Fish Pond & Broken Egg

Late Granny was looking at a fish pond sample in front of our house in Belawan. She liked the unique design which looks like an upside down of a metal table, where the fish is being kept. But the funny thing is the fish is all dead and being put on the side of the pond, to sort of block the other fish from running out. Not only they are dead it is also being deep fried, the big fish looks like a baramundi and the small one is not so clear. She is not quite sure what sort of if, so in order to confirm that she asked me to call Mom to check what sort of fish is it. So I called Mom and she came to have a look. Being doubtful herself she said that they should try the texture of the fish by tasting it a little. I am like ??, so they did, and it seems that the big fish taste a bit funny. And the texture is not firm and tender, it is sort of broken texture. I wonder how she is going to put all things together they way they are, considering the pond is actually a display pond setup by other people.
I was being asked to buy some eggs. The wierd thing is I am holding some ancient coin for the payment and the shop seem to be somewhere in Sumatera street at nite. So I walk pass the shop that seems to have egg.


The owner and old lady was talking to other buyer about something. And I am putting some money for 2 eggs, before walk off to the next counter. And then came back when the customer already gone. So I told the owner that I had put the money for 2 eggs but haven’t got any. I suddenly realised that I need 6 eggs, so I asked for 6, but she gave me 4. Then I told her that I need 6, since I had paid for 2 I only had to pay for the other 4. It was a wierd thing, then Juliana from Jaya Baru was there, and trying to serve me for a while, and then walk off, I keep trying to calculate how much I need to pay, and getting distracted. Finally someone who seems like her dad came over and give more stuff to me which looks like more eggs. And I asked him how much I had to pay after I had my own mental note on the cost, I simply told him the sum, and he said yes, without even thinking. I paid the money, with the ancient coin I had with me, and he babble about one of the ancient poet who happened to be embossed on the coin, it might have been “Sun Tzu”. So I said thanks and walk off, with two type of egg, no plastic bag, I was having problem holding them cause it is not even being secured on the tray. The weight on the right had give way and I feel it dropped. I’m like shit…, so I looked at the tray in my left hand and it seems that the egg is also broken, looking at the broken egg on the pavement, I notice something wierd. One of the egg was broken, but the whole content is still intact, and it seems to have some sort of salt layer that covering the outside, which looks like a salted egg. I was thinking hang on this doesn’t seems right. I didn’t by salted egg, just fresh eggs. I picked them all up, and stacked all of them together into one big egg, and while holding it I can feel that some of the yolk starts leaking out of my fingers. Not knowing what to do, I was contemplating about going home quickly and telling Mom about the bad news and getting scold for it or going back to the shop and blame them for it and try to get replacement.

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