After a long hiatus, Woolly decided to put her hands to do something she found at the MPH bookstore. She has been attracted by the little red rose in the glass display – an elegant crystal red rose which comes in a box of plastic puzzles. Check out this website printed on the box. This is a 3 dimension puzzle. By the way, Woolly hates jig-saw puzzle and does not have a knack for such things. She has given plenty of thought before buying this little piece of pricey puzzle rose; pacing at least a dozen times in front of the display and mumbling to herself many times before she decides to part with her hard-to-earn cash. “If I can’t complete this, I have Croaky! He should have a knack for putting things together mah… he’s very good with cross-word puzzles anyway…” Or so she thought!

And so Woolly bought the puzzle and spent a really long time scrutinizing the instructions while watching her VV drama on demand. She felt that it was too tough. And so she waited for Mr Croaky to come home to work on the rose. The half-baked man spent a long time in front of the instructions as well and could not find the first piece of puzzle to start work on. He started to blame Woolly for being so irresponsible and bringing things home “for him to do”.

Woolly knew that she could not depend on this nit-wit to finish the puzzle. He would rather stick his bum watching his “Air Plane Investigation” than to work on the puzzles. (Yaah, he was that lazy!)
Then she came up with a brilliant plan…

She took out the tray table which she has specially bought to make her handicrafts, lay out the 44 pieces of plastic puzzles and grab hold of a stack of yellow stickers (which were used to label her nail polishes and date her cosmetics). She swore she would find the puzzles one by one! Some of the pieces looked almost identical and the diagrams on the instructions were drawn disproportionately.

Then the pieces were labelled and arranged in ascending order. Whenever there was a mistaken identity, she would look through the diagrams and start all over again – the elimination trick worked very well. And when she figured she was lost, she would carry on with her cooking and come back again later.

So 2 nights with 6 episodes of VV drama serials, and this was completed! Isn’t this nice? Talk about sheer determination! Mr Croaky was still gloating that Woolly would not be able to complete it by herself the day she bought it. Heh.

Moral of the story: Depend on no one (especially XY chromosome species) but yourself. You can do it alone!