A couple of weeks ago, when Lau had more or less completed the renovation of our Windsor apartment, I sat down with him and “ordered” the last couple of pieces of furniture I wanted (rather we needed!) for our apartment. One – we had no shoe cupboard. Every house needs a shoe cupboard! And I [...]
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The old and the new
Hubby arrives for Eid very soon and with him his D300 and wide-angle lens. Yippeeeeee! So we’ll get some nice pics of the new kitchen and the rest of the apartment then. But right now here’s a look at the old and the new and why I should be grateful and happy! The old kitchen [...]
Mabruuk, finally!
After a couple of postponements, Bernard made it to our apartment for the final appointment – to fix the famous 4 glass doors with the vertical opening mechanism, now from Blum AND to fix everything else that remained outstanding. This was it. I had threatened that IF they did not fix everything today, I would [...]
No more Mrs Nice Guy!
I lost my patience yesterday. I’m normally very understanding and patient but now I was tired of all the run around everyone was giving me about my 4 glass doors with the parallel opening mechanism. I can’t believe it has taken them this long to fix it! I really didn’t understand the problem. When the [...]
Its easy if you know how!
We succumbed to Astro! Mainly because we’re missing all that international news….I always miss CNN, BBC World and al-Jazeera news when I’m here in Malaysia. I find the local news channels don’t carry too much international updates. In Kuwait, I’d always be “listening” to the news whatever I’m doing – whether its working in our [...]
The fridge and the omelette
Bosch called me two days ago to deliver the fridge yesterday but I wasn’t available so an appointment was made for 11am today. I called Bernard the same day to let him know so that he could arrange the installer. I waited and I waited and I waited. It was 11:45pm and still no fridge. [...]
A happening afternoon after all!
I think it was the rain that made everyone (except for Andrew and gang) disappear. Anyone who has done any renovation work in Malaysia will have heard that when it rains, contractors and their workers don’t turn up for work. Or they just turn up late. All kinds of things happen. One of the guys [...]
Will I get my kitchen today?
I had a big breakfast of nasi lemak from my favourite Daun Restaurant downstairs this morning after dropping off Dan at work. Then I waited and looked forward to Bernard and his guys finishing up my kitchen. Heavy rain followed and it was so cool and breezy. I love the smell of rain so I [...]
Tightening the reins
It was 10:15 am and an Indonesian guy arrives to fix the replacement tiles in the laundry room…ummm…utility room. He was good enough to request to cut the tiles outside the apartment because of the dust. I prayed that there wouldn’t be too much dust..building management will not be too happy. Anyway, the building cleaner [...]
Solving the extractor problem
It was quite a disappointment when Building Management told us we couldn’t core a hole in the external wall for the hood ducting. That meant we had two options. One was to opt for the recycling feature of the hood we bought – no way, I thought. I had that before in my very first [...]
