Day 4

this is a day late cos i got back too late last night and was too tired to post an update.

yesterday upgrading work started in my next door neighbour's house so they're hanging around the corridor too and also hanging out in the next neighbour's place. soon all four units on this side of the block are going to be undergoing upgrading work and this corridor is going to be crowded as fuck. already today there was no space to even stand around. anyway work in my house ended early today cos they're still doing waterproofing and stuff like that and more spalling concrete repairs. here's the pictures.




this guy is the guy who does the spalling concrete repairs. my mother calls him samurai cos she says he looks fierce and like a warrior/samurai. i think it's just cos when she first saw him his face was caked with dust and he had his goggles on his head and bandana. he does look pretty dissatisfied most of the time.




neighbour's place with the plastic sealing. dust and dirt everywhere. at least my neighbours are pleasant people. a young couple with a little boy. makes upgrading a little more tolerable.




i am starting to question the materials used for upgrading. as far as i know niger seeds are for feeding birds and wheat flour? i really don't want to be able to eat my living quarters. torch brand or not i'm still not very keen on the idea.




and guess who showed up again today? my brother is back and my mother's got a new job for him. hack down more tiles. so here he is being a daredevil and making a mess out of the place again.




upgrading is boring dude. an even more unshaven me.





and here's loveable old ah chuan. i checked with my mother and his name is ah chuan not ah guan. here you see what he does best. kaopehkaobu-ing. that indian guy is the guy who was taking pictures in my flat on the first day. he really doesn't like ah chuan much. ah chuan is always scolding people in a real kaopehkaobu voice. later on i heard ah chuan telling a worker "you know i scared what? i scared su-lynn see the blahblah". su-lynn is that lady supervisor i was talking about in one of the previous posts. ah chuan's a real wuss when she's involved. all act in control and shit. it's really amusing.





my neighbour's toilet. all the upgrading work around the place caused three window panels to fall off in her toilet and it shattered everywhere. the glass bits were all over the kitchen floor even. after this happened i was called onto the scene to take some photos as proof/evidence whatever. i'm a threat to the contractor's i am.





the quiet queen of all that is covered. quiet (actually not really) cos she's got a sore throat. don't mess with this mama in her home. she's got you in her sights.





anyway i beat it to meet yaowei and then go to ted's place and on my way out to the main road i chanced upon baby jesus omg having a nap amongst the greenery! then i remembered that baby jesus wasn't a cat so i legged it.





and while waiting for yaowei at bugis i took a pit-stop in the toilet and omg guess what. my ass is on something that christopher lee's ass was on! and just like 3 days ago even! like our asses are almost like touching each other! fuck that is so gay.

later on we went to ted's for dinner and that was really fun. singapore beat indonesia 3-1 which is pretty amazing. i mean. i'm not against singapore i'm totally for us but taking a reality check, beating indonesia 3-1 is something i would never have imagined. singapore's got a fighting chance at winning the tournament now. hope they don't screw it up.

no photos of the bathroom and toilet this time cos they look practically the same as before just with a bit more cementing done so i'm not going to bother putting any up.

time for lunch.




posted by 86 at 9:44 PM