独一无二, 无尽的爱

It’s been raining for too many days, and the weather forecast is yet more rain to come. After an unusually dry spell during the end/beginning of the year, rain is back in force in Shanghai. Clothes hanged outside on the balcony stay damp, shoes will probably start to ‘rot’, need to switch the oil heater on when I am home …. Shanghai seems drab.

I read on l’Express this morning that the anti-smoking laws are finally being implemented. But wasn’t the law passed on last year? It seems the government gave practically a whole year for the Mauritians to change their habits and get the required infrastructural modifications (if any). But I am taken back by the fact that you cannot smoke in your car unless you’re alone in it. Why? If you’re worried about passenger’s health, then make it that EVERYONE in the car must be clearly smoking. Or make it illegal to smoke in a car if there are kids/babies. And can you smoke while driving or should the ignition be off? Can you smoke with the windows down or should you keep the windows closed?

I am a bit worried about the allowed smoking on the beach. I am not against people smoking, I have a smoke or two occasionally myself. But if it’s one of the few places where people can smoke in peace, then it will become ‘baz fimere’ and it’s a bit revolting to think of being at the beach and seeing smokers everywhere and used cigarette butts lying on the ground, littered everywhere on the sand …. I know it’s one of the worst scenario cases, but it still doesn’t bring joy. For me, the beach is a place for ‘detente’, not one to get whiffs of tobacco (and the accompanying ‘larak’) …. I am sure I’m thinking too much, and the proportion of smokers at the beach won’t be really affected.