1.
Carol
“Oh
crap. The girl with the huge eyes looks beyond gorgeous. “
Yup,
and here I am contemplating life, chugging down a McFlurry right after slurping
a bowl of noodles. What am I doing, I’ve exams next week.
The
cycle repeats. Eat. Sleep (mope about life, about how I’m supposed to be
studying, about my failed diet, about my almost failing life). Repeat.
These
past few weeks I’ve been slipping in and out of this dull state of mind, where
my existential crisis has not taken a full spin, but a prolonged flash flood.
“Snap
out of it lard,” The moral compass has arrived.
Let
me introduce him to you, a round of an empty applause for the Gandhi of today-
Trevor. You must be thinking- some handsome jock with the shiny set of perfect
white teeth and a line of almost Barbie-like girls waiting on him. So wrong.
Well, sort of. For starters, we be Asians so ‘jocks’ do not exist in the CCA
vocabulary. The next served appetizer, his teeth ain’t that perfect. His
dentist is perfect.
And
you be wondering, who this lucky chick right here hanging out with Mr Cool,
privileged to hang out with one of the (not the) most handsome dudes roaming
around the college? Correction, if by ‘chick’ you meant insignificant, average,
fat, average, pimpled, average, uncool, average person, then you got it spot
on. Here am I, hi. My name is not some cheerleader Cally, or bohemian hipster
Calista. It really is just Carol. Your grandaunt’s cousins’ sister? You got
that right. My parents did not bother making me any cooler. An additional ‘r’
or ‘l’ would have been greatly appreciated, my dear parents.
Brief
description of my not-so-interesting anatomy. That calefare on TV that you
never did and never will notice. That one girl you know who’ll never get
crushed on; the auntie buying a cup of teh bing siew dai that you thought was
an aunty but turns out to be me. Enough of the self-introduction, such things
never fail to make my eye ball roll out of their already small sockets. Let’s
get back onto the big question;. How did Mr Cool and Ms Old become acquainted?