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Dear reader,



I am, as of this very moment, sitting on my extremely crowded and cluttered bed. And since I am overwhelmingly dispirited, hot, hungry and narcissistic, I shall bore you with a list. Yes, dear reader, a list! An inventory of items that have recently--and not so recently--come to reside upon my mattress.


The List of Things that Happen to be on My Bed:

1. 8 stuffed animals of assorted shape, size and species. Namely;
• Eeyore the donkey (from Winnie the Pooh), minus the tail.
• Thumper the rabbit (from Bambi)
• 3 teddy bears, 2 of which are mine and are, consequently, nameless. The other belongs to my older sister who is an advocate of all things cutesy and adorable, and has therefore been lovingly dubbed Mr. Strawberry.
• An elephant, belonging to my younger sister. If this one has a name, I am unaware of it.
• A dog of unknown origin and identity.
2. A water bottle, in case I get thirsty in my sleep.
3. My phone. Which is in desperate need of charging at the moment.
4. A black ponytail holder.
5. A stapler. With precisely 4 staples left in the chamber.
6. 7 books. Most of them I have started but haven't finished. I aspire to finish reading them soon. Eventually. In my lifetime.
• Reader's Digest (the October 2008 edition): Finished
• Alligator by Lisa Moore: Started, haven't finished.
• Lion Boy by Zizou Corder. Taken from my school's reading corner and never returned. I am such a rebel: Finished. One of those books you'll never lend out, in case you never get it back.
• Don Quixote by Cervantes: Yeah...started, not even close to finishing.
• A lovely hard cover of R.L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Treasure Island, which I bought the last time the MV Doulos docked in Kuching: Finished Kidnapped, but Treasure Island is hard to get past, for some reason.
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Another book we stole rescued from the school's reading corner: Finished. A great read.
• What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You: the Annexe Lectures Vol 1 by Farish A. Noor: Started, am definitely going to finish. Definitely.
7. A denim jacket.
8. A really soft, really small pillow for my head.
9. A bolster. I never use it, but it is kept on my bed for easy access, you know, in case of any emergencies requiring the use of bolsters. They're more handy than you think.
10. A plastic bag containing 5 tubes of acrylic paint: black, white, red, yellow, blue. Used for a stencilling project.
11. An empty pillowcase.
12. A blanket.
13. 2 CDs, with the titles Romantic and Pop Tunes 1 scribbled on them in black marker. I have no idea who they belong to, where they came from, or what convoluted chain of events brought them to rest upon my bed.
14. An assortment of files and papers, from an assortment of donors. My older sister and my cousin, as well as myself.
15. A cutting mat.
16. A yellow lanyard, belonging to a friend. She dropped by our place for a while after we went to the Youth Dialogue and left her name tag behind...on the 8th of February 2010, according to the date printed on it.
17. A pair of stripey socks, belonging to my cousin who resides on the top bunk. It must have fallen down this morning.
18. My laptop.
19. Me.

Well.

I have nothing left to say. I'm sorry for the rushed goodbyes, dear reader, but I have to go now. There's a Club meeting I have to attend and I'm already late. So, see you round the bend. Til next time, I remain...

Yours,

Figgy the Clutter Monger