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13 Sept 2002 |
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| In April, Mr Lim generously agreed to provide curtains for the computer rooms of our two best schools. We are beginning to wish he hadn't. Since the factory were providing the cloth, we asked them to cut it and do the sewing, but despite showing them a sample they somehow got it wrong (twice) and the curtains didn't fit. We gave up and went to town to find a proper curtain shop. No problem, they could do it for $15. When we went back to place the order the price had jumped to $30. On principle we walked out and found a small sewing shop just outside the factory whose proprietress was the sister of one of our teachers. Well, of course, she had never sewn curtains before, but with all our diagrams and explanations (cut a rectangle piece of cloth to the measurements given, sew up the four edges and then sew the white strip for the hooks on the top edge), what could go wrong? Well... incorrect measurements, different lengths, white strip wrong side up, etc.! A month on, we have become such regular visitors to the shop that all the neighbourhood know us. We're praying that the curtains will be finished before we leave in three weeks... | ||||