So I did a thing.....
I've enrolled in the third "term" of the pottery/ceramics course thingamajig. It's going to start next week. But I figured I should also practice more working on the wheel, as I seem to just not grasp how to "center" the piece of clay.
The master at the workshop had bought some mini wheels from Taobao, so I went on a search for those as well and found them.
Not wanting to work inside the apartment as I was worried the clay-water would splash all over, I set up a temporary station out in the verandah. It was actually nice and therapeutic. Except for when I noticed there was someone on the roof at the opposite building and that gave me a heart attack. They were fixing the terrace.
It was a tad messy in the end though, and cleanup was a pain. I couldn't just flush everything down as the drain isn't working (hadn't been working for the past few years, building management refuse to fix it because it's expensive).
Mom also refuses to talk to the homeowners group because she doesn't want to "raise fights" with them. Well. If that's the case, then I will only passive-aggressively carry the bucket of clay water down, make a big show of carrying it down to the drain in the car park, and when the building guard asked me why I don't just pour the water down the drain, I said "yeah the drain's blocked and the water will just overflow and pour down outside the drain, then everyone down here will complain."
He suggested I pour the water over a drain that's just in front of the building, instead of going down to the car park. I said "Well, I still need a water source to rinse and clean the bucket, so I'll go down to the car park where there's a spray hose. You know, we haven't washed our verandah for a good few years."
It really wasn't the building guard's fault, but if everyone is trying to be polite and avoid confrontation, I can only voice the inconvenience passive aggressively and make a show of how I'm complying to their request of "not washing the verandah" at my inconvenience.
That drainage pipe is actually a "public" drain that all the floors above us will use too, if they wash their verandah. So what happens now is the people up there wash their verandah, the water drains to our verandah, but because the blockage on the public drain has now accumulated to our floor, the water overflows from our level, so the building thinks it's us that's washing our verandah. I want to see when our floor floods then will they concede that it's a public drain or not. Argh but that's boring talk. I was talking about the wheel and practicing one it at home.
Still haven't managed to center the clay properly. But I will continue to practice!
The master at the workshop had bought some mini wheels from Taobao, so I went on a search for those as well and found them.
Not wanting to work inside the apartment as I was worried the clay-water would splash all over, I set up a temporary station out in the verandah. It was actually nice and therapeutic. Except for when I noticed there was someone on the roof at the opposite building and that gave me a heart attack. They were fixing the terrace.
It was a tad messy in the end though, and cleanup was a pain. I couldn't just flush everything down as the drain isn't working (hadn't been working for the past few years, building management refuse to fix it because it's expensive).
Mom also refuses to talk to the homeowners group because she doesn't want to "raise fights" with them. Well. If that's the case, then I will only passive-aggressively carry the bucket of clay water down, make a big show of carrying it down to the drain in the car park, and when the building guard asked me why I don't just pour the water down the drain, I said "yeah the drain's blocked and the water will just overflow and pour down outside the drain, then everyone down here will complain."
He suggested I pour the water over a drain that's just in front of the building, instead of going down to the car park. I said "Well, I still need a water source to rinse and clean the bucket, so I'll go down to the car park where there's a spray hose. You know, we haven't washed our verandah for a good few years."
It really wasn't the building guard's fault, but if everyone is trying to be polite and avoid confrontation, I can only voice the inconvenience passive aggressively and make a show of how I'm complying to their request of "not washing the verandah" at my inconvenience.
That drainage pipe is actually a "public" drain that all the floors above us will use too, if they wash their verandah. So what happens now is the people up there wash their verandah, the water drains to our verandah, but because the blockage on the public drain has now accumulated to our floor, the water overflows from our level, so the building thinks it's us that's washing our verandah. I want to see when our floor floods then will they concede that it's a public drain or not. Argh but that's boring talk. I was talking about the wheel and practicing one it at home.
Still haven't managed to center the clay properly. But I will continue to practice!