First, to celebrate one of our staff achievements who received an excellent award this year… second to celebrate our boss and another colleague belated birthday… and third to thank our two trainee, college students, who have been with us for the past six months.

We had our small party in our multipurpose room… a training room, a store room, a meeting room… it can be any room you like it to be anytime… we don’t have much office furniture inside the room but probably you might say it is full of junk if you see what inside the room…

Well, when you are dealing with maintenance… especially IT maintenance… sometimes it is very hard just to throw away junks… the junks might not be usable anymore, but there are important parts inside it which can be used as spare parts.

And spare parts… especially for old junks are very hard to find… u  might not even able to buy it… coz it might no longer in the market… or no longer in production… obsolete… extinct… dinosaur…

So here we are, trying to use the 5S system… you know the Japanese’s 5S… Seiri, Seiso, Seiketsu & Shitsuke… translate that into English… well some say it is… Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize & Sustain… or… Sort, Systematize, Shining, Standardize & Self-Discipline.

I manage to run away from doing the ‘gotong-royong’ last week, starting from Wednesday because I went outstation to Sandakan until Friday

But looking at the whole situation… I think we do not have enough office furniture like cabinets or drawers to keep all this old stuffs and junks… that’s why we end up just piling it up into the store room until there is no more space… it was not arrange properly, so they occupied more space.

Well, hopefully we can sustain or self-discipline our self doing this 5S thingy…

But actually, I prefer when it cloudy… the air is much cooler with beautiful rays of light. Usually it will be cloudy in the morning but with enough sun rays… just nice to dry cloths

The beautiful morning cloud I snap while driving along the Penampang Bypass Road from Donggongon.

In the afternoon, it will be sunny… sometimes the heat is too much.

Then in the late evening, it will start raining… heavy rains. This is the best time to see the heavy rain… very cold and a bit windy. But the only problem is when the wind is too strong.

Last week, on Friday night, there was heavy rain followed with strong wind. Probably it was a monsoon wind. That night, the wind was OK at my place, but I didn’t know that about 20KM away, the wind was blowing so strong that many trees and signboards were blow away.

While driving last Saturday evening, I saw many tree branches on the road. And I also saw few roof sheets and furniture lying besides the road. Probably the furniture is outdoor furniture… else if the furniture is from inside the house… man, the wind must be so strong and suck-out the furniture from inside the house!

There is still rain followed by mild wind this week… hopefully it will stay like that.

But this wooden furniture doesn’t get rotten easily… it can last many years although exposed under the sun and rain everyday… probably because the ‘kampung people’ really know how to choose a good timber or wood to make their tables and chairs.

But if you compare that with today’s garden furniture, don’t expect it to last for few years if it exposed under the sun and rain everyday. Worse will be the cheap metal or plastic furniture. They get rusty or rotten easily and turn to be very dangerous because it can break anytime to unsuspecting user. Because of the poor furniture, someone come out with an idea to design a patio furniture covers.

Well if you look at it, today’s garden usually have some furniture. But they are not used that often… coz most of the time people are busy with their life and more enjoying chit chatting at the club or stalls or ‘kedai kopi’… not like the ‘kampung people’ which have no other place to go after working hard in their field during the day. So, if you have some furniture outside your house which is rarely used, do protect them with patio furniture covers so that it can last longer.

When you look at any of the Bed in their galleries, you will be amazed by its design and fine craftsmanship. It just like in the movie and I have heard queens bed before but never captains bed.

If beds are not enough to make your eyes stretch, try the Living Room Furniture galleries. The sofas leather is shining so bright until I have to stretch and blink my eyes a few times to look what they are.

If you like traditional, sleek and contemporary furniture, you can check out the Furniture From Home.