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Cockroaches that can fly is a female cockroach, and it's a pregnant one. So kill it, and stop letting them breed and breed. I hate cockroaches, and super sensitive about them.

I took my first step (bare foot) into the common toilet. I want to make sure if I really hate the sai color. Actually, the color don't really look that bad. If there is no sunlight, the color looks brown (a bit like sai color). When the sunlight shines from the kitchen window into the common toilet, the pipe color turns yellow. That explains why it is called Honey Glow (color code: Nippon Honey Glow 9038). With sunlight, it glows like honey color. Without sunlight, it becomes brown. But for the MBR, the wall tiles are beige color, so actually the brown pipe looks much better in MBR toilet. And also, MBR toilet has less sunlight than common toilet, so this color suits the MBR. That's why maybe we will paint white pipe for the common toilet, and leave this color in MBR toilet, or paint white color for the MBR toilet pipe. See how first lah... See whether I can get used to it or not. Regarding about the question of goodwill: No goodwill for repainting even if we buy our own paint.

DAY THIRTY-SEVEN Today, I took half day AM leave to see the renovation progress, especially I know my electrician is there in the morning, I need to be there! Yesterday, confusion occurred, as there were many "unknown" electrical wires lying around the kitchen cabinet (near the L-end area). Everyone was confused and started playing guessing games. Everyone was guessing which wires were for oven, which one for double gang socket, which one for hood, etc etc. The most irritating part is, the electrician was not available to drop by yesterday to confirm the situation. And guess what?! After this morning's clarifications with the electrician and carpenter, in the end we got to ask the carpenter to shift the electrical wires to the right side. I asked if need to drill a hole to push the wires to the right side, they told me don't need. Then I asked how, they said leave it to them, they will shift the wires without drilling holes in the cabinet. I guess they will be taking out the cabinets, and shift the wires to the right, then push the cabinet in again. For now, I would say the carpenters are very professional with no attitudes. Unlike my electrician, gives me lots of attitudes, like "kiam" him money Another issue aroused my temper. Placing the DB box above our main door! My eyes cannot leave his sight. When I turned my back and see... When I asked to shift the DB box down and place behind the door, TOO LATE! The main power supply cables were cut and terminated in the DB box. Now want to shift down also cannot. I'm there, yet don't want to ask my opinion. Really........ (di di da di too) At least he did something to make me happy. He got the switch that I want. Mai siao siao... ah neh got email address okay. I sent him email attach picture of the switch, so he got exactly the same ones for me. From picture cannot see clearly. It is MK switches. The feel is much better than Legrand. I like switch with "tiak tiak" sound. At least I know I got push the switch properly when on/off. I don't like those soft feel switches. Feel so insecure.

The catalogue book doesn't look trustworthy anymore. When I see the Nippon catalogue, the off white looks yellowish cream color. I'm not sure if I want to risk getting those off-white shade colors or not, later come out again another sai color. To play on safer side, stick to pure glossy white? Looks like adult one too. Yes, another one more week, or less than one more week. We need to stop all renovation work by mid-week, and start our spring cleaning session. Furnitures are coming in on 28 April. If I don't clean the house by next Thursday and Friday, I won't have sufficient time to allow the furnitures to come in on Saturday. These delivery people don't delivery goods on Sundays, otherwise can push one day later.

Ya. Didn't expect to turn out dirty color like this. Looks exactly like waste color. zzzzz....

Later I will go and buy a tin of white paint. Don't want to risk buying other colors and end up like sai color again. Not sure if they will do on goodwill for us or not. Otherwise, Hubby will DIY next week before we move in

Yes, we got conned by the catalogue. But this difference is definitely too much. Now the waste pipe looks like gold bar = sai (in hokkien)

Hi gal! I have received your PM. Thanks! Yes, we do share similar taste. The stools are very cute.

Inner laminates definitely look good, and costly too. Yours and mine carpentry are up!

There should be a base plate to collect water, not too sure, I check it out tomorrow. The dish rack is in the house, so tomorrow we should be able to see how the dish rack looks like. I would prefer to have a base tray than to let the water dripping everywhere, and I have to start cleaning the surface or the floor (maybe). We plan for futniture delivery which is on 28 April Saturday when the renovation completes, so almost all the furniture will be delivering on that day. I foresee many delivery men will be squeezing in our small flat on that day

Hi revox. Yes, I think our renovation started around the same time. After carpentry, we can start our spring cleaning, and wait for furniture to come in already. The open concept dish rack allows natural wind to blow dry the dishes, don't need to use cloth to wipe the dishes.

Aaaahhh... cute "bird-nest" look-alike chair. Where did you buy it from (again)? Too cute to resist

Aaaaahhh.. the stools are really very cute. where did you buy and how much does it cost? Got other colors? I like furry furry things

You don't reveal we also know. Too obvious. Hubby and myself said our next house renovation will look for him if he is still working in this line.

My first day of this week to visit the house to see the renovation progress. Rushed back home after work and got to find out: Nippon Bodelac Honey Glow 9038 turns out to be yellow color? In the catalogue, it shows brown color. Why turn out yellow?! O M G ! Why like that?! Color don't match the toilet tiles mah.... My mum still say yellow is lucky color, then what? Huat the toilets? Maybe after installing the shower screen, we cannot see the pipe already. Can't wait to cover the striking yellow pipe Kitchen cabinet done halfway. Doors, laminates, and solid top not up yet. Taking a closer look at the L-end top cabinet for open concept dish rack Blanco sink not installed. They just take it for measurement and cutting. Will do top mount for the sink, not undermount. Granite sink is too heavy to undermount for our sink countertop. Carpentry work shall continue tomorrow. Electrician will be coming tomorrow and Saturday to complete installation of lightings and power sockets. We can see some lights on Sunday

LOL! I thought it's common to see t-shirts lying around, but underwear, jeans??!! Hahahaha...

Reallly? Geeez... I was being told different story - that we cannot block the kitchen water pipes, that's why our kitchen sink countertop was shifted in to allow space to open the box-up door.

Nothing matters now... $2K for electrical wiring, do more points! $2K is cheap, inclusive lighting points?

Option 3 looks better. Build a shoe cabinet to block the front entrance from looking into your living room - where you will be sitting on the sofa

DAY THIRTY-SIX They are finally here! Our small MBR wardrobe

More is better than less, for the console area. I got 3 double gang for the tv console. But I think there is too many points in the kitchen. You need so many electronic appliances for the kitchen?

Heee... And one thing, how does your kitchen big water pipe look like? Is the pipe link from ceiling to bottom type, like this? From what I know from my contractor, we cannot block the water pipe even if it is boxed up. Meaning to say, your kitchen sink countertop has to go in nearer towards the hob. Cannot build sink countertop to block the water pipe. Double confirm this with your contractor. We asked to build the sink countertop like yours, to block the water pipe, but my contractor said no, cannot block the water pipe

There is brown tiles, or is that beige tiles? Surrounding the white kitchen floor tiles.

I saw this in EDI catalogue. Negotiate with your contractor to use White Logic catalogue from EDI company. We cannot find anything we like in Jenning catalogue book.

I like the kitchen cabinet color combo, but I don't like the brown tiles around the kitchen floor. And there are too many colors looks like want to squeeze into the kitchen, spoil the kitchen clean look.