The Christmas Tree

This morning when I woke up, I prayed and asked God to give me good weather tonight after work so that CTY and I can go and collect the Christmas tree.

At 4.00p.m. there was no electricity supply in the office. I decided to leave after 4.30p.m.

Besides having good weather (an extremely hot one), we did not have to rush after dinner because the shop closes at 8p.m.

As we were at the back of Karamunsing Complex, a car was reversing out from the parking bay and we parked at that parking bay, outside the complex. PTL!

We went straight to the shop. The boss told us that his worker can help us to carry the box to the car. But since CTY was looking for something to buy and could not find it in this shop, I told the boss that we will come back.

CTY found what he wanted to buy in another shop and we returned to the shop.

The worker carried the box to the car.

This is the original Christmas tree with the in-built lights on. I have indirectly searched for a tree like this for the past eight years.

I still have not put these three boxes of decorations onto the tree.

Curtain

When we first bought the house, this is the curtain in my bedroom but of course in better condition. I like this curtain very much because it blocks out all sunlight or street lights from coming in.

But recently it depleted until this condition and I have to decide when to get new one.

Mum has been bugging me to take action but I have been in my ‘take it easy’ mode. By this I mean somehow it would work out in the end ie. I have the peace that God will provide.

And indeed He did provide. This came from Aunty Alice’s house in SDK and now it is mine. FOC.

Show Unit at Seri Hartamas

Mum and I dropped by to view the show unit outside our house after grocery shopping.

The developer is HME Development Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Huat Ming Enterprise Sdn. Bhd.

Huat Ming is an electrical shop located at Karamunsing Shopping Complex and they also have a warehouse at Kolombong.

The show unit is a corner lot with Gross Built-up area of 4300 sq. ft. and Lot Area of 3390 sq. ft. The price is RM830,000! It is fully furnished.

I did not check the workmanship thoroughly but at the surface it looks quite impressive.

Ground Floor – Lounge Room, Dining Room, Small Bathroom, Servant Room, Dry Kitchen and Wet Kitchen

First Floor – Small Family Room in between Two Bedrooms. One bedroom has a balcony while the other one does not have one

Second Floor – Small Family Room in between Two Bedrooms. Both bedrooms have a balcony.

All bedrooms on First and Second Floors have en-suite bathroom.

The price of other lots ranges from the lowest of RM568,800 for 3710 sq. ft. Gross Built-up Area and 1940 sq. ft. Lot Area to the highest of RM799,000 for 4300 sq. ft. Gross Built-up Area and 6216 sq. ft. Lot Area.

Today’s Happenings

My brother was having his business partner (PC) from Peninsula Malaysia staying in his house for quite a while before his parents-in-law came over for a visit since two days ago. So PC had to stay in our spare room downstairs since two nights ago. He does not join us for dinner. He goes over to my brother's house for dinner.

(I haven’t been properly introduced to PC yet. I only saw him on the night I was going out for dinner with Paul Lok and gang on 25 July 2008 and he came over with my brother’s family to join mum and her guests for dinner)

I did not sleep well last night. At 1.30a.m. I suddenly woke up and when I looked through the space underneath my bedroom door, I could see that the light downstairs at the front of the house was still on.

When I went downstairs, I saw that the guest room door was still wide open. I unlocked the front door and did not see PC’s pair of shoes. I closed the front door and locked it again. On the table next to the front door, I saw a bunch of our house keys.

I came back upstairs and was debating on whether to call my brother to check with him where was PC but since the time was already early morning, I decided against it. I did not want to wake him up unnecessarily. I was thinking maybe PC was out somewhere with some other people besides my brother.

When I woke up again at 2.30a.m., I saw the light downstairs was off. I was relieved.

As a result of being awaken twice last night, I did not want to wake up when the alarm on my mobile phone went off this morning.

The officer from Statistics Department finally came today to collect the duly filled Survey Form and apologised for taking so long to come.

Since two days ago, the nearby coffee shop had finally increased the price of the economy rice for one meat dish and one vege dish from RM3 to RM3.50. The portion stays the same as before.

So today it is back to Jawa style economy rice for me at the same price of RM3.50 for one meat dish and one veges dish but the serving is more than the chinese shop. Of course having this also depends on whether the office boy is in the office at lunchtime to takeaway for us and himself.

At 4.00p.m. there was a heavy downpour and by 4.20p.m., there was a blackout in the office. The boss announced that we could go home early if the electricity supply did not come back but he did not spell out at exactly what time. At 4.35p.m. I realised I could go home because I started work at 7.30a.m. and therefore could go home at 4.30p.m. eventhough my official office hours is 8a.m. to 5p.m. Normally I do not go home since I do OT from 4.30-6.00p.m.

I quickly called home to see whether there was any electricity at home but no one answered the house phone. I called my brother’s house and my nephew told me there was electricity in the house. I also talked to my sis-in-law and told her the situation I was in last night. She said PC and my brother were out for business meeting until after midnight last night and when they came back home, they were working until early morning. This morning when my sis-in-law opened her front door, she saw PC’s pair of shoes. She thought that he slept on their couch. We laughed. Actually he wore my brother’s slippers to come back and left his own shoes at my brother’s house.

So I left work and brought home some work to do and managed to do it just now. I am glad it is done and tomorrow I can concentrate on other more urgent work. I have not had time yet to write out the cheques due to Inland Revenue Department which will be due on Friday. I hope I could get to do it tomorrow.

Tonight was the finale of the TVB show ‘Always Ready’ on ntv7. Since the weather was not that great, the reception for this channel was bad. Most of the time we could not see anything but can hear the conversation. So the maid suggested to take out the 12” tv from the guest room to watch. Mum was surprised that the reception of the small tv is better than the big tv. I told her twice that her maid has been watching tv in the room most of the time when she does not like what we are watching but both times she could not hear me properly because the volume of the tv was louder. Yes, the maid can be the boss sometimes but since she is not my maid, I refrain from saying anything. I just have to tolerate things.

Frontyard (Photo)

Backyard (Photo)

Fridge Magnets

These are my collection of fridge magnets.

Bathroom Makeover

Although 8th October 2007 was mum’s birthday, I received presents from her the following day.

Thanks to mum, my bathroom looks different now. She told Mr. Michael Chan to fix a mirror and two compartments for me to put my things. I also got a shower curtain with dolphins on it with my favourite blue colour. Yeah!

Previously my mirror was a portable blue one (which I bought from a RM2 shop in New Wing, 1 Utama Shopping Complex, Petaling Jaya last year).