Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Tribal Madness

Once upon a time (in 1997) mandrake, angrybeaver and I went to Kuala Lumpur. I was told by a friend that there was going to be a street party at the hip district of Bangsar where we would be able to get sloshed and shag willing skanks. Unfortunately there was no street party, and the asshats have NEVER let me forget the fictatious street party.

So last night we went to Killiney road in search of a burger joint that my cousin had just opened. I didn’t know the location or name of the shop. All I knew was that it was located on a road with a very english name. Immediately angrybeaver and mandrake launched into their ‘is there going to be a street party there too’ routine. But we found the shop on Devonshire road, and therefore I declare that I have fucking redeemed myself and there will no more mention of a fucking street party.

The burger joint is the only one in singapore that seems to serve Ramli burgers. Take note.

After that we headed over to Holland Village where we waited 30 mins for a parking space. When we finally got one we went to Coffee Club Express. While Mandrake went off to the loo, Angrybeaver got really mad because there wasn’t an ashtray. So he threw all the sugar out of the sugar bowl and emptied the contents of the pepper shaker into it, thereby transforming it into an ashtray. When Mandrake got back, he looked at it and commented that the ashtray smelt strange… vaguely resembling pepper. We all laughed our ass off. Mandrake, now you know why.

The waitress came to take our orders and realized what we had done. She took the sugarbowl away and brought an ashtray. Didn’t say anything though - the tribe looks too scary for most people to even consider retaliation.

So anyway we are all supposed to speak in complete sentences now. Angrybeaver says we need to stop speaking like we’re all living in an episode of ‘Seinfeld’ (the tribe’s fav comedy series in the 90’s). The following mode of conversation is now banned in the tribe

Mandrake: I like Akira Fubuki
SD: Why?
Mandrake: Because she has large melons and shapely hips
SD: She does?
Mandrake: Yeah, I have many of her videos
SD: Yes, I think I seen some of them before too

Now we have to be very hoighty-toighty and speak the Queen’s English like this:

Mandrake: I like Akira Fubuki because she has large melons and shapely hips as evidenced in many of the various videos of her that I have in my possession.
SD: Yes, Akira Fubuki does indeed have large melons and shapely hips and I have seen some videos as well therefore you are correct and I concur with you.

In short, we will now converse in fully structured sentences, rich in content and description.

those comic strips ! Awesome hehe. Okay, my last remark about singaporean strict rules : I thought smoking was banned from about everywhere, or is that wrong ? You still seem to be allowed to smoke in bars/restaurants etc.

nah, we were sitting outside the cafe.

Hey aneki, you should start drawing your own comic.

I’ve been drawing comics in the past. About 6 years ago I made porn comics for a NY magazine. It got me some money but now I am kind of ashamed about it, doesn’t really fit my image nowadays. plus comics are very timecosuming..telling a story in many small pictures. I am always just interested in making a cover…

Porn comics?

Hahahahah, can we see?

naaah. not even cause I would be ashamed of the content, but of the dilettant style back then. I am afraid anyways that this material fell victim to my big cleaning/throwing out of things before my move.

ah well…too bad then.

Actually, Ireland just banned smoking in restaurant and other public places.. more like Singapore now.