A sound mind in a sound body - my running blog??? also all things tea, green and good for mind/body

my running blog??? also all things tea, green and good for mind/body

Hi, I'm interested so many things that I sometimes get lost in my own thoughts. Passionate about so many things that I cannot even begin to name them. Mad about the world.

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December 3, 2009

Chigra - Amusing tea infuser

We've already seen the Shark. But compare to this one it looks pretty boring, you've got to admit.

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November 29, 2009

Jin Kuramoto Teaset

After careful discussions with craftsmen on how to process and finalise them, I produced several kinds of collections with distinguishing forms and colours. By bringing contemporary values to traditional industries, I am hoping that it will generate new economic benefits and also traditional craftsmanship will continue to grow. These are tea sets using Japanese traditional wooden design of spin forming. These can be piled up to place. They offer not only function as practical tableware, also the presence of artefacts to view.

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November 19, 2009

Slice'em and dice'em

Now this would seriously improve my cooking time. Amazing.

OK. I just watched the demonstration video. Not sure if it's really faster (I mean with the Food Dicer). But damn pretty.

To find out more go to:

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November 19, 2009

Handy shower travel kit

The airport security can't touch you. Plus your bag is finally light:)

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November 4, 2009

And I thought I've seen them all

You know that I like tea and more importantly I like tea design. I thought I've already seen all modern tea pot designs. But... I was wrong. Weburbanist just showed a bunch of cool (some weird) tea pots.

(Images via: Peter Bo and Design Milk)

(Images via: design boom)

(Images via: freshome and Yanko Design)

(Images via: TeaPottery and Book Hunter’s Holiday and thisnext and design boom)

(Image via: design boom)

(Images via: Yanko Design and The Boston Globe)

(Images via: uberreview and designboom)

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November 3, 2009

A gentle and subtle tea pot

After all techy designs that were floating lately it's nice to see some simple and lovely tea pot.

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November 3, 2009

25 books in 10 months

At the beginning fo 2009 I decided to take up a book reading challenge. 50 books in 1 year. The challenge was announced by Shelfari (virtual book shelf site) as a response to Steve Jobs letter regarding Kindle. In that letter, CEO of Apple said:

"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore... The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."

I don't know if he is right or not. Unimportant.

Since the end of year is near I thought I'd share some results of the book reading challenge/experiment. My result is unfortunately not great. So far, I was able to read only 25 books, so just a half. I don't really feel bad with that score. It's just that I considered myself as a person who reads a lot. Apparently this is not the case.

How many books did you read this year? Please put your score in the comments. In the meantime, you can see my 25 books of 2009. And yes, I used Goodreads to make this shelf, and not Shelfari.