Now you can change the world 1 chair at a time.

Something about chairs really intrigue me, could me the large number of hours one spends in them, the way it (hopefully) fits to your curves and contours, the way you can sit in one and watch the world go by. While I love love love chairs.

I heart even more one that's made out of 111 recycled bottles.

With Emeco and Coca-cola. The original emeco navy chair in aluminium has a match made in heaven. Conceptualized some four years ago by the coke executives that approached Emeco to turn empty plastic bottles into chairs.

Everywhere else in the world people recycle about 80% of their bottles while in the US only about 20% gets recycled (About time I say).

Coke asked Emeco to make the classic Navy Chair out of a new, unproven formulation of rPET (Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate- recycled plastic bottles). They then introduced Emeco to the scientists at BASF the international chemical innovator and together we developed proprietary mix made of about 60% and a special combination of pigment combined with glass fiber for strength.

In Coke-Speak, “The goal of the 111 Navy project was to alter consumer behavior by illustrating the value of rPET with beautifully designed and everyday products - ultimately encouraging more recycling.”

Requiring a state-of-art mold, the new 111 Navy Chair™ includes the original stretcher (structural brace) below the seat. This detail not only assures authenticity, but creates great structural integrity. The 111 Navy Chair™ carries a 5-Year structural guarantee. The new 111 Navy Chair™ is available in six colors: Red, Snow, Flint Gray, Grass Green, Persimmon and Charcoal. Snow, Flint and Red can be used outdoors. The new chair has a distinctive, “velvet” finish that is scratch resistant. The new chair passes California and UK Fire Codes, along with BIFMA structural testing for commercial use.

Replicating the original Navy Chair in recycled plastic required an advanced molding technique, and the expertise of Magnus Breitling, Emeco’s esteemed Director of Product Development. The gas assist process adds internal structure to the chair while minimizing the amount of material required. The chair body is manufactured upside down in a special core island while a robotic function inserts the stretcher into place while the chair is still hot. The entire mold runs at an elevated temperature to yield optimum surface appearance and color. At three minutes per chair, It takes three times longer to make a 111 Navy Chair ® than a typical plastic chair.

Chairs will be available at SPACE in Singapore.

Enough talk. Here are the pictures!

Matthew Vaughn's latest movie. Kick ass has enough biting wit and bone crushing action to propel the ratings at the box office. It's my personal favourite film of 2010 thus far. The cinematography style I am sure for those in the know - was very Tarantino-esque albeit having less of that eccentric and tedious dialogue.

Watch it if you haven't. And be sure to gear up for the fantastical fight scenes, and warped moral messages in dramatic proportions.

I am loving the performance of Nicholas Cage as Big daddy and the 13 year old Chloe Moritz as Hit Girl.

Wish all graphic novel adaptations were done this way. In the grainy color devoid world such as what we saw in frank Miller's 300. And Kick ass:)

I am annoyed at how many bad shots came out on this roll of film. Funny because they were taken in good lighting. (Also, this is probably a crime but it's my first roll of exposures since getting the fisheye lomo cam as a gift over 2 years ago). I am only proud of these 3 shots you see below.

Nonetheless, more happy snaps once I finish my next roll of film. (Which will feature Terraced Rice fields, Lake Batur and the busy ubud market of Bali). :)

Soon I promise.

Labels: film, Fish eye, Hong Kong, Lomography

Awesome or what?

Batteries you can rely on to make distress calls indeed. May you never need to do that tho.

http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/01/11/hole-in-battery-lets-you-swirl-to-generate-power/

Abit upset at where things seem to be heading.

Very much on the verge of yelling "FML"..

Guess who I found on beautymap. It's Charissa and myself at Zouk- the day we were celebrating her Birthday :)

This year I will

Stop. And Listen

when I do get to Paris someday with ma cherie.

I would eat 1/2 a dozen or more of Pierre Hermes Macaroons. Not to mention those from Laduree as well
go- faire du lèche-vitrine. "Licking the windows"
Spend an entire day in the Lourve
Another day in Musee Picasso
Go to all the different marchés to ogle at the gorgeous food and groceries
Take a picture at the arc de triompe and the Effiel tower
Spend time by the sidewalks of a boulangerie
I read that French government decides the price of a baguette or a croissant and it's the same all over France? Who knew?

ok let's continue

I'll ride my Velo and park them at any velib station on Rue Cambon
and what's a girl to do on Rue Cambon. go shopping at Chanel of course ! :)
(or 101 Rue Cambon......)
Bonjour Paris?

wishing and hoping..and thinking and praying.

For the week before christmas, this is surprisingly hum drum.
Hello to the overwhelming sense of boredom that just came over me this afternoon. I hope you leave soon.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html

Inspired by Stefan's sagmeister's list of happiness.

Here's what makes me happy at work.

Seeing someone recycle anything at all makes me happy.
Something about foreign accents makes me sit up and listen.
Music from the hallway/a stranger's desk is still music :)
I totally agree with his point that complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
Here's my version since I cannot help complaining.
Blaming others is silly. If there's a problem. Solve it. Don't create another.
Try not to forget than even your aggressors are human. they have a soft side if you search hard enough.
Bad days make you treasure the great ones more.
Isolation/alone time is absolutely necessary to get yourself organized and constantly inspired.

I do digress but these leads to what I want to do with all my free time.

Learn French
Learn to play the guitar
Read The Great Gatsby, Blankets.
Read more books on investment/business
Eat my fav ravioli at greenwood ave
Learn to make fabulous choc chip cookies
Dabble in some flower arrangements.

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods. (Taken from my boyfriend's not-so -little library)

Chapter 7!

Funny how all the books I've been reading feature a female lead named Laura. All that doom and gloom in this one so far is reminiscent of an old song I know, the one about poor Tommy and of course Laura. (Boy loves girl, Boy wants to marry girl. Boy goes racing hoping to win and buy her a wedding ring. Boy dies.... :( )

Also, I should find time to reinstall the games on my Nintendo Ds and to finish the remaining exposures left on my fisheye camera! Perhaps next weekend I'll find time to get down to those.

Luke 22:24 "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."

Alas, it's the big guy above whom I give thanks to for all the blessings, and even the challenges I've been facing.

Happy Birthday to you, the one who makes me smile.

Such cute stuff :) Only, why didnt they have hilter's ?

I need a new haircut and color! argh.

IMAGINE A BOARD ROOM - so well stocked with liquor. :)

58 hours in HongKong

After a 5 year haitus, I picked up the mehndi cone and did henna body art once more. The last time I did so was in 2003, on Campus care network day to raise funds. This time, it was for an annual residence carnival organized and held in my estate. Was pleasantly surprised when a member of the resident's commitee requested that I played judge for the evening's talent show. (Which I kindly declined)

So aside from having more snack money this week, (from all the hard work I did with Henna). I've gotten to know a couple of my next door neighbors which are a group of Korean girls. Sweet.

Also, received some good news this morning at work. Praying things go through.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsSCGDg2mn0

http://www.lemonademovie.com/

Done with Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Next up, C++ and.... Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

On another note, I present! My birthday wish list in no particular order. (Except for the miumiu bag that I've been lusting over for the longest time, That's 1st!). The rest are...as you like it:)

1. Miumiu bow satchel (Black)
2. New leather straps for my BCBGMaxaria Watch .. Yes the current satin leather straps are falling apart. :( to my dismay
3. A lifetime's supply of Apple juice. Very Random I know
4. Kate Spade name card holder
5. Royce chocolates
6. More pairs of ballet flats. Repetto anyone?
7. Ear Phones -Bose/seinheiser/ my current apple ones suck and they are falling well apart.
8. Musical notes/ Treble clef shaped cufflinks
9. Awesome Ravioli at greenwood ave or yummy jap food at fairmont Inagiku

Thats all folks. That renders my cloud no 9

I love mooncakes, but never really liked those with the 'snowskin', there was a point in time where i actually detested the taste of snowskins (age 10 perhaps). To be perfectly honest, to me, the best mooncakes are those with the nicely baked brown skin, no yolk. Just the humble lotus seed paste with its unpretentious overlay.

Actually, take away the lotus paste, just give me the yummy brown mooncake skins.

I would settle for those 'little caged pigs' readily..(very much like mooncake skin)

There is however a certain mooncake I cannot get enough of. The Raffles Hotel Champagne truffle mooncake. Comes in a nice vintage styled tin box which is different every year (yes go crazy collectors). With it's perfectly thinned skin, just the right quantity of lotus paste, and its white truffle chocolate center that does more than melt in your mouth. This little piece of heaven is..nothing short of DIVINE.

And champagne, "my only regret in life is that I didn't drink enough Champagne"
John Maynard Keynes

mmmm

Everybody say awww

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/squirrel-portrait-banff.html

Current Read: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Oh the dissension of Art vs Nature, Aesthetics vs Ethics. And that tinge of forbidden, or stall i say a rather overt injection of homosexuality. Very very entertaining.

Now here's a quote taken from Chapter 1 -It talks about Physiognomy -which is a believe that an individual's appearance, in particular their face, reveals character.

"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face" ...."Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!"

Black/Gray/Creme?

I can't quite decide! :)

Nice to know that Love of Siam is now showing at golden village in Singapore. I caught this over the internet a year ago with my brother. (One of our rare sibling bonding time). So anyways, great movie. Might be a tad confusing at parts but the good looking cast and catchy sound track will keep you in your seats. Great acting from the veteran thai actress who plays Tong's mother. IF you must know, the director is pretty good at singing too.

All in all the film touches on aspects such as family relations, a good tear jerker. Enjoy!

Synopsis

Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band (The August band) whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other.

Marketed like your teenage romance flick. The gay elements will certainly be a surprise for the average movie go-er.


The Love of Siam dominated Thailand’s 2007 film awards season, winning the Best Picture category in all major national film award events, including the Thailand National Film Association Awards, Starpics Magazine’s Starpics Awards, the Bangkok Critics Assembly Awards, Star Entertainment Awards, and Kom Chad Luek Newspaper’s Kom Chad Luek Awards.It's a film I would totally recommend, irregardless of the controversial content.

The Bruise I got from the IV Injection. Instant bravery.

Fancy Fetuses? How about one that lust over driving an Alfa Romeo.
Born for it, born with it or not.

That's a kiddo that I'll think twice about having.

Ahhh, the unannounced hiatus has come to an end. For those who are wondering, plans for my blog shoppe have been delayed. This I will conveniently blame it on the new job, as well as the boy. :)

Ok, I take my words back. Maybe it was just me procratinating.

I'm back to practicing Public relations, in between preping for a GMAT exam, as well as trying to hold back my wanderlust for abit.

Also, I'm considering taking up french class and working alil bit harder on Salsa!

I'll write soon! And with my next post, as a visual treat! Pictures will be included

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