iThread & iNeedle

that's right. i knew learning how to sew would come in handy one day. the handrest of the mesh chair that has been my best friend the past year started to peel off. my guess is because it kept scraping against the bottom of the desk, so something had to be done. mix an old baby blanket with a needle and some thread, and you have HANDREST SLEEVE.



and no, let's not take a closer look. of course it's shitty sewing. i'm a physicist, not a tailor, what do you expect? much thanks to whoever taught me how to sew back when i was in kindergarten/elementary school. i think it was my late grandmother. thanks to her i still remember how to tie a knot in the thread and how to start and end stitches. making loops is by far the easiest technique. it's basicallly just repeating the same process over and over. if you want to make patterns, that's harder. loops worked perfectly fine for this handrest sleeve, so i stuck with that.

i got a bookshelf from ikea. curiously enough, david came home about half an hour later with the same exact bookshelf from ikea. i guess now that his girlfriend is moving out to her own place, he needs to do something with the extra room.



the bookshelf itself is nice and heavy, but assembling it makes me realize even more about how i am subconsciously stupid. i got the bookshelf set up only to realize that the holes for the pins that are supposed to hold the shelves were not INSIDE, but OUTSIDE. apparently the holes did not go all the way through as i had wrongfully assumed. sam came into the room so i told him about my stupidity and expected him to laugh, but instead he lifted up his right hand to give me a hi-5, yelling out, "THAT is exactly what I would have done, too!"

smart people have no common sense. and smart people are subconsciously stupid. i stand by those two. if you are not subconsciously stupid, or you have a good common sense, then i'm sorry, but you're just not smart enough.

with a bookshelf in the room, i decided to rearrange my furniture a little bit. i moved the desk with the PC on it right next to my workdesk. this way i can use both computer at the same time. in other words, i can work and play games at the same time. ingenius, isn't it?



i noticed some coffee stains on my monitor, so i took a picture of it. now, check out your monitor. if it doesn't have coffee stains like mine, that means you are not working hard enough and you are getting more sleep than required. stop procrastinating, go do your work.



i love my window, i hate the balcony below, and moreover, i hate the people using the balcony below. it's really hard for me to get some fresh air if they constantly use the balcony below to smoke cigarette. smoke inside the apartment, dammit. let other people enjoy some fresh air, too. and to think that i've been nice by dragging my feet whenever i walk inside the apartment. that's it, from now on, there will be no more feet-dragging; i will make loud stomps whenever i walk. and it's much better since i stay up all night.

i really hope they won't be able to sleep well.

back to the bookshelf, finally i can put my books in a nice order, starting from textbooks and physics books:



on to tankoban, graphic novels, the hitchhiker's guide series, and other novels that happen to be left here by a book freak.



and last but not least, my one piece figurines. i threw away my alabasta figurines because they are the shitty fake HK crap. it's bandai or never.