Friday, May 16, 2008

Tick, tick....boom!

My mum bought this cheap and ugly looking wind-up clock from malaysia which plays a very metallic and brittle sounding version of some lullaby when wound up.

Just now, in her over-enthusiasm, she wound up the thing thrice instead of twice, and so, that cheesy lullaby tune blared out more metallic and brittle than usual and then the silly thing whirled around unsteadily and finally exploded, throwing its glass panels in all directions. Kaput. Finita. Mati.

We were saying yi1 fen1 qian2 yi1 fen 1 huo4

(I realize I've composed 2 very long sentences)

Goodbye.

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