one day in a clinic, an advance pregnant lady came in and asked the doctor to abort her child....
she was in distressed saying that her husband had ran away with a teetujia leaving her all alone....and she couldn't fend for the unborn child.
the good doctor examined her and told it couldn't be done cos the foetus had already taken human shape. and already she was in advance pregnancy. the distressed woman went into hysteria. she cried and wailed banging her stomach with her fists. then she passed out.
the doctor noticed bleeding dripping from her thighs. my god!! code red!!
immediately he prepared to save the mother and the dangerously harmed unborn child.....
and it was with miracle that the child was born...unscathed. the good doctor marvelled at this miraculous birth.
by then the mother had awaken and was sobbing bitterly. she pleaded the doctor to adopt the baby for her. she didn't want him....
well, what to do, the doc obliged. he simply named him ah chen. a few months later, the doctor decided to give him away for adoption. to a quite well to do family in chinatown. ah chen was hence adopted by a fourth wife of a rich man.
this 4th wife was barren and already adopted a girl of 2 yrs old. the moment the old good doctor brought her the baby ah chen, she brightened up. immediately she acceded to his request and adopted this baby as her very own child.
she was a very kind lady and loved both the adopted children who soon grown up to schooling age.
the master of the house the tua teetukong...the hubby of the brood lst to 4th wifeys, would gave a lump sum of money to the notorious lst wifey who would in turn distribute the dough to every wifey.
4th wifey would send chen ge to collect the monthly allowances. due to chen ge's lowly background and uncanny birth, she despised him...and the more she hated and mocked at the 4th wifey for being barren....:(
whenever, chen ge went to collect the dough, she would throw the money mockingly on the floor. the poor boy would have to pick up all the loose notes on all 4 limbs.....such humiliation.
got one time, this was witnessed by his adoptive father. he noticed a certain vengefulness in chen ge's face. the father quietly beckon chen ge to his study room and talked fatherly to the anguish child.
"son, i m sorry ur lst mum doesn't like u and much even ur mum...." he began. "but u mustn't harbour hatred for her.....it's her character flaws...and if u harbour those hatred then u develop an evil and wickedness within u too...and that is very destructive....so son...just bear it all...treat it as a lesson in HUMILITY....FORGIVENESS...AND MAGNANIMITY...."
with those words, chen ge became a young enlightened boy liao...
later the father passed away. splitted the properties among the wifeys...and each went separate ways with their own children...just like strangers who never met...
the jealousy and competition among bitches for the selfish love of one man was beyond description....very rarely a woman would want to share her prized catch especially a rich chiohunk with another woman......that's sad to say, is the natural inborn trait of most woman.....
chen ge due to his quite premature birth was rather weakling in health...his doting mum brought him everywhere to see sinseh...but a cure could not be found. he had breathing problem....asthmatic...and sometime so serious he could just turn blue and close to death.
each time however, miraculously, he cheated death....like almost gone...and then miraculously, he recovered...this worried his adoptive mum to desperation.
in chinatown where most samsui women lived. during their rest days, the whole bunch of spinsters would gather. they would have potluck meals. drank teas. talked about their villages back home in china....and gossiped about their mistress' ill treatments or the romantic flirtings of their master.
most of them were either construction workers or amahs or mahjie as they were lovingly called.
and here was where, chen ge was destined to meet lady sifu who founded the current temple that i frequent every sunday.
sifu was then a kindly but illiterate young girl who came all the way from hong kong. in hk, she was trained and followed our sicho or the sifu's sifu......
sicho already predicted for her that she would leave her hk hometown and venture out alone into nanyang...meaning here in sinkieland...to set up this religion TIEN TAK*, expand and glorify it entirely with her own two hands.... *tien tak - heavenly principles
sifu was taught a special qigong healing method. she was very popular then in chinatown. she was quite well versed in herbalist and so treated these poor samsuipors of their aches and sickness. she was a great kind lady....and treated them free of charge. soon her name was quite wide spread and chen ge's mum heard about her and brought chen ge to consult her.
the moment she laid eyes on this boy, she brightened up. she revealed to the mother that this was a special child who should have been dead. but he survived. she requested the old lady to allow her to keep chen ge as her disciple which his mum gladly agreed.
that was how chen ge followed sifu until her death...and now help to manage the temple at balestier road.
how sifu managed to treat and fully cure chen ge...nobody really knew. i was told sifu used a special qi gong called XIAN HOK SHEN JIAM.....to treat him. most senior followers of the temple now claim they knew and mastered the technique...search me...i dunno and dun further query me about this XHSJ...me dunno...can't be bother!
......and so to date, chen ge is a happily married man...and me was awed with mouth widely opened after he related this bombastic story to me....MY JAW NEARLY DROPPED U KNOW!...haahaa...;9)
well, true or not....up to u to believe...i think it's true cos when he was relating his life story i could sense his pains and sufferings within...at time, i notice beads of tears at the corner of his reddened eyes...
only real story spurs true feeling...and true sad feeling will initiate trickle of niagra falls....
...end of chen ge's life story....what do u think?
any weirder than ur own personal life story u want to share here??
