March 25, 2007 @5:49 PM
I've been losing track of time again.
Skipped Bio lecture (as i always do, but not what I always want) on Fri and started the mailbox construction with Minl, Dish n Qingl (yeah Im Yut). God knows why I started sneezing during the tutorial in the morning and the flu bug came attcking throughout the day.
Imagine the inconvenience caused at the dusty workshop. Stupid nose. I drew the measurements on the 8" x 4" plywood and sort out the detailings and joints while the 3 of them headed for the workshop.
All the drillings and sawing and sanding and filing took our Fri night away. We left the studio at 11.40pm.
I met Yiwei n Dish on sat morning to buy acrylic from Da Ma Pte Ltd at Ubi (Ay, we bought our plywood from Eunos). Their service was really good and the acrylic was cheaper than we expected. Interested parties can contact me for their contact no..
We slogged for the entire Sat. I thought we could finish the construction at 6pm but NO! We only complete the mailbox at 6am on Sunday! My goodness. We worked non-stop for like 18 hrs? The consolation is that we managed to finish it b4 we left home, 'coz we were the first grp to complete the mailbox among those who stayed behind on Sat.
Poor Minl had to spend her first 6 hrs of her birthday doing mailbox!
Currently we are left with 2 coats of varnish to apply, the base of the mailbox to sand, an A3 process journal to compile and 2 A1 panels to complete by Wed, 11am. Oh yes, we can do it!
Despite the tremendous work and the 30+ bucks (Gilbert's grp spent >$200 for the mail box material!) each of us had to contribute to the proj, I think I had a great experience. Its not often to see your own design becoming a reality, furthermore a 1:1 design and construct by yourself. The 1:10 model I did for the proposal now looked so cute standing beside the 1:1 real mail box.
teeheehee!
On the other hand, my P3:boat station submission is drawing near! 5th April! Gosh. I have yet to finalised my form and structure! Its killing me big time. How on Earth am I going produce 1:50 site model, 1:50 boat station and 6 A1 panels by then!
Headache. My skin is going to age due to severe lack of sleep!
