Back in Taiwan my parents uses scrap materials from worksites and ask the men to put together a table or something, the rest they'd get them from IKEA.
Here in Canada I'd find random organic materials from my fridge and put together a dinner,
unless I'm really craving for cheap Scandinavian meals, then I'd seek help from IKEA.
But tomorrow I'm actually going to get batteries.
I was just googling "how to pronounce IKEA", because I was debating with this other person about it. And I was right! Well, if you really want to do the Swedish way, you say EE-KEH-AH, not freaking AI-KEY-YA!
And also, I just learned that IKEA is actually the acronym of Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. Ingvar Kamprad is the Swedish person who found IKEA while the last two
Elmtaryd Agunnaryd are the village and farm where he grew up. I gotta say, this naming method is a bit strange, and not as creative, imagine if one day I open up, let's say a bakery, and I name it Sherry Yang Yaletown Vancouver (SYYV).
Actually, SYYV would be quite hard to pronounce, SAI-V (as in dive)? Maybe Ingvar Kamprad named it after his name and hometown just so he can make the words into IKEA, which sounds cool in this case. So in that case, Sherry Yang Taipei Vancouver might work better, SYTV as in SAI-TEE-VEE. Or Sherry Yang Surrey Vancouver, SYSV, SAI-SV, the last part sounds like Eastern European eh? Now I wish my name is Olivia, just so I can name my bakery Olivia Yang Yaletown Vancouver (OYYV), so I can say OYYYYYY-V. "Hey you wanna go to OYYV today to get some Portuguese buns?"
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