Happy Birthday to me and Threehouse

the best and biggest birthday and opening. i love us THREE, i love ernesto for helping me out and making me believe in myself, my dreams and that i am capable of doing whatever i want in life.

(mamma, klicka på bilderna så ser du hela bilden)




the THREE
i had no idea they had a cake for me, i do not understand how they hide it for me






ernesto and i

Three

Threehouse is about to open for the public. This whole project has been a journey in all kinds of ways, mentally, physically... Sometimes i have wondered what on earth did i walk into, sometimes i have felt so freaking alone, sometimes i have cried, both of happiness and being sad, sometimes i have been so excited imagining about this place being finished. This is a very big step in my life. We all grow and shape into different persons in life, we fall on our way and there are many paths to walk but there is only one present life. I feel like i am on a good path now... I still remember how we put that first paint on the wall here and i started rolling the roller on the walls, through the corridors, i can remember how many times some of the walls have been repainted, haha, gosh. Gone shopping air-conds, beds, plywood, lists, balls, sunflowers and what not with ernesto and robin, i have learned a lot about watching the guys do construction, tried helping out with assisting and run for tools i did not even know existed before this. I have learned through elvin the electrician how i should face someone working for me and hopefully i can put that into practise more when the next time comes around. I have grown quite a lot through this time of construction. I have dealt with facing my inner demons, i have accepted that i can not go living in the past (im sure i will have some more downs in the future but if i compare myself dealing with it now with then and i have come much more mature), i have learned that i have two very precious people around me putting a dream of mine into reality. This project could not have been done without the guys, days and nights they have spent their time here working. I want to say that these are my dear friends. It has been us Three here together from the start and so it will be... i love this, the guys, i love Threehouse...because Borneo, is my hooome :D

progress

So i haven't really been updating that much about the construction here and how it's going so i thought of putting up some pictures for you...


this is the communal room which is more or less finished. now its just putting up some curtains and pictures on the walls...


this is the entrance and how it looks like now. these orange doors will be put aside completely when opening.

this is part of how the lobby looks like, almost done. just some pictures a mat and stuff that will be put up... and a cover for the elctric thingy on the wall will be built, because its damn ugly relaxing your eyes on that at the moment. hehe

Touching up, it's a new start

Just some minor things to fix before Threehouse is about to open. Touch ups here and there, finish the shower downstairs, waiting for the last (for this time) delivery of things as kitchen cabinets and such, touching up a bit here and there, do decoration and clean and clean and clean... Tomorrow will be a lot of cleaning to do, tonight after painting the wall (of hell) to the top floor i just had the energy to clear away stuff and boil some pasta for dinner ´til my head felt slightly numb and i decided a night of sleep and an early wake-up to do the mopping of the floors will be better.

On the 14th i can't do any sort of work since it is chinese new-year. It is bad luck cleaning and such during this day, it's like sweeping away your luck sort of and you must also put away your brooms and whatever out of sight, you can also not go to sleep this day, night. So it is a lot to do before this in cleaning way, i have also noticed how the chinese in my neighborhood are preparing for the new-year by painting their facade and cleaning, it is quite a nice feeling with it. It's so far away from what it is back in sweden-home. This year i think i will by some oranges to decorate with, it is like a luck symbol, like gold for fortune and good luck in the coming year which is the year of the tiger. Red is also a color to be used during this time of the year (the chinese new year is celebrated for 15 days if i remember it correct), it is a lucky and happy color which is also believed scaring away bad spirits like the mythological beast called Nien that comes around during spring time, new year to scare especially children and it is said that Nien was once scared away by a child wearing red. There are many legends about the Nien. One is that it was caught by by Hongjun Laozu - the leader of the Taoist Immortals and teacher of the Three Purities. Hongjun Laozu – whose name means "The Great Primal Homogeneity" – then uses the (former) monster as his mount, i.e. rides it as one would a horse.

one type of a Nien statue

The new year is supposed to be a new starting, so many people get new clothes and many girls go the hair-dresser, it is impossible getting appointments at this time, i have saved one red dress i never wore before which i think i will wear one of these nights and i will go and by some new cheap red tops and maybe a new pair of jeans for me so i don't necessarily have to wear black. i would also like to put up a couple of lanterns or chinese welcoming scripts on paper for good spirits and paint my facade in red but if there is time doing so i don't know. And you never know if the rain decides to pour down a whole day...

Anyway, time to sleep. It's a whole day of work waiting for me... good night 晚安

rain

Been raining all day today. Its not leaking from the roof anymore since we got it fixed, now its from the balcony instead and i had a kitchen-ceiling drippin all day long. The floors and the kitchen bench has been all wet. Tomorrow i will try and see if i can do some miracle work by sealing it with silicon.

i guess thats all i have in update way about the building. im stuck with my studies and i just wish someone else could do it for me, i need to send it in tomorrow... waaah. i just want to finish it so i can do some other stuff. like playing around with the decoration thingys and paint the wall that is not leaking anymore...

I like it a lot (pronounced with an extreme british accent)

despite the fact that i hate elvin it was an ok day. the boys came here with lots of decoration thingys they had been out shopping for the place and everything was really nice, when i heard the sound of the drapery that will be put in the lobby windows i got as excited as a kid opening christmas gifts. and the pillows, i love pillows! :) i must admit i was a bit sad not able to follow them shopping but ya ya... he he. hopefully next time. the boys were here the whole day and evening until night time and it felt very good. i like when they are here, it feels slightly more alive here and i can talk and laugh together with them. i like! tomorrow i get to go outside. they are going out with the boat and i will follow them just to get some fresh air and do my studies at the dock. nice.

im sleepy. good night.

I hate!!!

Elvin is being a snake, hes asking questions im suuure Mr.D has asked him to check for him. I found out Elvin is doing work at his place at the moment aswell. And elvin got a fucking attitude, hes being cocky and arrogant, acting cool to me, but he looks like fucking porridge. He has the nerve walking into my room and look at my stuff, make comments on pictures i have of my family. Make comments on my incense and what not. i felt or feel like fucking punch him in the face, stab him in the leg with my pencil. I hate elvin!!

Good morning.

Fridays child

Freedom is where you think it is... he he.

it's a good day. the rain came, the rain passed and the sun spread it's light over me today.

Elvin was here, did the shower-heater points downstairs and left. i took a walk down carpenter street and had myself a drink (normal drink, non-alcohol) in the sun, smiled at some faces in the shops, feeling good.

haha, i can't stop thinking about this thing... a chinese electrician singing in Iban, haha. so unexpected, it happened to me when i was listening to the local radio a couple of weeks ago and elvin said, "oh, you listen Iban radio, then you can learn and marry iban" (the chinese accent is very important here), i had to hold myself from laughing and i managed with a wide smile until(!) he starts singing along with the music. i die! haha. what the hell.

now time for mopping the tiles in the kitchen... waiting for the boys... i get a bit bored when they are not around... hee

shopping and paint

my beautiful street at day time...


out shopping at hardware store
doors, knobs....


ordering some wood


my brother from sweden also joined


after a day of shopping we had satay

and clam-noodles

time for the first paint. stir stir

r is giving me a lesson in painting


borneo butt :)


i did some work myself...

me sweating away in the new painted room
red it is!

i got the keys

It was about noon when the contract was signed and i got the keys. This was the point of no return. For a bout a week i had been in like a vacuum, not knowing if anything is happening or not.


the shop...

opening



checking out the building









mysterious things in kuching. dead bird in the sky....

Pre-days

The days before signing the contract and getting the keys i spent quite a lot of my time with my partners in crime. All sorts of feeling and thoughts tumbling around in my mind. But these guys always put me in a good mood.



E the chef preparing sandwiches





the day before contract signing we went to
Tribal Remedy



at tribal remedy... :)