Bed shopping

Ghee. Broke like shit. Just bought mattress + divan + headboard

Rm3899. But I guess it has to be done *bleeding*

One-eyed Jack for a Day

Ok let's take a break from all the house reports...

I've been having this stye/chalazion (in Hokkien we call it "bak jiam") for so many months. Close to half a year actually. Hehehe. It's not that I never took any medication to cure it but the minute it cures (pops) another one grows back in its place within the period of few days. I got fed up with it that I finally bit the bullet and went to see an eye specialist last Saturday to have it surgically removed.

I went to the the Oh eye specialist clinic at burmah road and it was my first time there! I was surprised to find a very classical looking clinic with classical looking instruments and hey! Even the doc is "classical looking" :x

The doctor first came in to look at my condition and he tried to clean my lids with a lid cleaner solution and he was so rough :( reminded me so much of how my dad used to clean our faces in the morning. Lol! It's a wonder I still went ahead with the procedure eh? Maybe because I felt kinda "comfortable" with him cos he reminded me of my dad in that aspect. Lol!

But just before the procedure, he told the nurses to treat me with "tender loving care". Lol. That's what he really said! And just before he injected me with the anaesthetics, he told me "bei thia eh" (it's not going to hurt) and one of the nurse quickly came and held my hands. Heehee. I felt so loved. *sobs*

And this was me on saturday...

Yep! I had to live with one eye for one full day on Saturday...this I did not bargain for cos I though it was going to be a fairly simple procedure and I would be running around in shopping malls after that. Apparently not! Anyway the bandage is off now, and my eye is recovering although it is watery and building up lots of eye wax. Heehee. Why, this morning my eyes were "taped" shut when I woke up! Lol! Ok everybody say "EEEEEwwwwwww"

House Progress Report Epi 8 (S02)

Ok...looks like the "season 2" of my house progress report is gonna be a pretty short one. At "episode 8" my story is about to finish. Yes! The renovation is finally nearing it's end! In fact, our contractor told us he's going to finish by tomorrow! Yippee!!!

Forgot to post this photo up yesterday, but could you believe buying a toilet bowl, a wash basin and bath accessories such as towel railing, hand shower, etc could amount up to rm900. Never take toilet bowls for granted again!

This was how the common bathroom looks like in the afternoon when we went over...

This is the rm900 toilet bowls and sinks...

The floor of the common bathroom before tiles were put up...

Called up the cabinet guy to come and do the final measurements before finalizing on the actual cabinet doors. As you can see, our cabinets would be from d format cabinet shop. Not too sure how is the quality like, but so far the service provided by our sales rep is pretty good!

Went to look at some lighting last night for the sitting room lighting. Not too sure which one we bought but we bought one of the 2 bulbs light. I think each costed us rm88 excluding the bulbs. The total came up to around rm220

Someone Trying out the LED lights in our shower head...yes! Our showerr head has led lights! Let's hope we don't get electrocuted while bathing...

This is how the common bathroom looked like when we went back at night. All in a day's work...

Have not been to the house yet today, but I guess the toilet bowls and fixtures should be installed by today.

And this here is the Armstrong ceiling boards all installed with the aluminum railings/fixtures

House Progress Report Epi 7 (S02) - All in a day's work

Ok i must apologize for my lack of words in my previous progress report..but i just can't find time to turn on my macbook and type a few words here...most of my previous posts were typed on my ipad/iphone. I don't know about you, but somehow i've been brought up by my mom to think that hiding in one's room when staying over at someone's house is kinda rude *shrug* So somehow, i just have to go out and sit with my "friend" (who is actually my boss...yeah! i m staying with my boss! :x) and watch TV together with my iPad of course.

So here i am typing it this quick (i hope) post in my office PC where there's a 10 min block quota! Gosh...i hope i can finish it in 10 mins...here goes...

On Saturday, we went over to the house early in the morning and saw that the kitchen is already nicely done...and the workers have already taken the liberty to use my kitchen counter top for the first time *yeay* (not!)

Some of you might have noticed by now, that being on a shoestring budget meant that the first thing to go was granite kitchen tops...its all but a dream...but i'm sure one day in my ONE house, i will have granite kitchen counter tops!!! anyway, we are using 2x2 tiles for the top to "emulate" the look of granite top :P

its still dusty and dirty but can you see my reflection there!!! it's sooo shineyyyy!!!! ♥♥♥ somehow, i'm just so proud of my kitchen counter top but on Saturday i saw one of the worker sitting ON the top while talking on the phone...oh welllllll....

just for fun, here's a photo of our washing machine that was kept in the washing area all these while...

now i could actually use it as a blackboard (or rather dustboard). can you imagine the condition if we were to actually live there while all the renovation is going on? that is why i am once again ever so grateful for having people kind enough to offer us a place to stay during our time of need *sobs* so touched :'( and it has been 3 weeks and counting! and still they have not finished...

and this is the common bathroom...wall tiles are halfway up...

i am quite ashamed to say, i didnt care much about the common bathroom..all i cared about was the master bedroom bathroom cos i foresee myself spending a lot of time there...yes i do love the bathroom a lot :x so the choice of tiles for the common bathroom, i did not play a big part in the selection...so if it turns out ugly, you can't blame me...but if it turns out pretty...you know my "influence" was in the tile selection :P

beige walls and sandstone-like floor (not up yet) but lookie...purple waterproofing!!!

never knew the waterproofing agent is purple! whee...so pretty! for the house renovation noob (i was a noob too until recently), waterproofing is a very very important step when renovating your bathroom (esp high rise) as it makes sure that your neighbour downstairs might not have a waterfall in their bathroom. so it is essential the contractor applies at least 2 or 3 coats of waterproofing. important!

ok now let's bring you to my fav part of the house 'x'

water heater is up, stock cock is up...now i realize the important of concealing wires and pipes...if you buy a new house, there is no way you will spend money to redo all the bathroom tiles just so that your water heater piping is concealed...but with a second hand house, no problemo!

ahhh..my lovely toilet 'x'

i know this is really weird, i don't know why i can't stop gushing about my toilet! and i love that divider wall too! (have i mentioned it before? 'x')

this here is the bidet tap...my choice! (mine!mine!)

the stock cock...shiney! you can see my reflection :P

sorry, i don't know why there are so many photos of the toilet bowl..LOL!

the tap at the sink which is also my selection! :D

and the little hexagonal corner next to the sink...hmm still thinkng what we should put there, perhaps a cabinet...i foresee another trip to Ikea

but we found a defect that day...

i never knew that part is made of plastic! i thought it's supposed to be ceramic too....hmmm a little turned off, but too late to do anything :(

someone getting all worried about his never-ending-flushing toilet...

well i guess if i would love the toilet so much, HE would love it even more since he is going to spend a lot of time there :x

the window in the master bedroom...

After that, we went off in search of ceiling boards for the 2 bathrooms. initially, we thought of doing plaster ceilings for the bathrooms but the quotation came up to be around rm400 for a 42 sq feet ceiling area which I think is unnecessary money spent in a space where no one will ever think of looking at the ceiling. So in the end our contractor recommended us to use ceiling boards. The current ceiling boards are the asbestos type which apparently causes cancer and has been banned. So our only choice is to use these newer types of ceiling boards called the "Armstrong". Again, another jargon in the world of house renovation. I was like what???? When our contractor told us to look for ceiling boards called the Armstrong. He even flexed his muscles while telling us the name of the ceiling.

Not to fret, nothing a little googling couldn't help. It's actually a brand of ceiling board made of those fiber materials which is both affordable and safe to use.

So Armstrong searching we went...we were brought to a deserted warehouse stacked up full with these boards.when our contractor brought us there, the bf whispered to me "this looks like a place where people normally get murdered in movies" -_-"

A box of these contains 10 pieces of the boards and it costs around rm160. Initially our contractor told us he needed 12 pieces and the seller refused to sell loose pieces to us so it meant that we have to buy 2 boxes (20 pieces) just for the extra 2 pieces!

The frugal auntie within leapt and said "no!" when I heard that. I'm not going to buy one whole cos just to get milk! So the bf told the contractor to just reuse the asbestos board for the remaining 2 pieces and guess what? The 2 pieces were just needed to cover up the tiny small areas in the bathroom -_-" lucky for him we decided to buy only one box or else I would have skinned him alive if I found out he made us spend another rm16o for 8 pieces of ceiling board which we are not going to use again! Moral of the story?? Do not trust every word your contractor tells you!

House progress report ep6 (S02)

Oh gosh. Im getting a little lazy in documenting the house progress. But in a nutshell, the master bedroom bathroom is coming along nicely...I'm loving my soft close toilet bowl and the divider between the shower area and toilet :) I can already imagine putting a cabinet somewhere there.

The kitchen counter top is done too with our 2x2 tiles. Now it's time to call up the cabinet guy to come and do the final measurement and also the kitchen hob n hood people.

As you can see, they've just hacked off the tiles for the outside bathroom. At this rate, I guess it will all be done by next week! Yippeee

Why I love daiso [girly reviews]

As some of you may know, I'm currently staying at a friend's house while our contractor is smashing out out place. I don't know about you but for me, one of the biggest "problems" a girl could face when staying at someone's house is...when you are having THAT time of the month. I don't know, I just feel that it's inconvenient to throw away the err..."waste". Lol! Especially when your friend is not of the female kind.

Losing blood

Ok maybe it's time to take a break from all the house renovation posts (and also bcos we didn't have time to go over n look at the progress :x)

This is only my second time having my blood test in my whole life :( the thought of having my blood unnaturally sucked right out of my veins just gives me the heebies

So woke up super duper early in the morning at 6am to beat the queue



In case you are wondering, it's a company sponsored blood test which starts from 6 to 10am. Since I have a meeting at 8am, I have to make sure I get my turn before that.


Scared out of my wits but I didn't cry or anything!



Muahahah. Ok that's it! So long farewell!