London: The very efficient workshop and warehouse in King's Road

Days and nights in Joan's very splendid flat in Chelsea have been well used for creating everything beautiful for our upcoming launch on the 21st.

Honestly, if you left any of the KMP goblins to this, the best we'd probably be able to come up with is some very ugly papier mache. Bill Keith to the rescue! Everything that looks good on this entire two-week trip is thanks to Bill who has been extra, extra creative in helping us get things done and making things look even more beautiful than they already are!!!

Here's the team preparing goodie bag gifts - a gorgeous mahogany-coloured frame, encasing selected, inspirational quotes from the book Gurus for Hire, Enlightenment for Sale. We do NOT look like grotty sweatshop coolies.

Bill has also helped to creating gorgeous frames of stunning photos of Rinpoche to be put up on the day of the launch. Artist friend of Joan's, Julian Barrow, very kindly lent us antique frames to put everything up and it looks just so so so so so so soooo amazing.

No job to little or too big: Everyone pitches in, in some way to help with preparings. Even Joan takes time off her busy schedule to help with preparing hanging wires for the frames! (and Sio Chian looks extremely happy about something or other)

Bill and Yek Yee do very complicated errr measurements and stuff to get everything just right.

Okay, well, maybe not quite the beautiful artwork we were looking for, Bill.....

Done! A splendid masterpiece!