A trip to Ikea .

It has been a long time since i made a trip to Ikea , and yesterday was a trip down with a friend to run his errand . As you know , Ikea's layout is a "strategic " maze as depicts  below shown .

Well the above picture is solely for entertainment purpose. What amazes me was the infrastructure of Ikea .

Lighting

Ikea brilliantly used lighting as a direction guide ( arrow sign reflected on the floor ) to guide the crowd instead of the usual board and signs .

One of the lighting products featured were auto sensor dimmer lights that can be installed into your wardrobe. The lights were be automatically dimmed once the sensor senses the closing of wardrobe and lighted on opening/sliding of wardrobe .( Girls would love this added on feature when they are in their walk in wardrobe.)

Another important component that lighting constitutes to Ikea would be the Open Concept of Warehouse to the public.

It is important in this case , as having a good lighting in the Open Concept Warehouse means big safety .

Open Concept Warehouse

Let's come to the Open Concept . Other than the Open Concept  display area of different furniture themes.
The second last stop would be the Open concept Warehouse.( Last stop of course would be the cashier to bill your purchase.)

The Open Concept Warehouse to public ensures 2 things : Clear wide path and Easy access to regular items purchased .

Clear wide path without obstruction is the basic aspect of safety to the Open concept Warehouse.

Items that are regularly purchased are segregated in the racks and shelves with lighter/portable items on the bottom to ensure easy access and heavier items on the top (  If you intend to get the heavier stuff , you could engage the help of the transport service staff .)

The racks and shelves are clearly labelled with rack no and section no as well for each particular item.



Now let's made payment at the cashier counter !

Other than Meatball , how about beer for you before we leave ? 

*Disclaimer : This is not a sponsored post or under any form of advertisement . This is my personal view after a trip to Ikea that inspires me to write.  

The life story of paper boat

A young man asked an old man : " What can we do to achieve our dreams and goals  successfully in a one's short life span ? "

On the ground , the old man picked up a white piece of paper and folded into a paper boat .

The paper boat was then gently sailed along with the flowing direction of the river bank.

On the paper boat's journey , there were glittering flowers along the side of bank breezing with the wind seemly to catch the attention of the paper boat . The paper boat ignored and continue its journey .

The old man said : " There are too much temptations in one's life ...money ...woman ..power and status.Through the process of reaching goals , engaging into unethical and illegal because of money , obsession into beauty that causes the fall of a man ,to abuse because of power and becoming inpatient along the way of gaining status.That is why some people are unable to be like the paper boat ignoring all the temptations and quietly sailing towards its destination !"

"Rough Analysis " on CMT .

This would be a "rough analysis" on CMT ( Capital Mall Trust )  , the main focus would be on the portfolio lease of CMT which would also be "rough " . Below are only small part of Citi Asean Investor Conference 2014 .  More info and fundamentals could be found here

For the next 2 years ( 2015 , 2016)  as you can see , CMT would face the most number of  leases expiry .

The income per month compared to past and forecasted years is more than 10 % . 

I am quite surprise that Tampines Mall , IMM Building  and Lot One Shoppers'  Mall attributes quite an amount to the Mall income . The 3 locations are considered to be located at far end of Singapore respectively.  

Respective AEI phases would be going for IMM Building and a proposed AEI to Tampines Mall. The Tampines Mall , IMM Building  and Lot One Shoppers'  Mall are the "pioneers " of CMT Portfolio and certainly attributes to a heavy core of CMT . 

With upcoming further enhancements to the "pioneers " , it is assuring that the performance of portfolio would be brought to another level with all else remains equal .