Gigantic Gasps

Now that is a giant rubber duck.

I have a weakness for rubber duckies. Ever since I found a rubber duckie on the streets of Paddington with Burmann (which was what it was named afterwards) written on its chest, I feel tempted to get every rubber duckie I see and make a rubber duckie museum. But I've managed to keep myself from going duck-crazy. So now I only have one rubber duckie, albeit a very big one. This is Burmann Junior:

Burmann Junior is a birthday gift from Deylah, before we were going out. It was an amazing 20th birthday.

So with that I'm gonna blog about all my 'toys.' Hahaha. Bear with me. Which brings me to the next specimen.

Above is Teddy Zee, Ducky, full name Theodore Zachariah Duckstein, a Valentines Day gift from Zeerah. It's a limited edition Easter Tatty Teddy, with the number 8911 (out of 9,000 made), 911 being my birthday (9th November). Though technically Teddy Zee is wearing a chick costume, I still like to deceive myself in saying it is a duck costume. Hahaha. Notice he is wearing a Love badge, which was something we all had to wear on Valentines Day that year.

The next one is the very special edition TMX Elmo, which I fell in love with after watching it on youtube. This is possibly the best plush toy ever created in the history of humanity. Seriously, there is nothing that will make you laugh more than a laughing, falling, Tickle Me Extreme (TMX) Elmo. This is the very same one that caused Elmo Mania two Christmases ago. Thank you guys for getting me Elmo for Christmas. Hahaha. It's the kid in me that fell in love with a laughing red toy.


This purple dragon, I'm not sure what it is. Lan, my housemate, gave it to me after he won it in one of those carnival games thingy. Lan is amazing at basketball (he represented Shropshire in the County basketball tournament), so the hoops challenge, he dominated. Seeing as he won a lot of giant fishes, giant dogs and giant dragons, I shamelessly asked him for a purple dragon. And he duly gave me one.


This is special (not that the others aren't, Haha). It was given to me by Fee along with a postcard.


This, Pill gave to me when she got back from Brunei in the Winter holidays. It's a purple cow pencil case filled with mil chocolate, which was good. I'm not going to use it for school though. Hahaha. Imagine the banter.


And lastly, this post is dedicated to Burmann, the original duck I lost after a few months finding him in the streets of Paddington.


I remember bringing Burmann along with me, then squeezing him behind children's back, so they turn back and get puzzled and confused. It's the funniest thing ever.

It's weird, this. I actually miss Burmann right now.

I know, I sound like a girl. A very little girl. Thanks for telling me what I already know.

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Walking People, Talking Hearts

How did I forget to mention what we did on Valentine's Day? Haha

The way we celebrated it, it was more like Christmas, what with all the gifts exchanging [so many] hands. Mind you, it was fun.

At the stroke of midnight, in the eve of February the 14th, we gave our gifts and watched in glee the reactions of different people to different gifts. Adi got a Liverpool away shirt with his name and his number [3] at the back. That was cool. He got an iPod Shuffle for Kimy. And so the pattern goes on. Farah, Vanessa, Jenny, Daeena, Me, Ajis (Gaban), Tajus.. Zeerah joined in later in the night after she came back from Barcelona, Spain. We were there, exchanging gifts with one another. It did seriously feel like Christmas, although we didn't exactly celebrate Christmas with this many gifts.

I got a TMX Elmo, which I have named TK Maxx, which is a shop here which sells branded stuff for quite low prices. Haha.

The day itself - Valentine's Day, that is - was really quite fun. My Valentine for the day was Zeerah, and we really did have such a good time. And we didn't have to spend anything either, except for the Tube ride home, and two cups of Starbucks coffee.

I didn't actually plan anything for the day, because I was broke. Properly broke. It really frustrated me how broke I was.

But then, when she said she wanted to go to Starbucks, I had an unexpectedly brilliant idea. I said that we should go to the one near Paddington, in Little Venice. If you don't know what Little Venice is - and quite frankly, I'm not sure myself - it's a small canal with barges on both sides, and ducks swimming delightfully on the surface. And that made for a very romantic time for the both of us.

It was an unexpected savior. A place that never did occur to me at all when I was trying to plan what to do.

We ended up walking for what was maybe two hours along the paths following the river (canal?), watching the ducks dive into the water and then surfacing back up again, looking at the mural which was done with recycled litter. Just the silence and peace of it all. One unnoticed part of London which goes by quietly amidst all the chaos and hectic nature of the city.

Well, I'd love to go there again, to take a walk, and absorb the calmness of it all.

Signing out

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