The sleeping Tigress
Monday, November 05, 2007
Ju-Bong is one of my oldest and best buddy. We were roommates in our uni days and knows pretty much all about each other's weirdness.
The most outstanding thing about Ju-Bong was (and I believe still is) that she can really sleep. I have every faith that if ever a sleep-athon was organised, Ju-Bong would emerge the winner hands down! She can sleep the whole day through without breaking a sweat. She'd sleep, then wake-up long enough to attend class, lecture, tutorial, eat, group discussion etcetera... then sleep again...
If Ju was just having a nap, then she'd leave her spectacles on while sleeping, so I'd know she was only catching 40 winks. But if Ju took her specs off (usually she'd place it next to her pillow), then this mean she was burrowing into some serious, deep sleep and a wise friend would refrain from waking her up until she's good and ready to get up.
Ju told me this story once about a scare she had because of too much sleep. The story goes that Ju took her usual catnap one afternoon, and as there was nothing much in the day's agenda, she slept up to dinner time. Her family were getting ready for dinner, so her poor younger sister--Sue Ellen--had the enviable task of waking the sleeping tigress.
As expected, Ju threw a royal fit to rival that of an injured tigress for being jolted back to the Real-World from her lovely Slumberland. She *blinked-blinked* *rubbed-rubbed* her swollen eyes and slowly openned them to see a bright blinding white light. Everything was blurry and white! She can't see anything!
"Sue! Sue! I'm going blind! Everything's white!" Ju was in a state of panic. Why was everything white and hazy?
But instead of being alarmed, Sue laughed uproariously.
Sue then reached out to the panicking Ju-Bong and turned Ju's whole body to face the other side.
"Ju, you were facing the (white) wall lah!"
The white dissapeared, and Ju's vision although still blurry was now filled with her familiar bedroom and Sue's grinning face. Putting on her trusty specs--placed on the usual spot next to her pillow--Ju's vision came back to a clear focus again.
O the peril of too much sleep hehehehe :-)
Anyway, Ju is happily married to a loving and wonderful guy who loves her to pieces now. So Sue's safe from ever having to wake the sleeping tigress ...
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posted @ 5.11.07,
