First Xu Meng unknowingly called the paintbrush "shrub". How apt, we were making the model for our proposed site design; there're trees, ferns, shrubs, groundcovers. But it was her mistake la...her English not so good yet, but at least better than when I first knew her at the start of the semester.
Xu Meng: "Can you pass me the shrub?"
(Vivian and I turned around to see what she was pointing at. As far as the 2 of us knew, we hadn't even started on maing the shrubs for our model.)
Vivian and I: *blur-faced*
Xu Meng: "The shrub, pass me the shrub."
Vivian and I: *stare at her, then turn around to see what she was pointing at again*
(and all the both of us could see, sitting alone on my desk behind us, a paintbrush)
Vivian: "Uh..."
Me: *grab the paintbrush and passed it to Xu Meng* (restraining my laughter outburst)
Xu Meng: *stares at me while receiving the brush*
(apparently she didn't get a single thing about what she had just said)
Me: "Brush."
All: "..."
Me: "Its "brush", not "shrub"..."
*mwahahahaha*
Some time after Xu Meng turned "brush" into "shrub", I turned "paintbrush" into "toothbrush". Haha. What only. Maybe its my obsession lately about brushing my teeth only immediately before going to sleep. Go figure.
Me: "Xu Meng can you pass me your toothbrush?"
Xu Meng: *bewildered face* "TOOTHBRUSH??!!"
That was my highlight of the day, other than re-sorting my handphone image gallery, getting Gabriel Seah's number (yeah I'm in his fanclub. Bwahahaha!), pasting cute little moss onto the model as the shrub. Yes, shrub, not brush.
Shall I paste more brushes onto my model tomorrow? I ought to buy more shrubs for model painting...I'll grab my paintbrush from my mum's toilet before I go to sleep XD