RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRACEHEELS!

Raceheels! The pink heels are my favourite. Just wonder what you'd wear with them.

ObjectsOfDesire - Dan Pearlman

One very refreshing site I came across some time ago is Dan Pearlman’s ‘Objects Of Desire’. The guy is a designer, and on this site he presents really cool objects he designed, which you can make for yourself. Giant teabags to store dirty laundry, which you can put in the washing machine once they are full. A chair in the shape of a giant tin of caviar. A vase made out of plastic tubes. Furtniture tattooes. Not all of the objects are really functional, but they all provide a creative and often funny solution for an everyday problem. They all aim at making life a bit lighter and bring a smile on your face.

http://www.objectsofdesire.de/objects_e.html Scroll over the squares to see a first glimp of the object, then click on it to see more.

ROUTEMASTER

Today is the last day the Routemasters are out on line 159, the route I take on a regular basis to go to work in the morning. No more jumping on and off wherever you like it, no more chance to ride for free cause the conductor can’t be bothered to climb the stairs.
The Routemasters have been around since the 60’s and are just as typical for London as Big Ben or Nelson’s Column. Only a few lines still had them since most were already replaced last year. Line 159 was one of the lines that was originally supposed to keep the Routemasters as it is one of the lines that passes through the touristic centre of London, but in the end the Mayor of London decided to keep them only on lines 9 and 15. It’s a pity, but then again, how many European cities had the same busses for over 40 years?

I WANT TO DO - list

I’ve been thinking of things that I still want to do in life… Made a little list. Call it my dream list. Wonder if I’ll ever manage to do all of them, and if not how many I will fulfill.

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  I want to take a dive course and eventually become a dive master so I can move to a place like Zanzibar or Tobago to be a diving instructor. That feeling of being under the sea can’t be compared to anything in the world.
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  I want to learn some more languages: Portuguese (Brasilian version), Russian, Italian, Swahili, Arabic. And proper Jamaican patois, hehe.
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  I want to live in Zanzibar for a while. That place just blew me away. Beautiful, alive, rich history and culture, and clear blue water with coral reefs. See above.
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  I want to become a serious photographer. Build a career. Live of the sales of the pictures. Sell them in London or Paris or New York, get them published, and use the money to travel the world.
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  I want one room in my house (well, loft. Warehouse.) that I decorate completely in fifties style, and completely in white.
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  I want to build a hypermodern, thouroughly contemporary house on the beach in Tobago, and rent it out to rich British and American tourists when I'm not there.

Handset.

Next in our chapter 'Useful Stuff You Can't Imagine You Ever Managed To Live Without': the mobile phone handset. The combimation with the old fashioned Rrrrrring just has to work. Pity it isn't compatible with my phone.

Easter Island Tissue Box

The most amazing tissue box I've seen so far *lol* I suggest two of them, oe on each side of the bed, for that instant pacific feeling! From our friends at www.iwoot.com

Narnia

I popped into Borders yesterday after work, and found the first three ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ in one volume. For 3.99, a bargain! Now I finally will get to know what the whole thing is al about. Everyone is looking forward to the release of the film over here, and it just didn’t mean anything to me.
So I got the book, started reading at 11pm, and by 130am I had almost finished the first book. It’s actually quite good. Obviously it’s a children’s book, but the story is quite sweet.