Category — News

Remember the very successful Perfect Livin 08 event? Read the article i wrote on it last year. Just so you get an idea the magnitude of last year’s event in order to be able to anticipate this year’s, coming at you at the end of the month, here are some statistics:

Dates:  7 – 10 August 2008 (Thu-Sun)

Venue:  Halls 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre

Booths: 500 booths

Exhibitors: 200 exhibitors

With over 200 exhibitors, I’m certain most of you who attended last year’s event found your home needs met.

Read on to find out more about what the event was like last year, and gage if you can afford to give it a miss this time around

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Living Quarters, one of Malaysia’s more popular home furnishing stores is having a warehouse sale from the 10th to 14th of June. Albeit a little late on the notification, there’s still 3 great days of shopping left for those of you seeking bargains for home items.

Details below:

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For a limited time only, the folks at SomethinUrby.com – retailers of excellent wall decals – are offering FREE delivery services for any purchases above RM99. More info after the jump…

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The Malay Mail published a full page article in the Cyberspot section of yesterday’s publication (18May, pg14) featuring me in an interview on How’sHouse! When they approached me two weeks ago, I was excited at the prospect of having How’sHouse mentioned in the local newspapers. Little did I know that it would turn out to be a full page article!

The full article is now available online at the Malay Mail’s website, titled House that How Built.

The article starts off with the origins of How’sHouse and how and why it was created, then heads off to reveal some of my answers regarding my thoughts on the blogosphere. I also reveal how I believe I got my eye for design – from my dad. The most memorable incident for How’sHouse is also mentioned in the article (and I hope there’ll be many more positive memorable incidents to come). Head on over to the Malay Mail’s site to read the article – House that How Built

I’m glad and very thankful that How’sHouse is recognised in a very well received medium – the newspapers – and hope that the publicity generated from this will generate more loyal readers of the blog.

They requested for a photo and I gave them this:

Somehow they chose not to publish this but use the cartoonised image of me (a 21yr old me) from the site itself.  Would’ve been a nice touch as we deliberately took this picture for the article at our place – the How family @How’sHouse. I suppose the editor can’t possibly have been a Manchester United supporter . No biggie, I guess I can now add this picture in my ‘About Me‘ page.

You know, I hadn’t realised this until I was driving home from work yesterday, that the article was published exactly 1 year and 1 day to the day the first article was published on How’sHouse – a very nice coincidence indeed.

Most homeowners with children often try to childproof their home to a certain extent. Whilst it’s true that you can’t completely prevent mishaps from occuring in the home, many of us feel that it is necessary to do what’s required to prevent the obvious ones.

However, have you wondered how dangerous your flat screen TVs can be to children and other home occupants? Read on for some eye-opening stats

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This just in…. via my inbox:

One of life’s greatest pleasures is a good night’s rest. But too many of us get less comfortable sleep than we deserve. The proper mattress, pillow and quilt are critical to a good night’s sleep. Do you know that the position you sleep in can make a difference in the mattress that’s right for you?

At IKEA, our bedroom experts can provide guidance about finding exactly what you need. Take our bedroom quiz here and we can recommend the right mattress, pillow and quilt for you to test at the IKEA store. You will also find some inspirational ideas to plan your dream bedroom.

How’sHouse has been given a new coat of paint, refurbished – with a new look. The key reason in my decision to change the theme of the site is mainly due to the display issues that were not consistent between IE and Firefox. After installing the Statpress plugin, I found that 70% of my readers were using either IE6 or IE7 and the sidebars did not display well at all in the Microsoft browser with the previous theme.

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On March 2 2009, a little baby boy was born into the How family. How’s House now consists of YinLeng, baby Ryan and myself.

May God bless this little child of ours and may he grow up to be a fine and righteous man.

Here’s Ryan waving to fellow How’sHouse readers…

Oooh, it’s getting ever so close to Christmas now where we celebrate the birth of Jesus, a time of gift-giving and receiving, and we marvel at the innocence of little children who get overexcited at the very mention of Santa Claus.

This year, IKEA will countdown the days till Christmas, starting from 1st December by introducing two products each day at promotional prices. Here’s the brochure for more details:

Click on the image above or here to view all products that will be on offer.

11% sure is a dismal rate. This translates to only every one in ten person you know who would actually make the initiative to give a gift. Let’s make sure the percentage is raised this year- the more you give, the more you will receive.

I am absolutely certain that one of you reading this right now is thinking ‘does giving a gift to myself put me in the 11 percentile group?’

Come on…. get real- go out there an buy someone a gift and spread some Christmas cheer.

To fellow How’sHouse readers. It’s been a while since my last post and I do apologize for not posting as regularly as before. A lot has happened since my Bangkok trip two weeks ago – work: moving from an energy-sapping project onto a new engagement; life: the passing on of a dear relative; family: the current situation in Bangkok where my wife is currently stranded.

So do be patient, the posts will come flowing again very soon… hopefully by middle of the coming week where I foresee some opportunity for me to do my blogging after work hours again.