2 more days....to 24th July 2010

Reality is starting to sink in. 2 more days to go and I will have a new place to call home.

My hubby and I are rather fortunate to have both side of our parents assisting us. From overseeing the renovation and moving in of furnitures, to cooking essentials and last minute household repairs. The Bruneians and the Cherasians met up again today at our new home and had a pre-openning moving in party with a basket of durians! It is supposed to be our (my hubby and I) joy of moving-in, but it turned out that our parents are more excited than we are! How cool is that?! Its good to see the four of them together this afternoon again as the last time they had a get-together with a basket of durian was at my parents house discussing about Tim and my wedding and that was in...wait....end of 2008!

There are still alot more to be done to beautify the new place but I guess all these can wait after I deliver. No more mama's little girl from this Saturday onwards. I will be the queen of the house!

Note: "Queen" is an overstatement. I think I'll be more of a domestic slave ... cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing... thank goodness I only need to do all these for 3 months before our maid arrives! 


Did I mention we applied for Astro? Can you believe that Astro's installation can only be done in 4 - 5 weeks time from the day we applied for it??! How ridiculous! But that was what I was told by the customer service rep over the phone yesterday. We've heard so many complaints about them, especially on the Astro Byond's installation recently, I hope I won't suffer the same fate! If I do, I'll make sure everyone hears of it!

Lets see how everything goes. I hope Astro would give me a pleasant experience as a NEW subscriber...

P/S - Happy birthday to my mummy! Remembered it this morning, forgotten it this afternoon, remembered it again this evening. Sorry mummy! But I'm glad to be the first to sing you early this morning! =D

Its Renovation Time!

Its the usual weekend again... and I'm loving it!

Do you know the difference between a condominium and a condovilla? I was told that our new home is actually a condovilla and not a condominium. Hmm...condovilla... it does have a nice sound to it (makes us feel like we are staying in some islandic location) but due to its moorish style built-up, we felt like we are in Spain! (right...Cindy is being dramatic again...)

I'm already counting down the days when we can move in. Renovation has started and yesterday, we went tiles shopping. I never took any interest of it until yesterday. There were so many designs, styles, characteristic & brands! My FIL being the expert in this area advised me on what brands to pick and finally we settled on:-

a)White Horse Ceramic for the kitchen (double coloured wall tiles brown + white with simetric border design and matching brown floor tiles) - since we have a light maple brown built-in kitchen cabinet, we chose a matching wall and floor colour for it (Dad, did I mention the colour of the cabinet correctly? I'm still unfamiliar with these colour names - wood comes in soooo many variety of colours!);

b) Guocera Tiles for the guest washroom (whitish blue wall tiles and blue floor tiles to match with the existing blue mosaic feature wall), and

c) White Horse Ceramic for the master washroom (double coloured wall tiles white + grey and matching grey floor tiles to match with the existing multi-coloured mosaic shower feature wall).

I couldn't find the exact tiles that I have picked (but these pictures would give you some idea about my descriptions above). Lets just wait and see how it all will turn out in the end. The living room and bedroom tiles have already been selected . What else have we left out? The balcony...!

Tiles shopping can be fun! Home furnishing would probably be better! After the reno is complete, it will be furniture shopping time!