Achievement

I have gain an experience yet an achievement yesterday. Erm.... I could not say achievement because it is really a simple job. That is I saved a electric fan yesterday!!! The switch of the fan has been spoiled. The spring and the iron stick for switch have gone missing. Even if they were found, I might not know how to fix them back. So, what I did is just to make fan works when the main power switch on. At first I've thought to connect two iron link in the switch by copper plate. I've tried to solder them but they just resist to stick together. I've tried so hard till one of the link have melt because of the high temperature. How stupid of me. The more I tried to repair, the worst it has turned out. That left me with no choice and I thought to join the wires instead. I've been too afraid to join wires as it might turn out to have short circuit. Anyway, I've joined two wires and hit the power switch with fear. TaDa... the fan is working again. I wrap the exposed wires with insulating tape and assemble everything back. Well... I've done curing a fan!!! It took me 2 hours to solder the copper while joining two wires took me 15 min to do so. I am not good at soldering and I am not fancy about it either. But the experience will teach me to become expert in soldering, won't it? I just need to repair more.
While I was living with my family, I did very little repairing. Probably I have no chance as I was busy with my friends most of the time. But I really like to dismantle and assemble them back since I was young. If I have a set of screws, I feel it is cool. For once I had dismantled a video player which I didn't know how to assemble back and my Pa has to send them to service center. He said I was destroying them. I just wanted to know what was inside, can't I? This was kind of fun. Since then he quoted me that "Whenever you want something to end up spoiled, just pass it to Mie Mie (this is my nickname). I'm sure you can't use that anymore". Well, he was kind of true. Whenever I tried to repair, it would turned out even worse. Despite of that there are numbers of thing I've saved. Probably just luck. I love DIY.
Since I stayed with my aunt's family to study. I've repaired more. Door bell, light bulb, clock, electric fan etc. My aunt's father in law is kind of mechanic. I've got skill from him, I guess. When he went back to US, he left be his tool boxes. Gosh! Why not his son, my aunt's husband? No way, he knows little thing about DIY. But with this load of tools and load of choices are really cool. But since then, the whole family depends on me. Even very little error, they would said "Ask Mie Mie to repair". Yup, I'm their mechanic. But I'm not a pro or expert. There are limited thing that I could do. But I will pick up those experience till I achieve something very big. Well.. keep going, huh. =)