new house, new dreams

Still find it hard to believe that we only been married 2 months. Not that it is a bad thing. But it seems that so much has happened since then that it has still only been 2 months. Of course that may have had something to do with Agnes being so busy with her school work that we have not had much 'quality time' together since then besides our malacca trip. But there are only a few more months of this agonising time and distance to go before we can really spend time together. So patience...

Collected the keys to our flat last monday. I must say it was a pretty good choice. It is pretty windy up there on the 13th floor. The view also not bad from the bedroom. I figure once we do the renovations it will turn out be a cosy home. Right now it looks rather sparse and raw with the lack of flooring in the living room and bedrooms. Actually I was expecting it to be furnished with tiles but it was not. Which is both a good and bad thing. At least we can afford to be a bit more creative. Our main emphasis is on the main bedroom/master bedroom and living room. So we will splurge more on that.

I think the single most important piece of furniture we will be investing in is our bed. Both Agnes's and mine favourite activites revolve around a bed so it would definitely be worthwhile to invest in a good mattress. We were also thinking to do some wallpapering in the room to set it apart from the other parts of the home. The main idea is to get that hotel-suite look for our room. We will probably apply the same method to the bathroom (i.e. hotel look).We also intend to install a built in cabinet behind the door to free up space. Initially we were looking for a Queen sized bed, but after due consideration we may go for a King bed after all. You can never have too much space in a bed. Due to both of us being light sleepers, a pocketed spring mattress is a must. Although the details are rather vague right now, we intend to go for a dreamy,romantic look for the bed room.

The other 2 rooms will serve as a study and store room respectively. The study will be home to Agnes's precious piano. There will probably also be a study desk and some cabinets, where we will store all the other stuff that we do not want to be inside our bedroom proper. As there are only the 2 of us for the time being, a 4-room flat is pretty big and allows us flexibility to keep the living room and master bedroom free of clutter. The other room will temporarily be where my 3 hamsters will reside. I am also hoping to somehow convince Agnes to allow the bunnies to stay there as well. Be a pity if such a room housed only 3 pathetic tanks or cages of hamsters. But first I gotta convince her of their cleanliness. The above configuration is only tentative and will subject to change.

We have also purchased new bicycles which will prove useful when we need to commute between the in-laws house and the various town centres in future.

We also been looking around for a renovation contractor and a good place to buy furniture. So far we have found two contactors, the curiously named Gay World and Asia Contactors. Will speak to Mona on Monday regarding her coming down and such. Agnes seem enamoured by the designer she spoke to yesterday at Gay World. Maybe he seemed more polished and professional than the old uncle we spoke to at Asia, but which is to be expected considering the difference in age and education.



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