MondayLunchCrew

You never know what you'll see that'll be interesting.

From Taipei, Taiwan:

Tourism ad

From Hualien, Taiwan:

On the beach 'boardwalk'. Walk on this path.

Bike on this path

From Tokyo, Japan:

Decorated man hole cover

Watch out for the dangers of walking and smoking!

Tanaka area, denotes where people and bikes should go on the street.

Walkway around Imperial Palace

Chuo City. Don't smoke and don't litter!

To be honest, no idea what this is. Looks nice.

On a pedestrian bridge on the way to the fish market.

Even from little ole TO:

Bloor Street in front of a bar.

So? Inspired? Show me what's around your town!

Labels: Japan, Taiwan

Found this one at the National Museum in Ueno Park Tokyo.

Notice the soap dispenser and faucet are on the further surface and the closer side is the hand dryer. The product is designed so that there is economy of space. No extra dripping of water from sink to dryer so there is less cleaning in terms of maintenance around the sink. In terms of usability, efficiency and aesthetics, it's A+ in my book. Made me wish I was designing sinks in Japan.

Labels: Japan

So, been back for nearly a week now from the Taipei/Tokyo trip. Lots to fill you in here, but I've been under the weather due to a bad cold with jet-lag. It makes it all so much worst. I'm slowly coming back to regular health. There's a lot to be done in terms of sorting photos and sorting scrapbook items for the scrapbook we'll eventually tackle. While I've been putting in some hours in the office, it's been difficult to concentrate and have spent a lot of my time in bed trying to sleep this cold off, or on the sofa doing mindless activities like watching tv and stitching/knitting. Another sock has been completed and another Bent Creek piece started and finished in the past week: Free Betsey, one of the zipper kits. All ready in time for 4th of July. While we don't celebrate it, I do rather like stitching for it since I rather enjoy the red white and blue colours always used. I suppose if enough people design for Bastille Day, I'd enjoy stitching for it too due to similar colour scheme. I couldn't come back from Japan without craft things of course, so I made sure there was a stop at a Tokyo Hands. Home of Clover I managed to get a bunch of nice knitting accessories at a fraction of the price. Here's the loot: I certainly wished we could have done more hunting for yarn and accessories and stitching but had to make do with what we could find without detouring from the tourist schedule. Flour spent the near two weeks at the kennel and came back a little bigger but healthy and happy. We think she had a good time there. The best part is that she managed to have remembered all her training and got back into the normal routine of things like she hadn't left. I'm rather proud of her. Here's her today sleeping in her usual spot by the door: And of course, here's a photo of me in Taipei.

Labels: Japan, Travel