18th Jan 2010
New shelvings
Since the kitchen reno’s been done the walls have been pretty empty. I was thinking what to put on there to fill up the space. A painting would do but that would be a waste of space. So I went to Ikea to check out some shelvings. There was a silver, rack-like one with horizontal beams (for drainage?), it’s more practical since it holds wider/bigger things but it’s kind of too obstructive. I chose a white one and bought four of them, they were SO CHEAP it’s like $5(mdf) + $4(anchor) = $9 each. Installation wasn’t too straight forward, as I didn’t even have a ruler with leveling bubble, nor a super long ruler. Utilizing my highschool art skills, I mapped out the position of where the screws will go, and started drilling. I got two of them installed yesterday, next to the fridge, and got the other two of them installed today. I bought special dry wall screw-in anchors today as the ones I was using yesterday didn’t seem to be too secure. These screw-in ones are really cool, not only they are white (which matches the color of the wall) and they are super snug. I think these shelves look really good on the walls, and they’re useful too, saving up a lot of counter top space.
I’ve also gotten an “internet radio” yesterday at Costco. I wanted to get a couple of Apple’s Airport Express to stream iTune music throughout my place, then I saw this internet radio made by Sanyo and it claims that it can wirelessly stream 1000’s of stations throughout the world and it also streams mp3s shared from PC wirelessly. Out of curiousity I bought it and wow, it’s such a sweet little device! Sound quality was not the best but it does have ported speakers so the bass isn’t bad, the where it shines is that it was able to connect to my home wi-fi in about a minute and I literally am able to see hundreds if not thoudsands of radio stations in a couple clicks. I can listen to stations from Hong Kong and Japan, or browse by genre like Ambient and Classical, and it works! It looks cool too since it has brushed aluminum faceplate and black piano finishing casing, and it takes up very little space. It’ll be sitting in my kitchen for the next little while and it’ll be switched on 24/7 playing ambient/lounge stuff!
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