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Friday 18 September 2015

The chronicle of 6,000pcs Jigsaw Puzzle

When I blogged about the 6,000pcs Art Studio, it was 30 April, 2014.

Date received : 09 April 2014.
Today is 17 Sept 2015. We, had FINISHED building it last night FINALLYYYYYY!


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 :-

Date taken : 19 April, 2014.
The initial stage. 
Top left corner : 25 April, 2014.
26 April, 2014, a lot has been sorted out.
04 May, 2014 .
Slowing down.....
18 May,  2014.
Then stopped building all together........untill AUGUST 2015. 

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!

01 August, 2015.
08 August, 2015. Bao started to build too.
She would try to locate the pieces by matching them with the picture on the cover.
15 August, 2015. At full swing, with 2 small table for the lower half.
Lower left corner. One of the toughest parts!
We had been careful all the times, but somehow this pc ended in the dog's mouth and this is the outcome!


Lower right corner.
Concentrating on the top right corner.
At least 3 bulbs burned with 2 standing floor lamps.
29 August, 2015. Working really hard on the paintings. Kept suspecting there were missing pieces. 
Bao started to work on the toughest "black" area. The area I had been avoiding!
This is how she did it. Matching the pieces with the cover picture.
Working on the deco of the wall.
Taking shape.....
08 Sept, 2015. Making good progress.


Impossible to identify the pieces, so we sorted them out by the shapes!

13 Sept, 2015. These were last 2 trays! All black!

13 Sept, 2015. Very close to finish!
The finale.....

14 Sept, we started to chant : it's the final countdown.
15 Sept, 2015, chanting "it's the final countdown" loudly. But it didn't happen! This was really challenging! 
16 Sept, 2015 , it was really going to happen ! It's the final countdown.!!
The final of the final!!
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.


Saturday 5 September 2015

The Girl on the Train



三个女人,  两个男人。

女人一,Rachel,  就是火车上的女人, 每天都乘火车往返伦敦上班。因无法怀上孩子的困扰,借酒消愁,变的无可理喻, 丈夫Tom因此与他离婚,和女人二结婚。

女人二, Anna,与Rachel的前夫Tom结婚,住在Rachel离婚前的屋子,还生下女婴。

女人三,Megan,是Anna的鄰居,相隔几间屋子,丈夫是Scott 。年轻时非常叛逆,有不良的过去。看着心里医生Kamal,与他有不寻常关系。曾自愿帮Anna他们看顾婴孩。


可怜可悲的Rachel, 每天坐在火车里,  火车会在Anna 和Megan的屋子前做短暂的停留,他可看到在屋外的人。看着自己以前的屋子,心里的无奈和悲哀很是凄惨,于是酒喝的更凶,喝醉了,会不自觉的走到以前的屋子,还会不停的打电话给前夫,骚扰他们,醒了之后却不记得发生过的事。他因此也被认为是情绪不稳定的人。

同时在火车上他还能看到Megan坐在屋外,有时Scott也在,可是他并不认识他们。他认为他们是幸福的一对。

可是突然有一天他看到Megan同样坐在屋外,但男子并不是Scott,  而是别人,他看到男人吻了Megan。他感到很震惊,Megan竟然背叛丈夫。

然后突然有一天晚上,Megan失踪了。由于事发时,Rachel刚好又到那里去,Tom也出现与他纠缠,之后的事Rachel记不起来,只知道醒来时发现自己受伤了。

Rachel告诉警方关于Megan出轨的事,可是由于他之前常犯的骚扰事件,  警方不相信他。Rachel觉得自己应该告诉Scott,就主动的去找Scott,还和他发生关系。

警方之后逮捕了Kamal, 但因证据不足又放了他,接着怀疑Scott。

Rachel觉得Kamal的疑点最大,就去找他关于自己失忆的事。渐渐的,开始有了一些记忆。
惊觉自己前夫Tom很有问题。

真相是Megan真的是Tom杀害的。作者很巧妙的误导读者,刚开始我以为Kamal害怕这不伦关系会毁了他前途,要和Megan断绝关系不果而杀了他。可是后来作者隐隐约约的暗示着Megan的情夫不止一人,而这人竟是Tom,最后在混乱中,Tom被Rachel杀了。

很喜欢前半部的故事,作者把失婚Rachel的悲哀写的非常感人,那种绝望和空洞的感觉,使我深深的同情他。明明丢了工作,还每天假装上班下班的过着,自欺欺人的、没意义的过着,那种消沉和沮丧。当然也觉得他为何不好好振作,为何把自己逼的如此的不堪。

网上有許多的留言都把The Girl On the Train 和Gone Girl 做比较。我比较喜欢The Girl on the Train, 觉得比较真实,就是那种许多人都过着的日子,每天乘着火车经过别人的屋子,猜想着别人的故事,可是看到的往往与真实的很有差别,人生就是这样,屋内关上门的故事是外人所无从得知的。