Thursday, September 27, 2007

流水账之第八天

I am waken up by skiff. He jumps up to the bed, biting my hand at 4am. Raining heavy this morning. So I close all the windows and lie down in the bed, sleeping. Skiff feels lonely, he plays with himself and goes to sleep again.
Having western food as lunch, price and taste are quite ok.
The price to change the toilet window is $380. I feel a bit expensive and am hesitate to do it. Leave it to Sigma.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Hacking work is finished

When I arrive our flat, the main gate is open. I find it is the designer who is on site to wait for me.
Sand is full of half of the living room and tiles are in common room. Every un-need thing has been hacked away. The floors and walls are made up by cement. Electrical wire on kitchen and toilet wall is removed and hung here and there. Toilet bowls and basins are demolished. Em, above is the list of what reno work has been down till now.
The designer shows me the tiles, especially the changed tile for kitchen wall. The difference between the tiles of kitchen wall and toilet wall is: the tile for toilet wall has some decorative design in yellow but the tile for kitchen wall looks all white.
The designer asks whether we want to change the wooden window frame of toilet, since wood is easy to go rotten. Need decide it after discuss with Sigma. For my opinion, I feel it is ok now and will be ok for recent following years. So no need spend money on it. What need do is just to paint the frame and clean the window glass. Any way, leave it to Sigma to decide.
We decide to move the basin from kitchen into the narrow common toilet and put the toilet bowl, basin and instant heater in a line. Our wash machine and refrigerator will be put side by side at the place where the basin is. So that the corner between refrigerator and the store room wall will be our small dining area. It is big enough for 2 to 5 persons. Our 10 feet kitchen cabinet will be a straight line shape, sink and hob side by side. The huge pipe beside kitchen cabinet will be covered.
We need buy some new lights. The designer does us a favor, he will change the lights for free. Nice guy! Maybe I will ask him go with us to select the lights so that he could give us some professional advice. Haha : )

流水账之第七天

Hearing the ring of my watch, I struggle to get up on 7:20am. Skiff is very happy to have a walk. When he sees a Huskey with it's owner walked ahead, he keeps on barking. I have to take him back so that he could stop making noise.
During lunch, I order "yun tun he fen". The coffee shop does not have many choices. I select it because there is a whole prawn in each yun tun and the price is ok $3. Can not give any recommendation, the "he fen" is very spicy even I only order a bit a bit spice. I can not finish it. Maybe I will order no spice next time. Haha :)
I leave office about 6:10. To catch the bus 6:25, my colleague and I rush to the bus stop. It is very lucky that our buses come at the time we arrive the bus stop. So that I arrive Serangoon at 7pm. From the window, the light of our flat is on. I walk up and find the designer. After some discussion with the designer, I am back home by MRT.
On the way home, I go the supermarket to buy some ice-cream: yam and coffee flavor.
I go to sleep at 11pm.
See you tomorrow.

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Banquet today

Today, get up 8 o'clock. In the morning there is a talk about scheduling for real-life applications. Join several talks on scheduling and CP (count the solutions). In the afternoon join a talk where a friend presents. Later join a very interesting talk on SAT solving. 7:00 pm join the banquet, the food is not bad. Drinking some red wine. A couple from zhongshan univ. give me a moon cake, today is mid-autumn. Happy mid-autumn shi tzu and skiff.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

流水账之第六天

Think it is better for me to exercise English more. Haha.
Get up around 7:40 as usual this morning. Skiff jumps onto the bed and bites my hand, wanna playing with me. But he still gets throat problem. He is so smart that go to toilet poo poo when I eat apple in living room. Share some apple with him, since Sigma told me to feed him some vegetable and fruits. He likes eatting apple very much. When I plan to leave and try to catch him, he runs fast to hide himself under the bed. No matter how I call him, he just hides under the bed, unwilling to come out. I have to drag his fore-leg, pull him out and put him into the cage. When he finds there is no way to come out, he changes his mind and starts to drink his milk. Saying "stay home, be a good boy", I leave home.
I eat chicken rice for lunch again. It is not the same shop as yesterday and the price is much more expensive, $4. Think because it is chicken leg and the shop provide some vegetable and soup for free. At least the taste is not bad. Of course dissert is following the lunch. I order melon and saga puting, $1.8. The taste is just so so. Think I will not try again next time.
I feel some upset the whole day since Sigma does not appear. Finally, he comes out around 3pm. He is sleeping due to the bio-oclock problem. Haha. I tell him to give me some msgs so that I know where he is going to.
Today is Mid-autumn Festival. Call parents and cook a dish myself at home. When I cook in kitchen, Skiff is lying near main door, facing outside. Maybe he is missing Sigma. I feel Skiff need rest and decide not bring him out tonight. Go to sleep around 10:30PM. Hope I can get up early tomorrow morning so that I can take Skiff out for a walk.

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