Day 335 & 336- The Red Car

Not much work was done to the junkyard in the next 2 Saturdays. June has arrived and afternoons became excruciating hot. Attention spans grew shorter and Nat whined about the heat every time we worked in the kitchen. Even I found myself drifting and grouchy, sweaty and sleepy. All I wanted to do was to lie down in the cool of my bedroom with the industrial fan blowing noisy wind in my face, close my eyes and dream about autumn.

Nat with my blue shades, going out for supplies

There was, of course, no chance in hell my darling nephew was going to let me. So on the 1st Saturday of June, SuZ, Nat and I decided we would get out. On days like this, I find myself agreeing, albeit reluctantly, with Lee Kuan Yew and hail air-conditioner as one of mankind's greatest invention. Thanks to the foresight of this leader who wanted his people to work as many hours as they could, Singapore has become an air-conditioned nation. From cars to malls, offices to walkways. My home, except Faiz's bedroom, may well be the last place in this country that has still not succumbed. 

That was how we spent the 6th Saturday, shopping for supplies, in the cool, cool world of Art Friend and Daiso. 

9th June 2012

The Saturday after started with me still drowsy from the heat. In order to stay in bed a little longer, I let Nat used my laptop. The page to my blog was opened and Nat saw my posts, the cars, pictures of himself. His questions were incessant : Did people think we left the cars in the open to rust? That is cheating, right? Is that why you showed us painting? When I showed him the comments and compliments we have received, he went, Does it mean I am famous?

Write something and say hello to everyone, I told him, and sign off as Nat so they don't think you are Ta Ta Ah Yee.

Ok, he said, but I don't want girls to chase me.

I finally dragged myself to the kitchen about an hour later and found Nat playing with, crashing more like, the cars. I was about to scold him when he said while turning the car over, Tata Ah Yee, look! You didn't paint the wheels properly! You see, you see, I can see the white plastic parts. That's so unrealistic! 

I sighed, took the car from him and proceeded to make good my mistake.

Once I started, I did not stop and continued working even after Nat left. It was mainly painting the plastic flowers we bought from Daiso, in preparation for the big scene. And then I worked on the red car some more.

This was what I did on the 7th Saturday with Nat. That and making the suitcase garden for Drora.