My humble house

  • Cupboard and a table from Dad’s

    Taking a break from developing PP slides for a talk to Postgraduate Students . I am going to take the cupboard from Dad’s house to Muar. My mum used to put some of the Chinaware into the cupboard . I actually bought the cupboard for my mum because she had to have another cupboard to…

  • Latest Developments on the Muar house

    Had the contractor for 3 days in the house to do a few minor corrections plus one major correction. The minor corrections include lengthening the installation height of the sconces at all of the walls in the house . This is because the height of the sconces were or seem to be too short .…

  • Chaing Mei – last day of brekkie

    At the Chaing Mei airport as we early as we needed to check-out of the hotel by 12 noon. There are many small independently owned coffee shops in town . This adds to the charm of the town . We also went to a few small independently owned bookstores . It seems as though one…

  • Chaing Rei – Day 2

    Went to long-necked village to see whats its all about . Had to pay an entrance fee of baht 1000 equivalent to rm133 !!! Hmmm.. this is to support the Hmong people who came into this part of Thailand ages ago from Burma. Thiru is not comfortable walking around the village .. The villagers just…

  • Chaing Mai – short break during Eid Fitri , Day 1

    Went to Chaing Mai for a couple of nights, just to chill with nothing planned in the itinenary . We had a balcony facing this view so its quite nice . Since we had nothing planned for the day ,after breakfast we had a little stroll  at the Soi next to the hotel. The hotel…

  • Restoring dad’s furniture from the PJ house

    The restorer came to the PJ house last Friday . Selected a few pieces of furniture that I wanted to be fixed . Costings were per item that was restored . Altogether , there are 4 rattan single chairs as above . I got one rattan chair in my condo and the matching coffee table…

  • Another Muar Trip

    Have not posted in this blog for some time . This is because I have nothing new to report in terms of the Muar House . Actually , this is the 99th posting since I started this blog. Went to Muar with my youngest aunt ( my father youngest sister ) and uncle last weekend…

  • Roman blinds installed

    Managed to get a local curtain shop to install the blinds in the house . The blinds are sand in color but from the photos given , the color looks different . Sand color is light colored because that color will be easier to match with any type of furniture. I was able to get…

  • SMART Door and Lights

    Got the contractor to figure out and re-set the SMART Door .This means that I can set the temporary password to allow anyone to enter the house . This is configured either by using 1) the Internet or 2) by not using the Internet but through my apps on my mobile . The installer had…

  • Furniture

    Since I was transporting the stainless steel kitchen back to Muar, there was space in the lorry to carry other items . The lorry by Lala Move was a 5 ton lorry so that Saturday I had to go to the PJ house to get some items of furniture to be placed in the lorry…