TIME FOR FEEDS

It is not

how much time we have

with which to do

all that we want to do

But how much we do

With what ever time we have

Having placed  my little lamb enclosed in theStitch in Time green pasture blog housed in my little Stitch to Patch Village, I gaily  went on to find "5 feeds" for my lamb under the impression that following the RSS guidelines, I could easily get the necessary feeds.  So off I went on the highway of the FREE Internet system provided in the Library.

Woe on me! to many of the new X-, Y- or Z- computer-literate generations,  it is a bullet-train ride for them without any  hassle.  For me, coming from the age when bullock carts, man-pulled rickshaws or bicycles were the common mode of transport other in addition to our own two legs, it is a bit hard to be on an expedition by the 21st-century fast Internet bulletin train, especially I stand the disadvantage of having poorer eyesight to read the signboards, more white matters than the grey matters in my poor brain, my reaction is  in slower motions...

Is RSS user-friendly Really Simple Syndicate to let me get the 5 feeds for my poor lamb?  Well I have to confess and admit with self-justification of my aging biological system that I have faced "problems".  The experience was like me boarding the first time the fast bullet train, showing my "passes" at several security gates and thrown among the massive commuters, eagerly looking for the signposts where to board or alight correctly.  I peered through the Windows up and  down, left and right, hanged on to the long-tail  mouse, pressed the little fellow to let me pause here and there in the exploration to reach the destinations  to gather the feeds as fast as possible before the bullet train pulled off again.  I did not realise I was on the Internet Explorer 7 till several failed attempts. Then computer guru Michael noticed my plight and came forward to offer help to me; following all the steps of the settings, scrolling, finding the goodies etc etc etc..then I failed, failed, failed and finally with his expertise, he kindly showed me his way to open the gates to the food galore of all the feeds in the world!. 

It  was a frustrating and yet also hilarious fun ride for me to press  this and that icon, buttons or  symbols,  out of my curiosity to get to slowly understand the usefulness of all types of icons and buttons,  assumed by  their creators that they are universal unspoken language, easy to comprehend by all young and old, computer-literate or illiterate alike.   But it took me longer time to get to know each of them more intimately, having to  press them one  by one. Well at least I  was still in control of that little long-tail mouse to stop whenever I wanted it to stop for me to to alight  in order to  explore a bit the maize field that popped up endlessly and led me gone astray at times too!

Now  the greatest mistake I had was my stupidity in my assumption that once I subscribed to the selected feeds, they would AUTOMATICALLY be delivered and plonked into my blog, forgetting that I need to open the gateway to a new blog for the safe delivery of the feeds.  Rang   the new generation computer expert Adrian, who  kindly redirected me on to the right path on how the feeds be delivered into my Stitch to Patch Village!  Happened to meet another computer-age pretty lass, Lizzelle who also gave me the tips to go to Design,  Posting, Edit  routes on this RSS exploration trip!  Thank you Michael, Adrian and Lizzelle for your kindness,holding my hands as I trotted along the highways and the lowways, through the mountains and valleys, rivers and streams...enriching the tapestry of my life journey!

Now my Free Internet PC is signalling me leave now with the counting out time. So "jaijian" (i.e. see you again) my fellow bloggers. 

Have subscribed to:

anna patchwork house

http://christianbookshopsblog.org.uk/

http://www.unshelved.com/

http://www.unshelved.com/

http://christianbookshopsblog.org.uk/


Addendum:

I posted and published this "Feed Time" but found that I was swimming in the deep blue sea of RSS and was too murky for me to take the right pathn.  Hopefully this time I am out of the winding path of RSS and can go on to the next journey

Hope to see you  fellow blog passerby at my next Wikis journey if I  can find my way through the antoher thick forest! (huh!Already encountered thorny problems, NO sound coming from the Wikis video clip on Common Craft site.... ????? when I tried to view the Plain English video on Wilkis...spent 30 minutes, failed failed failed to hear!!!  Something wrong with my hearing????

btw, if you find my wordy blogs too boring, please please DO NOT hesitate  NOT to open or read my rubbishy text, better save your precious  time to  do other more interesting fruitful things you long to do.

STITCH IN TIME

Chinese saying: Yi cun guan yin, yi cun jin, cun jin nan mai jun guan yin

    (i.e. one-inch time, one-inch gold, but inch-gold cannot buy time)

TIME IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD

                             

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I am trying to do Lesson 3 of Web 2.0 and pondered about what  to share under my Blog of "Stitch to Patch".  Several ideas surfaced up in mind and I finally decided this blog title to share with fellow bloggers. 

Christmas is just around the corner and one can't help noticing the Christmas atmosphere everywhere especially in shopping malls that decked out all the Christmas goodies. These

prompted me again to go through the annual cycle of now trying to stitch in time my own DIY Christmas cards NOW!  Annually after the last -minute stitch and patch, I make my resolution that I would do better the next Christmas, but looks like I have failed again this year.

Talking about my passion to stitch and patch my own greeting cards,I feel it is more "personal touch" when I create my own cards with my chosen designs.  I am one who does not like  the  as the online FREE greeting cards because to me there is no "feelings" as a sender from me to my recipients of my cards -- too commercialised. The disadvantage of my choice to DIY way is I have to spend a fortune on the postage, which is going up every year.

Whenever I sit down to do the stitch and patch, I often feel thankful that I have family members   in my life who inspired me to developing a hobby  to stitch and patch when I have the time. One is my maternal grandmother and the other is my beloved  mother.  The former was so skillful in sewing her 6-inch soft shoes to fit her tiny weeny feet - not because she was born with such small feet, but she was obedient to her parents' demands to have her two normal feet bound to that size at a very tender age ...in fact, it was a  forced deformed act to stop her beautiful normal feet from growing.  I always stood by her side, watching her patiently stitch by stitch in sew her  own pairs of embroidered shoes with her two delegate hands. I admired her obedience to her parents who in her time had meekly submitted  to the society's demands to have girls in the family  with bound feet;  the smaller the feet, the better a girls with such small  dainty feet were accepted by the soceity. I admired my grandmother's patience to the DIY stitching of all her foot wears. btw, I still have two pairs of her hand sewn tiny shoes - may fetch a small  fortune in antique auction fair.

Another person who truly inspired me to learn basic stitch to is my beloved mother. She was fortunate not to have to go through the torturous process of having  her two feet bound to that 6-inch size, she was "liberated" by the society to even be allowed to  go to school to be properly educated.  She learnt how to sew as father, in marrying her, bought her a "Singer" sewing machine for her to learn a new trade as his wife!  She did succeed in being able to sew every body's clothing, from the young to the old,  including father's  pants and boy's shorts and shirts and oh, I was so fortunate  having pretty frocks, long or short, with Peter-Pan collars, sailor's collars dresses, using polka-dot, striped or beautiful  floral materials,  highlighted with puffy frilly sleeves or pockets of different shapes and sizes for the dress. Her knowledge and skills was really  useful to "stitch in time" in war time when poverty struck  and one has to know how to darn our old old clothing...now I just wonder how many people darn their socks when there is a small hole?  I seldom do, not because I never know how to stitch and patch, but it is plane laziness and when my big toe protrudes out of the enlarged hole of my favourite sock, I simply bought a new pair and discard the pair with the big hole into the recycle bin,  but often with a tinge of sadness  and guilt that I did not stitch the small hole in time and have to part with my favourite colour pair beyond salvation. 

My childhood education also prepared me to know the basic stitch to patch techniques as my elementary school back home has included in its weekly curriculum  teaching girls how to stitch, how to embroider, sewing  sample  handkerchiefs, pillow cases etc with different motifs and learning different types of stitches. btw,I still have a few pieces of my primary 4 "master pieces" well preserved by my mother without my knowledge and when I "discovered" them a  spring cleaning after my mother had died, I was so touched to know the love of my mother to have kept them.  I think she was proud of my "talents" and  probably was comforted that her daughter had inherited her genes with some ability to stitch to patch needlework.   The only problem I face now is to find THE TIME to do diligently...This "Stitch in Time" habit is going down in my New Year resolution in my  2011 Calendar Plan.

Well money cannot buy back my lost time, I shall try to do as best as I can with whatever time I have been given.



Stitch to Patch

When the email on Web2.0 was received, I was QUIET, observing for a period with amusement the murmurings among fellow colleagues: some took it in a stride the carrot and stick directives, some with resistance, some with eagerness...as for me?  My reaction was a mix of to join the band of bloggers or not to join...I pondered over the matter for about 2 weeks, pulled off two books from of the Library shelf and read a bit about of the Blog. The main problem I am facing  is the time, which I am sure is one of the common prolems faced by some.  However I have recalled some good training I have  had received before wrt time management and I also convinced  myself that it is a Stitch & Patch technology exercise for me...Yes, I love the real stitcching and patchwork I have learnt, so if I can find time to do this needlework, I am sure with enough time, the end result of this course is gong to add more colours to  the tapestry of my life.