Filed under: fascination , bathroom, design, home, interior
August 13, 2009 • 8:44 am 0
the bed i was looking for
me love! also the purple theme of the bedroom!!
- from crate&barrel
Filed under: fascination
August 5, 2009 • 1:18 am 0
s.h. ideas
DIY cardboard toy instructions for moms: http://bit.ly/1a3XtY
card + stationery + calendar design
etsy for korea
July 8, 2009 • 7:09 am 0
city-trotting
so it’s been about a year since i moved back to Seoul from NYC. i certainly miss NY from time to time for its countless variety for food, fashion, design resources/inspirations – and oh i miss you my friends 
– but i also realized Seoul has become a very interesting metropolitan herself in recent years. so many cute restaurants, coffee shops, and stores are opened, parks and biker lanes are lined up nicely for greener life in the city. so i am relieved that i didn’t end up in an unfortunate return. : )
i had a chance to travel to nearby Asian metropolitan cities, Tokyo & Hong Kong, in last few months, and i noticed when i go to some other cities, now i compare those places to NYC.
Tokyo trip was short, and despite i loved its food and hygienic environment, its culture felt more flat and stiff than what i felt on my several visits made before my days in NY. especially the ‘controlled/groomed’ attitude of people stunned me – people were almost overly nice even on casual interactions which felt awkward to me and sometimes made me even uncomfortable. most were dressed conservatively (solid black suits were the uniform for office workers) except for the funky ’street style’ youngsters. it could be the opposite end of NYC if you put two spots on a line.
tokyo <conservative ——————————– liberal> nyc
on the other hand, Hong Kong was more interesting and diverse than what i remembered from 10 years ago. it definitely felt like a leading international city where you could notice hefty population of blue collar foreigners. i loved the soho area filled with authentic foreign food restaurants – i enjoyed a tapas place which i had hard time finding a good one in Seoul. even the local culture were influenced a lot by the western (british) culture – e.g. restaurants served tea buffet. HK just celebrated(?) its 12th year since its return to China, but my impression was that Shanghai – where I’ve visited in 2006 – was still far less international than HK. if i add HK and Seoul to the comparison line above, it would probably be like this.
tokyo <conservative ———- seoul ———— hong kong ———- liberal> nyc
after spending some years in different cultural environment, i would say though, the critical fact that only matters for life is ‘the value and the attitude you pursue and sustain wherever you are’ not letting the place to define you. altough i admit it is not possible to block out the influences coming from the environment entirely, the components of everyday life is not too different wherever you are: you eat, sleep, love, work.
for me, good people – friends and family -, and positive and active curiosity to the surroundings, *and* trips to other cities to stimulate my curiosities, then i can survive!
Filed under: Versus, scribbles , asia, city, hongkong, seoul, tokyo, travel, trip
September 23, 2008 • 9:44 am 1
my another obsession
tiles.
lovely glossy tiles perfectly organized and glued on the wall.
beauuutiful pictures that reminded me of my long-time obsession (from Design*Sponge):
Filed under: fascination , design, love, obsession, tiles
August 18, 2008 • 4:50 pm 0
byebye Mayle
http://racked.com/archives/2008/08/18/say_goodbye_to_mayle.php
if you know me, perhaps you know how much i looooooooved Mayle. the store and their collection was my obsession for life, my sanity in new york.. this news is one of the sensational news of the year for me :’( all of my Mayle collection is soon to be vintage… sad..
July 29, 2008 • 4:43 am 0
time
found a service(http://wordle.net/) where they create a visual map of the tags of your posts, and i got above from my blog. although it doesn’t seem that it crawled all the postings, interesting how it shows dense population of ‘time’ related words. i grew up in a culture that makes you to be aware of your age more than western culture. one of the first questions you ask to a new person is his age, so that you can figure out the hierarchy of your relationship with him and determine proper terms whether it should be respectful ones or regular. while i’ve been in the U.S. using english, i found it so much easier to make friends with people at different age and thought i’ve gotten less sensitive about age . but guess it is still in my unconsciousness that i do still think about my age and the stage in life quite a lot.
three years has passed in new york, and two days plus. kind of an awkward time span as it still gives me an opportunity to do something, but not quite enough to do anything. probably best to make use of it as moments for time forthcoming..
May 31, 2008 • 5:41 am 0
change
change can be exciting or nerve breaking, throbbing or heart breaking.
either way. bonne chance chère amie.
Filed under: scribbles
April 8, 2008 • 3:35 am 0
my first meditation lesson notes
ground
path
? (urg my short-term memory..)
gentleness = you are not squishing your thoughts
precision = you don’t fall asleep, keep your awareness
letting go = you watch your thoughts, create space, and come back to your awareness
no judgement
no perfection
no “should”
compassionate
on your thoughts and others around you.
Filed under: scribbles , lesson, meditation, notes, space, yoga
