sleek in black (Lost In Translation)

I was awoken this morning by the piercing sound of the apartment buzzer. The sunlight outside was dim, hinting that I really shouldn't be awake yet. While my mind was still spinning from the probable lack of sleep, I could only imagine a wrong number or some idiot trying to pull a prank at this hour in the morning. But then again, I guess 'early' is relative.

I headed to the intercom to find a guy by the buzzer. Fazed, I picked up the intercom and asked how I could help him.
I swore I heard him say that he'd got a pizza delivery.
Fazed, I took a glance at the clock.

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Winos.
I hence replied that he'd probably gotten the wrong apartment.

"Nah, I'm quite sure I've got the right address. It's issued to a Kong Guan Tan (kg's full name)?"

REALLY fazed now, I could only be surprised that kg had the ability to wake up at such an hour in the morning and of all things, order pizza. So I trotted over to kg's room and woke him up, asking if he had ordered pizza. Confused, kg said no. Even more confused, I thought we had better head downstairs to check it out. The guy DID afterall quote kg's name.

You should've seen my face when we went downstairs to find that instead of a pizza the guy was holding a PARCEL.
Parcel. Pizza. Parcel. Pizza. Parcel. Pizza.
How did I confuse such a thing?!

But nevertheless, he signed it and took it upstairs. Anxious because we both thought that it could be mine, we were both dismayed by the size of the parcel (it wasn't as big as my expected parcel). You see, right after Monday's paper, I did a rash thing. I headed straight home and ordered something under kg's name. Something nice and black and very, very slick.

Still, being as curious as we were, we got straight home and tore the package open.....
Only to find that it really was my package. And that it was much smaller than any of us had expected.

Behold... the holiest of Appletopia,

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The iPod Video

HOLY CRAP IT'S SO SLIM!!
Hearing the commotion, Esther immediately came out to check it out as well. And boy is it beautiful.

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The bright colours. The slick, suave black. The flawless chrome at the back. The video playback. The photo storage. The endless extra functions. And the 30GB of music!!
It is amazing!! It is perfection manifested in a material object! It is bold! It is MINE!!!

*Sniff.
Like I said before. This holiday is gonna be quite something. And the action has only just begun...