Just got an email from the stranger that I met recently.. No..Not a stranger anymore... We are friends now.... True to the saying that " strangers are friends that you have yet to meet"....The couple that we met recently are now doing a renovation of their home....Well... What else Malaysian do....when they buy an old house they renovate, when they buy a new house they also renovate...what is wrong with the architect that plan these buildings....in that it need renovation the moment the house is sold...or is it just the human in us that we do not want our habitat to be the same as others...We want to be different...so we start renovating our house to suit our taste and of course our budget...I guess the contractor would be out of job if we do not continue to renovate our habitat....we keep building and keep renovation...We built, we construct, we broke down wall and build up a new wall to our liking....we try to create spaces and all the time we keep spending... to create a new environment to our habitat and it seem endless as to our quest to have a comfortable home...I am one of those creature that are never satisfied with the same environment all the time....So I did some renovation to our house...and since I bought this house some thirty years ago..I have not stop renovating it and in fact just finished creating more space in my latest renovation...in the process we got the satisfaction of being able to create our habitat as an extension of ourselves...I believe the home is actually the extension of the person or the family themselves...Visit a home and you would instantly get some picture of the atmosphere of the occupant domain...You have to decide quietly as to your personal feeling of a person's home...You either like it or you don't......You would immediately commend the owner of the greatness of their home if you happen to love it and you would just keep quiet and be diplomatic with the answer to such question...One of the most important indicator of a clean and well managed home and care with love is that the wash rooms are kept loveliness clean all the time...To me this small room which includes what use to be the 'small house' behind the big house are a very important aspect of the house itself, for it relects the culture of the occupant itself...A brief visit to one would give one the true picture of the occupant of such domain...I strongly belief in this indicator of a way of telling what is the real culture of the occupants of this particular home are.....Another indicator I believe is the space we give to the kitchen...To me the most important part of any house...It is in fact the most productive part of the household space...The kitchen should be spacious enough as to provide for the right atmosphere for great cooking and enjoying the meals...Togetherness in the kitchen is the key of a healthy family life style....So the kitchen should be well planned as to provide for all the needs for a modern living style...I love the kicthen so do my wife who spend quite a considerable time doing her cooking...which happen to be her hobby...I guess I am blessed to have such a wonderful person who love to cook... as my partner and a friends... to be with all the time...cooking great food that are love not only by me but the children and the grandchildren as well....so for that purpose we have present her with a great kitchen....We all call it the Mom's department....Well talking about renovation would not end until the cows come home...as long as we human love new things and keep dreaming of a better home...we would continue to renovate our home...I guess there would be no end in doing so....Why should we stop if we enjoy doing it...And happy about the out come of all those creative works..After all home is our most important habitat...A domain that we keep returning all the time...that makes us human more human......