lucy in the sky with diamonds

from rahul's blog, dated july 8:

'...carol and william, the original ‘other guests’ were notable absentees, considering that the point of meeting up today was to go over to carol’s place to check out the medical paraphernalia there. mind you this is no ordinary medical stuff she has.this is what she told us last summer: apparently some acquaintance of her gave her one of those skeletons that doctors have in their offices (or at least, like how they do in the movies) and it was a real skeleton, made from the bones of a real dead person. now this is already very dodgy - a stranger giving you a real skeleton for free. however, carol did not see anything to be amiss and claimed the skeleton, which (till today) resides unassembled, in a box. oddly, the acquaintance told her not to sell it for anything less than 300 dollars. it’s all so very strange. anyway, the box is under her study table at home, something which william, raphael and i are absolutely unable to understand how she can continue to disregard. it’s like having someone buried in your living room, really.'

so, the much awaited meeting took place today at my place... william, raphael and rahul arrived in the blistering hot afternoon sun (they probably only had enough guts to do it in broad daylight).. after watching 'the man who cried' on dvd... (which was abyssmal, although for johnny depp, it was worth it...)we headed downstairs to my computer room to dig lucy up...

they were still really skeptical about the whole 'acquaintance' motive so they googled my friend's name!!! googled, can u imagine that? and even googled for a photo of him! they're such clowns...so when we found him to be the author of several medical journal papers ( m's a doctor), i was mighty pleased! we've not been in contact for quite a while, even though we're both in the uk.. but judging from the amount of research he's been churning out, m seems to be doing well....
so our attention was once again turned back to lucy in the box (gift-wrapped for easy custom clearance, m had said...)so after feeling, fondling, mocking and phographing dear ol lucy, they assembled her on my floor and started fooling around with her. hahah.. as for me, i was just plain amused they could be so tickled by a skeleton:

william : and this is the humerus!
rahul : stop trying to be funny la, william!
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rahul : man.. lucy you have serious dental problems.
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william : so shall we say a little prayer for lucy?
rahul : yes... dear lucy, may you rest in peace..
me : ces...
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(while assembling lucy)
rahul : oh yes, i have to take a photo of this.
william : wait, have some ribs...
rahul : what, you think tony roma's ah?
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(on the patella:)
rahul : look raphael, a bone in the shape of play-doh.
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skull+william. skull+rahul.a la hamlet. a la hamlet 2. photographing. photographing again.raphael the caveman.rahul+skull+raphael latching skull. lucy assembled.

ahh, these boys...won't be seeing rahul and raphael for quite a while.. so i guess today was some form of a goodbye as well.

rj wouldn't have been the same without these guys... not the same at all...