Finally it is done

Finally the renovation is done and we are happy with the result.

Top kitchen cabinet

Auto gate

Renovation update

Some of the photo of the renovation

The workers are busy fixing the top kitchen cabinet

Almost done with the front reno. Waiting for our gate to arrive and it is done !

Master bedroom wardrobe

Close up of the design of wardrobe

Renovation ongoing

Day 3 of renovation, progress quite satisfying.

Renovation Started

The contractor started their work this morning.

Bricks for the concrete wall.

Minor Reno

Minor renovation for car porch is starting tomorrow.  I can't imagine the dust that we going to live in.  Hopefully the weather is good so that it can be completed within the schedule.   According to the contractor it will take 2 weeks to complete (with good weather).  I will have to confirm with the auto gate contractor to come and take the measurement once the pillar is up.

Hope everything will go on as plan.  Finger crossed

Last month of 2013

Oh dear !! 2013 is almost coming to the end.  This is the last month of 2013.
December will be a short month due to few public holiday and clearing of annual leave.

We will kick start our car porch renovation by this week and according to the contractor, it will take 2 weeks to complete.  Hopefully it can be completed within the schedule even it is raining season nowadays. The master bedroom wardrobe will also be up by next week.

Shall post more photos once it is done.

Busy and leave

It is October and I am extremely busy now with work, ya! it is the last quarter of the year...there a lot of thing to be done.  Then there is company trip cum annual dinner 2 weeks from now. Need to stay back at least 2-3 days a week for performance rehearsal.  At the same time, I was asked to clear my annual leave. So, which one first ? Today, I take 2nd half off just to clear my leave.

I love November !! It is our birthday month ! Besides that, we will kick start our 2nd mini renovation for our newly shifted home.  This round, we will do top kitchen cabinet and bedroom wardrobe for master bedroom and also our girls' room.  We also planned to do the car porch.  Hope everything is going on smoothly as planned.  I hope to clear more leaves next month for reno plan.

Power Rangers

Ooppsss...not power rangers...but it is power supply !!!  I got a very long irritating story to share.

A very interesting thing happened few days before we shifted.

The chronology of event :-

15/6 -  We have encountered our power supply is unstable as the light was flickering when we went and clean the house. I called TNB and they came but they said it is not in charge by their department.  It supposed to be done by new project department.  They said they will help to lodge a report to the relevant department

19/6 - Went and checked the house power supply after work and found out that the power is still not stable.  Called TNB (15454) at around 7.30pm and promise to come at 8.30pm.  Took our quiet dinner and went to new house to wait for TNB technician but he said he is busy with another breakdown and Bukit Kemuning and he promised to call me when he is almost there.  Went home to wait for his call.  Wait & Wait !!!  At almost 10pm, finally he called and said that he is coming now.  So, we went to the new house.  The technician said that our main fuse is too small so he change a new fuse for us.  After changed, he asked us to try to on all the lights and fans.  It was ok but after 5 minutes, it black out and I can hear a loud "pak" sound and he said it is trip.  And the best thing is all the lights and fans cannot be on again.  All my lights and fans (ground floor) are spoilt.
He said it is not the fuse problem but now the problem with wiring at their sub station.  and he also claimed he will helped me to lodge a report to the relevant department.  Fine !!! but what happened to the things that are spoilt?  He advised me to lodge a police  report.  Ah ? police report ?? but who cares...as long as they compensate my loss.  He also promised that all the fault will be rectified by the next day as I told him I m shifting this weekend.

20/6 - At 6pm sharp, I left office because wanted to reach new house asap to test the power supply.  Still the same ! cannot be on !  Called TNB again and the operator already know my name before I even introduced myself because they recognised it from my phone number.  The operator also know my problem. After a while another technician called me and tell me that it is TNB FAULT as they found out that there were so mistake done during the installation...wah !!! so technical....so how now ? it has become my problem.... I was so angry...I went to police station that evening itself and lodge a police report (sound silly right) but the policeman really take down my report.  At least the policeman is a very nice young man.
Went home with dissappointment.

21/6 - Thinking how to solve the problem and what will happned if we shift in with no power supply.  I decided to take half day and go to TNB office Jalan Meru to lodge a report on my faulty items caused TNB fault.  Went there at 2.00pm, took my number and was served in 2 minutes.  Sat and the customer service counter and told her my problem.  She told me she can only take down my report and pass the report to project department at 2.30pm.  I demand to see her supervisor, she also must wait till 2.30pm. I said I can wait...till 10pm also i can wait...she rudely replied me ...tunggu lah kalau nak tunggu !!!  so rude !!!
Waited till 2.30pm and asked her my report status and I still demand to see her supervisor or someone can make decision !!! the reply i got is TUNGGU !!!  till 3pm she allowed me to see one lady who can really assist me and she promised to give me an answer today.  After 10 minutes, the lady told me that their technician will be going to my house today and asked me to go and wait for them there.

21/6 4pm - TNB technicians from maintenance & project department came to my house and see the actual things happened.  Confirmed that all the lights and fans cannot be on and now all lights & fans (included upstair) cannot be on.  WTF !! more are spoilt !  they said they will rectified the problem by that day as they know i m shifting in the next day.  I said if it is not settled, please send me a gen set !!!  I was really angry !!!

21/6 6.30pm - TNB technicians called and asked to go and test the power again.  Went and test ! power is  back because there is one light still can be one.  But it trips again so now they put the blame on my wireman and contractor.  Wah !!! they are really testing my patience.  Argue with them for almost one and half hour finally an indian man came to calm down the situation and promise to compensate all my lost.  So, I called my wireman to come earlier the next day to test all the wiring.  Luckily big electrical items, like air con & fridge were not affected.

22/6 - shifting day

to be continued

Happy Father's Day and weekend

"I love you, daddy" and "Happy Father's Day" ...this was what uttered by my little Maine for her father.  I think his heart had melted the moment he heard that.  We went to Papa John for father's day dinner.  They enjoying their dinner after a hectic day on Saturday because we spent almost half day in new home for few contractors to fix aircon, fans and water filter respectively.  Few furnitures were also arrived on Saturday morning.

On Saturday also, I went to Maine's kindy to collect her progress card.  Her teacher commented that she is a quiet girl and doen't interact must with her peers.  That is a total different from what she is when she is at home with us.  She is the most talkative girl at home and she can tell story for non stop.  But I told her teacher that I can see that she is enjoying her schooling life whereby she loves to write and read eventhough her teacher commented that her handwriting needs lots of improvement !!  Well, she is only 5 and I am not putting too much of pressure on her.  Let her learn at her own pace.

Sunday was a busy day because more packing to done.  5 more days and we will be shifting to our new 't home.  Just can't wait !!!

New House Progress #4

We took one day off last Friday to soft out few things beside doing the most important i.e. Cyn first IC.  She was so excited as I can understand how she felt.  I also got my address change to my new house address.  The process only took us 30 minutes.

It was a busy day as we went few places, 1st we went to an electrical shop in Kemuning Utama to buy 2 units of 1 HP aircon (for master bedroom & our girls' room).  They will come and install the aircon this weekend.  The fridge (a gift from my mum & siblings) arrive in the afternoon.

We also went to a chinese temple in town to check on the best date to shift in this month.  The date is fixed on 22 June...
The sofa & tv cabinet came on Tuesday evening.
This Saturday, the wireman will installed the fan and aircon man will install aircon.  We will start to shift in this weekend.

Gift from mum & siblings

Our new set of sofa...brown colour

New House progress #3

There were no update for last one week on my new house.  Lower kitchen cabinet is done, so far no budget for top cabinet :(

Cleaning was done yesterday.  We went to Ikea on Saturday to get some household items for our new home.

lower kitchen cabinet

we chose ceiling light

entrance light

Wah !! the floor is now shinning.  2 maids came and clean the whole  house for 7 hours

New house progress #2

Just to show some photos on our new house.  The kitchen table top is done.  The kitchen cabinet man came and took the measurement yesterday.

Wiring still not done.

New House progress

Grille is fixed. The wireman start his work on Thursday.  When I was there on Saturday, he is still drilling the wall for additional plug point.  Kitchen table top started on Saturday.

Wireman in action

The kitchen table top frame is up within an hour 

The worker laying the brick

In the afternoon, the cement work was done

The wireman need one week to finish the work and the kitchen table top expected to be ready in 4 days.  This Friday will get the kitchen cabinet man to come for measurement and quotation.

This weekend we will shop for air-con and lighting.

Journey to New House

There are so many things to be done before we can move in.  Every weekend we are busy surveying for price of necessary things like lighting, fans, electrical items, furniture and most importantly waiting for contractor to come and do measurement.  Weekend will be packed and tiring.

The grille and wiring jobs are dealt as well as kitchen wet work.  Now, will have to hunt for kitchen cabinet contractor.  With very limited and tight budget, we will try to work within our mean.  If everything work according to schedule, grille, wiring and kitchen wet work will kick off this week.  We hope to shift in by end of June.

Actually the most tedious job will be packing our things !!!  Just wait and see....hahahah

House Key

This key thingy story was haunting me since last Friday.  I called the developer last Monday and the clerk told me that I can go to their office to collect my new house key.  Wah !!!! finally !!!  So, hb & I took leave on Friday and went to the developer office in PJ.  We reached there at about 11.15am.  The developer office is so nice and cosy but...the nightmare starts !

The receiptionist greeted us after I introduced myself and she asked us to get a seat while she gets the documents and keys ready for us.  So, we wait and wait and wait.  After waited for about 15-20 minutes, she came and told us that she can't find our house key as it might has given to another owner while she was away yesterday.  I was shocked !! I asked how can she gave the keys to other people as all the keys are labelled.  So she started la with all the grandmother & grandfather stories.  To cut it short, I told her we purposely take leave to come all the way from Klang so she said maybe her senior can help but her senior will only come in at 12pm.  So, I told her we will wait for her as it is about quarter to 12pm.  We waited till 12.30pm, there are no signs of her senior coming, so I told her we will go for lunch at the food court.  Luckily after lunch, her senior came but still told us the same stories but she promised us that she will get her friend to exchange the key with the owner and pass the key to us by the next day (Saturday).

So, we went back with getting the key, but we still went to few places to survey the price for grille and kitchen cabinet.  I have to go to office on Saturday for Fire Fighting Training and my hb is working.  On Saturday, I waited till noon for the lady to call me.  I called her during my lunch time at 1pm and she said she will get her friend to call me immediately to arrange to handover the key to my hb.  After about 15 mins, her friend called and said she will wait for my hb at our new house to handover the key.  Key taken by hb and I asked him to call one of the grille guy to come do the measurement.  The guy said he will come at 4pm.  Another nightmare comes, the lady's friend called me again after 15 mins and said that is not my key, she supposed to give that bunch of key to other owner and get my key from them !!! Wah!!! I was so angry !!!

The other owner can only come to exchange the key at 7pm....and said no because the grille guy is coming to take the measurement at 4pm.....I think she can hear that I am really angry and she said she will tried her best.  She called again and the other owner will come a 5pm.  Phewww !!!!

I reached home after the training around 4.45pm and she called to said that we can collect our key now.  Went there and exchange the key and finally yes finally we got our house key after so much of hassle.

New House

I am still waiting for the key to my new house. From mid of the year till end of the year, I am still waiting.  The latest news is before Chinese New Year.  The developer said they are waiting for the relevant authority approval.  We managed to sneak in last weekend to snap some photos.

This is the entrance.  The door is locked therefore we visited our neighbour on the left.

We actually planned to move in before CNY but look like we have to defer our plan.  The TNB meter is up and now waiting for SYABAS meter.  It is a double storey house and the size is 20 x 65.

Will have more updates on my new house soon.