My first weekend back in Singapore - PAINTING...

My first weekend back in Singapore... Was being asked to help paint my aunt's house with practically my whole family...


Day 1 - Saturday

First we set off to eat our breakfast, a typical thing my dad would do before starting work:P


The long-missed Green Tea=)


Char Siew Rice & Chicken Rice *drools*


After that, we started going up to my aunt's house on the 7th floor... It wasn't a brand new house, as in people have lived in it before, so there's bound to have things in it...But when we were asked to paint the house, of course we would assume that the house is pretty cleaned up for us to paint easily... Upon unlocking the locks and opening the door, we saw a COMPLETELY PACKED HOUSE... Packed as in full of stuff everywhere, filling up every single corner of the house-.- So we started clearing things up, and I found something=)


A 1998-99 Edition Street Directory lying on the table-.- That's how ancient my family is-.-


After clearing up for quite a bit, we decided that we would just paint both rooms this time, and leave the rest til the next day to paint...


Dad at work:P


Cockroaches freak me out seriously... But luckily I wasn't the one picking them up:P


The cockroach that was unwilling to be flushed down the toilet bowl...



The painted rooms:) [Still with stuff in it-.-]


After a day at work, there's paint on...

My hands...


My palm...


My head... -.-



Dirty ('pure white') water from cleaning up...



Our lunch---bread cum 'rou gan/Bak Gua' *YUM YUM*


Day 2 - Sunday



Super duper cheap lunch=)


Took a picture of this while we walked back from buying our lunch...


This is pretty cool... A direct link between the HDB flats (3rd floor) to the carpark on the right... Haven't seen this much anywhere else yet...



One corner of the painted living room...


After finishing painting the house, my younger brother and I were doing the outside jobs...

Which includes shifting this 25kg of dried-up cement to the first floor-.- Although we took the lift, and had a trolley thingy, but still, it's freaking heavy, since the lift only went all the way to the second floor, so we had to carry it downstairs!!!




Then we had to throw away heaps of rubbish, and push heaps of other random stuff to my old house, since the new painted house will be rented out to someone else...


A load of junk being pushed into my old house, which is already filled with junk-.-
(Notice how both my brothers are wearing grey together, no wonder they're brothers:P)


After that, I guess my younger brother and I totally slacked off:P We were camwhoring:P


The paint on our hair...


Us, outside the corridors...


Us, on the TV caught by the cameras located near the lifts:P


Us, in the lift:P


My 'painty' hand:P


Dinner-my favourite noodle-Hokkien Mee

To get to my aunt's house from my house, travelling for almost an hour in a taxi some more, with traffic jam on a weekend, so it gets a bit uncomfy when the ride gets a bit bumpy... The rides for both days were horrible, especially when it got to the speed humps... NO, it wasn't one or two speed humps only... It was much more than that... Therefore, anyone who knows how I'm such a surveyor person, I counted the number of speed humps in that neighbourhood, the route we had to take to get in... And guess how many there were??? AHH... SIXTEEN of them... Yup, I didn't type wrongly, it's freaking 16 speed humps in a neighbourhood area where it's part of the route we had to take to get in... So it means there's actually much more than just 16 of them in that neighbourhood... Why the hell would you need 16 speed humps anyways??? It's not like it's some area where the president lives in or anything... The roads are so closed packed together, and they turn here and there every few metres, it's not like you can speed as you like anyways... TSKTSK...


Waste of time, effort and money-.-