This really sucks.

I want to take pictures but normally when I reached home, it’s already dark. So let’s wait for the weekend. At work, we are moving to a new office too, so it’s a non-stop pack-unpack process for me. It’s tiring, beyond words.

I can’t say I’m 100% satisfied with the contractor’s job.  But he was willing to rectified whatever mistake he did and did not beat around the bush. As far as my money is concern, I’m going to get whatever I want to pay for

I will write that in another entry. Right now, let me enjoy the night view of the suburbs, among the mess and unpacked boxes

Second,  in the studio for the current place I’m renting, 3Naah handymen fixed the shelves and desk for me. This was over 1 year ago. I was impressed with their workmanship. He took his time to do things carefully and accurately and he used water leveler. I had bad experience with one contractor who I called in and asked to fit the curtain railings and shelves in toilet and kitchen. He simply drew VERY thick visible pencil lines on the wall. I wonder if he knew what water leveler is for. Aku yang tak bertukang ni pun ada water leveler sendiri. I’m not talking about simple ‘x’ mark. This is what I meant.

It was really frustrating, and I’m renting, mind you!!

Third, this is the main reason I was sold. The 3Naah handymen cleaned up. He cleared up every piece of debris and rubbish and wipe the floors spanky clean. There.

Forth, they are punctual for meetings, and they keep their word. When they said they are going to call me ‘tonight’, they will call me ‘tonight’.

Currently the house already under renovation, and we are praying we are going to be satisfied with their work. I think 3Naah actually focused on interior design stuff. But if they have that standard of handymen, we think their level of contractors standard should be at par, if not higher.

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It hits me real bad. I have so much to say but I can’t do it without waterworks. The grieve is greater when the deceased never did anything wrong towards you. Rest in peace K0i. Al-Fatihah.

I already notified my current landlord that I’d be moving out end of March. I’ll be giving the contractors 3 weeks working period max, hopefully they can start working on 1st March and be done by 20th March so I’ll have the rest of the month to do work with the movers and unpacking my stuff. Speaking of which, I haven’t done my research on movers. It sounds like there’ll be plenty of time, but each time I think of this, I’d have knot in my stomach, afraid that we couldn’t make it within 1 and ½ months.

Here are some pictures of the house after defects rectification is done. They did a good job. Please ignore the grey spot on the images. My SLR sensor clearly needs some servicing.

Living area

Dining area (but we are planning to shift the dining area to the front of the balcony.

That’s me overlooking the view.

I’m saving other pictures for other entries Stay tuned.

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Not sure if you’ve heard of Invisible Grill before. This type is allowed in the condo. Kinda cool isn’t it? So it wouldn’t look like you’re living in a cell. We are still thinking about this.

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We picked this design for main door. It’s a wrought iron grill. The contractor is a very nice and sweet lady. She didn’t push us for anything extra  and was really patient with me and my never ending inquiries. She gave the best deal amongst other contractors we’ve met and advertised in our residential online forum (yes we have one!! :D).

It’s a 3-day weekend, we spent it meeting contractors, measure walls and windows, surveyed some furniture and toilet accessories. I’ll try to put up some pictures of our house before we start doing any renovation/improvement.

* - picture credits to Invisible Grill official website.

** - picture credits to one of the residents who recommended me his contractor for iron grill.

As expected, we love the room that we are going to turn into a studio better than the master bedroom, tee hee. I decided to let him design the studio himself, I will just butt in when it comes to my craft tools and apparatus. This room has these ceiling to floor windows on one side, so the sun rays poured in perfectly.

When I bought the house, I didn’t expect it has any view. All units with nice views were way beyond my budget, I thought the balcony was going to be facing the other block. But when we checked out our unit, the view from balcony was not bad at all. The view of wangsa maju, batu caves and some parts of bukit tabur are just lovely. It was windy and the balcony is quite spacey. I’m not really into gardening but after seeing the balcony myself, I suddenly couldn’t wait to plant some herbs which can be used for cooking. Parsley, basil, curry leaves and stuff.

There are just so many things we want to do with the house, but first, we have to let the contractor rectified the defects first. I’m seriously not good with this waiting game.

Aaaanyhooo.. I think I want to see if I can commit to something on this blog. Since I’m about to move to my own house soon, (which now I’m already used referring to ‘our house’ instead of ‘my house’ with my better half), I’m planning to have it documented here. So you will get to know the progress from a very basic condo (I bought it new from developer) until, well, it becomes a home.

As a start, I consider this condo as my second ‘grown-up’ purchase, after the car (I bought my first cosmetic when I was 13, so that’s not grown-up purchase). I bought it late 2007 and early this month, I received the letter informing the house is ready. I have to tell you, we were over the moon

We already set an appointment with the developer for key collection and house inspection tomorrow, and we both applied for leave from work for this.

Please do not expect a snappy magic of the progress, due to our decision to involve loads of personal touch to our house, this might take a while. Which ever that can be done ourselves, will be done ourselves in stages. Both of us are into making things, and this will help with our financial too, owning a home does not come cheap.

There are progress bars on the side and I categorized it into house sections, so we can keep track of the progress.

Here are some pictures I could share, I already sew the dining table cloth (and another one soon). I also painted the dining table (chairs) white. I thought I could complete painting the dining table set (chairs and table) in one weekend, boy I was wrong. We only complete the chairs this weekend. Primed in one day, painted in one day. It didn’t help that this process can only be done during the day when sun is bright.

I bought this red checkered cloth in Bangkok during my trip in July 2009. Had the white ric-rac sewn around so it doesn’t look that plain. Table mats are from Daiso.

I got myself this dining table from IKEA when I moved into this apartment I’m renting, it’s an INGO dining table that came in plain wood color. Then I purchased the plain wood color STEFAN dining chairs to complete the set (I couldn’t find the plain wood color in IKEA website). Now they are white!

New tag added - our crib. So stay tuned!

“Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there, because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t. But then one day you feel something else, something that feels wrong, only because it’s so unfamiliar. And in that moment you realize you’re happy.” -Lucas Scott

Quote given by Lucy.

To another one, I can live with all your imperfections, it’s just the lack of seriousness in life left me disturbed.

Nobody is perfect, I am nobody.