Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Moving sure is tiring

Finally, we've settled down in Sarikei. Phew. Well, not really settled. There are still LOADS of stuff to unpack. While I could still stand the whirlwind of newspaper-wrapping, cellophane-taping, raffia-string-tying and marker-pen-writing madness for days and weeks before, THE moving day itself totally spent me. Although I didn't even angkat any furniture other than a stack of 3 plastic stools, I felt ready to drop dead by 6pm. Now to think we have to unpack and put everything back in place. *shudders*

If you're curious as to how the new place looks like, I took a video -sort of- and added some words to it.

A mess wasn't it? >.<

Feeling rather lazy today, I rummaged the store and found a bag of small wooden blocks.

{ Wooden chips from school projects }

Then I got out some nails and a hammer and proceeded to make this :

{ The two chips at the top fit each other snugly to create a cute little house! There's a deep slit along one side of the rectangular block so the thinner triangle piece can be inserted into it. }

Each piece was nailed down, except for the house and the pole, which were attached with Super Glue. And super it is. :D

{ Had the whole thing painted a whitish green with paint leftover from painting my room. }

{ And I tried it out as a jewelry stand. Not too feasible though. }

{ But I like how it looks here. :P Though I think some tiny pretty potted plants would do it better. }

I'll be flying back to KL this Friday afternoon. I've grown much too accustomed to passing days by aimlessly that I fear I'll have to be shocked to rise back into reality. T-T

1 comment:

Sing Yee said...

The house is a semi-detached (2 houses joined together). There are other types like a terrace house, single floor and 3-storey etc. I suppose this is a standard for semi-detached houses. :)

Houses in Tokyo and Hong Kong are small, possibly due to the large population - to save land space. In fact, houses in Kuala Lumpur are much smaller than this (my house in the video). I went to my friend's house once in KL and it's pretty small. Every room is almost half the size of that in our house in Sarawak. :P

I chose green because I love green. Each side is a different shade of green. When the room's done, we find it to be too dark because of the darker greens. Furthermore, my room's only got one window. T-T