Gembo Home: August 2008

Friday, 29 August 2008

House during the day (almost)

To friends who actually asked for this, sorry I really thought I had published the pic of our home during the day. Well, here goes.

Sunday, 24 August 2008

More pics of our home

The pantry... storage space for dry foods ... and junk foods heheh

The stairs... specially posted for F.H.A. aka Bondimac - hope this will give you some idea for your home renovation

Another shot of the stairs, with my model Asha

Our guest room - that door leads to the ensuite shower/toilet. This is also my day room - where I do my prayers during lunch time (sometimes too lazy to go upstairs heheh)

Sample of the curtains outside the guest room.

Dining Room shot

Another dining room shot

We bought the table and chairs from different vendors. The chair is from Thomson Furniture (from where we got the Living Room sofa)

The shoe cabinet built in next to the main door... now you see it...

... Now you don't

Muhammad's Room

and his shower/toilet

Our master suite - this pic shows the big window

and the other side

the Master walk in closet

the Master bath - showing the bath tub and wash basin

... and the other side showing the 'business' seat and shower

current magazines to do 'business'

the family lounge . . . it could've been a void, but later we've decided to close it to make an additional family area - for group praying (Solat Jemaah) and to read Quran with family

some of the books that I have... I love Jeffrey Archer's novels.

View of the main entrance... again

planter box at the main entrance... Yes, Still empty. Inda apa, Raya 8 minggu ++ lagi, so we still have time,

and this is where I try my hands at cooking... missus said I spoilt her for all the chix pies that she's ever enjoyed... hehehe

More visitors... Homo Sapiens (heheh Human Kind)

More visitors to our home... no, not snakes, but friends from work.

Kolin, wife Sue and son Joshua, dropped by to get some ideas for their proposed home. Spent a good couple of hours - hopefully the land issues can be sorted soon!

Tom Anthoni (Belgian, Risks Engineer with Marsh UK) and Haji Shahrildin (GM Takaful BIBD), with whom I've spend the whole of last week surveying BSP main operations.

Random . . . . bad weather

I haven't downloaded my memory card for weeks. Here's one that I found interesting - shot at the end of July.

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Special Visitors . . . . scaly visitors

We have three special visitors of the scaly kind in 2 weeks: a couple of snakes and a monitor lizard!

The first snake was a baby python which I suspected was attracted to the number of frogs during the weeklong heavy downpour. I had to call my father in law to catch the snake and move it somewhere else.

The second was a monitor lizard, and I guess it came from the swampy area behind our house.

The third snake, is the size of a thumb and 3 feet long. Its got red stripes along its back and when I wiki'ed it, believe it was a ribbon snake.

3 months today - 09.08.08

It is now 3 months since we moved in our new home. So far so good, Alhamdulillah.

So, what next? Hari Raya Aidil Fitri (Eid Mubarak) is less than 2 months away, and we probably need to sort out the 'lampu cucul' - lights decoration (normally lit on during functions, and during hari raya); new carpets (we currently only have one); hang the 'Al-Quran verses on the walls, and yeah, order Hari Raya biscuits. Now that I have my own oven, I can probably try to bake my own biscuits, to complement my cheese cake heheh.

Anyway, more updates with the photos soon.

CIliqueen & Sis Gina, see, updated kan heheheh

Saturday, 9 August 2008

Pics of our house . . . Pt 2: Living Room

This is our living room, and we just got delivery of the sofa less than 2 weeks ago. Got it from Thomson Furniture in Beribi (quite a good selection there, from Singapore, Malaysia, US & Italy).