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.
