Dollhouse Page #8

Synopsis: Ah Hock, a single parent (and a lazy one at that!) unwittingly makes a promise to his daughter, Min Min, to build her a dollhouse. But time and again, he 'forgets', till Min Min takes matters into her own hands.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Short
Director(s): Eng Tiong Teo
Year:
2006
16 min
264 Views


What time you're fixing the alarm?

You won't get up till 7 am, will you?

But you will get up at 6 am.

I'm not used to it.

It was sister-in-law who

gave this time-piece.

Good night.

I was trying to see through

this in the dark.

Did you get scared?

Come.

I don't need the full bed.

A small corner is enough.

Are you going out to sleep?

Here.

What are these for?

Won't you speak to me?

Please...

what are you doing here?

I couldn't sleep properly.

And you?

- Me too.

Why?

Because we have only 6 days left.

I was wondering how to bait these fishes.

Bait?

Only then we can catch fishes.

Yes.

Why are you coming closer?

I'm very tensed.

So what?

I'm very tensed.

- Don't make me tensed.

Will your tension go if i come closer?

A kiss would clear all my tension.

I drea.m.

I painted a picture and it was you...

it came near and asked me to kiss her...

when i went near pitying her...

she said her heart is with you...

and asked me to kiss you...

i'm in the age to love

and romance...

what's wrong if i take interest in it?

I too love to kiss you...

but shyness is stopping me...

it says there's time for it...

i drea.m.

Chill breeze is making

my lover to shiver in cold...

it told me to entwine you

like a warm hug...

i know how to keep myself warm

from the cold...

stop imagining,

i don't need your help...

why are you asking me to leave

when i wish to be with you?

How benevolent you are on me?

What can i do?

There's something special in you...

it pulled me towards you...

i drea.m.

She's beautiful,

the world is after her...

keep the world out from following her

is what my heart yearns...

there's a thing as my companion

which you don't know...

it's none other than

my own shadow...

breeze will also get tired

walking with you, my dear...

no need to get so dejected,

you are my shadow!

I was waiting to hear

this from you...

i was dreaming for this day...

coffee.

Sathi, do you know to read paper?

No. I hate reading paper.

Why?

- Because i'm an illiterate.

Why are your eyes so red?

I couldn't sleep properly.

It takes time to get used to this place.

Your father has got up.

And he has gone forjogging too.

But he didn't inquire about you.

Why are your eyes so red?

I couldn't sleep properly.

Both of them couldn't sleep properly.

Something fishy...

don't try to know what happened.

You won't get sleep.

Do you want the paper?

Give it.

I will give it after finishing

the sports column.

I drea.m.

What are you doing?

How many times will you tell this?

- Until you say it.

You said you'll tell me stories.

Sathi...

- coming.

Where is the tablet?

Oh my god!

What is it siddhu?

This is my father's bp tablet.

You are giving it to him today.

Why?

Angler... to trap the big fish.

Sathi, get me my tablet.

Where were you?

Don't you know to stand next

to me while i go to office?

Do what you've do,

that's enough.

Is this what you call high bp?

First time i'm experiencing it.

Angling for big fish didn't work out?

How to catch it?

It's not a fish, it's a shark.

How about for other fishes...

- no need for angler,

let's lay a net.

- Net?

Mother is calling you.

Did you call me?

Did you see me head butting?

Why did you do it?

Did you see the head butt outside

or the one inside?

Did you butt outside too?

He did it outside, i butted him inside.

You'll get horns if you get

butt once, you know that?

Horns?

I did it now, will she get horns?

Her husband is poor man!

He can't see her with horns.

Isn't it good?

Does siddhu believe all this?

Believes? He liked this and

chased to ask me for a coffee.

Is it?

- Yes.

I took him to minerva cafe

traveling in a double decker bus,

and had a coffee with him.

- Not about you, tell us about him.

You know, he bunked a function

to have 'paanipoori' with me?

What's going on inside?

You want me to tell what i know or tell

after knowing going on inside?

Tell what you know.

Then i don't know anything.

Tell me after knowing. Go

good boy? Don't say it with siddhu,

he'll get angry.

He abuses using choicest

epithets when he's angry.

Siddhu uses bad words?

Yes, that brings to my memory,

once in my college...

- in college?

What?

Friends!

- Okay friends!

Excuse me! Do you put hands

and legs now also?

What's that?

Okay, tell me.

When few rogues were

teasing me that day,

he beat them black and blue.

Oh god! Got hurt sathi?

No problem, he'll not mind it.

You carry on.

Ever since then those rogues

are calling me as sister.

What?

Why are you tensed?

Unable to tell what i saw.

- No need to tell, keep it in your heart.

Do you know what's happening inside?

I know everything because i planned it.

Is this your plan?

I thought you were class but

you're downright mass.

Angler, net, fishing,

they are all mass effects.

But they do workout well.

Is she talking about me?

Notjust talking,

she's running a soap opera.

I know she's very talented.

- Then present her an award.

Call hasini out.

I don't think she'll come out from

the soap opera midway.

I know how to call her.

He brought her here to let

his family know about her.

But they are knowing things

about him instead.

I don't know what's in store.

Wait, it will stop.

Wait.

Wait... wait... it will stop again.

Don't you know this is

universal lovers' code?

If i don't lift it now,

it will go on ring.

Is hasini there?

I'm calling from icici bank.

Siddhu!

Siddhu, it's me!

Thank god! I thought phone call mad

or make-up mad girl is answering it.

What did you talk to them?

I talked about general things.

I'll tell you later.

Not later, tell me right now.

Uncle?

- Yes, don't make noise.

Can't i avoid it?

You can't.

That is... our regular ice cream jaunt...

yes, it's been long since

i jumped the wall.

It's difficult now, but let's make a try.

How did you catch those fishes?

They say you are a good boy.

That's how i maintain my image at home.

How can those frogs in the well

know about the outside world?

Their world is phone, make up,

kitchen, father. That's all!

They think that's the life.

Poor souls, siddhu.

I too feel pity on them.

Poor souls.

Whatever it is,

our plan has succeeded.

May i ask you a thing

in this happy mood?

What is it?

- It's long time since...

just only once...

siddhu...

- just once...

call me idiot!

Please...

siddhu, you're a real idiot.

Sir... sir...

- why are you tensed?

It's time for father's arrival.

Why are you so happy?

It's time father to come,

he must know what transpired in kitchen.

Everything?

- Yes, everything.

I thought you're real mass,

but you're a front bench favourite.

Hasini, hold this.

Where had you been?

- To seenu's home.

Sister, look how casually

he's lying to us.

No, not like that.

May i teach you?

No need, she needn'tjump

over walls after grown up.

Jump over walls?

Would you like to have juice sir?

Serve him ice cream, he has come

from hot sun, that will cool him.

Ice cream?

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