The Ecstacy Of Yes+The Legends Of Zelda VII

(Reissued from Octuber 26 2004, now this series officially renamed 'The Legends Of Zelda')

Hmm.

Today, I popped in to Block R and was surprised to find Alvin already there reading 'Digital Fortress'. Apparently, he was warming the book up for me.. so sad cuz I think I'll only be touching it on saturday.

We had some talk while I pulled out my stuff as I had planned to finish off my hammer and clay model (the main one) by today. I first pulled out my headphonesand blasted 'Roundabout' by Yes, and it was accompanied by Alvin doing an air bass impersonation of the bass lick. I shoulda taped his 'performance'.

After a while, I went to get my clay-working tools, and I then pulled out my cardboard 'indestructable' boxes. I don't care what Alvin says, he didn't even reach 50 percent efficiency by the time I was done with him at 'cardboard box goalkeeping'. At most he got about 45 percent. Even Zelda was there to see Alvin perform his saves.

While we were playing our pastime, Alvin kept telling Zelda to stay away from the 'goalmouth' partially because her mere presence was irritating enough, but there was another reason...:

Alvin: 'Keep away from the goal mouth, Zelda, I don't want to hit you.'

Maybe he also didn't want to even go near her.

Crawldaddy: 'Yeah, You wouldn't want to get hit on your face, which is worth *millions* right?' (to get the ghizt
of this remark, read 'Quirks with Zelda VI)

I'm glad she only gave me a weak smile, not her typical godzilla-punch.

The highlight of today was when the second level of Block R slowly transformed itself into a 'house of large objects' as Alvin's class proceeded to put up their cardboard objects up on display.

One senior even commented it looked like a belated lantern festival in Block R. Except the lanterns are extra big this year.

I helped Alvin set up his coin after my design history test, and by that time, Zelda had already put up her cardboard enlarged wallet. From the distance I made a very shrewd mental note, which I made audible to Zelda when she questioned me about how her item looked, as it hung from the ceiling and partially rested on the display shelf top:

Z: '(my real name), what do you think of my item? doesa it look good?'

C: 'Hmm...' (I was wondering at this point in time as to whether I should drop the bomb)

Z: 'Well?'

C: 'Ok, truth to tell, when I first saw it from back down the corridor, I said to myself "Who put that piece of rubbish on top of the display shelf?" you know?' I was trying to keep the distance at this point in time.

True enough, she stalked towards me and proceeded to whack me with her mini-handbag and induce her trademark godzilla-punches at me. I could only run away while she plodded after me around the second level.

After a few tweaks and adjustments, Alvin's coin came up (after I helped a few of his classmates get their own cardboard items up), and initially, it was so low, you could have knocked right into it when you exited the computer lab.

I then went on to finish up most of my hammer and start work on the clay.

I finished up the day with learning how to use pastels in my rendering drawings, and it was fairly fruitful, though I wouldn't mind a few more lessons.

Ah... at least I could tell myself that I have achieved some level of detail in my pastel renderings.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Stuff in school (the ecstacy of Yes)

(Reissued from October 22 2004, which marks a turning point in the title name for my 'Quirks With Zelda' posts)

Hmm.

Today marked the end of the road for Alvin's gigantic journey involving his Giant 5-Cent cardboard coin. At least most of his classmates managed to finish off their stuff as well, just a select few (including Zelda) who didn't manage to finish off what they wanted to include in their item.

Being the lame idiot I am, I borrowed Joool's camera to take some interesting 'perspective' photos, which involved my hand seemingly encompassing Wen Ning's giant scissors, my finger seemingly poking at Nizam's giant MP3 player's button, and also as though my hand was holding up the MP3 player etc. It really looked very interesting...

Anyhow, I managed to finish about 3 quarters of my supposedly-finished-long-ago blue foam hammer. I had to cover it in wall putty, so that took up about half of my time.

The funniest thing happened when Alvin and I took the bus home today, we were watching the TV-Mobile screen, and 'Cybernet' was on. The show, mainly showcasing computer, playstation and X-box games started showing the latest games to hit the market.

Guess what Alvin and I saw (I am not making this up):

'THE LEGENDS OF ZELDA'

Man, oh man, oh man. Isn't it the stupidest thing to first have a name which seems to befit her stature (Amazonian frame, loud voice, obnoxious behaviour, to say it nicely), but to have a name which might appear as the title for a computer game is certainly taking the cream, and pushing the boundaries for evil jokes between Alvin and myself... that is, about Zelda.

I sure am glad that Alvin has finally gotten most of the huge loads off his back, but my turn is coming soon, and already I've shrugged off Joon Kiat (his famous quote: 'Oh No!!!! Oh No!!!!'), and I've gotten a head-start on Soon's sketch pad. I just have to finish off Zai's hammer, and Bowy's renderings for submission on Monday.

Thank God for brain-damage huh?

Man, I wish I'd have time to jam with the rest (meaning Alvin and Char), but both have their own commitments, not to mention I have to work more days to earn more cash so I can be more prepared for next semester which will prove to be one killer time (It's going to kill me, Big Time).

I actually managed to make my violin bow work. I put on so much rosin, the stuff came off in clouds as I rubbed the bow on my strings. Talk about doing things in moderation.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Quirks With Zelda VI (Face issues)

(Reissued from October 15 2004)

Hmm.

I just finished my lesson in the morning, and I had lunch with Charlotte, Alvin and Charlotte's friend, Juline (whom Alvin and I pulled a false-name pun on by secretly calling her 'Joo-Lyne'). Ok, I do know how to pronounce her name properly.

So we had lunch, and I had the evil pleasure of describing to both Charlotte and Juline how my brother got dunked into Milford Sound when I was in NZ earlier this year. Of course, they really took attention when I described how I faked sleeping when Zelda got on the same bus as I was on a couple of months back:

I was taking the bus to school, and I realised that when the bus turned into the busstop, Zelda was waiting to get on board. Desperately wondering whether to acknowledge her presence or just stare into blankness, I settled to pretending to be asleep. So Zelda got onto the bus, and I managed to pretend well enough that I was in deep slumber although Led Zep was blasting in my ears.

So there I was, sitting down there with my eyes closed and head resting on my bag (which was upright on my lap), and trying to snore very softly. I soon felt someone (well, it was obviously Zelda) shaking my shoulder. I just tried to hold down my laughter, and proceeded to ignore the shaking shoulder. Eventually, I gave a sleepy grunt and swept her hand away, and I continued on my false slumber.

Just after a few minutes after I shook her hand away from my shoulder, the stupidest thing happened: my left earphone dropped out of my ear. Faking I was disturbed by the absence of music in my left ear (and also partly out of fear she'd try to wake me by yabbering away), I groped very convincingly around my shoulder and stuffed the earphone into my ear, all the while eyes closed, and continued my slumber.

Only when I needed to change buses, then I 'woke' from my sleep complete with sleepy-looking eyes and tired grunts. i didn't even look at her, and only 'noticed' her when I sat down at the busstop, and she just stood in front of me. Freaky.

Well this afternoon, I was having my lesson and I was cutting up cardboard to make a box. Apparently, some idiotic bloke started playing Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful', and he managed to play the same song thrice. when I finally pointed this irritating factor out to Alvin, Zelda cut in:

'Ay! At least Christina is better than Britney right? Right? I mean, Britney is such a slut.' said Zelda.

Crawldaddy: 'Oh well, actually they are both the same, don't you think so Al?'

Alvin: 'Yeah, it's quite true'

Zelda: 'Ay! Don't you dare to insult Christina Aguilera ok? Ok? At least she sings better you know..'

She then proceeded to point an exposed black marker at my face. Having a cutting knife in my hand, I pointed this out to her, and she the said:

'You haven't died before right? You don't know how it is to die right? Right?'

Crawldaddy: 'It's obvious, Zelda. I standing here, which means I haven't died yet right?

'Zelda: 'Ok, right, right. But you don't want me to paint your face black right? Right?'Crawldaddy: 'Well, I'm sure you don't want me to cut your face up with my knife right?

'Zelda: 'Oh! Oh! (covering face with hands) Don't touch my face! It's Worth Millions!!!!'

Crawldaddy: 'Riiight... worth millions of what? Piles of shit?'

That caused her to chase me out of the studio, brandishing her black marker like some samurai sword, while Alvin laughed his head off, and saying:

'That was a good one! That was a good one!'

Yep, She sure doesn't get it right? I mean, isn't it enough that she's so irritating, the day before she just stood in front of everyone in her presentation clothes, and saying:

'I'm going shopping later..' in a voice I'm sure everyone could hear.

'Oh! I don't have lip gloss on!' proceeding to put her lip gloss on, she then proclaimed:

'Look! Clinique eh! Clinique you know???!'.

Dot.

Zelda: 'Oh, I'm meeting my friend later..'

My classmate, couldn't resist the urge to fall into Zelda's trap of attracting more attention asked her:

'Guy or girl?

'Zelda: 'Of course guy larrrhhh...'

Dot.

Then she just proceeded to put her lip gloss in front of everybody as though she was posing for some cheap-arsed make-up commercial, which portrays their models as tarts(body-sellers).

I'm sure most of my classmates were trying very hard to hide their winces and looks of shock and abhorrance.

Yeah, she sure doesn't get it.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Quirks with Zelda V (Soon's lesson)

(Reissued from October 12 2004)

Hmm.

Alvin and I were having Soon's lesson that afternoon. Being the lame arses we are, we decided to play around with how we will tell people we would be having Soon's lesson:

'Hmm, we'll be having soon later, right?

''Yeah, Soon told me we'd better be there soon.'

'Soon, we'll be on our way to Soon's'

'Oh, Soon's coming soon, for Soon's'

And we had to have Soon's lessons with Zelda there already. She saw us as we came in, and she said:

Zelda: 'Ugh, I don't want you to sit near me... you (Alvin) might fart'

Crawldaddy: 'Umm, well, if it makes you fell better, we never want to sit next to you anyway.'

The lesson started, and as we started discussing stuff with Soon, Zelda started talking crap Yak yak yak yak blahblahblah, and in the end self destructed by shooting herself in the foot.

Although Alvin and I weren't that successful in the discussion ,we still had plenty of time to fool around with stuff:

Soon: 'Ok, tell me what the letter J stands for' he was doing an A to Z for being a successful designer.

Crawldaddy: 'Umm... Jet, jelly, jumbo enormous irritaing behemoth...'

Alvin: 'Hmm, Joseph.... gel, wait, it starts with G, umm..'

Crawldaddy: 'jingoistic, umm... janitor...'

You can imagine the rest especially when we were perfectly audible, and not making any sense. Then more fun came when we eventually went on to the letter 'V'. Alvin couldn't stop saying 'Volkswagen.. Volkswagen.. Volkswagen...'

The five minute break came, and Zelda came over to crap at us again. So just yabbering away, she finally stopped to take a breather, and I took the advantage to say:

Crawldaddy: 'Ok, have you finished yet? Cuz I'd like you to leave us alone now.'

Alvin: 'Ooooh, That Hurt'

That earned me a slap on the shoulder. Now, that Hurt.

Oh, and I finished Garry's behemoth report!!! Yess!!!!


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Quirks with Zelda II: The exploits of The Fuzzy Green Grass

(Reissued from October 6 2004)

Hmm.

Today, as part of the retinue (or habit, or just plain simple luck) between me and Alvin, we decided to have lunch together. We decided to tag along with two of Alvin's classmates (both girls), and guess who tagged along with Alvin and myself? The mother (literally) of all pain-in-the-arses: Zelda. (Play dramatic music emphasising drama and distress).

So we followed the two of them down to Food Juction (a place where we intended to have lunch), and when we entered, Alvin and I discovered (to our amazement, not surprise) that the two girls (sadly not including Zelda) had disappeared. I, being the less cunning of the both of us, I didn't realise that the girls had given Alvin, myself and Zelda the slip so as to avoid having lunch with the giggly know-it-all Amazonian.

When Alvin finally managed to pass on the idea the the two had slipped away due to Zelda, We managed to find some seats (it was kinda hard as the place was very crowded), and as Zelda moved to claim the seats, I told Alvin discreetly that we should also give Zelda the slip so as to prevent the possibility of me flinging my lunch at her due to her absolute lack of common sense and simple communication skills.

So she sat down, and i made the impression I was off to the loo with a large turd waiting to blow out, and Alvin hurried along to follow me (all the while pretending to look for more seats) as I literally raced out of the Food Junction. The both of us were laughing as we finally got out of FJ, and were almost running to get as far away from there as possible.

We decided to eat at the South Canteen, all the while looking behind us and expecting an Amazonian frame to be chasing after us at full throttle. Along with that image running in our minds was the image of her screaming a us while we laughed and decided to locate the other two girls.

Reaching the South Canteen, I imagined if Zelda was still puzzled about our 'mysterious' disappearance, and just sat there looking around and looking sheepish. I just laughed aloud at that though. You have no idea how funny she'd look with that expression (sheepishness, confusion etc) on her face.

So after searching the south canteen for the girls, we decided that (possibly for their own safety) they were somewhere in the North Canteen. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

Anyhow, when we finally finished our lunch and got back, Alvin agreed to be the lookout in case Zelda appeared out of nowhere and decided to attack us for the insolence of standing her up. I waited for a while, until after getting no response from a call to Alvin's handphone, I decided to enter and (maybe in the process, rescue Alvin from being throttled to death by Zelda) retrieve my belongings from the studio.

I managed to enter undetected, hiding behind a large piece of cardboard and crouching low on the ground, all the while looking like some character in some spy-thriller movie. I got my stuff and got the 'ell outta there, only to see a bemused Zelda look at me racing out of the studio. Whew.

Later that day, after my afternoon class, I decided to stay back and accompany Alvin while he proceeded on with his cardboard cutting tasks. We both took turns taking digs at Zelda, and we also swapped jokes. Thank goodness I wasn't strangled by Zelda because I'd have said something like:

'Oh my, look! Godzilla's attacking me!!! Hellp! Evasive maneouvers!! Mayday! Mayday!'


Cheers,

Crawldaddy