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| Date received : 09 April 2014. |
Of course it didn't really take me or rather Bao that long. I started to fix it as soon as I received it. Somehow about 1 month down the road, I lost the urge suddenly and stopped completely.
This is the journey :-
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| Date taken : 19 April, 2014. |
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| The initial stage. |
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| Top left corner : 25 April, 2014. |
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| 26 April, 2014, a lot has been sorted out. |
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| 04 May, 2014 . |
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| 18 May, 2014. |
In fact, during the "slumbering" stage, I actually sat down a few times to try but somehow failed to bring myself to continue. Our cousin who came visiting used to teased that we should celebrate the anniversary with a cake!! And my girl used to "ask" me : Mi what is this thing lying on the dining table! And I always answered "Don know leh....what is it? I don see anything there!! Haha! When the dust accumulated was so thick that I could write on it, I was feeling distressed.
Then 1 fine day, I found myself sitting down and started to dust the surface with micro-fibre paper. And then started to fix again. A few days later, Bao started to fix as well!
Already we are looking into the next one! 8,000pcs is our goal.
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| 01 August, 2015. |
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| 08 August, 2015. Bao started to build too. |
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| She would try to locate the pieces by matching them with the picture on the cover. |
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| 15 August, 2015. At full swing, with 2 small table for the lower half. |
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| Lower left corner. One of the toughest parts! |
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We had been careful all the times, but somehow this pc ended in the dog's mouth and this is the outcome! |
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| Concentrating on the top right corner. |
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| At least 3 bulbs burned with 2 standing floor lamps. |
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| 29 August, 2015. Working really hard on the paintings. Kept suspecting there were missing pieces. |
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| Bao started to work on the toughest "black" area. The area I had been avoiding! |
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| This is how she did it. Matching the pieces with the cover picture. |
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| Working on the deco of the wall. |
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| Taking shape..... |
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| 08 Sept, 2015. Making good progress. |
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| Impossible to identify the pieces, so we sorted them out by the shapes! |
13 Sept, 2015. These were last 2 trays! All black!
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| 13 Sept, 2015. Very close to finish! |
The finale.....
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| 14 Sept, we started to chant : it's the final countdown. |
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| 15 Sept, 2015, chanting "it's the final countdown" loudly. But it didn't happen! This was really challenging! |
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| 16 Sept, 2015 , it was really going to happen ! It's the final countdown.!! |
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| The final of the final!! |
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| Ladies and gentlemen! This is it! The finale of the chronicle!! |
And so we had completed building it and the satisfaction is truly amazing! On week days, we probably spent about 1-2 hours a day. It's only during the weekend that we actually spent a lot of times on it.
Already we are looking into the next one! 8,000pcs is our goal.
