Recently, I bought a cupboard from Alamanda Shopping Centre in Putrajaya. As everbody knows, furniture bought from shoping centres usually come with the 3 annoying alphabets:

D.I.Y.

The unassembled package was around 6 feet in length, and weighs more than 20KG. It took up the whole interior length of a Proton Waja to transport it back to my house. We had to put the front passenger seat flat down and lay the huge package diagonally with both its ends resting on the dashboard and the rear window. I could hardly drive with the box partially obscuring the rear window! Phew!

After we’ve reached home, it was almost midnight but we immediately set to work to construct the cupboard because I hoped to have it finished before the next day since I won’t be in Cyberjaya the following day.

We grabbed the screwdriver and started putting on the screws. At a little past 1A.M., we finished the ’screwing’ part and realized that we got a problem:

This cupboard required NAILING. Meaning that we needed a hammer and NONE OF US had a hammer with us!! Since when did these D.I.Y. cupboards needed nails on them?! I thought they were all done with screws…

Since the unfinished cupboard was taking up a lot of space in my room, I was desperate to finish the cupboard without delaying till the next day. However, it was 1 o’clock in the morning and there’s nowhere that we could get a hammer, we resorted to the use of our own creativity.

In the end, we decided to CREATE our own hammer using:

Item 1: A MANKY OLD POT

Plus,

Item 2: An old cloth.

Produces our item of the day! A fully usable hammer!

Actually we could have done without the second item, but it was used in consideration of the other inhabitants of our apartment since it’s not actually early and people might be sleeping. Not bad eh, a sound-proof hammer some more!

Here’s Sebastian at work helping me with the nailing using our new, sturdy, sound-proof hammer! Really kind of him!

So with the help of our new invention, we finished the construction of the cupboard that night!

Nothing is impossible, if you bothered to think about it!

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