I have been cleaning the new condo the whole morning and part of the afternoon! I'm really, really hating sawdust and plaster dust right now. It's amazing how sawdust can fly everywhere and embed itself deeeep into every, single, minute, nook and cranny and crevice imaginable! We have a stone wall feature thingy which is practically made of nooks and crannies, so I think the we'll have a steady supply of sawdust for many years to come!
*Sigh*
Hubby is still away in Bintulu, so I had to leave the kids with Sidekick to become foreman cum Indonesian maid for the day. I had no time cook, or even buy lunch for them, so I asked the maid to cook Maggi mee (instant noodles). I always feel a tinge of guilt when the kids eat Maggi mee, it's like I'm a lousy mum, feeding my kids junk... but the kids sure are happy whenever they get to eat Maggi mee!! (at least Solomon had porridge... in my world of logic; feeding junk to kids is a minor offense compared to feeding junk to babies!)
So, most of the furniture arrived this morning, while I wiped just about every surface in the place. Basically, I had to receive the furniture, clean the never-ending mess and keep an eye on the workers. There were people still installing the laminate floor and some built-in cabinets, thus there was some drilling and hammering. Living in such close quarters like in a condo, we have to be considerate of our neighbours...
Actually, we're not supposed do any construction work at night and on weekends. Technically, this was not construction though, more like noisy installation :) Well, I still got called up by the management who informed me that the next door neighbour was complaining. Hehe.. what else is new?
I'll admit that this time it was our fault for making noise on a Saturday. This is the first and only time. We're sort of in a rush to move in before Chinese New Year. (I'll send the neighbours a cake or something when we're done!)
However, this Korean lady next door has been very unreasonable from the very beginning. She was complaining endlessly, even though we made noise only from 9am-5pm from Mondays to Fridays, as stipulated by the management. She called the management countless times, then went over to scold the workers a few times too. Then there was once she came over when Hubby and I were there. She was rude and totally unreasonable, saying we were making a lot of noise and making the corridor dirty! Ya, uhuh, okay... I'll knock the wall down gently and quietly and make sure I don't produce too much dust in the process, if it pleases you my dear...
So anyway, Hubby gave her a dose of her own rudeness and she backed off a bit. I guess her nerves were already frayed because the unit directly below hers have also been renovating and banging away for the past three months! Anyway, we're 95% done and we only took 2-3 weeks? Can't remember when we started...
Well, our very own, first home is coming along gorgeously. On Monday, the televisions and the curtains are being installed and we're done!! :D Then... comes more cleaning and the actual moving of all our junk from one building to the next!! (at least it's like only 200m away?) I'm not looking forward to the carting part... luckily Hubby will be back by then. He can replace his running and swimming with lifting and shifting heavy boxes! He could take the stairs instead of the elevator! Yup, that would burn a whole darn lot of calories, yes indeedy! Nyeheh :P
Then it's ~~"tong tong tong chiang"~~!! Chinese New Year in our new home!! Yay!
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