It's my birthday. Today I have decided to do something special for myself. I've decided to buy myself a Brand New...........................................
Purse Handle. Yes, purse handle.
People whom I hung around for the past 1 year should have been aware that I go to lunch with a very chic lunch pouch. People whom I hung around for the past 1 month would have been aware that my lunch pouch had went and got its handle broken. My lunch pouch had been living life on the wild side.
It went from this:
To this:
Yes yes, still gorgeous. But not so gorgeous when I have to hold the pouch by its broken handle like a dead rat, or when I have to hold the pouch between my arm and side of my torso dangerously close to the armpit region - makes me look very aunty.
Hence no longer could I tolerate this thing called Life, with my pouch handle broken.
Thus tonight I spent my night loitering the corridors and long hallways of Daiso and Spotlight (dismiss the hallways word, there are no hallways at Daiso and Spotlight, just high ceilings - which is a good thing because when you run a business, you always look for high ceilings - which is a symbol of good fengshui, or so they say......) in search of a broken pouch handle solution.
I originally considered the sturdy little lobster clasp in a humble oxidised brass colour.
Turns out that Daiso has only cheap looking parts and nothing that can compare itself with the above. Spotlight carries the product, but it was a nightmare looking for a packet of these because their product display painted a story of a 6 year-old's attempt to relief the storage rack of all its hung-up packages, and a subsequent storekeeper's desperate attempt to reinstate the duties of the storage rack by putting back all the packages to where they belong before the next 6 year-old comes along.
Quite determined to repair my pouch handle, I patiently seeked out a packet of lobster clasps amidst the mess and made my way to the check-out while I continued to check-out other handle solutions. Coincidentally, I found my way to the purse-parts section, and found this:
Bamboo knotted purse handles in Ebony from the Bag Chick series produced by Shamrocks.
I found it Quite Compatible with my pouch as the colour fits and the size fits. I quickly made my purchase and traded $15 bucks for a pair of purse handles. Didn't want to loiter no more, my bad ankle had started to hurt from all the walking.
I reached home, gobbled my dinner and began to zor gang. It wasn't easy coz Poppadum didn't have the right tools at home that I needed. Work would have been easier if I had 2 pairs of flat or long-nosed pliers. But I only had a cable cutter and a combination plier available.
Undeterred, I struggled with the metal links of the new purse handles while being careful not to apply too much strength in case I snip of some part of the links with the cable cutters. Mental note: to buy a pair of long / flat-nosed pliers at the next pasar malam that comes by.
And so the story goes...
Unconnected purse handle..
Connected purse handle!
And Princess Kooty lived happily ever after with her brand new-old pouch in hand.. The End.
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