Tiling

Thanks to that stupid contractor, we were asked to look for the tiling worker by ourself. Through up and down, in and out, we found this chinese man from my brother's friend. And the best is, this guy is the brother of the property agent who sold us the house. And this agent is my brother's ex-colleague. What a small world.

Again, at first, everything is great. Fast, efficient and nice work. While we still think we found somebody who is finally good at his work, who knows he failed us during the last piece of work - tiling on the car pouch. The story begins when I trusted him to give me the amount of tiles required to fill the car pouch, and he gave me the number which is quite high. I re-clarified the moment I made order, and he confirmed. Well, I had a slight of doubt but still, I trust his advice at that moment cause he is the pro in this right?

Somehow, it turned out that he had the wrong calculation and causes me bought extra few boxes of tiles. Which resulted me unable to return the goods and forfeit the money. I asked for his help to take over stock as he is working in this field, but somehow he refuses and accuses that I should responsible to my own procurement - because I was the one who bought it. I was like, WTF?? It was his calculation and it turned out my fault? Come on people, I dont know, please help me to decide who's fault is this?

I will release all the contractor and tiling company info once the entire process is over. Well, basically I am still putting hope they will do good, or else, sorry folks. See you in court.

Lousy Contractor

So far from what I observe, 80% out of 100 home owner who went through the renovation process will definitely complain about the contractor. I dont know about yours, perhaps you are just one of the very lucky ones, but for my case, I would say I am the most shitty one.

This contractor started with very polite and good attitude. Very logical and provide us good advices with what can be done, and not. Reno started smoothly with few workers, walls were demolished, parquets were soaked up, cabinets were down and all of these were done in a week.

Somehow, as we all know, it always require more effort to make things up instead of down. And the best is, the contractor cuts down the workers from 4 to 2, and subsequently down with 1. Furthermore this pity indon worker is expected to complete all the wall plastering, roof repair, toilet building, tiling, installation of toiletries etc. Come on, this is so effing ridiculous, and the whole damn reno been drag for over 4 months. I think I can build a mansion! Please give me some advice where can I make a complain?

Stock Up

Christmas is around the corner, new year is few days ahead, and CNY is coming soon in a unimaginably short duration. It is time again to stock up something shinny to blink the festive!

Well, what I mean blink here is not merely the shinny decoration to spice up your house, nor the jewelry that always makes people look gorgeous. Those things are visible, what I mean is something more worthy - buy gold bullion! Come to think of it, what else in this world can bring you more fortune in order to overcome all these festivals with shinny decoration, jewelries, makeups etc? Without money and good return, there will be no festive.

So what are you waiting for? Stock up now for the last bucket of gold!

BGT Down

It seems this is not the first time BGT died on me, but still, I couldnt recall exactly if it happened before. My memory is getting weaker and everything seems so vague like it never happened before, or if it does, I perceived it was happened in my dream.

This blurring effect of me started since about 4 months ago, i reckon my brain is just like the HDD. It couldnt store excessive information or otherwise the virtual memory will unable to share the processing power, which will result in slow performance or some times memory lost.

As far as I could remember, this symptom begins when reno started. And according to my past history, I tend to forget (or lock) things somewhere in my brain. For example, till now I still couldnt recall my primary 2 to 4 childhood, and form 4 and 5. I couldnt recall who was in my class etc. It seems part of them was erased by some thing. I wonder if that was caused by the overloaded, or some thing else...

Wedding Dinners

With my age, and my years of working experience in various MNC companies, it is very common for people like me who has attended countless wedding dinner. Some times, even to the point I rejected the invitation and hid myself for a year. Mainly is of course, save cost and also, no point and dead bored.

Seriously, I am getting vague on the definition and/or the meaning of having wedding dinner. For me, right now, it is a show for the newly wed couple who is trying to tell the world that they are binded to each other. Some may just follow the tradition with no clues of wth of it, some may just want to get ang pao, some truly wanna share their happiness, but again, I interpret it as a political dinner.

This is especially true if you are attending a colleague's wedding dinner. You can roughly understand how he/she perceived you by the table arrangement. I used to follow the arrangement blindly but with all the dinner experience I have, sorry couple, I am a bad participant. Wow, suddenly I feel like having my own wedding dinner now.. haha..

Money and Me

I feel depressed. I am very down. Apart from the fact that I have spent a lot of money in the recent renovation works (which I admit that it contributes a lot to this depression), the other major part of the problem is the havocs during the process. This includes the constant conflicts we have with different main contributors, where I try too hard to please every one until I sucked up too much til the point of explosion. And of course the collision of the vendors who kept turning from good to evil, which resulted it makes me living in hell dealing with this uneducated bastards.

But in my opinion, all of this can be solved (or even will not happen) if money is not an issue here. I wonder how others manage to keep pumping the money into renovation like they have never ending supply well, but for me, I am close to drain now - both financially, emotionally, and physically.

I guess at this stage, only sparing my last saving to buy gold bullion can solve my misery. I wish..