It started from a Dumbo soft toys that my colleague had. I felt like buying a new soft toy for me to cheer me up in the office. I didn’t want to use my Winnie the Pooh family since I thought separating one of them apart would be too cruel. As I was looking for a small soft toy that was not too small nor too big, I saw a blue alien Disney character sitting on one of the rack in the shop. I asked my friend if this looked cute enough, too big for my office desk, or even worth the money. I went for the alumni night first and left the blue alien in the shop.
As I decided to go home before the alumni night ended, I came back to the shop with my friend. I was still in doubt that this blue alien soft toy would be able to soothe my feeling. In my mind, it looked like a scary monster instead. My friend said, “looks cute actually…” I eventually took my NETS card and paid for it.
I brought it to office on the next day. I put it right behind my monitor with his face staring at me so that when my eyes were tired looking at the screen, I could tilt my head to see something else. I told myself that it didn’t seem to be scary as what i thought in the beginning. It just had weird shape and didn’t look like a normal animal soft toys that I had at home. The color doesn’t really look like the one in the movie also – with pink color ears. Mine is blue. The backside of the head doesn’t have the dark blue marking as well. I told myself, well, made in China 偷工减料. I shouldn’t complaint too much, it was only SGD 16.90. At that time, I didn’t feel really in love with this soft toy. It just looked very weird to me. I somehow regretted buying this additional soft toy as I didn’t have much space at home. In summary, it didn’t really make me really happy (at first).
After a few days leaving the blue soft toy in the office, I started to miss its soft fur at home. I decided to bring it back home instead. I thought, I didn’t need any soft toys in the office. If I need a break, a cup of hot drink in the nicely decorated pantry would be sufficient to get my eyes a short break.
Since once a while I would bring this soft toy out from my bedroom and had it accompanying me playing my PS3 (the truth was: to be my arm rest). I started to like this blue alien thing. The fur was just so soft and I liked blue in the first place. After a few months, I re-watched the first movie from Channel 5. I also saw the big gigantic Stitch with Santa hat at Bugis Junction.
There was a period of time when I felt bored with my life style. I spent most of my evening watching this fluffy experiment movie series. I didn’t feel like watching normal movies as I needed something light to digest. Short enough for not causing me spending my midnight curiously watching the next episodes.
25 September 2011 remarks one year I have this soft toy. If I look back my one year, I am surprised… I feel like this blue alien thing has “haunted” me. I had abandoned my Winnie the Pooh soft toys. I didn’t really “treat” them as freak as this blue fluffy thing. I also had neglected my teddy bear that had accompanied my life for 13 years! Besides the soft toy, I started to collect everything related to this blue thing. Some of my friends even said that whenever they saw this blue fluffy thing around, they would remember me. Scary but it is true.
Cute?
I think you should take him to your office. it may not be useful for you, but ‘perhaps’ it will be useful for others who come to your cube.. :p