Pastel.com

Living with high speed broadband and not much on TV has brought me closer to point and click games or escape games. I don't do well with the stress of shoot-em-up games. There is lot of games to discover and the best one so far (besides the man on the moon one I cant remember) is daymare town. com.

What a discovery! This game has the best graphics and therefore such a refreshing beautiful game. The even better bit is there are more games on his website www.pastelstories.com.



I still like the man on the moon one. And I am looking forward to buying the next episode. Now, if I could remember the name of this game..

Kids furniture

Isn't this the most beautiful bassinet?

Bassinet converts to a storage bin + play table. Table conversion kit sold separately.

I think this is the ideal dolls house. Lots of space to move things around. We had a table like this when I was growing up - but we never used it as a dolls house. I had a dolls house when I was an older child. I didn't have many furniture to go in it, so hardly played with it. I always felt sorry I didn't play with it enough. Now my nephew and nieces and my son play with it, alls not lost.

Please do it at home

I've seen these posters and love it!

The Tokyo Metro came up with a series of cheeky posters about minding your behavior on the train — I find it hilarious because the trains are extremely quiet compared to other countries’, so I don’t see that there’s a need for them. In fact, the hushed silence in the trains freaked me out a little but I come from Southeast Asia and we’ve got a noisy culture when we board the bus or train.

I suppose quiet comfort in the train in important in Japan because there’s such a huge number of people commuting and it’s common to travel as long as two hours from your home to the office. If you have somebody who has loud music blasting from their headphones or taking up two seats instead of one, you would feel thoroughly annoyed after a couple of hours, I suppose.

The Manners series kicked off with “Please do it at home” and among these my favorite is this one below. I have definitely seen women fixing their makeup with a big hand mirror for their entire train journey and the average travel time here is about 30 to 45 minutes within Tokyo. But I don’t really see how this would affect other passengers unless said culprit keeps jabbing her elbows into her neighbor’s ribs.

Summer brought on this one and it’s the coolest so far in the series. I’ve definitely seen salary men transform into action heroes as they leap between closing train doors.

I only ever see rowdy peeps on the last train after a night of drinking, though it seems the norm to take a tall can of beer on the shinkansen (bullet train) even if it’s 10am in the morn…

I wonder how many more quirky posters they would come up with….?

Photos: courtesy of Jean-Marc Rocher

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve

On our way back from church on Christmas Eve, I spotted a queue outside KFC: read on.

http://ntsfood.blogspot.com/2008/12/kentucky-fried-chicken.html

Muji

My favourite store! I went in there for Christmas shopping and they had the BEST Christmas gifts. The stuff on their website is only 1/2 of what they have in the stores. The best diaries, stationary, children's clothes. So well designed, better than Ikea.

Malay kampung house

An architect friend who is interested in enviromental house design recommended this page to me. Certainly lots of properties to look for when designing a house.
http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/Archive/ReportsINTRA/pdfs/v12n4e/110780.pdf