April 2007 - Page 3 of 3 - Narcissism is Necessary

A Critters meets Girl, Interrupted moment.

I was at The Curve, walking towards Borders when I saw this woman with a baby stroller.

I noticed her because she was wearing a cotton nightie that would remind you of those sold at the night markets, usually hung underneath giant umbrellas.

She was walking towards my direction and as we approached each other she suddenly stopped. She then lifted her left arm and her right hand reached out for her left armpit.

And then she started scratching her left pits vigorously.

What was shocking isn’t the act of scratching her armpit…but the sheer volume of armpit hair she had.

I tried really hard not to stare but it’s just one of those things that you really can’t help but stare harder.

As I passed by her, I noticed that the baby stroller was empty. At the very instance, I could feel a chill running down my spine.

By the time I reached Borders, I had no idea what magazines I wanted to get in the first place.

A random story about a lizard.

This is a completely random story but I just want to share with you.

This morning, while I was driving to work, guess what caught my eye?

A huge lizard on the passenger’s side window

A lizard clinging for dear life on the window at the passenger’s side. It was bigger than the palm of my hand and it was in a hideous brown colour with reddish spots.

It kind of blocked my left side mirror too and it was annoying the hell out of me.

So I pounded the accelerator hoping to loosen its grip on the window. However, it was damn jam, so that was unsuccessful. For 15 minutes I struggled and hoped the lizard won’t make its way inside the car through some exposed gap.

Anyway, after I turned onto Federal Highway, the traffic was much better and I was able to drive faster.

I hit the pedal and it went up to 120kmh and I heard a bloop sound (lizard hitting side mirror) and then it vanished.

And as I looked in the rear mirror, I saw it flying in a rotating manner before landing on the ground.

From the rearview mirror, it looked like a flying mini Vitruvian man.

I drove back to office in utter satisfaction that I managed to get a lizard off my car.

Stalled.

The car broke down. And rendered me a handicap the whole freakin day -_-

I missed a photoshoot with the boo in Shah Alam and Michelle’s retail party, so sorry babe =(

Damn it!!! Just when I finally could have some semblance of me time without getting bogged down by work related stuff, the car had to die on me.

I had already slathered myself in sunscreen and insect repellant for the morning’s macro shoot. The car was literally turned into citronella on wheels. Then as I approached the turnoff to Shah Alam from LDP, just before the traffic lights beneath the bridge, it died. Right on the middle of the road where cars were fast and impatient to clear the traffic lights. It was quite scary, couldn’t even get down to push it to the side and not like there were emergency lanes to begin with.

After what seemed like an eternity, the tow truck came. Dude was very nice, he gave me a lift home even though he didn’t need to do so.

I had charged my camera nicely for the shoot as well as Michelle’s party (was determined to camho!) but alas…..

I did use it to document my misfortune though. Poor tow truck guy must have thought he was giving a lift to a nut case. Here is the set of pictures I shall call “Stalled”.