goldfish conversations
yeong shen: how much is a goldfish?
(haha how would i know how much a fish would cost!)
me: um. two dollars.
--end of part1
*yeong shen came knocking on the door
"elisa did you take my wallet?"
"uh.. no... but i hid it..?"
"where is it?"
"in your last drawer"
end of story? nope.
*after a minute, yeong shen came knocking again
"elisa, lets go buy goldfish"
"NOW?"
"ya."
"hahaha.. ok"
so elisa and ys left palmerston in the quest to consume a goldfish. that's right. consumers consume. five mintues after leaving home, he told me that we were taking a tram to victoria market to get it. but of course, due to the exhorbitant prices of public transport tickets, i protested and told him that we were walking there. it wasn't a very good idea considering the fact that it was drizzling rather heavily and the wind was so chilly. today's temperature ranged from 11 to 18 degrees celcius. coldest we've gone since i came. but then again, walking to the vic market was a good idea because it was a chance to burn off the bar of marsrocks we shared earlier on.
"it's a freaking one hour walk. we're taking the tram"
"no we're walking"
"let's tram there la.."
"no lets walk"
blah blah blah.. and so he followed as a led the way to vic mark.
i must say the walk there (though fatally freezing and dangerously slippery and disgustingly wet)was pretty amusing, filled with arguments of why dota is childish, and why getting a goldfish is weird and how getting a fish from fish and co is more worth it.etc
nearing the market, we stopped so i could ask for directions.
nice angmoh lady: oh just go down this way and turn right. but the victoria market is not open today because it's a wednesday and the market's closed on wednesdays..
*yeongshen and i looked at each other and thanked the lady. bummer! we braved the cold winds and wet skyjuice for nothing.
BUT WAIT!
yeong shen was insistant that he wanted a goldfish. so we walked into melbourne central in hope that some bright soul would lead us to a pet shop. when we were inside the big mall, he suddenly got a bright spark. "i remember a petshop here. but i don't know if they have fish". so he led the way down to the basement where true enough there was a pet shop! we made a beeline for the fish tanks near the cashier. to his great disappointment, there wasn't a single goldfish in sight!
"oh look, an angelfish"
"yeah but it's not fat and round. i want a puffy fish"
"excuse me, do you have a puffer fish?" (to the shopkeeper)
yeongshen stared at me as though i'd gone off my rocker which almost sent me into fits of laughter.
shopkeeper: excuse me?
me: oh, do you have goldfish?
and he pointed to another tank where there were enough goldfish to feed a hungry putu.
the amusing part was how ys chose his little friend. this quiet guy who ever speaks unless spoken to, whom i've only had a couple of real conversations with, and who doesn't express his feelings much, got pretty excited and started pointing out the goldfish he thought were cute.
me:how about THIS! (a small koi-coloured one with white black orange and red bits)
him: oh! that's quite nice!! okok!! i'll get that one! eh, this one's also quite cute!
me: yeah get that one.
.
.
.
.
and when he finally decided..
ys: okok keep looking at it! keep looking at it because i want that one.
so i kept looking at it while he went to get the shopkeeper dude.
choosing the fish bowl was even harder than we thought. but i shall spare us all the details.
so what we thought was going to cost 2 dollars cost 10 aussie bucks and that precious little thing had a whole bowl-of-a-house (plus fake plant plus water cleanser plus anti-bacteria tablet plus fish food) that cost poor ys a whopping 80+ dollars.
WOOHOO!!
so we carried our little friend home and he spent another eleven plus on cups of hot chocolate from kokoblack on the way home :) YUMO!
and we had another little argument over dota again.
ys: guys playing dota is like girls going shopping
me: no, even WOMEN go shopping but you don't see men playing dota.
ys: but that depends on how you define men
me: those who don't play dota :)
GO YEONG SHEN! YOU'RE THE MAN!
gdnite.
(haha how would i know how much a fish would cost!)
me: um. two dollars.
--end of part1
*yeong shen came knocking on the door
"elisa did you take my wallet?"
"uh.. no... but i hid it..?"
"where is it?"
"in your last drawer"
end of story? nope.
*after a minute, yeong shen came knocking again
"elisa, lets go buy goldfish"
"NOW?"
"ya."
"hahaha.. ok"
so elisa and ys left palmerston in the quest to consume a goldfish. that's right. consumers consume. five mintues after leaving home, he told me that we were taking a tram to victoria market to get it. but of course, due to the exhorbitant prices of public transport tickets, i protested and told him that we were walking there. it wasn't a very good idea considering the fact that it was drizzling rather heavily and the wind was so chilly. today's temperature ranged from 11 to 18 degrees celcius. coldest we've gone since i came. but then again, walking to the vic market was a good idea because it was a chance to burn off the bar of marsrocks we shared earlier on.
"it's a freaking one hour walk. we're taking the tram"
"no we're walking"
"let's tram there la.."
"no lets walk"
blah blah blah.. and so he followed as a led the way to vic mark.
i must say the walk there (though fatally freezing and dangerously slippery and disgustingly wet)was pretty amusing, filled with arguments of why dota is childish, and why getting a goldfish is weird and how getting a fish from fish and co is more worth it.etc
nearing the market, we stopped so i could ask for directions.
nice angmoh lady: oh just go down this way and turn right. but the victoria market is not open today because it's a wednesday and the market's closed on wednesdays..
*yeongshen and i looked at each other and thanked the lady. bummer! we braved the cold winds and wet skyjuice for nothing.
BUT WAIT!
yeong shen was insistant that he wanted a goldfish. so we walked into melbourne central in hope that some bright soul would lead us to a pet shop. when we were inside the big mall, he suddenly got a bright spark. "i remember a petshop here. but i don't know if they have fish". so he led the way down to the basement where true enough there was a pet shop! we made a beeline for the fish tanks near the cashier. to his great disappointment, there wasn't a single goldfish in sight!
"oh look, an angelfish"
"yeah but it's not fat and round. i want a puffy fish"
"excuse me, do you have a puffer fish?" (to the shopkeeper)
yeongshen stared at me as though i'd gone off my rocker which almost sent me into fits of laughter.
shopkeeper: excuse me?
me: oh, do you have goldfish?
and he pointed to another tank where there were enough goldfish to feed a hungry putu.
the amusing part was how ys chose his little friend. this quiet guy who ever speaks unless spoken to, whom i've only had a couple of real conversations with, and who doesn't express his feelings much, got pretty excited and started pointing out the goldfish he thought were cute.
me:how about THIS! (a small koi-coloured one with white black orange and red bits)
him: oh! that's quite nice!! okok!! i'll get that one! eh, this one's also quite cute!
me: yeah get that one.
.
.
.
.
and when he finally decided..
ys: okok keep looking at it! keep looking at it because i want that one.
so i kept looking at it while he went to get the shopkeeper dude.
choosing the fish bowl was even harder than we thought. but i shall spare us all the details.
so what we thought was going to cost 2 dollars cost 10 aussie bucks and that precious little thing had a whole bowl-of-a-house (plus fake plant plus water cleanser plus anti-bacteria tablet plus fish food) that cost poor ys a whopping 80+ dollars.
WOOHOO!!
so we carried our little friend home and he spent another eleven plus on cups of hot chocolate from kokoblack on the way home :) YUMO!
and we had another little argument over dota again.
ys: guys playing dota is like girls going shopping
me: no, even WOMEN go shopping but you don't see men playing dota.
ys: but that depends on how you define men
me: those who don't play dota :)
GO YEONG SHEN! YOU'RE THE MAN!
gdnite.
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