I remember when my father would put captions on each of the
photos of our photo albums. He put “jack of all trades” on one of my photos. I don’t
know how he came up with that. Perhaps he envisioned me to be able to do many
things even without learning it from textbooks or anywhere.
After some time, I realized
that, yes, I can do many things but not being a handyman around the house. I don’t
even know what “masilya” is.
Recently I asked a carpenter what are the things to buy for
masilya process and he said “pulitap”. I asked another person and said the same
thing in that same pronunciation. I asked for the spelling but they can’t spell
it to me. To my frustration, even Google couldn’t find “pulitap”. I tried
variations like pullitap, pullitop, pulli tough, folly top, fullitop and many
others but to no luck I couldn’t find the right result and I still couldn’t comprehend
what is it and what it looks like.
Finally I went to a hardware without knowing what I am
really purchasing. I was given “polituff”.
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