Twelve + One: The Great Rabbit Escape....


Sunday, June 25, 2006

The Great Rabbit Escape....

now, as you all know, my darling 'best frend' (you'll see why i put the '...' later) and two others bought me a RABBIT for my birthday. estatic, i named it HunnyBunny and lovingly took care of it.

Amazingly, it has survived..till now.

We've all seen how much Hunny has grown, and let me tell you, rabbits have what we would call 'growing pains' as well. I take it that Hunny, in rabbit years, would be equivalent to a teen, so therefore, prone to 'I WANT TO BE FREE, LET ME GO FREE AND FEND FOR MYSELF' attitudes (not very much unlike us teens who scream at our parents for not giving us much freedom)

SO, i woke up this morning, ready to go to church and then onwards to my 'best frend''s house when my dad told me "ei ur rabbit escaped." i was like.HUH? HOW? i think it can be surmised that my incorrigible maid, who has been suffering from severe PMS, forgot to close the cage door this morning when she let hunny out for her daily run around the garden.

Giving her up for lost, i was too shocked to say anything when i saw a little brown-white head peep out from underneath my dad's car, munching on some random stick. "ALL is not LOST!" i thought and thus, the WArs of the Rabbit commenced. Dad assumed the rank of General, Mom the Colonel and my bro and I, Liutenant and Private respectively.

THe Mission: To catch Hunny and put her back into the cage without hurting her.

Actionplan 1:
En tried to catch Hunny with her hands
FAIL.

Actionplan 2:
Dad took some random floorcloth, telling Colonel Mom to take an umbrella to shoo the target into his floorcloth. Private Xianwei was, as usual, giving stupid suggestions which sounds very much like DoTA tactics. and Liutenant EN screaming not to hurt her Hunny.

General DAD started flapping his cloth when Colonel Mom wryly said "It's not a BULL la. Why you flapping the cloth?!"

The chase begins. Liutenant En uses her feet to scare the target away from her into Colonel Dad's flappping cloth. As usual, nutty Private Xian does the dumb thing and stamps HIS feet when he is on Colonel Dad's side, which results in the rest of the army SCREAMING at his stupidity.

Colonel Dad starts making funny "honking" noises which results in Laughter from both the Liutenant and the Private. Target runs away from under the car onto the other side of the garden.

Actionplan 3:

once on the other side, we assume the peaceful role of enticing target into cage by the use of common veggies like the "bayam" but to no avail. Colonel Dad states that "the rabbit not hungry. no use wan la". so, following that statement, we revert back to old ways e.g. the use of the umbrella and flapping cloth. this time it is against my wooden fence, which, as you all know, is quite "holey" at the bottom.

This time, Private Xian is charged with the use of the "hanging up clothes stick"(from now on will be referred to as "the stick"). We manage to corner target. JOY. but shortlived. Target ran out through the holey fence.

Luckily, Liutenant En had the sense to scream to Private Xian, who was standing there lookin stupid and being useless to run out of the gate and shoo the target back in. Thank God that target itself did not want to go out, so Hunny was back in warzone again.

Actionplan 4:

Gameplan changed. Dad assumed power of the perrier box, and mom, the 'sao kei' (thats in chinese) for the chinese illiterate it is the 'tudung saji' . Liutenant En has the use of the umbrella. By this time, target is already very tired. We manage to corner him a few times, and one time, almost got him, but because of *i quote Dad* "MOM! you should have just let me overturn the box and capture it lah!"we obviously let it go again. Target is smart and should not be looked down upon. It went straight to the OTHER side of the garden again (the car side) and hid between the high plants.

*truce for 20 mins*

by now, im sure you all will know how fatigued the troops are after the honking and the flapping and the nudging with umbrellas and sticks. so we all went into the house to rest. Target was resting too and did not move from its hidden spot. we could see it, but the enclosure was too small to put any of our hands in.

Can you imagine the four of us? fat brother, short sister, pudgy mom and balding dad all running, stamping, honking, flapping around the garden on a blessed sunday morn? IN OUR SUNDAY CLOTHES TOO!

when the target ran towards the garden side of the house, ALL OF US would run there too, thus making it look like we were chasing a damn chicken with the exception that the rabbit didnt make any noise.

Needless to say, we were all really irritated and so, ready to give up ever catching it again. this took about two hours ok. so we really did fight our best.

Private Xian, who did the LEAST work, was shouting at the rest of the army to come out again after 20 mins. General Dad looked defeated and decided to screw the damn wars and go up and bathe. Liutenant En was lying down, wishing her 'best frend' would come and help her.... BUT NOOOOO. abovesaid 'best frend' had work to do. peh. buy the rabbit and suffer the consequences. peh. Colonel Mom, out of pity for her somewhat retarded son, went out rather dejectedly, trying to make the retarded one understand that it is quite impossible to catch 'THAT rabbit' (note that it has been degraded from Hunny to 'THAT RABBIT")

and SUDDENLY, Liutenant En heard a VICTORY CRY!!!Three cheers to Private Xian and Colonel Mom!!!!! According to a statement made by Private Xian, "Colonel Mom jus dipped her hands inside the bushes and grabbed "THAT RABBIT" by its neck and pulled it out and threw it into the cage!"

This is indeed a cause for celebration where GIRL POWER rules supreme. Colonel MOm was muttering "all these men..in the end it takes a woman to do it.."

Liutenant En is very happy and starts laughing about the entire incident and runs up the stairs to General Dad who is lying down, exhausted, on his bed and tells him the good news.

He immediately sits up, incredulous, and even when Liutenant En repeated it thrice, still unbelieveing that a mere WOMAN could have beaten him to the target. think something along the lines of "what..how...u sure mom did it ar? serious or not wannnn??"

And so ends the story of the great rabbit escape. In the end, it was MOM who did it. Not anyone else but super colonel Mom.

Will the forces of power in the army Lim be tipped? Will Colonel mom decide to overthrow General Dad and assume the title of GENERAL of the LIM family? Will Private Xian EVER give a useful suggestion? Will Liutenant En now understand the feeling of the parent when a child runs away and tries to be free?

Liutenant En indeed identifies with Hunny about wanting to escape. But she also realises the worry that maybe Hunny may be hurt by the big cats or even run down by a car if she escapes. Just like any other parent(especially her own). Big CAts=rapists. Cars= accidents.

Everyone will want to escape one time or another. but often, we forget the dangers of being free.

however, this does not mean Liutenant En will give up her fight to be free. (well sort of)

haha funny story no? got moral wan....

actually got alot more funny parts...but i dont know how to insert into writing..i will show you guys...toodles...

gotta bathe...

i smell of mud and grass.

*peh*

-princess-

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