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SallyTV’s Ask A Random Pal About Furniture is a series of hilarious interviews about different people’s opinion on designer furniture. Most of the interviewees are non-designers. Sally is correspondent for one my favorite design site, MocoLoco.

I’ve had a few furniture and home design related differences with family and friends. On top of them is my mom. I love, love, love my mamsy dearest. Just that sometimes she has a knack for picking the cheesy and tacky stuff for home. For example, plastic flowers, small angel figurines, annoying wind chimes and the list goes on. Since I live now on my own I let her have her way and try not say much about her choices. Except! when it’s beyond logic. Once she wanted to put a lighting fixture in the master bedroom. The lightning fixture was something you would use for outdoor posts, to make matters worst it was just one lighting fixture on the left side of the bed. She argued since my father and I love reading we should have a light on that side. Well, we could buy a reading lamp for that. We don’t have to stick that deadly pointed Victorian incandescent lamp in there.

We had our home renovated a couple of years ago every tile and paint had to go through my approval. When the house was done it really looked neat and then one day I got home only to find a ceramic fish wind chime hanging in the living room — it was like a fossilized Flounder (a Disney character in The Little Mermaid.) I begged it to be removed immediately. I suggested she could hang in the mini-garden in the front yard, right in the corner where nobody could see them.

I was semi-control freak lang naman so I let my brothers choose the paint color for their rooms. The last one who picked his paint choice was my youngest brother, Alex. I gave him a color book that had thousands of color swatches. After a week, I saw his freshly painted room - WTF? It was in Cyan! Awful bright basic Cyan! He picked a color from, literally the first page. Right off the Introduction chapter - How Color Happens. o_0. I tried to explain to him that if you mix Black, Magenta, Yellow and - Cyan there are thousands of better options rather this blinding Cyan. It was his room so I let it be. Sometimes I wonder, because my brother is an epileptic, if that color was responsible for his frequent seizure incidents. Hmmm just that gave me an idea. Next time we have the house painted I’d make that excuse to my mom - “But Ma, according to a scientific study Cyan can induce seizure — it’s so bright it sends waves to the brain!”

My friends know me well, so on my birthday I requested this cute chic urban clock I found at Living Well in Podium for my present. J and Joyce threatened me. They were thinking of giving me this anchor design clock they saw at SM. The kind that you would see in many seaman’s homes. I think my brother has one. LOL. Anyway, if I got that anchor clock I told them to shove it up their beautiful asses or better yet I would place it right in their cubicles in the office to remind them of the shabby home decor choices they made in life. Of course they didn’t buy it. They had a hunch I would get even by giving this to them as Christmas present:

Gold framed Last Supper. This is one is pretty decent. I’ve seen tackier ones.