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

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