Enfant Terrible

Today on the MRT, there was this cute little baby in a pram. Now, I always like to observe little babies in prams. Not sure if anyone else has noticed it before, but babies like to stick at least one of their legs up on the rail/bar (I dunno what you call that) thingie when they are seated in a pram. I wonder why, but I reckon that it~{!/~}s the same reason why some of us like to prop our legs on a footstool or something when we are seated. Interesting phenomenon. Next time you see a baby in a pram, look to see if the legs are up or down. Ha, if I had a series of pictures on this, it~{!/~}ll be pretty funny (Hmmm~{!-~}idea)
Aniwei, while I was totally immersed in the cutesy little antics of the baby, this horrible thing happened. A little Malay girl two seats away was holding this balloon from a rather ubiquitous fastfood restaurant (no prizes for guessing which). And all of a sudden, this other little girl (abt 3-4 yrs old) rushed up to her and burst her balloon. Everyone thought it was accidental and the enfant terrible had fell fwd and thus burst the balloon. The horrifying thing was, immediately after, she tried vehemently to kick the Malay girl (she made repeated attempts to kick her) and was barely held back by her BLUR and SLOW mother. People who saw it were stunned. How could a small girl of barely schooling age be so violent! It was really quite shocking to see a child do something almost with vehemence. *Shudder
Well, on hindsight, I really felt that there must be something wrong with the environment the child grew up in (not trying to be moralistic, just my own personal reasoning). No normal child would turn out like that. It~{!/~}s normal for children to quarrel and fight but to maliciously destroy a stranger~{!/~}s property and even try to hurt her? If she were an adult, she would probably have been slapped with an assault charge. But okay, even if she were a child, maybe she din know what she was doing, still it is very shocking and wldn~{!/~}t have happened under normal circumstances. I dunno what to say anymore, it just gives me the creeps. One moment I was thinking children are kinda cute and this little monster promptly shattered my wondrous illusions.