Car Show in Miri

We went to Miri on 18th March 2011, stay overnight at Miri Plaza Hotel. As usual, looking for new items for the new house. Bought ceiling fans with remote for living room, and 3 new bed covers. Spent around RM$1000. Funny.....actually we're looking for lightings but ended up with buying different things.

Check out from hotel at 10.20am, to go to other shop and zoom back to Brunei. On the way back, went to E-mart (quite a big supermarket in Miri). While searching for parking, noticed lots of cars with sticker designs and boom..boom, the car audio sound too. Lucky, got one car park. We make a quick round on what's going on. Car shows such as new car, car audio and many others . There's a stage at the right hand corner, and a live band starts kicking in. Looks like 'May group' a rock legend performing on the stage....sorry no picture on the live band

Old school car..classic isn't it. Still functioning

Another old school car displayed

Fully loaded subwoofers, I think it's a Cougar brand...very famous in Malaysia

Won so many prizes on sound system...not sure on how they're being judged. According to IASCA, based on db sound and style

Wandering how they drive this car without rear view mirror.. Guessing that side view mirror will do

bling...bling....nice big rim

No way that this car will be on the road

Lizards

While visiting the new house, noticed so many wild lizards climbing the mango tree. Others were seen on the gate and wooden planks. It ran away if I got close to them. So, manage to get some photos of the lizards from far away. Unfortunately, I have no DSLR with me at that time so I snap shot them with my iphone.

Sorry...not a very clear picture

Crawling on wooden planks

Dream home - Part 6

Make a visit again to the site to see any changes. Cementing the walls still in progress. Roof galvanised steel truss just arrived at that time. According to the contractor, he had difficulty in finding the steel truss due to out of stock. Once have it, they sent them at night since it the steel truss were very long.

Installing the steel truss ongoing at the moment. Waiting for the roof to come. We're going for metallic silver colour. Hope they have it in stock. Will have a look at the finished installation next week.

Dream home - Part 5

Long time did not update this blog. Progression improving from time to time although its rainy season. From here, you can't see them because they do the inside part. Actually, the contractor advises us to select the roof and its colour choices. Metal truss for the roof still not available.

Slight changes especially the windows just to make it nice

Cementing the wall......Oops no harness lah

Just finished cementing the wall....Starts concentrating the colour of the house going to be, the doors, kitchen cabinet, tiles and so on. Just bought some items for the house and kept them at the shop and they will send them when the house is completed.

Wah...Kapal api....

My 2 sons

Here's my two sons and their photos.

These photos were taken during surveying furnitures for our new house

This was taken after attending my friend's wedding at Liang Lumut Recreational Club (LLRC). The photos were shot with Nokia N95

Alamak......not enough lighting. Iphone camera not that good, only 2MP.

Waie and Arif. Arif was about 5 months old

Dream home - Part 4

Not much progression so far due to rainy season. At the moment, the contractor did the inner part of the house, stacking bricks together. Below are photos of the progression.

Progression bit by bit

View of the 2nd floor area. They have stacked the bricks faster then we thought, actually the area should be extended 1 metre to the front. Their supervisor have discussed this earlier but misunderstanding and confusion cause them to did it wrongly. 2nd job....to remove the bricks and remeasure again.

I think now they have removed the bricks.

This is the lounge room. Looks big from the photo shot.

Dream home - Part 3

Good progression on the house so far. Baru je nak naik tiang atas, ada saja perubahan yang nak difikirkan. Need some changes I guessed so as to make it nicer. We are a bit late to change the kitchen section due to some problems arise, i.e. the drainage and pipes were fixed already so can't do anything. We are able to make slight changes for the lounge and dining area a bit.

Lesson learned - to study the house plan carefully and thoroughly before doing it. Of course, all people makes mistake for the first time especially in building things or decision making. In this case, building a new house for the first time always make some mistakes. My friend told me that if he builds a second house he will know what to do. We all know that we want a house as good as it is, the one that we always wanted and dreamt of.

I abled to visit the house today @ 5.40pm since it was almost 1 week I did not visit them. Took some photos of the house. Nampak besar juga setelah tiang atas berdiri. Ganjil ehhh.....

From the side, looks big enough. But have no idea after covered by bricks

Good to see the progression went smoothly. Hope it finishes on time.

The shop house looks bigger than mine

At the moment we make a moved to go to the shop suggested by the contractor, looking at things that might be interested for the house such as tiles, doors, lightings and so on. We still keep on searching and will decide again which suits best.