what's mine shall return to me - ordeal with my lauhanku

my flat's title deed was unexpectedly stolen by my bloody lauhanku - my father if u dunno what that term means. it's very difficult for me to address him as "father" cos a father would not steal from the family or cause so much sufferings and unhappiness.

the theft of my title deed was indeed a blessing in disguise and also the revelation about what kind of father i have. i ve lost that title deed for about 3 yrs. he has refuse to return it to me after the demise of my uncle who was my bloody lauhanku's elder brother and who was in a way "killed" by him :(

i had blogged that tragic incident where the bloody lauhanku nagged at my poor uncle until he toppled like a fallen tree. he was a 1.82 tall old man sitting as usual on his favorite sofa watching the tv. along came lauhanku, sat his butt down and started nagging and nagging and crescendo into scolding and scolding....

THUMP! my poor uncle who was receiving all these unnecssary insults fell and slumped onto the floor. he was still alert but his motor movement was like voided. he couldn't move and couldn't get himself back on his feet.

oh dear!! he was down with a stroke! immediately i called for an ambulanace. it was a good thing that my home was near to ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL. less than 15 mins, the nurse with the helpers were at my door steps. we heaved my obsessed uncle onto the stretcher. i helped too cos there were only 3 persons and with me made 4 to carry the heavy load down to the awaiting ambulance below.

poor uncle was admitted into the hospital. i visited him quite often for the next 2 weeks. during my last visit, he seemed to have quite recovered. his speech wasn't slurred. his movement was quite ok. he kept asking me when he could return home....i was a bit sad to tell him that he might not be able to return home. i didn't know why i told him so cos he seemed ok. but the words i splurted out became in such a weird way. i was a bit psychic...and soon i realised why i blurted those strange words: YOU WON'T BE COMING HOME....

the hospital called and asked permission to transfer my uncle to ANG MO KIO HOSPITAL for therapy. i told my old man not to accede and let uncle remained at ALEXANDRA HSP. there was therapy session there too and i don't understand why should he be transferred to so far. it would make visiting him a chore.

the bloody lauhan didn't heed my advice and went ahead to sign the transfer to ANG MO KIO HSP. my uncle was a very simple nice man who didn't harm any soul. when he was a teenager, he was caught by jap soldiers, tortured and whacked until a bit blur. it was surprising to me that he could speak JAPANESE! once i had jap customers coming to my shop to buy my plants, uncle actually was talking to them in jap. what a astonishment to me! he even interpretated how the japs admired my plants as "kawayi" or beautiful....

that nite after the transfer to ang mo kio, uncle was dead! his nightly habit was he had to pee. the hospital called about 3am to say that uncle had fallen from the bed and was in coma. about 6am another call to reveal that uncle had passed away without regaining consciousness.

i suspect that they must have lifted up the bed barricade and my uncle in his urgency to pee didn't know how to lower the barricades, lifted his long legs over, lost his balance and fell onto the floor triggering a heart attack....whatever it was, uncle was dead!

if the bloody lauhanku hadn't agreed to his transfer, he could be still alive till now. my uncle was a very healthy and strong man and never been sick before. he recovered very quickly from minor hitches like flu or fever. and now he was dead!!

not long after the passing of my uncle, my bloody lauhanku sneaked into my open bedroom and stole my TITLE DEED without my knowlegde until the fateful saturday during the regular weekend visit by the F4. (during that time, i still considered them as pals and brought them hom to serve them expensive chinese tea). i tried to look for the deed to show to the half past six lawyer, chiatilik....but it was gone. STOLEN!!

after a span of 3 yrs, the title deed returns to me...and all because it was a god-given moment of HEAVEN, EARTH AND MAN matching perfectly.....

it was a sunday, my brother carrot ta pau some carrot cakes n brought it to me. as i had just made some money from the share market recently, i bought my brother a bottle of ISSEY MIYAKE perfume which cost me $160! anyway, i knew my brother loved it and i loved my brother alot.

while eating the shiok fried chai tao kuay, i told carrot about my stolen title deed by the bloody lauhanku. carrot was irked by such action. he reassured me that he would go next door asked the old man and get it back for me. i pleaded with carrot not to be too foul tempered and tolong tolong keep his cool ...i didn't wanna see another bashing of the bloody lauhanku. mamalee was worried. carrot's wife, ji kee was also worried. they radioed me why i asked him to do so adding that i should leave the matter alone. i told them that the lauhan always going to hatyai to fuck spiders. what if he died cock standing there, then how? i couldn't find where he hid my title deed.

while we were arguing, there was loud shouting from the next flat. oh shit!! carrot, i tot i told u to cool down ur temper. i quickly went over to see what happened. carrot was lecturing my old man and warned him to behave himself, or else....i was so surprised that the old man suddenly became so docile and actually listened obediently to him. then i realised the reason. he got a forthcoming contract which he needed carrot to carry out for him.

my poor skinny brother...every year he would slough for the lauhan on his contracts but the lauhan never bother to pay him. the money would come to hanku's company credt but after getting the payment, lauhan had never made an effort to reimbursed carrot. NOTHING was paid to him. carrot, my dear brother is a wonderful swell guy! he treats the old man as a FATHER and so isn't too bothered whether he pays him or not. but times was really bad. how could the old man do business in such a way as to like "cheating" his own son?

in order to appease carrot that he would do his contract works, he kuai kuai returned my title deed. gosh!! i was so pleased i lifted my skinny carrot and thanked him profusely!! ah...there was another added bonus - he also paid some money to carrot. not really alot but at least something.