A Good Saturday

I have never appreciated a Saturday like how I appreciated today. 

It was so refreshing that it's a I-do-not-need-to work-at-home day. I spent most of the time in the kitchen though, and enjoying it. 

I am no cook and I prepare the simplest of things, nothing fancy and certainly nothing gourmet. It's as long as I get something edible and tasty on the table. 

It is a good day. I'm so sad that it's almost over. 

And by the way, that's not my kitchen up there. It would be a kitchen I'd love to have though. Isn't it gorgeous?

pearlie

Very good replacement sofa covers

I have had my sofas for many years now and I know I have to change them already, until I saw this in Facebook, and with a 65% discount too.

When I watched the accompanying video, I like what I saw.

And so I checked out the prices...

...and it's going to cost me $58 + $49 for a quad and a triple, which will come to at least RM450 not including shipping. 

A triple sofa cover in Ikea will cost about that if not more and I thought maybe it could work. But to make sure, I went online to check out if there were any reviews of the product. 

But what I found was that these sofa covers are available in Shopee too! And at a fraction of the price. Notice that they used the same picture too.

I order a quad for RM64 ($15) and a triple for RM54 ($13), which brings it to only RM118 ($28) with free shipping. 

I fitted them on this morning and it is very good, for the price I paid. 

Take a look at my double sofa that needed a triple size cover. 

Not bad, eh? 

I'm happy. Now we can continue using our old sofas for a little while more.

pearlie

I, a reluctant housekeeper

My library has been "inaccessible" for awhile. What I mean by inaccessible is this: I am a reluctant-housekeeper, I simply feel that it takes too much time and that I do not have enough of. But I am not proud of it.

I do housework, major ones, on a project basis. Some time ago, I embarked on a Project Clean-Up Cluttered Bedroom. The result was a messed up library. This was because all the things I cleared from my bedroom went to the library, which was just outside my room. And I just left those things stay there, for quite awhile. I wasn't motivated to clear it.

This was followed by Project Clear-Up-the-Store. For people like me, the cluttered up folk, having a storeroom is a bad idea. Everything not required for the moment goes in there. One fine day, I gathered all the resolve I could muster and started to clear it. It took me several long days. I even ended up buying a paper shredder to dispose of documents like bank statements that I cannot simply bundle up and throw.

And finally it was Project Get-My-Library-Back-In-Place. The motivation that got me to it was a visit from a good friend. She had to fly over from Kota Kinabalu and I offered her to bunk in my place. As much as she did not mind whatever condition my pad is in, I do mind. When it comes to visitors, though rare, it matters.

So it has been for the last few days, every time I go up to my room, I can't help it but stop for a moment for savor the glorious view and take it the sweet aroma of my library. It is back in business.

pearlie