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About Building A Home-----TogetherAISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-48421421278622823982013-06-17T22:08:00.002+08:002013-06-18T10:31:10.345+08:00Naming is an Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Father to be in 1.5 days</div>
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Every baby needs a name, but we haven't accomplish this mission as far. After a long struggle, we both agree maybe its better we pick some potencial names before he is out and we will know which name belongs to him once we see his face.<br />
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To make the situation easier [ or even harder?] to us, we set up some rules for coming up an official name for Big D.<br />
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Rule no.1:<br />
Since B and me both have given names start with A, we decide to name Big D with an A name as well so we can be triple A instead of AA all together ~<br />
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Big D will take B's last name in English and we are thinking how to incorporate my heritage into the naming. My family tradition is some how related to plants- my father is a forest, my mother is a flower and I am some kind of herb.<br />
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Rule no.3:<br />
B downloads a book all about father's role in pregnancy and babies from iTune to study, in one chapter, the author suggests that a successful initial will suggest a positive life for the baby especially if his future career involves in lots initials such as sports player. Well, somehow this thing made an impression in me [ yeah, I kind of secretly hope he can be a tennis superstar ,hahaha.] We try to make his initial more positive [ at least not a sad one] , FAB, LAB, GRAB?<br />
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Here are some names we come out. BUT, we need your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please let us know if you think of more names fits our rules than these two poor, stupid, lack of imagination , running out of ideas parents to be, SOS~~~<br />
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FAB<br />
Forrest +<br />
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Alfa B<br />
Artie B<br />
Alfalfa B<br />
Axel B<br />
Aster B<br />
Astor B<br />
Addison B<br />
Aidan B<br />
Ash B<br />
Augie B<br />
Ari B<br />
Agile B<br />
Asp B<br />
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Felix+<br />
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Alfa B<br />
Artie B<br />
Alfalfa B<br />
Axel B<br />
Aster B<br />
Astor B<br />
Addison B<br />
Aidan B<br />
Ash B<br />
Augie B<br />
Ari B<br />
Agile B<br />
Asp B<br />
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LAB<br />
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Love+<br />
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Alfa B<br />
Artie B<br />
Alfalfa B<br />
Axel B<br />
Aster B<br />
Astor B<br />
Addison B<br />
Aidan B<br />
Ash B<br />
Augie B<br />
Ari B<br />
Agile B<br />
Asp B<br />
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HERB?</div>
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BOMB?</div>
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Olaf B</div>
Baker Oliver B<br />
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Anything? HELP~~~~<br />
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<br />AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-32839029560642448502013-06-14T00:41:00.000+08:002013-06-14T00:51:02.308+08:00New records everyday, My life as a balloon~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well well well, many people ask how I am feeling during my last week of pregnancy, I have to admit I never feel more like a balloon than now.</div>
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My belly is continuously making a new record everyday and I am horrified by the possibility of getting stretch marks due to my oversize belly! I often feel I could flow if you attach a string to my belly......</div>
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We booked a photographer and took some pictures at home last weekend to memorize the high peak of my belly growth~ Little did we know, it grow even more after that!!</div>
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A million bellies</div>
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WK 36/ 75.9 kg</div>
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Photo shoot was exhausting. My lovely hubby bought some chocolate ice cream to cheer me up~ what a sweetie [ he tried to talk me to put the spoon down.... ha. ]</div>
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Big D, see you soon~</div>
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37 weeks, the doctor sent me to the altra sound check for the last time. Unfortunately, Big D still was not feeling necessary to turn upside down for the delivery and our doctor urged us to pick a date for the potential C section . He is worry about Big D's leg position-Big D is standing and he could straightly break my water and maybe stick his feet out of my body- that would be dangerous!<br />
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Here we are, 2 weeks earlier than we expected and of course, nothing is ready!<br />
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Taiwanese dont do baby showers, people give out gifts mostly after the baby is born and visit the weak and exhausted mother in the recovery center [ which is a great custom for pregnant women! a hotel like baby center where nurses take care of the new born for 24 hours. They cook 5 meals a day for you ,too~]<br />
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We have some new born baby clothes, 2 milk bottles, some blankets, half of the baby stroller set, thats all! I even dont have any place to store those baby stuffs. We rush cross street and jump into the lux baby store where we didn't buy anything from there before because they overpriced everything, and grab the first baby storage set we see - the Stokke, of course. It is so overpriced in Taiwan but panic is the best sale man in the world, the American Express flies out and we finally get the first piece furniture for the baby.<br />
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Although the baby should be out within 6 days, my hubby still is not molded into the father mood. 30 mins after he drags the half person tall package upstairs, I find out he is laying on the bed with the hockey game on TV........<br />
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Well, ready or not, next Monday we will give Big D one more chance to check his position, if he is still standing straight waving to us, we will see him soon next week~~AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-6276432356963849632013-05-12T22:41:00.002+08:002013-05-12T22:49:35.973+08:00The curves of becoming a mother<br />
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As you all know, we are on the process of the transformation from a couple to a little family of our own. The AisB Home webpage now is also a place we update the news of our new member- Big D!</div>
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This is our 32 weeks of baking Big D, and there are 2 major issues of the current pregnant situation after the regular check with the doctor last week: </div>
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1. Big D is too big [2100g at week 31st, usually its the weight for baby at wk 34] </div>
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2. Big D is laying on the wrong position [ horizontal instead facing down ]. </div>
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The doctor will later decide if it is safe for me to deliver him naturally or not on week 36.</div>
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Now is the update of the carrier herself. Since some of us met each other in Boston, Somethings had changed, mainly about how a woman's curves changed of becoming a mother. </div>
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Before the pregnancy, I wouldn't say I was super skinny [ especially under the Asian severe tiny frame weight standerd] but with a balanced figure. I slowly gained some weight before the pregnancy [ because I broke a bone of my foot and also because some people said it is helping the fertility, haha] I went up to about 60-62 Kg on that time.</div>
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Wk 12, weight 65.5 Kg. It was the first official recorded check with the doctor, I got my pregnancy hand book. My weight grew pretty fast for the first trimester, I blame on my over joyed appetite. No morning sickness and the growing love of desserts are the main reasons pushing my weight to reach the new height every month. I bought pregnant jeans to wear because my old ones were killing my new waist [ especially those Swedish supper tights!]</div>
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2013 Feb. Wk, 21, 69.84Kg. the doctor recommended to gain not more than 3 Kg for first trimester and 5 Kg for second trimester. I hit the limit in the middle of my second trimester. Maybe you can not tell by the pictures but I was a slightly over weight pregnant woman!<br />
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Fortunately I was still capable to do some light work out, such as hiking and swimming. Then I went to USA......</div>
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2013, The beginning of Apr, wk 29, 71.6Kg , Just came back from USA. my belly grew very much during the trip . Well, American food is famous for its oversized portion and hidden fat, my belly still got fatten even B and I shared a serving most of the time....and those hiking in San Francisco and coast high way seemed very low impact compare to the growing speed of my belly............</div>
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Now its the first time I reveal the true curves of becoming a mother in the public! </div>
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First picture is taken on 2013 Feb. 1st, wk18 , no morning sickness at all , enjoying my food~~</div>
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3 weeks later After the feast during Chinese New Year , Wk 21 The belly really popped out before USA trip.</div>
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March 25, Wk23-24, taken in the hotel of San Francisco, there was no mistaken of my very curvy belly! </div>
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We are planning to have a photo shoot with the professional photography, hopefully we can book one before he comes out~</div>
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The ranger and the local guide are walking around us to make sure we are save. They have the Y shape sticks can push away dragons if they get close to us. They say it is hard to know how many of dragons here because dragons don't have the sense of their own territory. The zoo of San Diego has a team here to study those dragons, they cut open a deer or sheep to attract the dragons and put numbers on them [ Don't ask me how they do it..] they think there are about 1300 dragons on this island which also means there are about 1290 dragons we haven't seen as far hiding some where around us...</div>
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After the mating season, female dragons lay their eggs in a 1.5-2 meter deep dirt hole made by one kind of bird. They usually make couple more holes around the real one to misleading the egg thieves. The eggs will lay in the dirt for 9 months so the mothers usually guard not far away from the egg nests. Ironically, dragons also eats the eggs and that's what I am about to tell you.</div>
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I think that is the 3rd or 4th hole we find and at the same time, we see 2 female dragons are right by the nest. We move perpendicularly to their right side quickly about 4-5 meters away. We hear they hissing like snakes but 50 times louder. 2 female dragons are challenging each other face to face! We hide ourselves behind bushes and peak out through the leaves. All the sudden, the 2 dragons jump in the air and hit each other with chest and belly exactly like how Sumo players do. They fall into the bushes and we move 2 meters closer to them quickly, we finally dare to take a picture.</div>
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The one on top keeps pushing the bottom one into dirt, after 1-2 mins, the bottom one loses the fight and seems to us, loses its conscious. The guide tells us dragons have very fragile face and they can die if you hit their faces hard. The loser just lays on the ground belly up, the clearly bigger size winner leaves her and moves towards to the nest.</div>
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Remember those birds making the nest holes? They are chicken size no fly ability birds always come in pairs. They are similar to the Kiwi birds in New Zealand. The pair infront of us are light brown color and using their skinny but strong legs to dig a new 1.5-2 meters deep dirt hole.</div>
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<br /></div>AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-13184362377830844192010-12-27T23:01:00.001+08:002011-04-25T19:11:05.503+08:00Dragon!? A day trip to Komodo Island Indonesia <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/TRgx2Vy0QnI/AAAAAAAAAdc/ew3Xq1B-RUY/s1600/DSC_0329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/TRgx2Vy0QnI/AAAAAAAAAdc/ew3Xq1B-RUY/s640/DSC_0329.jpg" width="640" /> </a><br />
I had seen those reptiles before on TV.<br />
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I forgot the program was shown on Discovery or National Geographic channels but I remembered I felt horrified by the look and size of those giant lizards. I pitied the poor cameramen! Thats why I almost get a heart attack when B tells me we are going to have this day trip to Komodo Island for visiting those infamous Komodo dragon, what can I say besides life fulls of Karma.......<br />
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The plan is to take a one day trip to Komodo island from Lombok island during our Christmas vacation in Indonesia. The problem is the 2 islands are not that close to each other so we have to take a flight instead of boat [ it takes a week for a boat trip ]. The trip takes so many different transportation tools just for getting there. The schedule is as fellow:<br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">6:00 AM</span> : a car picks us up from hotel and take one hour to drive to the airport.<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">7:15 AM</span> : 1.5 to 2 hours flying time to get to Flores Island.<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">9:00 AM </span>: short car ride to the harbor and take a speed boat to Rinka Island [ a smaller island right by Komodo island where has more chance to spot a giant reptile] .<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">9:45 AM</span> : arrive Rinka Island and hike for 1.5 hours<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">11:30AM</span> : snorkeling by the Batu Bolong island and have lunch by the beach.<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">2:30 PM</span> : take the boat ride back to Flores Island<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">3:00 PM</span> : 2 hours fly back to Lombok Island and have a air tour see the second highest volcano mountain in Indonesia.<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">5:30PM</span> : one hour car drive back to hotel<br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;">6:30PM</span> : take a shower and celebrate we meet the biggest lizard in the world!<br />
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We are six people-3 couples and we booked a flight for 6 of us few weeks ago. Now, we have a problem--they only have 4 seats plane available this week! That means 3 passengers can get on the plane for a day and no couples want to be separated during the trip! I almost want to give up my right to go [happily] but I feel guilty when I see B's disappointed face. We decide one couple goes per day and use 3 days to finish our goal.<br />
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B's younger brother and his girlfriend went yesterday and we are going today. We manage to wake up on time, pick up our breakfast sandwiches from the hotel [lovely Oberoi resort!] and get in a Suzuki four wheelers heading to the airport.<br />
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This is my very first time fly in private airplane, I am extremely excited.<br />
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B is the co-pilot and I get to be the photographer. He has the responsibility to pull out the parachute of the airplane if we gets in trouble....scary.<br />
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The tiny airplane gets in the sky really quickly and I am stunned by the breathtaking view!<br />
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What ever..we park ours on the grasses and keep heading towards to the port for the boat.<br />
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30 mins later, we finally land our feet on the Rinka Island--where the dragons hang out...<br />
Well, generally speaking, I don't really enjoy the company of reptiles, the image of the lizard gets 50 times bigger than the ones hanging ot on our patio just makes my stomach sinking...I told B to try to imagine if one day I ask him to an island full of giant spiders 50 times bigger than usual ones..........he gets that. I am here because of the greatness of love, haahaaa.<br />
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Here we go, the land of giant lizards!<br />
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We walk into an open field, dry and lifeless. Soon we see some interesting little one claw crabs and a water buffalo [ dragon's food...]<br />
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B spots one dragon wondering around the field even before the ranger, good eyes!<br />
That is a female dragon. You can tell their sex by their size. Female dragon is smaller.<br />
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We keep going but B is too focus on taking pictures to notice we are leaving and I have to drag him back to the group. I am not being too careful, last man got eaten 9 years ago was lost because he was taking pictures alone...they only found his glasses and camera......<br />
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We walk to the entrence bungalow to pay for the tickets and camera fee [ yes, you need to pay for taking reptile pictures] and a local ranger join us to lead our way to the trail. There are 2 trails, 5 km and 3 km. We choose the short one because it is too hot outside, the long one doesn't provide too much shade for the lizards or us to hide under.<br />
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There are some people live in the B&B bungalows here, they are very careful about what they cook. Dragons are very sensitive to the smell of blood. Girl shouldn't come here if she is in her period.<br />
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Even they only cook simple food like noodles and vegetables the dragons still gathering under the kitchen. about 5-6 of them.<br />
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Then, I find this guy, the true dragon look giant lizard! He is the coolest of all. The ranger tells us this dragon might be at the end of his life circle [ they can live up to 50-60 years] He is amazing!<br />
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</div>AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-62616555503047887462010-11-24T22:56:00.001+08:002011-04-25T19:12:01.966+08:00The colorOur schedule is tide and somehow I think we are on time.<br />
Yesterday, we started to paint the studio. No need to explain, you can tell what we are up to!<br />
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I always know I want 2 bathrooms, it is scary enough to live with a guy but share the toilet ? No wayyyyyy. Besides, I really enjoy spending my time in my bathroom, I read, surfing on line, listen to music, have long bath, steam myself and have my full mask section. I can easily stay in my bathroom heaven for 1-2hours. I don't want to see B has to pee into the kitchen sink or our mini garden.<br />
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Especially a day like today, hard construction work kills my arms and lower back, nothing is better than soaking myself into my eggshell tub [from TOTO]with the book I read about hundred times [ so I don't need to pay too much attention to it.]<br />
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Today's recipe is: <a href="http://www.harnn.com/">Harnn</a> / <a href="http://www.harnn.com/productrange/bodycare/bathsalt/OrientalHerbsBathSalt.html">Oriental Herb Bath salt</a>+ <a href="http://www.harnn.com/productrange/bodycare/bodywash/HimalayaMagnoliaSkinPamperingBubbleBath.html">Himalaya Magnolia Skin Pampering bubble bath.</a><br />
I discovered Harnn during our last trip to Phi Phi island and I love their Oriental Herb collection. When I use their Oriental shampoo, my hair has the natural glow the next morning! The smell calms me down and drags me to very sleepy and peaceful place.<br />
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OK, enough talking, I am about to slip into my lovely tub, good night.<br />
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But when you work under a tide budget, IKEA looks much more attractive than usual.<br />
I have to say I used to Hateeeeeeeee IKEA lighting department, but ever since they started the PS series I noticed that they improved a lot in that section!<br />
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The lamps look fun and refreshing and we decided to finally say YES to them. Thanks for the free return policy, we took couple possible candidates to the studio for a tryout.<br />
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Our studio is going to be done in 1.5weeks!<br />
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See <a href="http://aisbtw.blogspot.com/2010/05/customization.html">how we gave up IKEA</a>AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-82601983166321765492010-11-11T17:11:00.003+08:002011-04-25T19:14:13.149+08:00New project<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This comes out from no where, at least, we didn't think this day would come this soon.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We have a new project to work on---we are opening our new studio!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The beginning of this year B and I both discontinued our job contracts with the big corporations. We thought we were going to take some time off and to finish the leftover projects in our hands. Maybe couple months later we would find jobs in China or Europe.....</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Some nice friends heard we were taking a break from regular jobs, they past on some projects and we got busier and busier. Now, the little office place we share with other designers is not enough to us anymore, our shit slowly taking over other people's space. It is about time to get a serious working space for ourselves.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We are in a rush, we can not spend too much time on searching for the perfect spot. Fortunately we soon find a place has good location and reasonable rent. The only drawback is this place is completely empty...{ well...the rent is cheaper than others in the hood for a reason]</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We get one month to fix this empty shell into a functional office.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the place looks like now, we see what kind of magic we can play...</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Since our home burned a hole in our pockets, we determined to spend as little as we can on this project. Nothing is cheaper than" do it yourself" when it comes to simple wood work. Tonight, we are going to visit B&Q, get some table saw, band saw, air staple!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">No worry, we took model construction 1,2,3,4, we will try not to cut our fingers off or staple into our hands. The expensive tuition got to pay off some time some where.</div>AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-70267379158045623892010-10-04T03:47:00.004+08:002011-04-25T19:14:43.567+08:00On day in Soder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Maybe because I wrote about Soder, maybe because I am tired of the perfect Ostermalm. B and I decide to go to our old neighborhood---Medborgarplatsen today. It is the next station of Slussen. We get on our old school Swedish bicycles [mean they have only 3 gears] from Strandvagen and 10 mins later we are in Soder.<br />
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Soder is still so bohemian and 80's punk as we remember and on the way uphill I meet my childhood idol " Moomin"! I don't know how many of you know who moomin is, Moomin cartoon from Finland was a huge hit in Asia when I grew up.<br />
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Although the mascot is only playing with the kids but I still ask him to take a picture with me shamelessly!<br />
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</div>After the high light of my day, we pop into a magazine shop we usually went to when we lived here. The shop carries more than 70-100 different mag from USA, England, Italy, Span, France, Sweden and so on. B is a watchaholic and he soon shows me this one:<br />
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Our ultimate goal today is going to shop some Asian food and there is a little shop right behind the apartment we lived before. Here is getting colder and colder, my asian stomach is screaming for some hot soup!! This little shop sells most of asian instant noodles and other goodies from Japan. I find this yummy waffle ice cream today and it makes me a happy girl in Stockholm!<br />
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I hate running.<br />
Running is one thing I often wonder why people do it regularly. You see, If I want to go somewhere, I can bicycle which is much more fun and efficient. If I want to work out, I will do something involves in competing with B so I get motivated such as playing squash.<br />
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Again, never say never, this morning I become one happy runner for the very first time. What can I say? The nature of Stockholm is just perfect for running. I wake up at 7:00 am today, the sun is shinning and the air is crisp. All the sudden, I feel the desire to put on my running shoes and get into the forest cross street. I am ready to inhale all those great Pythoncidere!!<br />
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The air is so cold and I have to run faster to keep my body warm, the lake and the forest are so beautiful I almost forget how hard my heart is pumping and I can faint in any minute.<br />
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What a fantastic way to start a day!<br />
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For many of our friends from USA and Asia, Stockholm is “ the far far away kingdom” and it is. We usually spend least 16 hours fly time to get here from either Taiwan or Los Angeles [where we lived before.]<br />
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Since my blog is all about A+AB home, why not introduce all “homes” we had lived from now on? So lets start with Stockholm then, where we lived, we are now and we definitely will come back many many many times in the future.<br />
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After we graduated from THE college, we started our Gypsy life style. The first place we moved to was Stockholm. It was summer and everything was bright and shin around the city, we planned to stay in Stockholm for at least 6 months.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>B still had his room [yes, just a room] in his parents apartment but who on the earth could live in your husband’s little teenage room with your 14 boxes luggages and with your in laws for 6 months? At least I couldn’t. “YOU GOT TO FIND A APARTMENT FOR US!!!!!” I yelled to B. <br />
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And he did, we soon found one charming little furnished apartment located in a cool area” Soder” [meant south in Swedish] were available for 6 months. What a surprise? I thought it was hard to find spot in the center of the city? Well, it was an understatement to say the rent wasn’t cheap, it was super expensive!! And, the size of the apartment was very mini for people lived in Los Angeles near a decade. At first, I felt like sleeping in a shoe box....But we were not in the position to make a bargain, at least it was wayyyyy cheaper than living in the hotel, hahahaaa [ bitter /dry laugh]<br />
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Even though the apartment was quit small for us, I quickly fell in love with the life in Soder. The location was superb! People who visited Stockholm knew that this was a tiny little city. You could walk through the city easily with in couple hours. For example, it took me 35 mins walking from my apartment to my mother in law’s apartment. It meant I walked across 3 islands [ wasn’t that amazing?] and 3 town parts!<br />
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I was extra careful when we used the kitchen because we knew the apartment owner was a clean freak and he reminded us many many times how much work he put in building his gorgeous, completely white open kitchen.<br />
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</tbody></table>Not only I stained the white counter with Kimchi sauce but B burned the owner's super pricy/ designer/ one of the kind kitchen table with our grill hot charcoal ....... - _- He was MADDDDD, and made us pay for a new one. The apartment came with a tiny tiny patio, the owner managed to put a table and a bench in that little corner. That was my favorite corner.<br />
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I put the rest of the branches into my the other beloved </span><a href="http://www.royalcopenhagen.com/index.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Royal Copenhagen</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> vase.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">My gift from Fanapi Typhoon.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A lot of people are asking what's our next step, to be honest, we also have no idea at this moment, hahaa. Who knows? Maybe it will lead us somewhere? Here is little preview about <span style="color: #cc0000;">lazywifeNO1</span>--the whole process and design features demo are under development.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">My series called " Lazy wife" simply because I am one lazy wife,hahaa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">To get married and to maintain a life style is hard especially for a career driven woman and this is a interesting issue for me to discuss and to find out a better way of marriage living through the furniture.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">This dinning table is the third piece of this line and I like it bit more than other two because I am clear about what I want when I design it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Taiwan has its local grown high mountain peach but you can find all kinds of imported peaches from USA and Japan in higher end supermarkets. They are not cheap but the taste is sensational!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">We love peaches and last month, we discovered one kind of strange yellow peach from Japan which we never had it before! The morning was nice and kitchen was super bright in the morning cause our living room facing East [you know---Feng-Shui, hahaa]. We had simple and delicious breakfast together in our lovely kitchen again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here you can sneak a peek of THE sofa!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Easier say then done.</span>....sign....We still shopped in <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Ikea</span> when we lived in Stockholm and Taiwan. Please don't get me wrong, there were many good design pieces in <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Ikea</span> but it was like you picked up some Lego pieces from the same toy box and trying to arrange them in a slightly different way than other people did. </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Customization was the key to us in this project in order to create something new but what we got from the workers is big<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">"NO !!"</span> They told us either " it's too expensive!" " too much trouble" " you will regret" or simply <span style="color: #8e7cc3;">" WE DON'T DO THINGS THAT WAY !"</span> </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
The rules we set for this remodeling projects are:<br />
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I liked the old American hexagon shaped tiles but it was too small and impossible to find in Taiwan:<br />
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I also was thinking about using marble as tiles because the entire East-North coast mountain in Taiwan is marble. Green material! Oh yeah~~<br />
2009 when B's parents visited us we went hiking there ---<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Taroko</span>, Taiwan. It was beautiful~<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There were some Chinese traditional preparation we had to fellow when we spent the night in our new apartment. We didn't really complete the whole ceremony but we did greet our house trolls the first morning we slept overnight in the new apartment. </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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The little box was facing the stove [where they usually stay around in the house] with rice bowls, rice wine, chicken leg, one fish, and some small side dishes.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[It was cold and early, you can tell by the look on my face...]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S_KIpqqU1NI/AAAAAAAAAOs/4QuMMHeAKcQ/s1600/DSC_0496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S_KIpqqU1NI/AAAAAAAAAOs/4QuMMHeAKcQ/s640/DSC_0496.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone told me that the chicken leg was essential, our trolls would be very unhappy if we forgot to include that in this meal. We lit up some incense candles during the time they should be enjoying their meal and we went downstairs to burn some paper money so they also could buy things in their world..... Then, in a traditional sense, I guessed we officially moved in our new apartment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S_KIgix5onI/AAAAAAAAAOk/j0qgnJBkEmY/s1600/DSC_0504.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S_KIgix5onI/AAAAAAAAAOk/j0qgnJBkEmY/s640/DSC_0504.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unfortunately, all the manufactures here seem have no clue about what real Eco friendly products are as well. You have to spend extra time and effort to dig out the materials are closer to the green ideas you have in mind.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Finding out the energy saving electronics was the easy part in this searching process. The problem was to find the ones were energy saving, smart to use and also <b style="color: #674ea7;">looked good</b> in our place.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We picked the basic ones really quickly:<br />
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We also picked up some LED spot lights [33 of them in fact] and a solar panal water heater which was the only one thing Taiwanese goverment promoted with 300usd rebate, then we were done with the easy part.AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-11726064072566143502010-01-17T20:14:00.003+08:002011-04-25T19:20:51.740+08:00More Sketches in baby-step speed!!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">First time to sketch for a space was not easy to me...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found that I lack of the sense of the real space proportion in my apartment especially because we have low celling and meanwhile I was trying to think about the thickness, relation between objects and users, materials and finishing in a larger scale at the same time. The strange thing was although all the process sounded really like any other design tasks but interior design was somehow too different to me compared to design a car. I was like an adult got trapped in a baby's body and tried to run....</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here are some examples that I started to planned out the space and doodled out some ideas about living room and my walking closet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L0AT1tjbI/AAAAAAAAAMU/arOb3mlW_OI/s1600-h/living+room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L0AT1tjbI/AAAAAAAAAMU/arOb3mlW_OI/s400/living+room.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L5MP5uDEI/AAAAAAAAAMs/GBqGnJxjkLw/s1600-h/aidress5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L5MP5uDEI/AAAAAAAAAMs/GBqGnJxjkLw/s400/aidress5.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L61gjnpfI/AAAAAAAAAM0/95QgWyDCIeU/s1600-h/aidress7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L61gjnpfI/AAAAAAAAAM0/95QgWyDCIeU/s400/aidress7.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L1-HAl6iI/AAAAAAAAAMc/7BolcKLyhb0/s1600-h/aidress3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S1L1-HAl6iI/AAAAAAAAAMc/7BolcKLyhb0/s400/aidress3.jpg" /></a></div>AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601810800539732286.post-28094164120466083912010-01-05T03:51:00.004+08:002011-04-25T19:21:06.773+08:00And---SKETCH!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After deciding the floor plan, I started to sketch up some ideas of how I want the space looked like. Sketch! Almost my favorite part of the designing [ OK, I actually love to see the final products the most.] I started with rough sketches to figure out how many items I want</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to put in the space and how the aesthetic gonna be .</div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We both thought putting color themes into different spaces especially we won't have obvious walls in between the areas. As a cooking antreprenor, I sketched the open kitchen first. When I picked up the makers to shade the sketch, I thought about <span style="color: #0b5394;">BLUE </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">---I imaged using a kind of wood dyed with </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">deep and rich blue paired with stainless steel top!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #674ea7;">Cooking station </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">+ Kitchen counter </span><br />
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It was so difficult for first timers like us and we loved to do it a gazillion times anyways.... We definitely wanted a large living room and an open kitchen on the first floor and have a half open bedroom and master bathroom on the second floor.<br />
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Then the hard part kicked in, how did we want to layout the guest room, guest bathroom and dressing rooms? Later on I found out the most difficult part was to decide the moving path between toilet, shower, bath, changing area, dressing rooms and bedroom. It was especially important to me because I spent a lot of time in my bathroom [which women doesn't anyways?]. Then we had to fit in all the details: windows, doors, storage..etc. After one month of discussion [also some small arguments here there, heheh] here is the final outcome! <br />
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First floor<br />
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Second floor</div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S0IxDJvJU8I/AAAAAAAAALU/_8cNqQcfsog/s1600-h/Untitled-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otG5dcsPCdM/S0IxDJvJU8I/AAAAAAAAALU/_8cNqQcfsog/s640/Untitled-2.jpg" /></a>AISBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988557402648906837noreply@blogger.com0