The month that was...

What an eventful month it has been. With the condo renovation that we undertook in early September running slightly behind schedule, I had no choice but to fly back to KL in the last week of September to oversee the final bit: moving in of furnitures and getting the condo cleaned up i.e. basically in tip top condition for rent. I have one week to do this, because the following week I was due to check into SDMC for a laparoscopy cystectomy, which means 2 weeks of rest thereafter and no moving of heavy stuffs around, before I finally move to Jakarta.

Post-renovation cleaning is a biatch. Period. I mean seriously, I have never clean this much magnitude of dusts, grimes and stains. And this is after my contractor done one round of cleaning of the renovation dust. Maybe I'm nit-picky but heck I don't want to fly back and clean again prior to tenants moving in. So this is the one-time major clean up. All in all, it took 28 woman-hours over 4 days to finally get the place all spick and span. This is discounting I had Lil' Sis to help me on Saturday, so if it's just one woman effort it would have been 35 hours over 5 days.

To give an idea of how much work involved, on that Saturday before cleaning, Lil' Sis and I drove to Klang for some Kee Hiong BKT action. The last I had this for brunch, I was so full to the extent that the next meal I ate was only spinach soup at dinner. So with our stomach filled with BKT, we started the chores and cleaned and cleaned non-stop except for water breaks until by 6pm, my stomach was growling from hunger. I told Lil' Sis "Let's stop at 7pm, grab a nice shower before we head to Choong Kee in Damansara Jaya for some nice claypot chicken rice and a bowl of steamed soup each." With the game in plan, Lil' Sis called ahead to book in advance and half an hour later, when we reached Choong Kee, we sat down to a well-deserved meal. 

This is the condo balcony before and after using acid wash to scrub off the layer of stains.