Finally... (& also unofficial Legends of Zelda)

(Reissued from December 23 2004)

Hmm.

Well, I'm now officially using broadband from my home to blog. And it's taken my parents three years since it's arrival to finally consider using it (partially due to my excessive blogging causing a hugantic phone bill to arrive on our doorstep).

Anyhow, 4th day of school was pretty interesting, kicked off with Communication Skills, and got introduced to my lecturer, Mr Paul Tan.

At first, my impression of him was that not dissimilar to Garry, but then the moment he spoke, I thought he was a fag.

Maybe his English was a tad too polished, and also because he makes himself sound like one big Mother****er, I find him arrogant to the bone. Also, he is way too cruelly cynical and his mind needs a good dry-cleaning.

We finished Comm Skills like at 11:30 or so, and I managed to catch Alvin for lunch (I don't mean catch as in I had to use a lasso ok?). After lunch, we went back to the studio and we were reading Alvin's Dave Barry book, when Zelda came in.

Z: 'Hey, where's everyone??'

A: 'They're off to lunch'

She then sits down with her head resting in her hands, elbows together on the table. Most disgustingly trying to appear cute and affectionate. I tend to digress.

Z: 'What's that you're reading? Oh, Dave Barry! Hahahahah'

C: 'No comment'

She then got distracted somehow, and Alvin and i resumed our leisurely reading, laughing occassionally.

Z: 'What are you're laughing at?'

Maybe there are two ways we can answer that question, but we settled on not paying attention to that question. Eventually, she came behind us and laughed along with us, and simultaneously spraying my arm with spit whenever she laughed.

Thank God for Garry Tan. He came in and then I started telling him all about my trip to Shanghai, punctuated occasionally with his slap-stick jokes etc.

At this point in time, some of Alvin's classmates had gathered around the door to the studio, and I do presume they were apprehensive about entering the room especially when Zelda was around. I just gave them a brief glance and a grin, when Zelda noticed what I was doing.

With Zelda turning around, Alvin's classmates immediately pretended to be preoccupied with something else, and moved away from the glass windows.

This, of course caused me and Alvin to roar with laughter.

Auto CAD was similarly fun after our chat with Garry concluded. It was fun, and I managed to finish off the assignment faster than everyone else! (Muahahahahahaha)

So much for today, I'm absolutely free tomorrow, so if you guys want to hang out, you know how to reach me.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy

The Legends Of Zelda X (bumper start-of-school edition)

(Reissued from December 20 2004)

Hmm.

Bugger. My pair of nike climbing shoes which I often wore to school (and which also accompanied my through New Zealand) cracked open at the front of the right sole yet again for the fourth time.

For the previous occasions, I had frantically scrounged for a rubber band to hold the sole in place while trying not to make the unglued sole (which flops around like a limp, dead fish) look to obvious. I had tried using UHU glue and hot glue to no avail.

Naturally, I fail miserably.

Anyhow, this thing happened just before lunch, and I had met up with Alvin and his classmates (not including 'The Cold Ones') and asking the girls whether they had rubber bands (simply because I thought they would've used rubber bands to tied up their hair).

As non of them had any rubber bands, I was simply delighted to find one lying on the floor of Food Junction. Tying up my sole, I managed to find out from Alvin that he had some epoxy glue, which I then asked for his permission to use after lunch. It was a fun affair, lunch, as Zhen Lin had decided he didn't want the yolk on his fried egg, I asked whether i could consume it on his behalf. that's when Alvin suggested he and I share it 50-50.

No problem: just how we were going to split the damn egg yolk?

I then laid out a slice of cucumber from my plate of char-siew rice on my spoon and Alvin then used it as a suface to disect the egg yolk.

I suppose the holidays must have dulled out wits, and we made a mess of the yolk, but we got through it fine, much to the morbid fascination of Alvin's male classmates.


We walked back to Block R without much incident, just wondering who replaced Mr Soon (I was going to have Soon later in the afternoon) as Deputy Director of SDN Industrial Design. We then walked into the main common area, past Zelda and some of Alvin's other classmates and settled down, with Alvin listening to my compilation of my personal songs.

I had finished glueing up my shoe with Alvin's epoxy glue, and reading a Dave Barry book, which belonged to Alvin, when Zelda came up to talk to us.

Zelda: 'What are you reading? Oh, Dave Barry! Must be Alvin's one right?'

Crawldaddy: 'Mmm hmm.'

Z: 'What's Alvin listening to? Oh, you bought A NEW DISCMAN?'

C: 'Yes'

By this time, Alvin had abandoned the discman and let Zelda finger around with it. He then proceeded to read the Dave Barry book from behind me, presumably to stay away from Zelda as much as possible.

Z: 'How do you open this thing?' she was fiddling around with my CD pouch, which was simply two pieces of foam and a zip.

I took a sharp intake of breath as I wondered the outcome of her fiddling around with my discman.

C: 'Oh, if you don't know, then you can just keep wondering. Yeah, keep wondering, and you can let us have some peace as we read this book, ok?'

By this time, Alvin was chuckling like mad, and as soon as Zelda gave me a slap on the shoulder, and pinch on the arm, we were both roaring with laughter.

Crawldaddy and Alvin: 'OOOH! OOOH! THAT GOTTA HURT!!!! YEAH! YEAH! .. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA'.

What can I say, since the holidays, there hasn't been much action, and as the saying goes....

'Absence makes the heart grow fonder'.

Well, fonder of making fun of Zelda!


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

The Legends Of Zelda IX

(Reissued from December 13 2004)

Hmm.

I worked from 11am to 11:30pm yesterday, and I was required to serve two VIP tables at a wedding lunch. Working together with me was a 20-yr old girl named Relle, a fifty-something lady called Mary and a 17 yr old girl whose name I have oh so conveniently forgotten.

Anyhow, what's a wedding lunch got to do with Zelda? The funny thing is, the 17-yr-old girl reminds me very strongly of Zelda, not in the departments of looks (which this girl is not, in any sense, lagging behind), but in the area of behaviour.

Funnily enough, she is just as ditsy (and if not blur) as Zelda. Also, her choice of conversation topics aren't really that fantastic. She was chatting to me about how she spent 400 buck without knowing how. All the while looking at me with that big-eyed expression which said 'you want to know more?' on her face. I just didn't know what in the world was she driving at.

Anyhow, just some background info, she's from Meridian JC, and after I talked to her ONCE, whenever she passed me, she'd give me a fleeting smile.

So it came as no surprise, when she smiled at me in front of a couple of my colleagues after lunch, they demanded to know whether I was interested in her, despite the fact it was she who was smiling at me. My goodness.

Ok, fine, she's got great looks, but why would I want to go after a person just because they have good looks? I don't even know her, though I think she's kinda simple, kinda ditsy, in any case approachable and likable, but going for just the looks?

I'm not that shallow. Especially since she reminds so much of Zelda's lame and totally-out-of-the-point outbursts of stupidity.

'My face is worth millions!!!'.

'Why are you all laughing???'

'So give me a call ok?' (Can you feel the collective shudder?)

If you don't know why these three sentences are just plain ridiculous, then just forget about it ok? Don't start about how cruel or evil I am, It's just the way the world works.

At least for those who are forced to put up with Zelda.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Christmas wish list

(Reissued from December 9 2004)

Hmm.

I dunno, usually I get stuff for myself during Christmas, due to the miserly and ignorant demeanour of my parents towards such issues.

So here's my Chistmas wish list (in order of price):

1. Boss Digital Delay DD2
2. Dunlop Cry Baby 95C
3. Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail (reverb)
4. Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King Extended Version DVD
5. Leather wallet (any brand of cost below 40 bucks would do)
6. just any condenser microphone (second-hand)
7. Pink Floyd : The Dark Side Of The Moon (CD)
8. Some kind of t-shirt with huge 'Led Zepplin' wording on it
9. One tonne of triangular plectrums
10. One tonne of 9-volt batteries

And yet again, there are some things which are priceless: friends, happiness and contentment.

Oh, and by the way, this list is to be taken lightly, some things I wanted to put up there, like " '59 Gibson Les Paul " are just too ridiculous, including "girlfriend".

Oh, another priceless one: 'Zelda shutting up when necessary'.

Cheers,

Crawldaddy