AAARRRGGGHHH!

I’m so sick of it!

There are just some people who are raised in uncivilized families who happen to live in my condo. Their mission is to irritate me day and night, forever ruining my public holidays and weekends.

Here are three shining examples:

1. The elephants upstairs

There are two or three kids living above my condo unit. Every evening without fail, they will chase each other around the house. Step step bang bang STOMP STOMP RUMBLE RUMBLE. *imagine some dust falling from my ceiling to my chicken soup*

After they get tired of that, they will play with their toy Legos or building blocks. Slam slam slam hammer hammer knock knock. DEMOLISH! And all the blocks come tumbling down.

Then late at night, there will be a consistent sound… someone knocking a metal or stone on the floor. Then that person will will drop something heavy. I suspect that somebody is either lifting weights or making belacan.

My wife and I have tried guessing what they’re doing. You’d probably think that they could be doing some mating activities, but they’re in the living room wor! Besides, I don’t hear any bed springs creaking.

Won’t it be funny if one day I went upstairs and found the unit to be vacant? Haha *nervous laugh*

2. The scary boy

There’s a boy who goes “ROOOOOCK! ROOOOOCK! ROOOOCK!” non-stop for hours. We think that there’s something wrong with him mentally. It’s not that I’m not understanding or sympathetic, but I do have my limits.

The problem is, his parents place him in a room and he’s shouting out the window.

This window doesn’t lead outside, it’s an internal air well. So sound travels.

Sometimes when he’s especially jubilant, he will interspace his “ROOOOOCK!” with some “WOOOOOOoooooo“s.

Imagine this going on when you’re taking your afternoon nap, or when you’re trying to sleep in late on a public holiday or weekend.

There’s no way to block the sound because he’s so loud. We can even hear him from the car park downstairs sometimes.

3. The crappy bassist

This is the one that irritates me the most. There’s this guy (I assume it’s a guy) who plays his bass guitar full blast. It won’t be so bad if he actually had some skill.

But he’s sooo, sooo, sooo crappy I feel like stabbing my own ears to stop the torture. For one, I can hear that he doesn’t use proper technique. For goodness sake, you’re only using one finger!

And take some lessons! Your timing is all off! And don’t try to play electric guitar solo parts with your bass!

And… PLEASE. TUNE. YOUR. BASS!!!!!!

He only plays outdated rock songs from Nirvana, et al. For half an hour. Without stopping. Few times a day. I got to admire his tenacity. He started with Knocking on Heaven’s Door but now he’s moved on to more rocking songs.

And you know, he probably doesn’t know that the bass wavelengths are longer. If he sits right in front of his amp, he won’t be able to hear it as loud as people further away. So he puts it really loud. And the vibrations are absorbed by the condo walls. And it turns my home into a bass amp sound chamber.

OMG. One day I’m going to put MY bass amp to FULL VOLUME and let HIM hear how a bass guitar is SUPPOSED to be played!

But I won’t do that. That just makes me as terrible as him.

And I’m not saying that I’m so great. But I’m much better than him. And I’m sure the entire condo would prefer listening to my MUSIC rather than his NOISE.

Sometimes I’m going to church and I’m actually afraid to let people see me holding a bass guitar. What if they thought that I was HIM!?

So if you live in Shang Villa and you’re one of these three, you better stop (Hah! Fat chance of them reading blogs). The only thing stopping me from coming to your door is I haven’t bothered to hunt you down yet.

I might consider recording some of these sounds for you to hear. Oooh, that’s a good idea. My weekend project!

P/S: Remind me to delete this post when I plan to sell my condo okay?

Photo: Dawn Allynn

Walking from my living room into my bedroom is like walking from the cool mountain air into a dim sum steamer.

It’s like eating a cool triple scoop chocolate sundae and then drinking piping hot sharks fin and abalone soup.

It’s like a crystal clear diamond compared to a fiery red cursed ruby.

It’s like a mountain spring meeting magma spewing from a volcano.

Last night I couldn’t stop sweating in bed. In the end Poey Chin my wonderful wife had to turn on the air conditioner (I estimate that costs around 2 ringgit a pop).

If I open the window, I become an all-you-can-eat Ramadhan buffet for the mosquitoes in my area.

When I sleep in an air conditioned room, I always wake up feeling extra tired.

And then I get really grumpy. And then I start ranting when I write.

I could sleep naked or nude, but I’m not comfortable with that because of the mosquitoes.

Making things worse are all the pillows and blankets that are on the bed (sorry darling).

Worse of all, the weather turns all cool and fresh when I’m about to go to work.

Sigh… I need sleep. And a solution to my warm balmy nights.

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Photo: Daniel Veselov

Condo Renovation Progress – Part 1
Condo Renovation Progress – Part 2

Here’s the final outcome

Before	After
	It took a lot of sweeping and mopping to get it to look this way
	Second bedroom.
	I think I need a bigger kitchen.
	The things you see in this photo costs more than 10K
	Our bedroom
	Our bathroom. See? I wasn’t lying when I said we used different toothpaste brands.
	Part of my hall. My TV is too small.

That’s the end of the tour

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Guest room (also my temporary bedroom) ICI Pearl Glo Paloma (Code 14520)

Master bedroom has two colours. The dark purple is Nippon Venilex 7173D, and the lighter purple is Par Silk Ballet (Code 4040).

My living room is painted with Par Silk Mocha (Code 6740).

All other walls are painted with ICI Pearl Glo Lily White (Code 16151).

If you want to know where to buy the paint at a discount rate within Subang area, contact me and I will tell you where I bought my paint.

Early in the morning we went to get our blood tested in Sea Park. It was at BP Lab, and we needed to get our pre-marital blood test done. This test is important because we need to know if it will be safe for us to have children later. We both took thallasemea carrier tests, as well as tests for various cancers.

The procedure was quite straightforward. First, I had to go pee in a sample bottle. Managed to squeeze out a few drops for them heehee. Second, the staff at the lab drew some blood from my arm.

After that we went over to the Sea Park wet market, where we bought our food supplies for the next two weeks. It was actually my first time going to the market with my future wife, so I felt really special. We bought 45 ringgit worth of vegetables, pork, eggs, and herbs for boiling soup that should last us for about ten dinners.

Upon reaching our condo we started to clean up the place. We vacuumed, mopped, wiped, organized and stacked. Finally our condo looks more presentable. Poey Chin cooked a delicious meal of Wan Tan Mee (Pork Dumplings with Egg Noodles).

After lunch Poey Chin took a nap while I polished my Gran Turismo skills, and after she woke up we went to Carrefour Subang for shopping. We bought some baskets and floor mats.

In the evening it rained heavily. I called McDonalds delivery but they couldn’t come out due to the rain, so Poey Chin cooked another delicious meal of Tom Yam Mihun (Rice Noodles in Thai Tom Yam soup). After dinner we went back home to my father’s house.

Doesn’t it feel great when you have a productive day?

One item I’m looking for are shower curtains, because every time I take a shower my whole bathroom gets wet. I saw this online store selling shower curtains in all sorts of wonderful patterns. I even found one I liked, the Coastline Seashell Shower Curtain. The store has everything I need for my home such as kitchen and bath items. I just hope they ship international.

I couldn’t really sleep well because I wasn’t used to the pillow and the new bed. I have to get myself a better pillow. It also feels very lonely and a bit scary there, because I’m all alone.

I will try to take some photos, so watch out for more posts later!

Master bedroom. Achoo! So much dust!

The bathroom. Ewww… the toilet looks dirty. 10 bottles of Dettol please! But check out my new floor and wall tiles.

This is my living room. That’s the wires for electricity and TV. Sigh… and the previous owner painted the house green.

This is my third room. Again, another ventilation fan, and green walls, and lots of hacked walls.

This is the state of my second room… sigh so dusty.

This looks like someone is trying to break in, but I’m installing a ventilation fan.

One of my kitchen counters, filled with lots of half done stuff.

Kitchen sink counter with mosaic tiles.