House renovation part 1

After nearly 12 years we bought this "home sweet home" of ours, finally...we decided to undergo a renovation...after tolak campur kali bahagi every penny that we have :)

*****I should have captured some "before" pictures with pokok pokok--tak lah buruk sgt gini---now i got to dig old photos--for my later before and after posting****

Let's go back to the last 12 years when we bought this house in 1999, the year we moved to Kuantan after raising our white flag to Kuala Lumpur--KL is just too tough for a young couple with a baby and household accumulated salary of less than RM3K--ok take out your tissues...wahahahahaha.

So as a believer, we decided that we need to "hijrah" for the benefits of the family.

Once here, we first rented a house in Semambu then about a month or so , we managed to find this house...the cheapest corner lot for god sake kah..kah..kah..tak jadi aku nak sedih...early 2000 we moved in, we were the first owner to moved in --second actually, the first was tnb staff--he must be able to tarik letric--we only moved in when CF were available... When other people busied doing renovation , polished the floor etc etc --we happily moved in without doing all that ...polishing was done with my two bare hands, to grind the broken marble cost about RM500 -- and we didnt have that 500...sob..sob..sob...

entah mana korang masa tu kalau dak mahu aku pinjam 500hinggit tak lah jenuh aku menyental ! Cukup sedih tak ni... ?

I bet everyone went thru certain hardship at certain point in life--the impact and kind of hardship could be varied from one person to another. I think those experiences made us more matured and the taste of victory to come out from all that is priceless...looking back we can smile and laugh!

I was determined about this renovation we had, the least I told my other half would be the tiles--had enough with the green paint--it was ok for the first few years, before it became such a sore in the eyes.

So we had the front first...it has been 5 days now....

So far so good.... Aariz still managed to get his nap without a sound!