Pre-wedding makeover

I just manage to finish my work at 1am. Just to write a quick post.

I went for my pre-wedding photo shot at 5th Oct 2010, Tues.

I sign the package from Keep Gallery, which includes 4 dress + hair do, 2 album, 1 large + 3 small photo frame.....One thing good about this wedding house is we will get all the photo's soft copies back (4R size for unselected photos)

It wasn't a sunny day, drizzling rain on and off at Putrajaya. I am still thankful that it didn't rain too heavy.

We prepare quite a number of tools, such as lollipops, bubble gun, rose pedals,devil plush for the photography session. Hope the photos are towards what we expect.

Here is one of my dress and hair do for the indoor shot. How do I look?

Eating healthy Salad

A few weeks back, my friend took me to an Italian Restaurant - Nero Teca for lunch. I ordered this salad which cost RM30(Of cost I'm not the one paying). I just don't understand why a bowl of salad is so expensive. Maybe because got prawn and salmon?
This is what I prepare my salad at home. Some lettuces, cherry tomato, grapes, sunflower seeds and cashew nut. Add some French dressing and it taste good.

Renovation Part 3 - Paints

One of the most tough decision to made is the choosing the colors of the house. The cost for re-painting the whole house(interior walls) is RM4000. It's so hard for me to decide what colors I want to paint as I love colors, colors that I like might not be suitable for a house.

As promise, let see how is my house now after painting.

Here is the living and dining room ~ I choose natural brown color compliment with beige color.

At the kitchen area, I choose "apple white" color. We view the sample wall from the contractors, it was actually white in color, but the contractor told me it will have some greenish color on the white. Ended up it a bit light greenish on the kitchen and the maid area. I think it should look good with my white and black kitchen cabinets.
They have also paint our backyard wall ~!
Let's see how its the upper part of the house.

Here is the family area~ I choose khaki green color with is a continuous matching color from the living/ dinning area.

Purple color on the master room ~ a bit disappointed on the color as I would like a more deep purple color. Its look more pink purple to me. All the rooms matching white color is "orchid white" which means there is some pink colors in the white color.
The 1st small room and my craft room is in blue. Oh my~ I love this blue color so much~
The second room I color it in to pink color ~~ Sweet sweet color ~~

One thing the contractor did was the shower screen on the master room. He did half of the opening area~~ should ask him to do 70% of the width. I scared the water will split out~ Lets see how after we move in~~We spend the last weekend to buy more lights. Brought everything except the living area light. Estimated spending on lights will be around RM2500 for the whole house. Next shopping list will be the curtains ~

Renovation Part 2

Another 2 weeks later from the Renovation Part 1, my contractor have finish almost 50% of our house renovation.

The auto gate was install. Both of us was so funny trying to open the auto gate door without knowing it can be only open with a remote control!~ so stupid.

Let see the back yard~~ hooray! It is done. The floors are cement too. No more muddy dirt stains on the back of the wall.
This is our neighborer's house backyard
We have added additional water pipes at the back yard. Ease of cleaning the backyard.
After I deliver the sink to the contractors, they manage to build the tile concrete top L shape at my wet kitchen. I must say they are so quickly on deliver the house to us.
To my surprised, the carpenter had finish his work (he promise to deliver at end of September), but we saw the cabinets of the kitchen and the cabinets of the master room in our house. I think we can move in by end of September as everything seems like in early schedule.

The last visit to my house, we paid the 2nd payment. I have choose the colors of my house. I hope it won't look like kindergarten as it will be colorful ~ I choose blue, pink, purple, green, brown..... Does it sound like too colorful ? Haha. Looking forward to visit it this coming weekend

Manage to snap a picture on the recent show house on my house~!

It's almost 1 at the midnight and I'm still blogging. Need to stop write and go to bath and sleep. One thing good in my new company is I can enter the office at 10am. Lesser traffic and I can sleep more. I feel more happy as after tomorrow we will be having a 3 days weekend holidays ~!

Renovation Part 1

Recently was busy with my new job. Since my new job, I reach home almost 9-10pm everyday. Had to do either housework or "extra" work after reach home. I didn't have time to read thru my list of feed blogs nor has much time surfing in Facebook.

We start our house renovation at the mid of July. We drag quite some time because the fixing of defects wasted us more then 3 months. Besides that, we are waiting for our EPF money to release.

We started our house renovation by the house wiring and air con piping. Both of them are done by TS brother. We added extra wire points and sockets for the home. We also added air con piping for living/dinning room and 3 rooms at the 2nd floor. Most of the wiring and pipes are buried/conceal in the walls which requires hacking on the existing walls. There goes my clean and beautiful walls ~ sore heart ~ Actually not to worry that much as it will be repaint later from my contractor. If anyone need piping/wiring, you can contact me as I can recommend you to my TS brother.

After all the research and asking several quotation from different contractors, we decided to go for the contractor which did most of the house for Paramount. His shop is located at the shop houses at the entrance to our house area. He might not be the most cheapest among our quotation, but we will go for a more peaceful mind renovation as we do not have too much time to monitor and chasing their work. (heard too many stories on unreliable and bad contractors) There is quite a number of residents let him do. Why we know it? Because we can see their banner hanging at the house they renovate. If there are bad, I don't think so many resident will let them renovate their house.

Our renovation cost is estimated around RM28,000++. We paid RM4,000 at the end of July and they started working on it.

The next week we visit our house, they have already started renovating our house. The car park area was full of construction materials.... Total mess.

They started on the plaster ceiling between the dinning and living area. My main reason of adding the plaster ceiling here is to install 2 row of down light to ensure both area is bright enough. We didn't do the whole living/dinning area with plaster ceiling because I love the ready made cornice ceiling.
The contractor almost finish our concrete wall fencing at the backyard. But I think there are still under construction as there are supportive woods all around the backyard.

Lights Part 1

Just a quick post on our new house shopping ~

Last few weeks, we drop by a lamp shop on our way home. I brought this chandelier lamp for RM99. The stones are in glass, not crystal. But I am still happy with the price and the design. Thinking of either put it on my master bedroom or my living room

I find the most difficult part of the house is choosing the house lamps/light.

What I notice in magazine and show house, they will usually install down lights at their house.

Then install one lamp at the middle of the room with air con beside the room.

For me, I do want a ceiling fan and I do not wish to on the air con whole day at an area. Firstly, my electrical bill will be a bom and it is not too healthy to have air con for long hours.

Brought a matching stand lamp and another stand lamp too for the living area. Pictures next time after I have install them on my house.

House defect

After we got our house keys, we booked a session with the developer for join inspection. We manage to book the session 1 month later as it was fully book on the Saturday.

We went to our house twice on checking the whole house. The first thing we encounter was leakage of water on the entrance and the master room ceiling. Water stain was very obvious on the ceiling. The living area and the dinning area have pond of water. Two of my bed room wood vinyl floors come out. We have demand the developers to change them for us.

We spotted quite a number of defect. Mainly on uneven furnishing on windows, slanting windows panel, poor quality on the switch part, and many more small and tiny details to check. Remember one concept that we have pay so much for the house, everything that you are no satisfy, you can complain about it.




The land at the back yard... The land is sinking....

WE decide to cement the back yard to preventing the mud to split over my back wall. Mainly because it is more easy to maintain.
Poor workman ship in the stairs.....
My dad told me to check the hollowness of each and single tiles. So we have the knock knock every single tiles with the 50 cents coin, but later the developer say that we can't check like this. We can only use our hand to to knock each tile. Poor TS hand was hurt after the inspection.
The developer spend almost 1 month to repair all my defects.... why? Because we are so detail on our defects.

Working non stop

I have started my new job at last Monday.

It was a totally different environment, lifestyle and working style to me.

Now I understand why they are so busy.

At the second day, they start assigning me to a project and start to ask me to work around on it.

I was pretty lost as I do not have any experience in my new job.

Have to digest tons of documents and data.

Time flies very fast working there.

After getting home from work,I was exhausted and just when to bed....

I only manage to surf the internet, check my mails at the weekends

What a busy week~!

Later I'm going off to buy some lights and furniture hunting for my new house.

Monopoly

A lazy Sunday evening

walking into a coffee shop

TS order a cup of coffee and I order a slice of cake

Saw a box of Monopoly on the coffee shop and started playing them.

It was way too long the last game

I almost forget all the rules and regulation

I miss those old days I played with my brother's and sister's back at Penang.

It was once our favorite game when we were young.

Spending some time reading the rules and regulation and we started to play.... We shouted and laugh with joy if we earn money and become sad if we loss money.

I think the rest of the people of the coffee shop thinks we are crazy.

One thing funny of this game is this TS keep on stepping my land (Pentonville Road $8) every round he passed by....

TS manage to build houses in the most expensive piece of land~ I kena 1 time which cost the rental for $200!

Too bad I wasn't in luck of building any house.

New house @ Kota Kemuning

We brought our first new home at Kota Kemuning after a series of long search on houses.

At first, we didn't plan to buy a double story house as the landed property at Wangsa Maju is out of our budget. We started looking into condominium around the area. One thing that we don't like about condominium is we need to pay the monthly maintenance starting from RM150 - RM280 per month. Even if we are not living in the condo. TS friend started introduce us double story unit at USJ and since then we started to expand our options.

It took us 2-3 months, every weekend starting to visit show houses and second hand houses until we found this ~!

I love it because the design of the house looks modern and it's a brand new unit. TS love it because of the location. (He is fussy with certain location - Cheras and Puchong is a NO to him)

We paid the deposit at November 2009 and start paying our installment at March 2010. We got our key's at early April 2010.
Here is the sliding door and the main gate of the house. The living room and dinning room is so big compare to the condo we are renting now.
One of the reason I buy this house is I love the ready made cornice ceiling on both the living room and dinning room.
Dry and wet kitchen ~ plan to put a custom made kitchen cabinet
The small room at the back~ This room is so small and it is a maid room. I think I will use it as ironing room.
The back of the house is guarded with wire fence and a fence door. There is still 4-5 feet space of land from the end of my house back door to the wire fence. I personally feel like it is so not safe. Will probably change it to solid bricks wall with a metal door. (something like my opposite neighbor wall shown on the picture below)
Let's go up now ~ There is small store room below of the stairs.
There is a family room, 1 master room and 2 bedrooms on the 2nd floor. The 2 bedroom are quite identical, just one in the left and one in the right.
Each bedroom is attach to a bathroom. So total I have 4 bathroom on my new house(omg~~ need to wash 4 bathrooms). The tiles on the bathroom are tile up until the ceiling.
Here is the master bedroom. I love it as it is big compare to others. There is an small area near the attach bathroom where we plan to do a built in cabinet ~ I'm excited in having a walk in wardrobe soon ~~
The floor plan of the house to give you a brief idea how's the house is structure.

Next: Checking defects of the house.