Sketch, if you can!

Sketch, if you find it difficult to imagine!

I am one that cannot visualise things easily in my head. I find it difficult to construct the image, with all the layers, the colours, every detail that I can think of, in my head from thin air. I will try to the visualization, but without much success. It's an important enough of an idea, I will try to sketch it out.

So I am pretty happy that I took the time to visual and then transfer my nasi lemak flower on the paper last night. I took the effort to identify a few designs actually, but stuck to the flower pattern as it was the more the pretty and doable of them.

I couldn't be more pleased with the outcome this morning. Even better than what I anticipated. Adaptation became easier, construction became more precise. Luckily then, I sketched the night before. Kitchen tornado avoided at all cost! Hopefully, the receiver loved it as much I as was proud of it!

So lesson learnt, sketch if you can! It might just help you :)

I need Spring!

Spring...

Perhaps, the reason for springs and autumns is because god has mercy on us humans!

Flying off from Hanoi right into Krung Thep in April seemed like a bad move. It is like putting taking your head our from the freezer and putting it straight into a super hot oven, if you can do those without your head cracking open!

It was so cold for Hanoi for me then that I had to wear socks almost all the time when I was in the apartment. I needed the jacket all the time when I was out and on worse days scenario, I even wore it while I was in the apartment. I might be exaggeration with the coldness but being a Malaysian, 18-20 degrees daily was too way to cold for me and I had a tough time adjusting, especially during the first 2 weeks.

Now, back in Krung Thep at the height of the Songkran season, I am experiencing massive headaches daily. It has only been 3 days here, yet, I cannot seem to adjust to the weather. It's almost like 35-38 degrees daily since I've landed. It's so hot I am tempted to have the airconditioning switched on almost all the time.

Which got me thinking, maybe the reason for spring and autumn to be stuck in the between winter and summer, and summer and winter, respectively, is to help our body to adjust better to the temperature change. That the world is designed to protect it's living things and not to kill it.

An extreme change from super hot to super cold or vice versa will just wipe us out!

Sigh.. where's my (mini)spring to help save me?

Hanoi Apartment Curse

Did I bring the 'apartment' curse with me to Hanoi?

I've been in here for almost 3 weeks, and in that 3 weeks, I've moved 3 apartments, due to reasons not under my control.

I reached here on a Tuesday. Come Thursday, I was asked to help pack up everything of ours and get ready to move. Another apartment, somewhere else, still unconfirmed then. The main thing was we needed to vacate that unit, that night!

So off we went in search of the 2nd place to stay. We had two options thrown to us, though they didn't differ much. In the end, we chose the 2nd unit as the interim unit as it was brighter, at least for me, even though that meant we would have a club/karaoke as our left neighbour. It was a walk up apartment.

Problem arose almost right after the agent left us that night. The kitchen sink was stank terribly whenever it was used and the kettle wasn't in a that dared me to use it. 2 nights later we got a rude shock in the wee morning. A drunk neighbour mistook our unit as his and managed to get in! Luckily Hubby was awake at that time. Else I wouldn't know what to do!

The technician came the following Monday to do the necessary repair work. About 3 hours of hardwork, with an hour of interruption to get another round of supplies after the initial diagnose, he managed to reveal quite a good job done! I wasn't able to open the replaced lock with my existing key, which I could after his first try and the kitchen sink actually smell better as you used.

It was smooth riding after that. No more complaints. Until we got here, apartment number #3, the apartment we originally wanted after being kicked out. The headaches came back, fast! First problem was the bedroom door couldn't close. The lock simply didn't catch. That simple problem was rectified quickly.

We thought that that was it, when after 2 days, we noticed the kitchen floor damp. The dampness didn't go away, instead, it got worse as the days went by. Water started dripping from the ceiling! At first it was a patch on the ceiling, and then later, it was almost the whole ceiling!

Tired now. The ceiling is bare, there's a staircase chair in the kitchen but the men are gone, for now. I'm hungry.