Busy week at work and it'll only get busier. Starting on something new next week and hope it all goes well! In addition to covering for a colleague. Received cupcakes from a colleague cos I helped to extract some data multiple times.. I felt so bad.... perhaps I only made it seem like a lot of work cos I was bad at it..... :( Also helped in the filming for the coming company lunch so exciting!
I'm still playing yys everyday and waiting patiently for another SSR to come. please please please come already
CNY is coming! Took this photo from the pasar malam near the station. So cute and quite cheap but I have enough plushies already...... No more. Digging out new clothes from my prev shopping spree to wear. I'll prob run out of stock and need to buy more this year for the next cny.
Curtains are coming on tuesday-- this is the living room design. The ones in the room are a medium purple. I finally have proper curtains and don't need to hang up jackets/cloth to block out the sun any more. First time in 25 years. After the curtains come, my house 'reno' is officially completed. Ready for the new year.
I'm so glad that the toilets are completed, cannot stress enough, it was a very very tough 12 days. Horror story ahead.
1. Dirt dust and sand everywhere
The path from the door to the master bed room, and from the door to the kitchen had a piece of plastic sheet covering it. We wore slippers at those areas and took them off only when entering the bed room or the taped up part of the living room. The sand still flew in anyways (especially in the living room) and whenever I felt sand in my slipper I would feel super grossed out, which was everyday. There was so much dust/fine stone/ whatever the drilling produced, my throat was always dry when I woke up and my nose peeled pretty badly for a week after the reno ended.
2. No proper toilet
a) We had a portable toilet in the kitchen and temporary toilets at the void deck but I only bathed downstairs about 3 times in the entire 10 days. Reach home so tired from work or so late at night already I didn't want to step out of the house again and there might be a queue if you're going during the peak period -_- makes me wonder how many households they're renovating at the same time. Plus I had to pack all the toiletries to bring down and it was so troublesome. Also insecure about meeting people with my hair pinned up and looking so cui lol. The picture looks bad but it was actually better than that. My mum said that some cubicles were filthy tho :( Not bathing downstairs and using the portable toilet was my own choice so I zi zuo zi shou for the below para.
b) The portable toilet in the kitchen was super small and had no hot water. It was super dirty as well with all the sand/small stones jamming up the sliding door, making it hard to close and open. The floor was extremely grainy I refused to let my bare feet touch the ground aka wore slippers while bathing. Some times the grainy things still get in tho :((( The toilet bowl was disgusting I could not bring myself to touch it at all, had to half squat to pee every morning. Had to bring toilet paper every time cos there was no place to put a roll of paper. No flush also-- can only use to do small business and use the shower head to give it a good rinse. There was this constant damp smell T__T I got phobia of this smell already. Also brushed teeth using a pail of water from the tap outside.
3. -ANGERY- lol this renovation was at a very unfortunate period of time-- spanned over christmas and ended one day before new year. Which meant that my new year holiday gone cos need to clean up. 2 holidays fu**ing gone, and I had to live with this for 12 days (other ppl who never kena this period at most only 11 days) in total though it's supposed to finish in 10 working days, due to xmas holiday and the off in lieu. Really full of anger at this... The contractors really should have planned and avoided the holidays. I know they are working and all during this period also but really bad planning, probably to meet the completion deadline. WTH they probably went ahead with this knowing that the unlucky households who kena will complain. My period also came on the 2nd or 3rd day of the renovation and that made things worse.
There is no fair or not fair to talk about but I do blame the planners for choosing to continue during the festive period, did they not think about the inconvenience for the households who kena this timing? They could have started renovation on the block earlier and finished the whole area earlier. We did the voting months ago and waited for so long with no news.
wth the more I describe the more angry I get. I know it's super whiny :(((((((((( Need to be more appreciative of what I'm blessed with and not get so agitated over such things. Glad I have this place to rant.
