KAMPONG AYER

KAMPONG AYER
A view of Kampong Ayer (also known as water village) at night time with colourful lights

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Dream home - Part 9

This photos were taken to be updated in the blog. A slight progression from time to time due to not enough men as well as raining last month.

Double stacks of rocks in thick wire mesh. Marking so as to line up straight

Plastering the windows in progress

This is the design so far. Still far to go. Purchased the tiles outside Brunei, just to taste a different environment.


Dream home - Part 8

Latest update after a long time missing in action....hehehehe.....
This was I think one month ago. The staircase ceiling showing 4 small square drop down ceiling design. This is to make it nicer rather than no design at all.


A close up image of the ceiling

Monday, May 16, 2011

Dream home - Part 7

Hi again. Unable to update my blog due to busy month. But here it is. Plastering or cementing the the house almost done. Not all actually but boleh lah. Approximately 70% done. The contractors are now levelling the floors since it was a bit rough and uneven. Putting tiles when it's level will be very easy for them. Brilliant ideas.


One of the contractors is attaching a cement plank for the window
Gypsum board already attached to the ceiling. It's time for me to start looking for cornice.

Below: lots of rocks placed in the wire basket to prevent water eroding the sand. Still in progress. This also has cost a lot of money.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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....