TGIF!

Yes, it's friday! Somehow when i woke up in the morning, i just feel great and happy. It must be because today's friday and tommorrow i can have my beauty sleep! In additional, friday knocking off at 5.15pm!!! =D Hope there is no hiccups to spoil my high spirits today.

Oh yes, update on my beloved Canon Ixus 430. Brought it to Canon for servicing, and now it came back alive! They have changed the circuit card of the camera, obviously to make it working, and it's FOC! The cause is most likely to be the electronic device that has it's expiry date that we consumers do not know. Whatever it is, i'm so delighted to see it coming back in good condition with no other charges. Their services are good as well - customer-oriented, friendly and approachable staffs with swift response. This will actually convince us to buy their products again in future.

Coming to think of it, we are now holding to 2 digital cameras, should we auction one of them out?

Another happy thing to share. Hubby cooked for me again! Not to brag or boast about my hubby, it is just something that deserves a pat on the shoulder. Everyone needs encouragement, to give them confidence, to show they are needed and appreciated. Try it and you will see many things that someone can do to surprise you.

Going to get back to work, Happy Weekend!!! v(^.^

My Dinner!

After a whole day at work yesterday, i opened the house door and hear the sizzling sound coming from the kitchen. Hubby was pan-frying the stingray!! wOw that was such a surprise for me to see him preparing dinner out of a sudden. Must be because i was grumbling the day before that he was home whole day sitting in front of his PC and i would still need to prepare and cook dinner after work. With such a rare gesture, i must surely blog something about it! haha.. but picture tells a thousand words, see below:

Little accomplishment

Have been wanting to get a sewing machine for myself after hand sewn hubby's ranking to his uniform twice. It's not easy to poke the small needle right through the ranking piece as it was way too thick for me to sew. Coincidencely in a casual chat with SIL, she has one machine left untouched in her cupboard for years and decided to give it to me. Great, the machine came at the right time! =D

Cleaned the machine and explored on the functions after SIL taught me the basic to place the thread and the bobbin case section. The last time i used a sewing machine was like during secondary school in our home economics class, and i graded fairly for the project. I can still remember doing the magnetic gingerbread man, the apron and the vest. That was tough and almost everything was thrown back to the teacher upon graduated from the subject, haha..

I tried to recall what i have learnt in school.
1. Fold and iron the rank piece to keep the fold in place.
2. Do tacking onto the uniform before sewing.
These initial stage are important as to make sure that the piece does not moves out of the line undesirably while sewing. Managed to complete the sewing after some trying. Though it does not look perfect, i promise to try my best on another piece of uniform once hubby bought another set of rank piece back.

This is not enough, after a few days later, i decided to get some on hands again. This time i used one of the unused shopping bag, cut and open up to its full length/size and re-design it again. I wanted to make a pouch. Successfully spun the colour thread to the bobbin after reading from the manual. Started working on it and managed to complete with the mini pouch below!! It may sound easy and not as good as ones sold outside, its still a little accomplishment i've gain for myself.
If time allows and self motivation persists, i will try on zippers and buttons as well. v(^.^


*Photos taken using Sony Cybershot w80. Resolution not too good as i have adjusted the image size and stretched it while exploring

(Having to explore Photoshop and merged the photos into a file does gives me the little accomplishment too! ^.^ )

Moral of the story

Here is a little story...that teaches a lot:

A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after
another, but none of them could figure how to fix the engine.
Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was
young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he
immediately went to work.
He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would
know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag
and pulled out a small hammer.
He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life.
He carefully put his hammer away.

The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old
man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"
So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT WAS THE BREAK DOWN?

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer. ............ . . $ 2.00

Knowing where to tap......... . $ 9, 998.00

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes
all the difference.

- With courtesy from Linda for the story. Thanks for sharing!