Monday, July 25, 2005

Never Play With Food Or Be Haunted By Nightmare

One of the first few things I did immediately after waking up was to walk to the turtle tank and check if Squirt was still alive.

I had a nightmare. In the nightmare, I walked to my kitchen and saw 1st Bro feeding both turtles with chicken meat. Fed them a lot... Recalled telling him not to feed them so much as I don't want them to grow too big too quickly. He ignored me and carried on feeding them even more. After feeding them, he took Squirt and pressed the bottom shell and broke it in such a way that all the turtle stuff started oozing out and can see internal cross section of Squirt. Then he placed Squirt on the stove (no fire, just the empty space) to crawl and left to suffer. I started screaming... UncleN was at my place at that time and came out to see what happened. Tried to console me that Squirt was going to be alright and it wouldn't die. I tried to hope for a miracle and the hole would close up. But it didn't happened. She looked so helpless and if turtles could scream, I bet she would have been screaming. I tried to touch and sayang my dying Squirt. Her pleading eyes which seemed like they were crying made contact with my eyes.
Next thing I knew, I woke up with crying...

Must be the dinner last night. 2nd bro was playing with the chicken head. Kissing the beak and all that poses. Even saw the cross section of the neck, which maybe explains why I dreamt of seeing the cross section of Squirt. Perhaps thinking too much about it made me have the nightmare.

But this nightmare will not turn me into a vegan. I just won't play with food with the head still there. I am never gonna disturb a chicken head, fish head or whatever. I don't wanna dream of my Squirt dying again. Never gonna attempt to try turtle soup!

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