Window Grills and Lightings

I've been really busy for the past few weeks. Weekends are no longer days where you can bum at home and relax.. It's the only time where you can really run your errands, or go do some "serious" stuffs.. and that's for my Humble Home.

I've finally made the last payment to the developer and got the keys to my house. :) My house is ready and what's next? Quickly install lights and grills so that I'm able to advertise it and rent it out.

I know that I will not be able to fetch a good rental yield over at my area because it's a new housing area and there are plenty of houses there. If I dont rent it out, what can I do with it? Just leave it empty? Hmm.. We'll see about it. I'll worry about this later. Now is to focus on the lights and the grills.

It's not an easy decision to decide on what grills to use. Iron bars or the normal metal grills? I can't simply install grills just because I know I want to rent it out. I wanna find something that I like. Who knows I might stay there one day? I had to go around the neighbourhood in Kota Kemuning to see what other people have done and pick one which I find it's classic and nice and affordable too. :) - PLC (Peng, Leng, Cheng, ~> Cheap, Nice, Good)

Finally, I've drawn the below design. I've asked the grill man to follow this.



Can you see the design? Most of my friends can't make out whether to see the black part or the white part. :) haha.. Optical Illusion.. The black part is my window pane. The white one is the grills ;)

Then come the lights. What type of lightings I wanna use in my house. I can't be spending alot on this if i want to rent it out. It's just not worth it spending so much when your main purpose is to rent it out. Hmm.. but I want my house to look good. So i've decided to use nice lightings for the porch, and the living room. :)

I'll be installing the lights and the grills this weekend. Will show you all the outcome of it next week. Stay tuned.. :)

There goes my 50 grand...

The Mix FM Challenge is over and someone has walked away with the 50k. Congratulations to him. He deserved to win. :)

Talking about this challenge, the reason I didn't blog much about it is because I have already chickened out on the 3rd day. The last place i went with ISP is The Royal London Circus in Puchong. :)



Why .. oh why did I chicken out? First of all, the cardboard is just too heavy for me to carry around. Secondly, I cannot spend much time bringing the board around to places. Thirdly, I'm not as brave as the other participants... haha.. There's a limit to it.

Anyway, the main reason I participated in this challenge is just to have fun. I find that the idea is pretty interesting and I challenge myself to carry this board around shamelessly. I did it. I feel pretty silly actually.

There's a couple of blogs which were written by some of the participants and it's amazing to see what they have done. They really went all out for it.

Kudos to all the Participants! :D

Birthday & Christmas Wishlist for 2007

About the same time last year, I posted a Birthday Wishlist too and I got what I wanted a month before my birthday. I'm going to do the same this year and HOPE that I will get one of the items below. I'm a bit greedy this year though. There's just so many things that I want.. Arggsss!!!!

Mr Santa, I promise I'll be a very very good girl kay.. So please materialise my wishlist yah! :D

My Top 3 Wish list:-

1) An OMEGA watch!!! I've been wanting this since years ago. Just that I kept on postponing this coz it's just too expensive. Can I get this this year? Or do I have to postpone it to next year again?

2) A Nintendo DS lite... This is not too much to ask rite? I dont know why I suddenly feel like a kid again and I want to play games and computer games again..

3) A puppy.. I miss my dogs... :( I miss owning a dog.. So i have an urge to have a dog again..

Floria @ Putrajaya

I went to the Floria Festival held at Putrajaya last Sunday and it was unbelievable beautiful. The normal green empty field has been converted into a beautiful garden full of flowers.

I'm sure the government had spent a lot of money for this and the good thing about this is that it's FREE. You hardly get these FOC stuffs nowadays. Too bad there's not much publicity on this. Not many people know about this event. What they know is just the Fireworks Competition held at Putrajaya.

I do hope that they will have such event at least once or twice a year. It's a good way to attract more tourist to our country.

There's an orchid competition and also a bazaar selling orchids. You can find an assortment of orchids there.

Some pictures of the theme they have in the event. I can't remember what is the name of each theme though.. hehe :)

Some under the sea theme. Can you spot the fish?

Hanging Garden theme?

Konichiwa!

A bed of chrysanthemums?

31st of August - Malaysia's Independence Day

Happy Birthday Malaysia!! Malaysia is now 50 years old :) Whoo hooo!

I went to The Curve for the countdown. They had a free concert and also a street party from 12am onwards. I didn't stay up for the party.. Left the place shortly after the countdown. The crowd was crazy... Many people turned up for the occasion and imediately after the 10 minutes fireworks display, the traffic starts to turn bad when everyone starts to leave the place.

My friends and I were not caught in the jam though because we parked near the exit. It took us half an hour to get out from the parking lot. That was considered very good. Imagine if you're parking somewhere nearer to the event. I think you'll be stuck there for hours.

I didn't have a good view of the fireworks. It's ok.. I'm going to watch another better fireworks display in Putrajaya this Sunday :) After the fireworks, I thought they'll play the national anthem.. instead.. they played the famous Merdeka Song "Tanggal 31". I sang along.. and felt so patriotic.. Gosh! I love my Country! :D

Guess who was one of the guest artist performing that night?

It's non other than Fish Leong. :)

I spotted this little kid. Isn't he cute?