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The Bar Room => The Saloon Photo Album => Topic started by: Lotus Eater on November 04, 2009, 05:55:49 PM
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New apartment - before I move in, while it is still pristine. This won't last long! The uni has spent a little fortune on this - I definitely won't be complaining!! akakakakak akakakakak
Study
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/study.jpg)
Living room
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/livingrm.jpg)
Kitchen - with microwave/grill oven
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/kitchen.jpg)
Dining room
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/diningrm.jpg)
Bedroom 1
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/bedrm.jpg)
Bathroom - double headed shower is nice. afafafafaf
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/bathroom.jpg)
Laundry
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/laundry.jpg)
Dining room opening to balcony
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/balcony.jpg)
The 2nd bedroom has the same outlook as the study, but as yet, has no furniture. They have said I can take the queen bed I already use, but I would rather have a futon which will be better for parties. I will take my desk and have it there as well, and use the room as a studio most of the time.
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I envy your bookshelves, those are great. My husband is for some reason incredibly opposed to proper bookshelves. Every time we move house we argue over whether to get some or not, and he always wins. He has very sensible reasons for not wanting to invest in huge furniture at this point, but still. I love bookshelves.
Great place LE.
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nice
god i miss having a sofa
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Wow LE. This looks fantastic. Enjoy the move. I envy you all the shelves in the study!!
:banana: :banana: :banana:
Lin
Zhaoqing, Guangdong.
bxbxbxbxbx
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The sofa will fit 2 students lengthways, plus 1 sideways. akakakakak Plus Schnerby gave me her good camp bed, so I should be able to toss quite a few students in when we have comps etc.
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A very modern apartment....for a Chinese institution!
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Looking at the 4th picture, my first thought was, "Cool, a conference table!"
Then I noticed the caption, and my second thought was, "Why would you put a conference table in the dining room?"
About a minute later, "Oh, right! A rectangular dinner table!"
I've been here too long! ahahahahah ahahahahah
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Oooooh that's nice! akakakakak
Looks like the kind of place you could really enjoy calling home! My place is adequate, but I can't really get it 100% clean.
I'm sure you will love it there.
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Congratulations on those super new digs!! agagagagag bfbfbfbfbf agagagagag
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Wow that place is amazing. How many of you live there? Just makes me realize how crappy my place is. I spent all of yesterday looking for rigid foam insulation so I could block off my second room for the winter because it is totally worthless. Pretty jealous. Enjoy.
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Nice orange kitchen. bfbfbfbfbf
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Those kitchen cupboards ought to do a good job of waking you up every morning as you stumble around looking for the coffee pot. ahahahahah
LOVE the shelves in the study.
Lucky, lucky you (except for the actual having to move part). Enjoy your new home.
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It looks great!!
Good luck in your new home! bhbhbhbhbh bhbhbhbhbh
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Wow! agagagagag agagagagag bfbfbfbfbf That looks amazing...congratulations....envious, so envious of the bathroom....
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Okay, I have a confession to make. I luuurrrrve perving on other FT's apartments here in China! Always so much fun, 'oh wow', and 'mine's bigger than yours' and all that jazz.
Love the bathroom. Nice to see that schools are increasingly providing a proper *shower* facility and not the hose over the loo thing I've had for the last 4 years (have a normal shower here though)! That blood red kitchen will certainly have you wide awake in the mornings too!
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Moving day was exciting. Beginning with - an earthquake!! I was woken up by it - bed shaking, clunking noises for about 10 secs. (Minor confession - I thought it was the FT below me and his girlfriend being exceptionally energetic!! afafafafaf) But the 2 students who had decided to stay over also felt it in different rooms, so then we realised it was an earthquake - only a 4.5 though. Best mate visiting from Shenzhen slept through it.
The FAO called us in for a meeting about moving, then took us over to the new apartment so we could sign for all the new furniture, kettles, lamps etc then gave us our keys. They had arranged for 2x 3-wheel bikes (4 of us were moving!), plus 4 workmen to carry all our stuff. 11 of my 4th year debaters rocked up to help which ,made the whole moving thing into a party. They did a fantastic job. A couple of girls stayed in the old apartment packing all the last minute bits and pieces, a couple stayed in the new apartment directing operations and unpacking stuff, and the boys carted piles of stuff. We went to a pizza and beer lunch to say thanks for their hard work.
This new place is bigger - but given all the boxes and bags around still waiting to be unpacked, I have NO idea how I managed to fit it all into the old apartment. aoaoaoaoao
I can't find the cable to upload photos of the shift yet - but when I do, you can mourn with me the pristine apartment of yesterday!!
But apart from being knackered - it was a pretty good day!! Students have gone home, mate is still working, beds are made, aircon heat is on, hot shower is waiting!
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Not another one :(
Glad moving day went well though!
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Students have gone home, mate is still working, beds are made, aircon heat is on, hot shower is waiting!
.and yer still slacking on the computer!
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No no no - mate is working at his office! He'll rock back here, wanting a hot shower, red wine, another couple of episodes of Battlestar Galactica and then a warm bed!! He wasn't here for the move.
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He wasn't here for the move.
Slack bastard!
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bkbkbkbkbk
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Sounds exhausting! aoaoaoaoao
I bet it will look and feel fantastic when you have finished moving in bfbfbfbfbf
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Glad to hear that the big hurdle is over. Now comes the fun part of deciding where to put everything. I'm looking forward to seeing how you fill all those lovely shelves in your den. Like Becster, I love looking at pics of others people's homes.
Later will come the not so fun part of 'where the HECK did I put that? (Always have something I know exactly where it was in the old place, but can't for the life of me remember where I stashed it in the new place.)
Pizza and beer. Trust our dear LotusEater to turn it into a party ahahahahah
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I hear you about the clean... so is it the DRY air or is it just China but WHY and HOW does my apartment get so dusty and dirty in less than 2 days of sweeping and mopping it WITH all the windows closed... WHERE is all this MAGIC Chinese dirt/dust coming from... now I know it's not just me?? aoaoaoaoao
Oooooh that's nice! akakakakak
Looks like the kind of place you could really enjoy calling home! My place is adequate, but I can't really get it 100% clean.
I'm sure you will love it there.
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is it just China but WHY and HOW does my apartment get so dusty and dirty in less than 2 days of sweeping and mopping it WITH all the windows closed... WHERE is all this MAGIC Chinese dirt/dust coming from...
You go outside, you come inside - YOU EXHALE ahahahahah ahahahahah bjbjbjbjbj
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Moving day began with an earthquake, but that didn't stop us!
Where we live:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/movingday4.jpg)
Some of the girls packing at the old place
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/Movingday2.jpg)
The workers packing the trikes with stuff
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/MovingDay7.jpg)
The boys took over the trike from the workers and pedalled a little faster to my new place.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/movingday3.jpg)
More girls unpacking at the new place
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/movingday6.jpg)
The new bookshelves being filled - by category of book!! I thought I'd end up with more room in the shelves, but after collecting all of the books in various shelves in my old apartment - they just fit onto this set. ananananan
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/Deborann/Movingday.jpg)
The 11 students who came to help were fabulous! akakakakak akakakakak akakakakak
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Isn't it funny how things (especially books) will miraculously expand to fill the space available for them?? ahahahahah
Congrats, again agagagagag
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Nuts. I thought I'd get to see some of your lovely tea things displayed on all those shelves in your office. At least you've got all your books in one place now.
Too true, Amonk. Whatever space I have I manage to fill.
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I'm on the hunt for a 'bogujia' - which is a proper tea dongxi display stand seen in the tea shops. If I can find one of those, I'll display them in my dining room and load a photo. Then I can use the shelving I have them on for all of the office folders etc still in boxes. ahahahahah
My plan is to have it set up so that I can lean in my balcony window, refill my teapot and enjoy the garden view. bfbfbfbfbf bfbfbfbfbf
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It looks great and I imagine it will feel like "home" in no time. It will become even harder for you to leave Xi'an and China when the time comes.
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Pretty purple curtains!