MY COFFEE TABLE

My Japanese style coffee table has finally been delivered! The photos I've taken of it doesn't really tell much about the size and overall presence (I was sitting too close to it when I took the picture) but I like the look of it ... alot! Its low, about almost 40cm in height only.

It has a secret shallow drawer where I've found a new home for all my remote controls etc...

The colour goes really well with the Zabuton cushions that I made. Pity they are not included in this photo.. This coffee table was made my a young friend of mine who is currently honing his creative skill in furniture making... in his backyard! Thanks Kev!

GLORIOUS DIRT

As the natural progression of blogs would be, I have now resorted to blogging about my life, swaying from the very general topics that I've been blogging so far.. Things have been happening lately and one of the highlights of 2008 for me was dirt. Yes, very expensive DIRT.

We found a piece of barren, weed infested plot of land of nothing but barren yellow sand. In which we hope that one day we might build our dream home on it! So after putting my (bargaining) negotiation skills to work, we finally own this space:

View from across the road isn't much but the skies were clear blue on the day and the cotton floss clouds were pretty.. With a little bit of imagination, you can put anything on that land.

We actually thought finding a home design would be an ardous task but it turned out we both agreed pretty much on the same thing. Guess you can say, we're both 'wired' the same way! :) Anyhoo, again, my (bargaining) negotiation skills went on overdrive and have now secured a floor plan that would hopefully last us a lifetime. Here's a sneak peek on how it will (sort of) look like:

It's a jazzed up display home but essentially, it is shaped like this. We're both really into Japanese style home decor and that's where we're heading! I say bring on the bamboo, bamboo and more bamboo!! Oh yes, speaking of Japanese homes, I've learnt that 'shingles' is a design for roof tiles and not necessary a medical condition...

WHOT THA...?

Wow, I have been away and back. Sick again, well again.. and now I'm finally back feeding my blog.. Sorry for the silence, folks. Yes, the travel bug in me has bitten once again and this time my trip to Malaysia has been a quick and hectic one. (My trips are never long enough!)

Managed to squeeze some shopping time in too. The blogger in me is ever ready with a camera at hand! Take a look at this. Condensed milk - enriched with VITAMINS. They probably thought it was too long to print on the lable and shorted it to 'VITAMINISED'!!

Or a stroll by the 'women's products' aisle to browse for the latest offer on sanitary napkins. And hark! What do I see? Stayfree with a new and improved product that is ... **GASP** ... washable???

For those of you who don't know what the writing in yellow means, well, it means "Easy to Wash"!

So I thought ok, interesting... but that was the extend of my shopping for the day and proceeded for a bit of training session in a nice park by the hotel with my teammates. It was a very nice and well kept park but alas, not well enough to stop graffiti.. So we found a pergola to set up our things, and what caught my eye was the writings on the pillars. One can just imagine the strange and exciting things that go on there at night time!


Oh, sweet memories for some but not all, as I read on....

All under the very same pergola..