{Reno Day???}

I've lost count how many days this reno has been going on.

Renovation Update
Majority of the issues have been resolved which is good. YET, there is stuff that still didn't went well...

1. Carpenter redid my study unit. Looks more like a workable space now. BUT I'm not sure why they don't bother to screw in the screws properly. They were too lazy to unscrew certain things to make sure they could screw in certain screws securely. Instead they just "did their best" to screw it in 3/4 and left the other 1/4 of the screw unscrewed.

Today the electrician came to fix the study light and had to lean on the flip down study unit... as you might have guessed, the hinge of the badly screwed screws snapped... Even the electrician knew how to fix it for us why wasn't it fixed properly by the carpenters the second time round?????

2. We found a piece of wood stuck in between our side table. It's one of those shelves that are glued to the wall. Obviously it was slanted... and all they did to rectify that was to stick a piece of ugly wood below the shelve to make sure it doesn't fall?????

The contractors aim to handover a 95% completed work on Tuesday. All the built-in things should be resolved... (yes, it means there are non built in things that are not resolved...) If everything goes as planned, they would have:

• Grind, stain & lacquer the floor 3 times.
• Paint our walls 3-5 times.
• Paint Touch up 3-4 times.
• Redo carpentry work 2-3 times, depending what items we’re talking about.
• Electricity 1-2 times. To be fair to him, the electrician did a great job. He had to redo because the carpentry work affected what he did.

Instead of a simple job that would last 1-2 weeks, it’s now probably going into our 4th week… and every single thing had to be done more than once.

Living Status Update

We've shifted back and are staying in our sister's room now. Since dad is alone at home, we felt it would be better for us to be home with him. But Mon, we have to shift back to my paternal mum's place coz' they are redoing the floor... which means we cannot access to the 2nd level for a day.

Right now, it looks like we are living coolie squatters. All our stuff is on the floor. We have a pole resting on 2 ends of our window where we hang clothes that we need to wear over the next week. High class coolie - we have a King size mattress on the floor and air-con :D

Pray With Us

Last night mum went to A&E and was warded - Bleeding in the lungs. She coughed out lots of fresh blood.

Years ago, her lungs collapse and the doctors said there was no hope. Yet, we believe in a God who heals, a God who restores, a God who answeres prayers. Miraculously, her lungs were restored and there were no issues till recently.

I hope the cause of what seem to be a relapse is not due to the dust and paint etc. Of course we would expect dust, smell of paint and smell of lacquer from this renovation process. My point is, it's acceptable if it's done once. But to redo it so many times really is creating extra dust, making mum n dad breathe in extra paint and lacquer... which ultimately isn't good for their health.

Please keep our mum in prayer that her lungs will be restored and made whole.