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Provoked
11:57 PM
Provoked

Yeah I know its been a boring week for you people cause I haven't updated my blog. *winks*

But, its not 100% my fault because I've been up to my eyebrows in busyness and I couldn't get a willing soul to spout some of their oh-so-amazing and creative insightful perceptions and guest blog for me. And yes, that was a genuine compliment. Not a sarcasm-loaded one. After all, a spoonful of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar ever will.

Amery and I decided to go for Wed's Stats so that we could watch 'Provoked' on Tuesday. After failing to persuade anyone else to come with us, we head off to 1U and end up at Secret Recipe where we solemnly agree to just take a quick bite and spend the rest of our time studying Stats and Math. And we managed to solve the grand total of 2 questions. *applause applause* I think the Secret Recipe people got a bit fed up of us hogging the table for about 3 hours and we also made them walk to and fro with our endless requests (okay, okay, it was my endless requests) for sauces and orders. Later on, Ai Kheng deigned to join us for the movie after discovering that it was just the 2 of us as we luckily managed to get her a seat that was right next to our earlier seats. And the three of us happily trotted off to the cinema where Ai Kheng nearly got left standing outside ticketless.


Earlier on at Secret Recipe...
Ai Kheng : Who paid for the ticket? Here, let me pay you back. *takes out money*
Me : Oh, I paid for the tickets.
At that point when she gave me the money, I automatically took out my purse to keep the money and give her the ticket, which I honestly thought I did. Honestly.

So later when she went to buy a drink, she told us not to go in without her because she was ticketless and I thought she was having a joke on us because, maklumlah, Ai Kheng suka sangat con orang. So Amery and I walked past the ticket guy and I gave him 2 tickets and we walked a few steps on. Hearing no following footsteps, we turn around to see Ai Kheng standing before the guy. And I wondered, "Why the heck is she standing there and not coming in?"

And that's when Ai Kheng insisted that she didn't have the ticket and couldn't come in. At that point, when I saw the ticket guy giving her a funny look and she in turn was giving me a funny look, the penny finally dropped and I realised that Ai Kheng really wasn't having her ticket and she wasn't having a joke on us. Frantically, I started rummaging through my purse and hoping that the ticket was there, or my effort in walking all the way to GSC from Secret Recipe just to get Ai Kheng a ticket would be wasted. I swiftly produce the third ticket before more people come up to the ticket barrier and see what the hold-up is about. Ai Kheng, this is what happen to people who cry "Wolf!" too many times! =p Really sorry about that, girl, I honest-to-goodness had no idea that I was still having your ticket.

'Provoked' is quite a decent watch. Its based on the landmark provocation case of 'R vs Ahluwalia' where Ahluwalia, a wife who was subjected to abuse for the period of over 10 years finally snapped and burnt her husband's feet; which resulted in his death, to stop him from chasing her as she ran away. In court, her defence was provocation, which failed, but her case caught the attention of an NGO group and there was a lot of pressure and exposure about the case. As they couldn't allow her to walk free for the death of her husband, she was convicted of manslaughter during her mistrial but the period of time she spent in remand was accepted as sufficient sentence. Her case was the case that allowed the 'battered woman syndrome' to be used in provocation defences. Although it was slow-moving at times, I found I could relate to it, especially because I was a law student and I heard some of those exact words earlier on sometime last year. Also, I enjoyed the show because it was about human rights and because I believe that woman who are being abused, especially by the very people who are supposed to protect and cherish them should stand up for their rights and not let themselves be subject to the tyranny of those consider them to be mere chattel.

Provocation - an act or gesture done by the victim to the accused that renders him so subject to passion that he is no longer master of his own mind. (Loses self-control but not self-restraint)

Written on Saturday, April 28, 2007; 11:57 PM


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