Quick-$6-Fix

I no longer live in fear of finding my precious Altec Lansing headset stolen by my father.

Recently he's got into this new habit of running off with my headset to make scores of free internet calls every night before I come home. Determining on whether he is done yakking to his friends in HK, UK, India or wherever by the time I get home and showered, I might not see my headset for the rest of the night :(

I think I just had it when I came home last Saturday and Sunday to no headset CS :(

I'd already tahaned about a fortnight or so of my headset being kidnapped and it really started to get on my nerves when JL and Ah Gerg were talking away and I couldn't even hear anything :( And a very deaf and forlorn me was rushing head-long into people's cross-hair and dying ever so pitifully :s

Anyway today I solved my problem! Ehehe!

Went to SLS with Sol because he had some stuff to get, and I just decided to tag along. I bought the thief his own $6 operator style headset! :P

I actually was kind of worried he(dad not Sol) might yell at me about "Aiya why you waste $$$ again @!&#!*#$!@!@!@&!.." But then I thought, heck it. The hypocrite just bought a new car when our previous one is not even 3 years old.

We even bumped into Space =.=" I didn't even notice him til he tried to kick me! Yes kick me! Horrible guy, kicking a sick girl!

So after getting rid of Sol at about 6pm, I went to meet Rz for dinner at United Square. Went to my usual yong tau foo stall :) I like this stall because they actually prepare the soup using real soya beans, which they then allow customers to take as much as they like to complement their yong tau foo.

We talked for awhile about various stuff. Mainly CS (again? haha), his work, my studies, our families. My blocked sinuses made conversation quite difficult haha :P I kept mis-hearing :P

I think those around us were probably wondering who would be interested in such a deaf girl :P

And then it was back home. On the bus I realised I actually was quite tired :s It has really been a long semester so far. I wonder if next sem could get any worse? I suspect it's highly possible :s

Back home, when dad was downstairs, I placed the headset on his laptop so he couldn't possibly miss it when he got back haha :s Then I went for an extended shower. And then used my fave toner (JL sux!) :P

Dad came back whilst I was still towelling off and before I knew it he was already happily ripping open the packaging and scrolling thru his call list haha!

His idea of testing the mic involved calling about 5-6 of his friends and asking everyone if they can hear him, before launching off into some *BB/BSS/FMC (*select where appropriate) related gossip :s After he was finally satisfied that the ear-piece and microphone were both working, he went back to his work.

I was very cheeky :P

I pretended not to have heard his phone calls taking place (though they were quite loud) and innocently asked him, "How? Can work? If not I'll bring it back.. Can't trust cheap stuff anyway.. If you don't like it I can give it away too.."

His very quick reply, "No, no, it's very good."

"Good enough? Don't need my headset anymore?"

"Yeah this is good enough. Thanks."

I have to say, THAT has to be the best $6 I'd ever spent at SLS man :P


- 16 May 2006 2:35am -