Saturday, May 20, 2006
Puzzling...
Spending a lazy saturday afternoon lazing around, I haven't really gotten into the 'doing serious stuff' mode. Well, what i consider 'serious' may seem frivolous to most people. My current 'serious stuff' list has only one agenda and that is to glue up the jigsaw puzzle i finished 2 days ago. This is to prevent my little cousins who are coming by tomorrow from returning the completed puzzle back to their artless disarray. If that happens then i have to piece the same jigsaw for the 3rd time... (I accidentally smashed it while trying to glue them up the 1st time.)I always see no point in redoing jigsaws that i have done before and the frens around me are not really into jigsaws... so i always glue them up, break them into bigger pieces and place them back into their boxes. This is to facilitate storage. I keep telling myself that this arrangement is temporary and someday i will frame them and find some place to hang them.... but the boxes keep piling and my walls are still bare. I think the truth is i don't really like to hang them on my wall... so i kept procrastinating. I have this friend who made a comment that gluing jigsaws up and keeping them is tantamount to throwing them away since i am not going to hang them up and i cannot piece them again... which is quite true. He suggested that i should just give them away to some unsuspecting victim for their birthday. Yep... and i should make a big hoo ha about the amount of effort i spent in preparing this incomparable gift of sincerity... maybe the recipient will be very touched. All right, all right... that was mean.... I am not going to do that. Haha...
Talking of jigsaws reminds me of this friend who bought a 500 piece jigsaw recently. (We bought similar ones, those of Disney characters.) I told her the other day that i finished one of my jigsaws in 12.5 hours. After she finished hers, she proudly declared to me that she finished it in 8.5 hours and even sent me an MMS of her puzzle. I didn't realise that she was trying to tell me that she beat my record. When i talked to her some days later, i finally understood her intentions.... and i found it rather amusing... cos my 12.5 hours record was for a 1000 piece jigsaw... Sorry for the disappointment....Haha.. and she said 'huh which means you can finish the 500 piece one in like 6 hours?' In actual fact, i finished it in 3 hours... It is not that difficult considering the array of cartoons in the picture.
Ok, I should get to gluing it now and hope that it will not need to be pieced for the 3rd time.
Posted by cloudy at 10:02 PM
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Inclinations... ...
I started work yesterday. As most people would understand, resources are always lacking so i have drag my lazy self out of bed at 7am every morning to labour... I worked at this place that i used to work at a year ago... so first day of work warrants some reminiscing on the part of brain.... recalling the names of the people i know there... trying to remember the way around the different departments etc...However, my legs did the most recollection... Even before I stepped out of the house, my legs are already sending signals to my brain telling my brain that they recalled the time when i had to wear the torturous heels to work daily one year ago... I forgot to mention that at my workplace it is mandatory to wear covered shoes and i supposed covered heels are the norm... so i followed suit. Especially going down staircases, my heels are always trying their best to convince me that i will have a very high chance of either falling down the steps and breaking my neck or ending up with a limb encased in plaster of Paris. That why i treaded each step with caution... As a result, i concluded that one of the major uses of a pair of heels is to reduce your walking speed by at least half... it was a wonder i made it to work on time....
The high heels that i am talking about are not those with stout backing but rather those with heels that look and feel rather puny and feeble... I couldn't recall why i bought that over the stout ones but i suppose vanity played a part. On top of that, the heels are around 2.5 inches high (not considered high really) with an inclination of about 60 degrees (compliments of my long lost protracter). After yesterday i realised that my legs have a tolerance level of at the most 10 degrees.
I think that heels can be considered both as the worst and the best invention. It is the worst cos it subjects women to a prolonged period of stress on the frontal portion of the foot and it arches the feet at an abnormal angle in an attempt to make you look taller (basically you are tiptoeing aound). I am very sure most women heave a sigh of relief when they remove these pretty but tormenting height elevating apparatus from their feet. I do...
On the other hand, it can be considered the best invention cos it gives shorter people confidence for them to stand out in public (may not be very useful cos shorter people want to look tall but tall people want to look taller so ultimately tall people will also wear them). But i feel that the most enticing and amazing part of this best invention is that women clamour to wear these torture tools despite their grievances and pain... you will never find another person willing to reenter a torture chamber but this tormenting device holds great allure and people return yet again to suffer willingly in their hands...
Despite my negative feelings towards them, I think heels are a necessary evil in polite society and civillisation.... no matter how much i abhorred the notion of wearing it... I think they will somehow become part of my life in the future... But for now... i will still stick to flats.... I have decided to wear flats to work and i wore it today....Unless my supervisor asks me to change... it shall be flats from now on...
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An official opening ceremony...
Hi everyone, thank you for taking the time to read my occasional grouses... none too interesting i suppose but hope that it will not bore u to tears....Perhaps i should start by introducing my URL. Why did i choose problem of the day? It started in JC when my close friends told me one day that i am a person who always has a problem to bug myself (or them) every day... no matter how big or small.... and it is there regardless of rain or shine ... something to hold my attention from supposedly important lectures and tutorials (though my physical being was present)... and it is like the soup of the day in restaurants... different every day of the week (may rotate after one week) but persistently present. Even when the day seemed perfect, I will have something on my mind to ponder and worry about (like why is the day so perfect, is it a mirage and will something bad follow after the facade of perfection?) ....
世上本无事，庸人自扰之 ...
I suppose that is me, cannot stop fretting... my friends are resigned to the fate of either ignoring me when i am being ridiculous or trying to comfort me when they feel that i am genuinely distressed. But, ultimately i will only get over my problem of the day if i can rationalise things out myself (that's why some of them don't bother about me cos they know whatever they say is futile).
Talking about problem of the day, I had one rather weighing one a couple of days ago. And that is whether i should start a blog to talk about my existence. My concerns were mainly on the effort to be spent on maintaining it. The good news to me is .... i have solved my problem of the day since you are currently reading my first entry... the bad news is my brain is bearing the risk of being overworked...
I think that is enough exercise for my brain at the moment... it deserves some rest...