Curtains problem

I have 5 minutes to blog here. So I mentioned that I wanted to talk about my curtains. 

Yes, the curtain tracks dropped on me earlier this year when I was pulling the curtains open in the morning. I didn't pull it hard, just normal pulling curtains to open it and wham.. it dropped on my shoulder. My first thought is there will be holes in my wall and there it was. 3 big holes. 

The next thing I thought about is the quality of the work. The installer must not have done a good job of installing the tracks. He drilled into the gib wall without any timber/wood at the back. Of course the curtain tracks would fall with no support right? How stupid. He said he has been doing this for 20 years. Does that means he has been drilling into the gib wall without any support? Watch out people. 

Anyway, after months of waiting for our permanent curtains to arrive, we finally got them end of June and asked the installer to come back. Apparently the installer has been replaced with a better installer, who came to fix everything up for us. They reinstall into the timber/wood with support and put up our curtains. So it is very strong now. Yay.. but of course they charged us for that. They were appalled by the previous installer's job. 

Well, next time when you hire people to install anything, make sure you know how to do it and prepare to correct them and be firm about it. 

New house

I probably have mentioned moving into new house sometime early this year but did not mention much. Well, we have settled in alright and have all the right furniture and things. The only things that we don't have is photos around the house. Time to decorate huh.

It is not exactly very neat and tidy since the family doesn't live like that and I don't bother. We haven't had guests coming to see the house eg housewarming. Will definitely tidy up the house when it comes to that. But otherwise everything stays as it is otherwise mil can't find things around.

We are having the builders' workers to come and do last minute paint below our curtain tracks. Perhaps this is another story to tell in the next post about the curtains. So hopefully after this last touch ups, we can finally get some photos done and hang around the house before the housewarming. =)

It's just first week

Houses..

Before you start choosing for suitable house to stay in, you will surely want to decorate the house, right? Oh wait, this is only when you are buying a brand new house. Oh wait, it doesn't necessary have to be like that. You can change the lightings anytime you want.

Anyway, lightings play a big role in making the house looks nice.



I mean, look at this image. The lightings made the bathroom looks nice, right? But of course, the furniture also plays an important role as well. =) So do check out bathroom lighting, get yourself piped up with information and when you're looking to decorate your house, there you go.

So, anyway, what has been happening these few days? I guess nothing much except planning for food menus. Have to crack the head to think about new menu ideas. I am sure people won't want to eat the same dish once a fortnight or once a week. You will get sick of the dish soon enough.

Modern-nya

I was quietly doing something on the laptop when I heard my dad saying, wah.. this house is so nice. Don't think he is talking to himself since I am in the study room. He was looking at houses on trademe. Yup, some of the houses are nice. I told him some of the house areas that I know is quite good. After finish looking through, I started googling modern house images. These are a few that I found. I don't think I can put everything here. The houses are just too nice. I am so astounded. =)

Hmm.. I would love to stay in a big modern glass house. Hehe *big wide grin* Phew, I spent so much time trying to figure out how to  make the images in the centre. If it doesn't come out properly, I am so going to kill myself. Hehe.. nah, a bit exagerating lah.

Check out air conditioning compressor for the house if you are planning to decorate or renovate your house. =)

Housing area

Seeing the constructions along the roads, I ask what were those constructions for. I was told that there will be more housing residence. The whole area is called Al Waab city so I decided to google about it. I found some nice photos of the new housing area they will be building, villas and apartments. Actually, the house I am staying in now is part of another residence housing area. It's called Nine Pearls and each house are numbered. I should think the security is tight. They checked your ID if they don't recognise you. There are CCTV cameras behind the house I am staying in. Earlier on, I asked my mum how they guarded the other side of the compound. Hehe.. I just wanted a confirmation. These sort of stuff do create jobs for the locals. The construction, security, etc. There are people working in the centre of the compound, providing assistance whenever you need them, be it the not working light bulb, drinking water, etc. There's the clubhouse too, that has gym facilities, swimming pool, spa, etc. So how about the finding jobs in Austin?

Villas. Taken from here.

Apartments. Taken from here.

I also googled the future Al Waab City supposedly look. From what I see of the constructions, it's looking good and may become like Dubai city soon enough. =)

Found this from googling. =)

From google too. It's harder to take a picture of the Aspire building myself. She gave me tips on how to google for pictures. Hehehe..

Home Part 3

I don't have any more photos of Dubai's new Terminal 3 but I have got other random photos though.

I was really thirsty when I arrived so I walked around looking at the shops and managed to buy a drink for myself. Mango mania. I used pounds to pay for the drink for £3. Not that bad, right? Hehehe.. I thought there would be more seats around in this new terminal but no.. I had to sit on the floor. Sigh.. Even lynnwei also asked if there are more seats, but no...

The flight from Dubai to Doha was short but bumpy ride. I got quite a bad headache from it. However, I tried not to let that headache get to me. I still manage to stay up whole day.

After I arrived, because I brought ps2, Sherp immediately brought upstairs to the living room to start playing. She just can't wait. =P

As I said that I toured the house immediately, I saw that every bathroom has 2 sinks, I commented that there is no need to fight to use the sink in the morning and so everyone must get up at the same time. No excuses. Muahaha..

Home

I am glad to be home. But I am missing my darling. Anyway, time do pass very fast when you are enjoying your time. I checked in quite early and got the my wanted seat. =) Friends came to send me off as well. I almost wanted to cry when they all hugged me. Flight was quite horrible, I almost wanted to vomit because the plane kept on shaking. Sigh..

There's nothing much when I transitted in Sidney. Only bought magazine and texting darling to say that I was already in Sidney. Dubai's new terminal airport was awesome though the structure of building are still the same.

I took some photos of the Terminal 3, I am not sure if they have more shops or not but everything are new with new features too. As for the naming, I was testing out. I finally learn something from Sherp.

I manage to stay awake till after dinner. And that is like between 3 to 6 hours of sleep in 2 days. I can't believe I can do that. I always thought I couldn't stand staying up for so long. I toured the house immediately after I arrived home. The bathrooms are so big. I think I shall leave those in a different post. =) Lots to say too.

p/s Check out cerebral palsy lawyers. You will never know if you need them. Interesting though, I think Veep wanted to become a lawyer. Maybe she can consider the type of lawyers she wanted to be? Hehe..

Houses

Yesterday, Cal and I drove around, looking at houses. There's one street that has super modern brick houses. It's so nice and definitely one of my dream houses. I bet they have more than 2 carports. I am sure everyone's dream house will be a big modern house. But you have to think, in reality, of what you can afford when you are buying houses. =) Then, there's apartments or townhouse kinds. We agreed that we can stay in one of those houses and only moving into a house when you have more than 2 kids. Ok, now I realise that's too far into the future and I will stop babbling.

I also wanted to comment on friendship. I think it is hard to keep a good friendship. You always think what you can do for the best but it always ended up in you being hurt. Sigh.. I have this friend whom I thought is really smart in looking out but now, I don't think so. Sigh.. what can we do? After all, we are humans and we are bound to make mistakes.

Let you see nice scenery from the observatory area in Lake Tekapo. It's nice right?