What’s on your desk?

I was sitting here listening to my iTunes music when I was looking at my desk, and I have to say, this is what’s on my desk, my favourite part of the house. Everything you see here down to the tiny pieces of ‘craps’ has some small story behind it. I’ve catalogued anything that I’ve seen so that in case I find myself bored I can one day look a tiny snapshot of my life. But anyways, if you have time, you can also show me yours sometimes.

1. Postcard from Antalya, Turkey – a blog friend Duke sent me this postcard last June where she and her hubby came back from a fishing trip down at the Mediterranean where they hired one of the boats seen in the postcards. It’s a lovely postcard that captures the beautiful Antalya harbour. I would say, after looking at it for a few seconds, I had dreamt like I’d stroll along the seaside promenade watching the big cruisers as well as the small fisher boats and along the sides where the fish restaurants are probably located. BTW, two (2) postcards from Greece that Sha sent me, is on my door-fridge.

2. Alleby IKEA alarm Clock – Alarm clocks are bad. Waking up abruptly by the sound of an alarm clock is an inherently unnatural thing to do. Sometimes you can wake up after 8 hours and feel like crap. I never really uses it for a long time since I’ve always tried throwing it away when it alarms. The whole point is that the first alarm should be so quiet that it will only wake you up if you’re in “light” sleep, like a whisper in your ear. But this alarm doesn’t make that process, so I stick on my Nokia alarm which wakes me up in “light” tone and leaves me feeling more refreshed than waking up in “deep” sleep.

3. NEC Speakers – I’ve been using this tiny speakers with subwoofers surround sound which is good for laptops and for my iPod. I know that this is not anymore popular but it still is leaving me breathless during the evenings although I’m tempted to have a high affordable ones from Altec Lansing, I still enjoy NEC’s smoothness.

4. Water Plant – my little desk feng-shui. Water plants gives off an earthy comfortable energy that everyone can relate to. It’s usually good to put plants for business, I don’t know if this works in my desk, but then it adds something “green” in my desk.

5. Scented candles from White Barns – a gift from a friend Jayne. She gave me two boxes of these and the other is a feng shui candles (metal, water, wood, fire, earth) combinations of scents. It burns approximately 15hours so it helps me put to sleep easily.

6. BENCH body spray – BENCH is my favourite brand whenever I visit the malls in the Philippines. I could never leave Manila without buying anything from this shop. I bought the spray in a local store in Central for about $40 bucks (sucker!). It smells really cool but I only use it as a room spray.

7. NOKIA N70 – my 4th mobile phone purchased from Nokia. Nothing fancy but it’s very useful as instant camera. I can send pictures via bluetooth to my laptop.

8. Cellphone stand – a gift from my Boss, translucent green. See, she’s been so nice to me.

9. Tag Heuer Automatic Chrono watch – a gift from me for myself on my birthday 2 years ago. It’s a rugged and masculine in premium grade steel. Unidirectional rotating polished steel bezel with engraved markers frames the textured blue dial three subdials, luminous hands and hour markers, a tachometer outer ring. Now, it has a few tiny scratches which I think makes it look more “rugged” to pair this for any clothes to wear.

10. Bracelets – from Tifanny & Co. and cheap silver ones from Tsim Sha Tsui shop. I love anything silver or any other ‘friendship bands’.

11. Three (3) storage holder round box – from South Horizons which I bought around HK$10 where I stored all my jewelries, key chains, laptop wires, etc.

12. Mouse Pad – IKEA brown leather. I never really uses my laptop’s touchpad.

13. Optical Mouse – it’s a tiny mouse pad that I’ve been using for quite sometime now. I still opt for the wireless but it doesn’t make any difference anyways.

14. IBM Thinkpad Notebook T Series – I had this baby (I named it “no name”) for a year and a half now. It’s still working very good and it’s the reason why I keep on blogging. Features: Integrated bluetooth, high-resolution, thin-film transistor (TFT) display provides clear and brilliant text and graphics with good functions.

15. Webcam Clip – So cheap but too clear. I’m not really a big fan of webcams. I only use these when I’m online chatting with my family.

16. Thai Wooden Doll – from Thailand, a gift from Isay. It’s a miniature of that Thai lady that welcomes everyone who enters in my flat. “Sawasdee”. I use it to hang my silver necklaces.

17. Cheap silver necklaces – from the cheap market nearby. Sha sent me this dot-eye blue glass pendant from Greece, it says it’s for goodluck and also my favourite turquoise stone necklace for summer which I bought for HK$50. I do ask for a bargain really.

18. Lava Motion Lamp – I bought it across the road from near I live. It looks great when you turn off all the lights, it illuminates the whole place. The coolest thing about motion lamps, of course, is that they produce insoluble blobs that rise and fall in the lamp’s “globe” on their own. Even after all these years, people are still buying motion lamps because it’s enjoyable to watch.

19. 4th Generation iPod - even if it’s already old, I mean “not very”, infact, I still enjoy a good portion of my 40GB storage capacity. And even if that little black address book are so last millennium, I feel this is by far, my perfect companion. I can shuffle my way through a lot of songs that lets me play my music for up to 12 hours on a single battery charge. So far I have at least 1403 songs, worth playing for 4 days. Besides, the fun part is that, I can use the backface as my instant mirror.

20. Bali Home Furnitures Book – I’m a fan!

21. Pocket PC iPaq – a give-away when I actually signed up for my Broadband connections. I’ve never used it for quite a long time. I use it to store addresses and credit card spendings. But not anymore a fan of using its pen to tap the screen.

22. Me in Framestand – I was drunk when my nephew took this picture 2 Christmases ago infront of the gate of my brother’s building where he lives. I have no idea why I used this picture for my desk. Nothing special. Oh, the hat made me looked different I think.

23. Post-it paper – A very important account number. My landlord’s bank account so I would not forget the deadline for paying my rent. How pathetic.

24. iPod In-Ear Headphones – nothing special, it costs me HK$180 because this headphone have a great sound quality and bass response, and come with three different sized caps to ensure the headphones fit comfortably and securely in your ear.

25. Utility bills – who wants it?

Have a great Weekend folks!

Beautiful Thing
by: The Pierces

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