Went out today and bought comics that I shouldn't have bought, but what the hey. Zealot telling the story of Savant's birth (and a very pretty but not overly effeminate younger Majestros) is always good. I wrote a long, rambling post about it, which included various thoughts on the nature of Kheran procreation and Stormwatch, but I seem to have lost it, so yes.

Also, there were two screaming children. One was a boy, about twoish, at the Sakae Sushi above Borders; I was outside waiting for a table and my father and I could hear the kid clearly ._. Seriously, he was screaming like he was going to die a horrible death. I thought at first that he'd gotten burnt or something, but I wasn't really paying attention until I got a table for us inside. The kid was going strong for at least ten minutes.

I later saw where he was sitting when I left, and he was all the way at the back of the restaurant o.o He kept screaming "I want my mama, I want, I want, my mama! Mama, I want my mama", et al. His father was with him, and the screaming was horrible - it was really like he was going to die. His father eventually brought him outside, and five minutes later we could still hear him from inside. He was probably all the way at the other end of the building, too; a good, oh, twenty or thirty meters? My father was horrified. Seriously, why do you let your kid scream like that? I thought he was going to have a cardiac or suffocate, because it was like he wasn't pausing to take a breath. ._.

Second kid was at Jurong Point. She was about two also, I think, but maybe a bit younger. I have no idea what this one was all about, just that she was screaming and throwing one hell of a tantrum. Her mother tried to deal with her, but it's called "Terrible Twos" for a reason, I guess. But seriously, this kid was screaming like she was going to die an even more horrible death than the abovementioned boy. This kid went on for a whooping twenty minutes at full volume. I guess she can't have a tantrum later because she'd have lost her voice.

Seriously, why do parents let their children scream like that? Everyone thought they were going to die! And in horribly painful, graphic, body-mangling ways, too. That can't be healthy, emotionally and physically. It's frightening, not to mention really painful to listen to.

Note to future self: do not let own kids scream like that, because 1) it's not healthy, 2) it's painful, and 3) you wouldn't know when they were facing a genuine horribly painful, graphic, body-mangling death.

Oh, and a funny bit I heard today. Was walking along the underground linkway to Taka; I was at the part under Tangs, near the bank of ATMs and the food market hall place. There was this family, parents and two boys, and the mother was scolding the older one in Chinese: "... in a while it'll be dinnertime, so you can't have it now!"

This was just after noon. Why are you taking about dinner being "in a while" when it's not even 12:30 yet?!