Change can be good...

Kamversation.com is a friend's website that I just happened upon yesterday. While he's a follower of Plantation House and maybe an avid one at that, judging by his cute texts every time there is a new post, he's been quite secretive with his own. There you have it, now the secret's out!

I have to say I was quite envious of the fact that the theme he is on is by Cyber Chimps, one of the better theme providers out there but because I don't have the desire nor the need to pay yet, I'll stick with the free ones offered by Blogspot. Speaking of free off-the-shelf themes, Wordpress has some that can put those dished out by Blogspot to shame. The thing about Wordpress is that its theme offerings have wider choice, varied and with interesting features to boot. 

Why don't I fill you in a little secret: I opened a blog with Wordpress yesterday, as a hasty reaction to Kamversation.com and spent the entire afternoon importing the posts from Blogspot, reformatting some due to the migration and choosing the theme that I think would work for Plantation House. The grand plan was to formally advise my readers, Kamversation.com's author included, of the move today. 

But I had a change of heart just now and decided to be loyal to Blogspot and continue building that relationship. Just a little change in the http address though and I think this version would be more apt than the previous one anchored by my own name. The number 3 is our house number...

The occupants

There are five in the household, that's me, my other half, our two boys and my other half's sister who wears the hats of an aunt and nanny to the boys. 11 is the age of the elder boy, a Chelsea supporter and quite an all-rounder when it comes to sports. His brother is seven, a true fan of Spongebob Squarepants, Rio, Angry Birds, Club Penguin, JellyCar, Dora, Mickey Mouse, Scooby Doo and anything in pink (it's true).

My other half works in an oil and gas company in the capital while I'm based in Petaling Jaya. Currently, we live in Kota Damansara which I like to call our transit home before the PH becomes a reality.

Starting point

I joined Blogger in January 2009 with a half-serious intention to blog on our experience in designing and constructing the Plantation House, a dream home that is unfortunately still in the making. However, the blogging did not commence immediately then because I did not really put my mind to it. (I did say I wasn't that serious, didn't I?) The building as the first sentence offers, has not been erected although the idea to build it went as far back as 2007. So you ask, why hasn't the idea materialised? Well, there are matters that we have to deal with of course, some are expected, but most utterly surprising and this blog aims to share them, just in case you are up the same road. But to write solely about the journey in building the PH can become monotonous, if not downright boring so I thought peppering the blog with my meandering mind or what the occupants of the PH are up to can sort of recoup your interest. Like all bloggers, both aspiring and seasoned, I'm not expecting that anybody will actually drop by the site, but hopefully some of the stuff here will be useful to some of you out there. So there you have it, my starting point...