prologue

The apartment isn't ready yet, and I am on another round of idle thoughts about how my new home will look like. My preface is a 27-year old male, married and employed, and currently living with my parents. I love my parents a lot, but the walls of my room are starting to close in on us. And even though I've been a college student for seven years of my life, clutter is not something I'm coping with very well these days.

Anyway, this blog is and isn't about Ikea. It started out with me wanting to build a commentary about the big blue-yellow company, but then I got lazy having realized that tons of people do that on a daily basis, and sometimes for no particular reason at all.... so I hogged this domain for a good 3 months.

Perhaps Ikea fits very well with my philosophy of living,... that well-designed, high-quality, and highly usable products can and should be affordable and available to the majority of people living on the face of the planet. Ok... maybe quality is slightly questionable. But then another philosophy of mine involves two hands and putting things together. That's one of the motivations for this blog.

Another motivation is that I wanted an avenue to explore my other side. I'm a software engineer most of the time. Otherwise, I just wanna hang out in a home that I really really enjoy being in. Some people go to the movies. Some travel the world. Some hang out at pubs. I just like staying home. It's my mom's fault.

So thank you, Vinton G. Cerf and Blogger, for giving me the freedom to blab. Incidentally, both of them belong to Google.