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We watched The Batman last Thursday and I just loved it.

Even though the screen was black most of the time (a pet peeve), I just loved the detective vibe of the whole show. Robert Pattinson is also the Batman that all women deserve in return for all the unsought action films we put up with for our other halves. Gorgeous.

I’m also watching Euphoria and this series is just… crazy. There’s so much to process each episode. I’m glad it isn’t just the pure emo, we want to cut or kill ourselves teen trope that I thought it might be.

I was also rabidly listening, reading and watching all the Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos stuff.

Apart from all the media content I’ve been consuming, I’ve been feeling very content. It doesn’t feel appropriate considering all the Russia-Ukraine madness but in my own little world, I have been doing alright.

J and I solved our decade long plumbing woes and showers in our house are finally hotel level epic. I had been nagging J to install an instant water heater in place of the concealed rain shower we have in the guest bathroom but he decided to get a proper plumber to diagnose the issues we’ve been having instead.

Turned out our water pump was leaking, our existing storage water heater was too small and its motherboard gone, our water pipes were of random dimensions and sometimes not connected to the water pump when it should be.

The final magic touch was simply swapping the shower handle for a high pressure shower handle from Shopee! These babies seriously work. RM18 and it’s like a urine trickle to Niagara Falls. Haha.

Curbing my home ID enthusiasm. Not.

Unfortunately for J, I have been obsessed with interior design since 1995 when I discovered interior design mags in the UK. I would give my parents’ house a makeover every night like a sleep meditation exercise. I still remember walking through Ikea in One Utama for the first time in 1999 and feeling like my home planet had beamed me in. Magical magical place.

When we moved into this house, it was a fixer upper. Although it’d have been nice to have the perfect house from the start, I wouldn’t change anything cause the journey of getting our house just perfect is part of what I imagined for marriage? Like a lifelong project together.

We’ve added cabinetry, laminate flooring, porch tiles, porch roof and an auto gate as little year end treats to ourselves. I love it when J asks me or I ask J “Do you remember the cement porch?” or “Do you remember pre-auto gate life?”.

This year, I finally got a mirror for the dining area. I always wanted to get one for the dining table. 11 years ago, I just wanted to get the ubiquitous Ikea Toftbyn but some how kept postponing it cause it felt like such a splurge. #youngLApauperlife

It was good I waited cause I didn’t just get a mirror, I got a mirror wall. Haha. Poor J. I didn’t just get a mirror wall either. Haha. I got myself a sliding partition door so that the living and dining area can cool down faster and I got myself a proper grown up dining table with dining chairs!

Voilá!

For 11 years, we used an Ikea Bjursta. It was great cause it was so cheap, (RM699/799 only!) it was extendable, and our house isn’t huge. The only niggling issue was that the table legs didn’t expand with the tabletop. Ikea has fixed this design flaw now. Pre-Covid, we were hardly home and barely used it. After 2 years of intense lockdown usage (and as the 10 year warranty conveniently expired) the the laminate table top started to chip at the edges and bulge. Very annoying and gross looking.

Dining chairs are so expensive generally that we never bought proper ones to replace the plastic Ikea ones we got as placeholders.

I did get Eames knockoffs from Shopee last year but they were not much better than the Ikea plastic chairs. Haha. They creaked and their screws needed tightening all the time. Very annoying also.

TL:DR? Very pleased with my 2021 home improvement projects. Will I be doing some more projects in 2022? Why, yes, indeed. Haha.

The Absentee Blogger Strikes Again!

It’s been so long since I last blogged, I’m not even gonna try to excuse myself. Or am I?

Well since my last post, I have done the following:-

  1. Got the keys to my new house.
  2. Got a contractor and oversaw 2 months worth of renovations. This includes time spent picking tiles, fittings, wall colours etc. etc. (Hmm… why do I sound like I’m drafting a bill for my client?)
  3. Got legally hitched by getting registered on 30.10.2010.
  4. Had my wedding dinner on 21.11.2010. This includes having all my little pre-wedding dramas.
  5. Had my first home break in. Lost my laptop.
  6. Machine washed my 500gb external hard drive without losing any files! (I’m still using it, please bow to the power of Western Digital. Once it dried up after a month or so, it was good to go.)
  7. Celebrated CNY in Penang with J’s family for the first time ever.
  8. Learned how to make Teoh Chew Kuan Chen.
  9. Turned 28.
  10. Got knocked up. 🙂
  11. Puked for 2 months via mouth and nose. (No, not sexy.)
  12. Thought of lots and lots of girl names… and found out I’m having a baby boy! 
  13. Celebrated J turning 30 today!

So, I think its fair to say that I have excused myself, non?

Our house! In the middle of the street! Our house!

We paid the deposit for our house!

It’s the strangest thing…

I’m moving back to a house in SS5C PJ, and my house used to be just a street behind. I loved the years I spent there too. So I’m really excited to have a family there!

The land title was registered on April 17th, my birthday.

The house number is also the same as the last 2 matching digits of our handphone numbers.

Vendor went to the same College as us too. Haha.

Paintin’ the Town Red

Ok. Not the town but J’s room. Not red but cream. But what the heck.

About ‘painting the town red’… too much of a nerd to do so la. Clubbing is nice and all but I hate that after effect smell my hair can’t get rid off for at least 36 hours and dressing up is really hard since I’ve put on 4 kgs in UK. 🙁

Really loving making over J’s room. The secret interior design fetish I have is unleashed! Hahaha.. been rearranging everything and thinking of ways to spruce things up even more.

Anyway really fun running through all of J’s stuff. The poor thing. Ended up teasing him and stuff but mostly just discovered more things to love him for.

PS: Don’t worry dear I promise to make your room RARGET.