One man's trash is another man's treasure... or innovation in this case...

First and foremost, I'd like to start the post with something irrelevant :) I'd like to show a shot that my friend took of me during the Digital Image Workshop he conducted. It was held on the 21st of January 2006 at one of the lecture theatres at UPM :) Here's the promotional poster as well as the pic I want to show.



Well... nothing like self promotion. Hehehehe. Saje nak tunjuk muka kat web. Sekali sekala ye dok?

Annnyyywayyyzzz...

As I was walking around the faculty yesteday, I stumbled upon an interesting scene. It was the waste paper basket outside of one of my colleague's room. He put it out so that the cleaners could come and clear the trash for him. This is commonly done by lecturers, and it's the cleaners' job also to take the trash out.

But yesterday morning, it wasn't the cleaners who came first. It was just plain old curious-and-ready-for-something-crazy Alpyan :) Aku la tu :)

What I saw in the waste basket were TWO perfectly new slipper/sandals/plastic capals... or what ever you wanna call 'em. DAMN! THey were BRAND NEW! Why on earth has this man thrown them away!!???

Having the mind of the great Sherlock Holmes (no matter how fictionla he may be).... I decided to look deeper into the cause of this... this... disposal... Slowly... I picked them out of the basket... Smelled new... OK! I did not put my nose close to the sandals if that's what youre thinking. It's just that strong shop or BAU KEDAI odour.... Brand new sandals... in the bin... WHY......

It wasn't long until I realized that there was a major tear at the side... rendering it useless!!! BUT!!!! Was it?

:)

Since there was nothing else in the basket except for the sandals... I concluded that it was SAFE and RELATIVELY HYGENIC to bring back :) I was now attempting to repair these poor foot-vehicles. I mean... give em a chance to serve before being brutally thrown into the trash compactor!!! Besides... I was looking for a pair of sandlas anyway... just for office use :)

After sitting on the project overnight... I finally managed to come up with an INGENIOUS way to make it stick for a realatively long time...
Initially I tried that BLACK TAPE stuff. But that quickly gave when water came into the equation (masa ambik ayor semayang... basah... langsung tercabut)....
The current idea... should hold these slippers together :) And hopefully, I could get my hands on a Super Glue or something....

The current fix looks like this. (Click to enlarge)




Hehehe. So, I think this would last for a while. Nanti kalu dah tercabut, kita HAMMER NGAN PAKU PULAK!!!

Sekian, Assalamualaikum WBT