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 : )

开工后的第一次视察

Which one is our flat?

View of Main Door

Main Door
All decoration things will be removed and will paint main door and main gate. Do not change main gate to rough iron main gate due to budget restriction. :) Hope will have a new look after paint.

Reno License

Living Room - view from main door
I shocked by the color of the wall and the sun-flower stickers on it. The first idea is to hack them all away. But I decide to tolerate the color and remove all the stickers later so that we can save money from hacking work. Thanks to my husband! At the last moment, he makes the decision to hack the tile so that we will have a "new" wall in our color. It will cost us additional $150 to have it done. I told him "I feel heart hurt if do not do renovation while 'meat' hurt if spend much money". He said "heart hurt is much more important than 'meat' hurt". Haha, totally agree with him. Money can be earned back, but we will have happy time during this period.

Living Room - view window in living room
The floor of living room has been hacked. Like the work they have done, keeping everything order and clean. Thumb up!

Main Bedroom - view from living room
Main bedroom becomes cement warehouse.

Common Bedroom - view from living room
Here is tiles warehouse.

Kitchen - view from living room
Hacking work in kitchen is half done. Think they will need two days more to finish it. At that time, the ugly pink pink sink and stove support will disappear. Have not decided which type and color cabinet will replace it. The window and grill will be changed also.

Kitchen - view in kitchen
Last memory of PINK PINK, happy to say goodbye to it.

Kitchen - view from kitchen window
Behind the left wall is our store-room, which will be kept to hide our great amount of mess.

Second Appointment

请了半天假，本来说是3点半的，可是要我们的律师、HDB的律师和屋主的律师都到齐才可以。一直等到快5点，呵呵，终于啊终于，拿到钥匙了。从此我们成了有房一族，从此我们成了负资产者。拿了钥匙，就跑去看房子。很喜欢啊，那个地点。周围超市、吃饭的地方、活动中心、游泳池什么都有，生活很方便。而且正在造环线，还有新的购物商场，会越来越好的。就是房子本身，可能是因为并不是屋主住的，保养得不是很好，可能要装修一下才好。因为现在的租约是到10月8号，希望可以很顺利的搬家。接下来的任务就是找装修商。

First Appointment

今天是first appointment。一切都很顺利。和屋主商量好后把second appointment定在9月12号。之后见了律师。唯一有点担心的是怕屋主反悔，不想卖了，因为最近房价一直都在涨，而且还很离谱。中介是很想做成这笔生意的，由他在中间斡旋，希望一切顺利。就等9月12号拿钥匙了。

今儿个无聊哈

很久很久没有来更新了，我们的skiff小同学已经长大啦，完全就是成犬的样子，除了毛还没有长到拖底。最近的表现也看出来开始有稳重的时候了，虽然大多数还是很busy,busy的样子。最爱吃的苹果、薯片还是很爱吃。从家带过来的茶干也加入了skiff最爱的行列。可以憋尿半天等我们回家，半夜也知道自己去厕所大小便。昨天刚称的体重是8.9Kg，（记住要保持在10公斤以下啊，这样以后带你走也帮我们省钱）。这之前的照片都有拍很多，日后慢慢上啊。小别快3个礼拜就感觉小朋友突然就大了，可能是毛长多了长了，都没有什么可以打印出来的照片。以此为借口，跑去买了canon ixus i7 zoom。很喜欢阿，小小只，甚至比我的手机还要小。
其实今天要记录的重点并不是我们的skiff同学。（哼，就知道你没这么好，都这么多月了才想起来写skiff）我们买房子了，呵呵。其过程堪称速战速决。且听我从头絮叨。
一直都在大概大概的了解买房信息。也在询问近期的房租。终于在我的唠叨下，在房租节节上涨的现况下，sigma也开始留意了，并且迅速决定买3房组屋，地点锁定Telok Blangah和Serangoon，更倾向于前者。贪心的我也不得不低头于残酷的现实，放弃了四房、角头、高层和电梯层的诸多要求。两者择其一的话，我更喜欢Serangoon，尤其是lor liew lian那条路附近的，因为离地铁站近，而且从网上查的三个月出售价来看比较便宜。我们找了个周末去那边转悠。发现那边可能有高架的原因，明显比Serangoon Central热，虽然只隔了一条街。往回走的路上，sigma指着一片房子说“Serangoon Central Dr.”那边的不错，还蛮新的。
于是，在我们回来没多久就给中介打电话说明我们的要求。可是一直都没有回音。可能是最近房地产市场很热，不愁没有买家吧。在等中介回音的同时，我们也开始买周六的street times找卖房广告。呵，周六大早，我就跑去楼下超市买了报纸回来。中午的时候仔细研究，把有意向的房子圈出来，然后sigma开始一个一个打电话。当天晚上6点多出门看房。第一家在beach road，算是市区了，而且在高层，地点很好。站在走廊上，风景很好，可以看见室内体育场和河景。但是房子本身的状况就很差了。只有一个厕所，而且冲凉房和厕所分开，而且感觉蛮热的，房龄快30年了，价钱要22万。好处是翻新过了，有多一个小房。看了之后很失望，没想到现在房价涨到这么高了，这么破的房子还要在估价上面加多4万。出来时候已经8点多了。犹豫着要不要去下一个地点看房。这时候那边的中介打电话来了，问我们去不去看，如果看就等我们。我还在犹豫，一来第一间房子打击比较大，二来那个房子只有三楼，但是sigma还是毅然决定打车去看，因为那个房子在Serangoon Central Drive路边。等我们到了Serangoon打给中介，他居然要我们自己上楼去看。第一感觉还挺好的，因为电梯很干净，也挺安静的。印度朋友给我们开的门，他是租客。大概看了一下，至少比第一间感觉要好。看完了房子，中介来见我们了。剩下来的过程就很顺利了，给定金，约第二天见面拿屋主签的OTP。唯一不爽的是本来和中介说好了价，中介打电话通知屋主的时候，屋主要求还要加2K，我们还到1K，成交。估计中介也是想要卖给我们的，因为我们没有自己的中介，这样子他就可以既挣卖方的钱，也挣我们买方的钱了。我自己都没有想到，居然只看了一晚两间房子我们就订了。哈哈，兵贵神速。