THIS FEW DAYS Part 2
Yesterday there was a weird assignment: We are simulating a party based on the novel we've studied - The Great Gatsby. Besides bringing board games, music, food, and drinks, we are required to impersonate any character in the novel. The character that I chose was Meyer Wolfsheim. To "become" him, I wore my best black pants and dark blue shirts, and combed my hair with my housemate, Mu'min's Gatsby hairgel. One of the things that made yesterday so memorable was that it was the first time I've combed my hair since JPA interview April last year, like Ben always says,"It's been a while, huh".
Then comes the perverse part, Wolfsheim was a man with luxuriant nose hair, and since I was not blessed with it as in the case of Mr. Lai See Yan, I had to made some artificial one. First, I tried gluing my hair that I cut off onto a small paper ball so that I can stuck into my nostrils. Failed and the gum stank. Plan B was straightaway cramming my hair into my nostrils, without the ball. Failed also because the hair sticked everywhere when it got wet, and the hair was jutting out at all angles outside my nostrils. Then the ultimate plan: I went to buy two paint brushes, soften the tips with hot water (in AYA cafe opposite Taylor's college because I could get free hot water there), then pulled out the tips which I dipped inside a bottle of ink (which I got from the prep room beside Biology Lab 4) to blacken them, then wash the tip a bit before I stuck both into my poor nostrils. The smell of ink nearly suffocated me, and I had to breathe through my mouth when I was wearing them. But I was glad that I did it, because it certainly impressed my English lecturer, Mr. Sarno who had given us this assignment.
That guy impersonated a person who sell puppies in the novel: He borrowed some very cute toy puppies from the other lecturers. Amusing guy. Then my scholar friends Ashrul and Ariff bought military shirts as they were impersonating Gatsby (the novel's hero) at war. They must've spent a fortune there. And there was Harun who wore a mechanic overalls he bought from a hardware shop nearby. The girls were simply glamorous - they wore those dresses and hats as in 20's, which were nice. There was nothing much to do though - eating, drinking (not alcohol), playing cards, and most important of all, talking crap.
Then comes the perverse part, Wolfsheim was a man with luxuriant nose hair, and since I was not blessed with it as in the case of Mr. Lai See Yan, I had to made some artificial one. First, I tried gluing my hair that I cut off onto a small paper ball so that I can stuck into my nostrils. Failed and the gum stank. Plan B was straightaway cramming my hair into my nostrils, without the ball. Failed also because the hair sticked everywhere when it got wet, and the hair was jutting out at all angles outside my nostrils. Then the ultimate plan: I went to buy two paint brushes, soften the tips with hot water (in AYA cafe opposite Taylor's college because I could get free hot water there), then pulled out the tips which I dipped inside a bottle of ink (which I got from the prep room beside Biology Lab 4) to blacken them, then wash the tip a bit before I stuck both into my poor nostrils. The smell of ink nearly suffocated me, and I had to breathe through my mouth when I was wearing them. But I was glad that I did it, because it certainly impressed my English lecturer, Mr. Sarno who had given us this assignment.
That guy impersonated a person who sell puppies in the novel: He borrowed some very cute toy puppies from the other lecturers. Amusing guy. Then my scholar friends Ashrul and Ariff bought military shirts as they were impersonating Gatsby (the novel's hero) at war. They must've spent a fortune there. And there was Harun who wore a mechanic overalls he bought from a hardware shop nearby. The girls were simply glamorous - they wore those dresses and hats as in 20's, which were nice. There was nothing much to do though - eating, drinking (not alcohol), playing cards, and most important of all, talking crap.