Thoughts and Wills: November 2008

Imagine...

On Sunday, we were shopping in Causeway Bay looking for various easy-to-do, DIY and cheap kinda ways to make our home better. When we were walking through Delay No Mall, we came across 3 weird looking chairs, behind a receptionist lady. We asked her what the chairs are, who look like space capsules, sitting comfortable in the middle of a small pond. She replied, "Resting chairs". Informative enough. We noticed that there are leaflets in her counter, saying by any purchase within the mall, customer will be entitled to 20 minutes of "rest" in the chairs. Being adventurous as we are, we went straight to hunt for goods.

We got these two books in the end.
(will share images later)

They are not the point though. With the two receipts we have, we are now entitled for 20 minutes of rest on the "rest chairs" for free! Here we go, took off our slippers, change to their slippers, jumped on, head phones on, lid closed, zzzzzzzz...

Ooops, I had a coffee at home in the morning before we went out. Cannot fall asleep, while I am sure my bobo is already deep in her dreams. However, the chair, being a "rest chair", is not only good for a nap. It's got reflection of water flowing (that's why they put the chairs in the middle of a pond, to get the water reflection to be projected on the chair lid) and calming musics, to keep you relaxed. As a result, while I was inside it (or on it), I was able to focus so much on thoughts.

Half way between total consciousness (when you are totally aware of everything around you, hence kept being distracted) and dreaming (when you are not really controlling what you think), I rode on my thoughts:

Music -> No words -> Jazz -> reading a book just before we came to these chairs saying why there are no long surviving jazz bars/restaurants in Hong Kong -> opening one -> where is the best -> Happy Valley -> capital? -> have to find investments from music lovers -> in the meantime bobo always wants to have a restaurant/cafe for her own -> ..........

Actually there IS a restaurant like that (I would think there are more than one, just that I don't know them), see here.

Keeping on riding on my thoughts:

My old imagination of a flat, light-weight photos and movies player with the size of a photo frame, accepting memory sticks, CDs, USB, now they are everywhere -> next generation? -> 3-D display! Not displaying 3-D images on 2-D panels, but really 3-D display! -> I should do some research, apply for scholarship and do a PhD on this -> Using tinnie winnie LEDs lining up in a cube like structure, each having its own coordinates, showing colours each to form 3-D images -> how can you make the "black" ones look transparent? -> but such device will be immensely useful for demonstrations of e.g. art pieces, design, architecture, bikinis!

A quick blackle search today, there is already such thing, and done in an elegant way! See here for details.