House Project : En H part 2

Aku dropped by to the house yesterday selepas menguruskan perpindahan sekolah anak2 di PPD Seremban. 

Sebelum tu, adalah drama sedikit pasal SJKC Kg Baru Pajam. Beriyalah the headmistress nak interview budak yang masuk sekolah situ. I thought only top school has the strict guideline. So aku tanyalah, berapa orang dapat 7A UPSR sekolah tahun ni? Jawapannya, 0. Ok.. Berapa orang dapat 5A (perasan ya aku skip tanya 6A) , jawapannya, 1. 

Aik, punya ko cerewet pilih student, cenggitu jer resultnya?

Teruslah nyesal masuk sekolah tu. So 28 Dec 2012 nanti aku nak jumpa ngan headmistress ni. Hopefully Allah will lead me to a better school if this school is not meant to be. 

Problem sekarang ialah dengan SRA. Aku nakkkk gak derang masuk sekolah agama petang/pagi ni.

About the house.

Aku dapat quotation dari electrician developer and Ah Choong, so I asked En H to match with the price. He did not want to. So we came to an agreement that he will only finished with what he has started lepas tu, aku cari lah electrician lain. Better that way.

As I told him, (since he always do not have a figure and wants to take his own sweet time, aku tak sanggup nak dapat final figure 15K kang....)..... "dari saya tak mampu bayar En H, saya kena tengok quotation yang saya mampu...En H faham ya..." 

My hubby said, I am doing reverse psychology. But it is a true fact. I can't pay him if he will come to me with that figure. Kang nanti misunderstanding, sesia.....

House Progress.

The plumbing job is done, now waiting for the cabinet only. Di sebabkan En H punya kerja terlampau "lemah lembut" I cannot get the cabinet people to come. 

I paid deposit for the new electrician man. So they will start this friday. (Oh, they quote me for only RM2400 with the same amount of work En H "should be doing") but I will just see how their work first.

ADT guy came and provide quotation. semua sekali RM1480. So oklah tu. sebab nak request concealed cabelling. Ops lupa kena apply phone line.

Destressing.

Aku macam nak muntah cerita pasal rumah. Sampai satu malam tu, sebab penat sangat pikir, aku tengok youtube all about bloopers. Memula pasal Nora Elena. Tak berapa kelakar sangat. 

Cuba tengok bloopers Nur Kasih, muehehhehehe, gila terus destress.

Lepas tu bloopers FRIENDS. MasyaAllah the best bloopers everrrrrrrrr!! terus tak ingat masalah En H. muahahaha.....

Bloopers lain2 sitcom tak berapa best macam bloopers FRIENDS. I think they are funny outside the character as well. Or should I say, they are into the character that their bloopers are as funny as the character? Ha cam gitulah lebih kurang. 

Esok aku cuti lagi, it should be En H last day with us. Can't wait.

House Project : En H

Hi Mr B.

I'm waiting for Adam and Hawa episode online. So I thought i dropped by.

Tonight is when I felt I lose control over the project.

Teringat ceramah prof Dr Muhaya, terngiang-ngiang cerita dia tentang satu patient ni yang sangat tenang sebelum pembedahan mata... dan kerana sikap positifnya, pembedahannya berjaya dan patient ni tak ada complaint lepas pembedahan tu...... setengah patient datang takut, asyik gusar maka lepas pembedahan masih lagi tak nampak jelas dan masalah2 lain....sampaikan prof sendiri terfikir tentang ini. Betapa kalau kita tenang, yakin pada Allah, kita lepaskan semua pada Allah iaitu bertawakkal maka akan datang yang baik2 saja.........insyaAllah.

Maka, selepas isyak tadi aku dapat idea untuk selesaikan masalah sedikit, tapi kegusaran dan keyakinan aku pada en H ni tak hilang juga. Aku cuba bertenang. instinct aku kuat nak tukar contractor. Tapi aku pujuk hati aku... maybe it is just a thought. Allah knows best why I did not choose Ah Choong.

Paling aku gusar dan jadi hilang keyakinan ialah bila aku tanya dia pasal pasang mosaic. dia kata kena hack. I went to search in youtube. guess what?

Aku watch here on the installation of modwalls, it was easy. Easy as in I can put up the cabinet first then years down the road I can still do this project.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHtl9EY5rk

Malaysia punya equivalent is gngmosaic.com.my.

There goes my trust. but again, aku nak bersangka baik. He has the most critical job ever. wiring.

Anyway, I still have 'wall makeover by na' for an alternative solution to mosaic.

Why all of sudden about mosaic?

I left out this project in the quotation. Never think deep. I thought I have seen enough ideas. 

So another lessons learnt, do enough homework. Be more details. Dun leave it to last minute.

and it is ok to be kiasu and over dreaming! it helps a lot in the decisions actually!

Grrrr..... somehow I am feeling I need to focus on this project full time. 

House Project : Dealing with contractor(s)

Dear Mr B,

 

First.

 

What is blog anyway? Tak de lah... kot orang lain2..so definition dan tujuan pun lain2....

 

When I started blogging.... (I think I repeated this again... the "long time ago" story) so better stop before you get bored.

 

Hmmm... by the way, Mr B, boleh tak I imagine muka you macam Daddy Long Leg "the novel" not spider, dan sipi2 macam character Seth Tan of Nora Elena? Can? Ok set.. baru syok sket. But I don't want macam Aaron Aziz kay. Sebab that is a real character. I need a fiction character yang aku boleh kasitau my problems tapi tak ada balasan.. Ha, macam concept novel "Daddy Long Leg"... tapi novel tu, ialah keratan surat2 kepada Daddy Long Leg tu kan...

 

Anyway.

 

Blog to me is anything that I feel. Oh bukanlah semua. Gila kalau semua. Eh, semua pun boleh. As long as it is a private blog, like my other 2 blogs.

 

Tapi yang public ni, is supposed to be my project journal. So harus tak aku tulis journal ni bila something comes up? Yes? Of course to me yes.

So.

 

Amendenyer yang urgent sangat nak tulis? Sebab........

 

 

 aku dapat quotation wiring .....teka berapa Mr B?

 

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$15k.

 

 

Rasa nak cabut2 rambut. haha. Nasib baik dah ada prinsipal "setiap problem sure got resolution".

 

Aku rasa En H ini ialah seorang yang tak berapa nak structured. Aku rasa Ah Choong tu structured sikit tapi pun sama jelah lebih kurang. Suka na agak2.. Cuba jot down sket. And share sket concern or issues. Kan senang settle?

 

 

So how do I solve the problems?

 

I trust that every business man or business owner dah memang selalu buat kerja quotation so tak lah nak ajar memula tu. Dah naik 3 kali aku jumpa dia, tapi takkkkk gakkkkkk dapat firm quotation. So, today, I put my foot down, and I have to "manage" the situation.

 

1. I took out a paper.

2. I draw what I want and where I want it

3. I took out another paper

4. I list down the items and the work that might be involved for that items, then I asked him straight away how much is the cost for each items.

5. terus calculate kan pada dia.

6. I think either he needs me as his clerk or sales person. or he needs to be managed for the calculation supaya dia tak rugi dan aku tak kena overcharged by dia.

 

And how much is the final cost? Last quotation is RM5800 that is including a 9ft x 7 ft awning, concealed wiring, plaster ceiling, tebuk lubang downlight, pasang lampu dan kipas.

 

And knowing he is a bit slow in "congak2", I kept repeating of what is needed by him, what items will i purchase for him ie. tiles and switch casing etc. 3 hours after, baru dia lega.  I came to know, selama-lama ni, dia congak2 salah, dia kerugian dalam beberapa project. So tu yang dia tak berapa nak sure walaupun dah 3 kali aku jumpa dia.

 

So oklah. Walaupun aku about 1.8k over budget, at least esok dia dah boleh start kerja. Over budget tu, boleh carik. Mesti boleh punya. It wasn't 11k, so insyaAllah boleh.