Sinister: Lego is a brick stack

[Kenneth P Y Chu]

This morning I suddenly felt the urge to buy lego bricks.  ("oooh I've got 
the urrrrrrrrge to legggo")

The urge has been brewing for a while, actually.  I always have had this 
compulsion in my life to build things, be it houses of cards, rocketships 
made out of matchboxes glued together (I once made with the matchboxes a 
spaceship that turns into a robot when it's combined with another spaceship 
Power Rangers style, until I broke it using it as a weapon), sculptures made 
by balancing random bits one on top of another.  I like the sense of 
achievement with construction I guess, and Lego seems like a nice material 
for building things, strong but flexible, and best of all comes with 
instructions...

<digression>
I am a sucker for instructions, I love shops that have signs telling you 
what to do like "1. pick up product, 2. take it to the counter 3. pay 
money", as I can get hopelessly lost in a shop sometimes, especially shoe 
shops - they used frighten me because I for a long while never knew the 
drill of "1. find shoes you like 2. tell a staff that you want this pair of 
shoes and give them shoe size 3. they come back with shoes 4. you try on 
shoes 5. pay for shoes" (Don't even get into what happens if the shoes don't 
fit - I'd just die on the spot)
<digression>

..but yes, the lego boxes sometimes have instructions showing you how to fit 
374 pieces of lego bricks together and make it look like a red fish with 
green legs, or maybe it was an octopus.  Although freestyling is fun too - I 
used to have a big box of legos when I was younger - but the best creative 
work I've managed was to recreate the system of speed bumps in my local 
village with lego.

I made a lego film once too - a romantic tragedy, actually, and the plot 
was, of course, set on the speed bumps of my local village, it was about the 
life of a mechanic who fell in love with a rich lady who took her pink 
sports car in for repairs.

The romantic mind of a budding 12 year old film director eventually led to 
the finalé of the film being the mechanic "fixing" the rich lady under the 
bonnet, on the backseats of her car, but he forgot to set the handbrakes and 
so their car rolled backwards down the hill, and they died, thus a tragic 
end.

Maybe now, with 9 more years of experience in life I can make a better 
effort, the storyline will be less crude, the scene setting will be more 
imaginative, or at least I can fit in a pun for the road sign "warning: 
humps for 200 yards".

What I really don't like about legos though are the colours, I know they're 
made of plastic but I would just like my constructions to look less 
plastic-like!  They should start making brickwall textured legos for 
brickwalls, and tarmac textured legos for roads, and fish textured legos, 
for octopuses.

Legos and Red Bulls
Ken
P.S.: michelle ruiz wrote:
>I also want to get a pet of some kind (not a dog or
>a cat..yet)since I was a deprived child and never had
>one. Maybe a turtle or an iguana

Join the quest to bring to the world animal textured legos, and demand for 
turtle/iguana textured bricks, then you can have Lego pets!  They can be 
those "technik" ones and you can have your own techniks turtles/iguanas 
where they're powered by batteries and can swim/stick tongue out all on 
their own!  It's the future in pet-ertainment!

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