Do you have a Gmail account? Well, if you do, you may want to check out their new 31 awesome themes! The above are sample themes. Almost all designs were developed by Google. Why I’m loving it?

Some themes change during the day, and they use the location information you provide to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather.

Like my current fave theme in my Gmail account is the “Tea House”. It’s a Japanese garden with a “Cat” that changes his activities based on the time of the day. Right now, he is lighting all the lanterns of the garden. Pretty cute Cat I must say. I named him “McGyver.” Good thing Google thought about creating new artsy themes, it just made my Gmail experience enjoyable. If you don’t have a Gmail account yet, you may want to try it. What is your fave theme?

Do you like to garden? Or hate getting dirty and look drab? The fab find of the week might inspire you to start planting trees. The Koi Tattoo boots from Chooka is actually rain boots, but why wait for rain when you can use it everyday and still look fab for only $34.95. Last night, I watched a docu entitled, “Gardening Confidentials,”  watching it made me feel so eager to start gardening than before (not to mention owning the fab Koi tattoo boots). In Feng Shui, Koi’s are lucky symbols of abundance. The docu featured awesome gardens from US, UK and Canada. It gave me so many ideas on what to do when the time comes I start my very own garden. Due to limited space (that’s what you get living in the city) I only have a few plants on pots. But I don’t despair because one day I might even garden in Mars. Scientists by the way are researching now how plants can grow in Mars. But I guess I’m in a dreamy state (must be too much coffee), maintaining a garden is easier said than done. Hopefully I’ll be lucky and have a green thumb.

Sorry for the outage guys and gals, but I just moved in to a bigger and better server! The superman in my life asked me to hop in, he said, “Honey, the water is fine.” I was kinda not 100% about it, thinking the outage may last for days…or even weeks. But he was right! The move was super smooth as the name of the server implies. SmoothVPS is sooo smooth that moving from one server to another is a breeze. They boast for 99% uptime guarantee, premium network and premium hardware. I know my blog is still a baby (I just started last May!) but choosing the right and dedicated webhost/server for it is an important must-do to be able to continue what I love doing - blogging. Blogging has been so therapeutic (at least for me) and I want to continue doing it while I’m enjoying myself.

When I search and visit blogs/sites that talks about Feng Shui, I often encounter a discussion about the Five Elements in Feng Shui. But they discuss the topic vaguely, hence I didn’t understand its significance. So being an enthusiast about Feng Shui, I read and searched about it. It led me to understand that the concept of the Five Elements in Feng Shui is an improvement of the principle of yin and yang. Instead of two types of chi energy, there are five: tree (wood), fire, soil, metal and water. So what are these elements? …..Click here to read more