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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Our new bookshelf























































































Et voila! Our bookshelf was ready. . .


Deeming IKEA a little too pricey, we decided to buy a bookshelf on the Internet. This one cost 15 Euros, was delivered one week later. We hired our little friend 'Xiao Kui' to put it together. As you can see, it was quite a job...

- The wood was wet and smelled like a pine forest after the rain
- it took forever to put it together (46 pieces that were supposed to fit into each other)
- half of the boards didn't fit or were bent
- The wood is so soft that our pet bird has chewed through the top level already
- the whole package weighs next to nothing (shipping costs was only 3 Euros, coming from Nanjing, a city some 15+ hours by train from here)

That's the price to pay for cheapness, I guess. Anyways, our books don't have to sit in a box on the floor anymore :)

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