twisted limbs like knotted tree

this is not going to make sense.

hui min said, moments before we fell asleep (or at least i did), when she alighted from her friend's car on our side of the road, she heard a person calling her name from across the street. she turned, but she's shortsighted so she couldn't see who the person was. she turned back, and the person called her name again

"hwee been"

i cannot lose my sister! i would gladly (very frightened but yes gladly) take on anything in her place.

this was what i dreamt of:

a huge tattoo of an intricate dragon across my left shoulder and upper arm, and a huge floral tattoo on my left hip. the terror of papa finding out. and finally mustering enough courage to show mama, who gently laughed at me and pointed out that they weren't permanent. i gingerly picked at the edges of the dragon's tail, and it came out free. i peeled it off like a flattened gummy sweet pasted fervently onto my skin.

and then, at the corner of a large field, against the fence of which there is an immense jerrycan of water. a big water hose, water gushing out, people going mad about the water being wasted. mama basically going completely berserk, hosing everyone and everything down in her panic. "waste water!" the horrified bystanders scream at her. "waste water!" mama screams into space, her wild eyes seeing nothing.

"mama. mama! MAMA CALM DOWN. direct the water into that container instead, it needs filling up!" she does it and calms down. there is peace.

i wake up.