Seeing her again at the bbq just now just kinda melts me a bit.  :D  She went around feeding us with chicken wings, bee hoon and beef... AHHHH-UMM!

This year has actually been rather exciting (or at least i'm supposed to feel pretty excited by so many things).  The first few months had been occupied by doing up the house.  i know i should have recorded all the little things that we did so that we can look back at it down the line, but i guess i just couldn't find the energy to do that.  But looking back now, it has been fun/interesting to do all these:

• Getting the keys in December 2016 (i think so)
• Arranging the defects to be settled.  It was rather a pain in the arse because the contractors took a while and lots of ding dong.  Fortunately, we decided not to be too picky about all the details.
• Shopping for fans, table, chairs, lights, kitchen stuffs, beds, TV, internet/cable provider, sofa, my cupboard, HS rack, etc.  The window shopping portion had been on-going since 2014 when we bought the place.
• Arranging for our contractor NGP to change our door to glass door, fix up our glass panel, install the lights, install towel racks, etc.  Vomited blood a couple of times because of workers showing up late or no-show a couple of times.  Almost every item they installed had been installed wrongly - glass door hinge on the wrong side, not tempered or laminated glass on panel, ceiling fan mounting not done correctly which caused hollow vibration sound, wrong lights from light supplier, etc.  
• Curtains supplier was horrible too - no-show or very late on multiple occasions, most of the time uncontactable.  The only saving grace was the nice curtains and decent installation.  One of the 2 boys who did the installation nearly fell out of our window though... just minutes after i told them to close and lock the windows before installing the curtains.
• Packing my stuffs and moving bit by bit to the new place
• Moving in on 27th Jan 2017?  (i can't remember the exact date either)
• Then all the other little stuffs trickled in to complete what we now call our home.

It's tiring and i'm so glad that the house had already come partially furnished.  No worries about some basic cupboards, fridge, cooker, microwave oven, toilet fixtures, etc.  We probably would have strangled each other over choosing the designs.

We made friends with neighbours living along our corridor.  We now love to disturb the 2 brown poodles who are living at the end unit until this December.  We had a drinking session with the owner of the poodles and another neighbour 3 days ago which left me very stoned the next day at work.  The couple living opposite own the unit and have a white poodle who has staycations at their unit fairly frequently.

The management, security and concierge staff here have been horrible.  They have rigid and stupid policies that flip at every of their whim and fancy.  

• Somebody's electric bicycle beeping and disturbing us till late night - no action taken to look for owner even i had reported it at around 8pm.
• Security guy told my friend no smoking near the side gate.  A few days later, concierge girl was smoking there and she said that it was raining, so where would i expect her to smoke at?  
• Indecisive about function room deposit and booking fees.  Then tell me that i can't book it a second time last month even though nobody else had booked it.  Then told me okay, they would let me have the room this time but the problem was because i didn't make payment. They bloody rejected my cheques when i made the payment because the amount tallied with the form but did not tally with what they wanted to collect.  They ate too much roti prata.  
• Water bottle cannot put by the jacuzzi area near the walkway.  
• Neighbour's friend was in the pool and had this guy on the top floor waving at her and wanking off - concierge people only had to say "oh, that guy again ah".  In all fairness, they gave him a warning, but i told neighbour that she should just call the police if it happens again.  Our management is not taking it seriously.
• No floating ball in the pool i think.  There seemed to have been some argument between another occupant and security.
• Et cetera et cetera...

i was so close to emailing to the "resort manager" to show my appreciation for making this place more and more undesirable to live in.  

Okay, housing matters aside.

Just in a bit of a down mood now... well, it's my norm right?  Office is going to shift to Pioneer area in a couple of months. Work has been barely tolerable.  i need to make something happen.  i need to make myself happy again.