I felt like this year's sewing task was cursed for me. Work was busier and more stressful these last months than ever, leaving no time for me to attend to my daily Sunday morning routine (i.e walk/jog/yoga from my condo to Bukit Belacan (now been selected as one of the tourism attraction-please refer to My Map). It takes three hours/session but I really enjoy doing it so much. I can still feel the freshness after each session of long hours exercising when my whole body bathing with sweat in the past 3 months. It helps a lot for doing such weekend exercise especially when you are confirmed having hypertension (the doc said). I wanted to give up, really, I wanted all the stress to go away. Luckily, I've received encouragement from my husband, my two sons, family and friends and I decided to go on. I said to myself: OK, I have another two more weeks, I will take my time to finish this blouses and my final item will be a baju kurung (a malay traditional long-straight cutting dress come with a fan sarong) which was scheduled early next month (May 2008 - it was a treat for myself actually on my birthday, who else would give me a baju kurung as a present on my birthday?).
A BIG thanks to Ms Lee Yee San my colleague from production department for giving me the Lead Time Counter from Wisdom Plus. I found it is a very useful tool on determining my expected time to get all the blouses done! How long have I actually spend on a certain blouse.
Made of thick glossy card-board which consist of two circular circles of different sizes and these two circles are attached together at the centre with a steel enhancement for ease movement clockwise and anti-clockwise. The outer circle was printed with number of months and sub-divided into number of weeks in a year. Whilst the inner circle goes the number of weeks with a red arrow pointer. " I can always set weeks arrow on present date or the date when I received the material and read clockwise the number of weeks desired to determine date". You can use for anything else, that's it!. Wednesday (30/4/2008) is the deadline to get the three blouses done- it suddenly dawns on me and I nearly had a panic attack! because it takes me more than three weeks to finish the three blouses. What an awful!
I simply cannot take leave without any favourable reasons!. I will present the photos of the blouse for your viewing in my next blogging. Take care.
