The Board of the Lizard and squeamish girls

Hmm.

Today, I received the 'blessing' of Ayob to carry on with my material, form & perspective project, which involves a coloured (and textured) piece of MDF board serving as the base, and sticking some 3d forms or shapes atop the board itself.

Last night was a torrid affair, with me just staying up late listening to John Denver and cutting cardboard and sticking them onto mock-up models.

So I came into class on time and was surprised to see no Ayob, and sat down to do some serious work after a small chat with my classmates (yes, I am attempting much more to socialise).

I just cut up more corrugated board when Ayob came in to give us a pep talk, and then set us loose to do our work by ourselves, but he was also seeing my classmates and inspecting their work and progress. I was just busy finding a plug in the bloody studio which worked (all of them couldn't yield any electricity). In the end, I had to sit outside the damn studio and use the hot-glue gun to join my creations together: nothing much, just pieces of corrugated board stuck on top of another corrugated board with some pattern drawn atop.

When my turn came, I just did what i was best at: inprovisational crapping. Basically, improvisational crapping is all about lying about what you have done for homework, but finding loopholes in your work to give it a sense of meaning and thereby persuading your lecturer to see the sense it makes and hopefully he will be fooled.

Oh, and guess what, it worked! I was the only one in class whose work received Ayob's 'autograph', and a word of 'proceed!'.

Oooooooooooooooooohh yeah....


Then came the real work, my idea was to draw out a pattern on my MDF board, cover the pattern in PVA glue, cover it in sand and allow the sand to stick to the PVA glue.

First of all, I had to get the PVA glue. From Hee Kiah. It was kinda like signing in at work, or even like going through customs, as he had to record down my name, take a good look at the date, take a good look at yours truly before nodding curtly and smiling indulgently, possibly at his poor sense of memory. He would then paste the post-it note containing the relevant info right at the upper left-hand corner of his desktop's screen.

The PVA glue applied (not too unelegantly, I took more than an hour), I proceeded to the workshop where I applied the sand. That's when the fun started.

I was applying sand, when suddenly, a lizard appeared out of nowhere (I suspect the sand itself), and dropped onto my work, and smack into the PVA glue area. Giving a shout of 'Holy Crike!!!', Jace, who was nearby, tried to pose Alvin and said 'Where??'.

So Jace, and a friend of hers, Bei Zi crowded round to see what the commotion was as I implored the damn creature to stop moving. Eventually, it decided to ruin my work, and started to wriggle here and there. i was determined not to allow this bugger to raise cain on my masterpiece, so I took a pair of protective goggles, and used the end of the earpiece to flick it away.

Guess where the lucky bugger decided to go? I flicked it right at Jace and Bei Zi (unintentionally). Needless to say, they both dived apart and screamed in horror.

Both: 'Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!'

Both: 'Errrrhhhh!!!!!!'

Both: 'Arrrrhhhhh!!!!'

Yes, they are both very squeamish girls.

In the end, the search as to whether the unfortunate creature had landed somewhere in their clothes, hair or was snugly wrappped in their undergarments (can you feel their collective shudder?) was solved as Jace discovered it being trampled upon (unintentionally by yours truly) and lying dead on the workshop floor after five minutesz of shock and horror still hadn't worn off.

Drama over, I couldn't help chuckling at Jace whenever she looked at me... then she would rush over and try to hit me, which I retaliated by threatening to spray her with sand. All the while informing me that I was laughing at her.

Well, it was funny... just imagine two girls screaming in shcok as a tiny little lizard pelts their way, being flicked from the end of a goggle's earpiece by Crawldaddy, Base Master Of Classroom Treachery (inspired by LOTR, original Volume).

Ah, well, I managed to finish off my base, dust off the sand, and finish it with one coat of black paint.

The result was spectacular.... man, I will post a picture of it when I can. It looked like something springing out of a contemporary japanese garden architect's drawing board. Only much more sinister, yet beautiful.

Oh well, I'll just congratulate the two girls on giving me a good laugh and Jace for keeping my wits alive by trying to hit me...

Cheers,

Crawldaddy