I'm Back!

So 2009's first month is half done already, and I'm just on my first post for the year. Funny how when I'm cramped with so many goings-on -- get-togethers here and there, gifts to wrap, project deadlines to be met, drawings to finish -- I find it so much harder to write a post. So many wonderful things have happened (and I say 'wonderful' because I want to sort of start off the year with optimism--my battle plan against the impending recession!) over the last couple of weeks, that I can't decide which ones to write about first.

The Greenfields Estates project is almost done, and I'm quite happy with how the design showed on the final perspectives. My client's design preference actually turned out to be more tropical-modern than modern balinese. I mentioned in an earlier post that I'm going to be posting other views of the house as soon as they're done, so here they are:

View of the pocket garden that cuts through the center of the house:

View of the den:



View of hallway at the 2nd floor:


I've been worrying quite a lot about the recession that's supposedly impacting us this year, especially since the industry I'm in (design/construction/real estate) is a direct hit, which is why I was extremely grateful and pleasantly surprised when i came across really good project prospects -- four of them. Three of these are commercial/retail projects, and the other one's a renovation project for a restaurant in Makati. I'm absolutely excited about this, so I'd better not divulge anything more so as not to jinx it. I'll just post more about the projects when they're a definite go already (contract signed and all! haha!).

I love my job. Just had to say it. :D

I know we might be facing harder times this year, but I'm confident God will see us through all of it. So we just have to do our best, pray, sit back, relax. He's in control. ;D