

 

they also have a tendency to talk REALLY LOUDLY.

 

so when i overheard the son of the family talking to his mother at the top of his voice the other day, i casually remarked to my mother that he was quite rude.

 

my mother then launched into rambling mode, saying that the mother was crazy cause she screams at the kids. that even if she’s angry she shldn’t shout at them cause it’s embarassing blah blah blah.

 

i blinked.

 

the situation’s ironic because if you know my mum, she is one that never fails to scream at us whenever she’s in a foul mood, even banging a couple of pots and pans just to prove a point.

 

and yet.

 

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i guess the irony wasn’t lost on my dad too, cause right after my mum finished her tirade and walked into the room, he came to me and went,

 

"both of them can fight lor."

 

indeed, very true indeed.