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Last sunday for the first time in my life, i understood the entire process of changing a WC after being in the toilet business for quite sometime now.

Who’s toilet is that you ask… its mine. I’m changing it to a much better one. Will post pictures another time.

Finally the fugitive has been apprehended at my mom’s house. Thats the problem with staying in a landed property.

Fast Company: If you weren’t initially interested in the subject, how did you manage to make Vitra so well-known for its chairs?

Rolf Fehlbaum: I learned to love chairs. I studied them, gave my attention to them, and developed a passion for them. I believe in embracing whatever you have before you in order to make it a rich, worthwhile, and honest experience. You can put your energy into anything — it can be wine, music, hats, or chairs. Whatever your focus, do your utmost to understand it. If you deal with chairs, make them the greatest chairs in the world. Be the biggest chair collector, and be the most knowledgeable person on the subject. Study chairs in different cultures. Learn the history of chairs. Give yourself the opportunity to idealize what you’re doing. If you can’t idealize what you’re doing, why do it?

taken from Fast Company

My grandma is old, she is i think 82 now. Her world is very different from mine although we see each other very often. She nags like crazy, stuff like “do you want me to make a cup of tea for you?”, “have you eaten?”, “go ask the maid to make something for you to eat if you are hungry.”, “tell your mother no more rice, need to buy.”, “the maid is so horrible.” I can understand that she is bored at home and just wants someone to talk to, but since young, her kind of topics was never the kind i would talk about. I came to a stage during Secondary School where i would not even know when she was talking to me, it all sounded like ambient sound.

Now, i’ve grow older and am cherishing the time i can spend with my grandma. Although i still don’t talk to her much at least we have conversation.

She is so hardy, she once fell down the stairs in the middle of the night and everyone came out of their rooms to see what happened, but she just got up and casually say “nothing lah, just fall down, go back and sleep”. Trust me it sounded like a big watermelon rolled down the stairs.

My dialect is “Foo Chow” or “Hock Chew” and the only people that speak it at home now is my dad and my grandma. Its nice hearing the dialect… i do miss my grandpa.

Pearl and I went over to Adrian and Olyna’s place together with Dezzo and Hazel. With Clié at home with my parents, we could really relax and enjoy that evening.

Olyna prepared some special bread, soup, pasta and salad, they were all very tasty and we were really full. We never knew Olyna could whip up such an excellent meal and we were definately pleasently suprised.

Their house had a very beautiful feature wall and it was a kind of therapeutic red, rustic and natural, with a beautiful water colour painting by Agnes.

Good time passed so fast that when i checked my watch it was already coming to midnight… That was a night to remember.