Condo for Rent : Zen Residence Puchong

Location : Batu 14 Puchong
Unit: 19th floor
Size: 1411 sqft
Room : 3 + 1 utility / maid room
Toilet: 2
Furnish : Semi furnish, kitchen cabinet and 3 air-cond and lighting and iron grill, curtain grill and shower screen for both bathroom.
Parking Lot : 2 lot at level 4
Flooring : 2ft tile for the hall and laminated wood flooring for bedroom
View : Looking towards Puchong Bandar Puteri. Amazing view and lots of cooling breeze.

Suitable for couple with 2 children and a maid.

Rental : Asking for RM1800.
Contact: chew_et@hotmail.com or whatsapps : 012 232 8840 / 012 652 6655

Moving to new crib

Yesterday I have moved to my new rented apartment of 3 bedrooms. This place was previous occupied by a government employee Qatar Foundation and they moved out last July. During that time I was actually looking for a new place but somehow this apartment never cross my mind even it is just located beside where I was staying previously. But lucky enough the rental drop which I am not sure why so I save 1000 bucks a month more. Current price is 8500 per month with Internet , water and electricity I have to pay myself which I think is cheap as it is subsidized by the government and I think is only 0.08 per unit?

Currently I am sharing this apartment with 2 other Malaysian which is also QP employee. One is around his 50s and has worked at QP for over 10 years so it is good as he got good exposure and able to advise if I need and he also an IT guy working in server department. The other guy is in late 30s from Sarawak and working in the contract department. This guy is pretty funny and give good advise on property and stock investment.

So far so good, I thought I won't able to sleep yesterday because of new bed so and so... but somehow I slept through the night and almost late for work this morning. I like this place, parking is good, the apartment is spacious and so far it is most occupied by a westerners.

New Crib - Villa Moda Hotel, Al Sadd, Qatar

Today I have move to a hotel to stay since I am already confirmed and my company will be chasing me out soon. Being searching for quite sometime before I found this one and it is just located exactly behind where I was staying previously. It is a 3 star hotel with pretty good service so far, need to stay a bit longer to give better judgement. Depending on which room that to you want, the room price ranging from QR4700 to QR13000 and with the option including breakfast or not. My suggestion go for without breakfast as it is a lot cheaper and if you are single and working in Qatar most probably you don't have time eating the breakfast as you be heading to work. Best part of this is they accept yearly or monthly payment and of course if you pay yearly it is even cheaper, although it is very tempting but I don't want to commit myself to such stressful contract as I believe there are many other good accommodation you can find. Currently I am still trying to negotiate the price as I feel it can be cheaper and by the way the price I quote is for summer promotion, normal price it should be additional QR500 to QR1000 and this kind of promotion is applied to all hotel and apartment.

So far they pretty much provide me the things I asked for, iron, iron board, hangers bowl, fridge and so on. So I am pretty happy with the setup. In the hotel got restaurant, gym with personal trainer, sauna and jacuzzi which I don't plan to use as it doesn't look clean..anyway is not my favorite thing to do. TV channel is pretty OK, free to air satellite (FTA) TV. Over here is pretty much like Indonesia, you can see satellite dish everywhere. There are few hundreds channel including about 10 porn channel but too bad it is locked. Internet is pretty fast so that offset the locked porn channel.. hahaha... just joking...They also provide soap, shampoo, towel, coffee and tea and will be replenish when they do housekeeping. There also a small kitchen for me to cook maggie mee.

The restaurant food seems OK but kinda pricey than usual. I have not tried but will do one day.... as right now I have been walking to the town nearby to feed and buy grocery. Well here some pic of the hotel.

Anyway if you need more info or to get a good rate, drop me a message.

Renting Apartment in Qatar

Life is getting better? I am wishing for it and aiming for it everyday. Well I think it is because today I walk to the bank to settle my credit card stuff and on the way back I pass through a lot of apartment and somehow took the decision and went in one by one just to ask if there is a room to rent. Normally I didn't do that because I thought all building is managed by property agent and I only get to see the room when I make appointment with them.

Due to my desperation of getting a room I just went into all the building around the place I am currently now. I didn't even expect I would do this as those building look high class and to my surprise they do have people standby in the building to accept walk in inquiry which I found much better than dealing with property agent because so far my experience with them they have shown me an average place.

So  back to my search, I found a hotel / apartment just behind the place I am staying now. It is clean, nice, it is a semi studio with a small kitchen and full hotel facilities such as cafe, gym, swimming pool, sauna, steam room, pool, free WiFi, utility bill included and best of all massage center.. *wink* but one got to be aware most massage parlor in Qatar doesn't allow female to massage a male so you might get a man touching your thigh haha.. Only place I know now there is a female massage is at Sharq Village and Spa, have not try it yet because it is 500 bucks an hour.

Anyway back to the topic there are several other building I have check it out and all of them are not bad and seriously it did change the way how I hunt for a house also maybe I am doing it at the right time because normally during summer everything is on sales even house rental so it is best time to shop for houses to rent and branded stuff.

So my advise to you who are reading this, don't just depend on searching info from the Internet. Walk if possible or drive around and if you pass by the area you like, just walk in and ask them and you still able to negotiate a good price with them.

KHALAS

Tight Budget

I should be sleeping.. is 1130 PM or 430 AM in Malaysia.. I gotta get up by 5AM to work but I couldn't sleep. Probably because I found and song and being repeating for 30 minutes now. 张雨生 - 我期待. Very nice song.


Anyway, I only get to stay at my company accommodation for probably another 5 weeks therefore I am gearing up to search for a house. Searching for a house is a not a difficult part but searching for a good one and under budget is a tough one. There are apartment as low as 3000 per month but it is either far or some facilities is missing. I found one today about 5 minutes away from my office, Doha Suite 2. It is about 5500 per month and the apartment looks alright. One bedroom, water and electric bill included, Internet and kitchen as well. It was perfect until the problem arise lack of parking, that apartment location is somewhere behind an alley I bet it is dark at night and impossible for me to walk out buy stuff and the right and left side of the building looks very run down and looks like a drug addict place but it is not. :) Well there is a price to pay for a cheap place but there are cheap and good location apartment I just need to have the time to search entire Doha :( with that, moving out means I need to get a car for better mobility around the city. So right now I am trying to keep my monthly of everything under QR9500 per month which is possible but difficult. 


Some said why are you so save, spend it la since you came all the way to work and you should enjoy a bit. Well I am but in a bit more moderate way, as I still keeping my purpose of coming here to work. Main thing to earn as much money as possible within the shortest time and go back home to make good use of the money. Well maybe this is my habit since I am at Malaysia so hmm just stick with it.


If you are spending like crazy and not much saving left then what is the purpose you are here? Enjoy? yeah you could but it is not the right time. There is still a long time to go, I know life is short enjoy today like there is no tomorrow. But tomorrow you still need to eat, you can't live your life like a Malay proverb kais pagi makan pagi, kais petang makan petang. 


I do enjoy.......... sometimes and I am doing OK so far so no worries. :) KHALAS!


ana bikhayr

My Office at Ras Abu Abboud

My current working place is located at old QP site, as I have stated earlier QP have over 200 buildings including tower, bunker and many more... So my office is located at a 2 storey small building.

 

But good thing is or bad thing is we are moving to a new office at Doha City which is call Barwa Financial District. Problem is it will only ready in 3 years time but it could even longer than that.

Money does RULEZ, looking at their development plan is crazy. Money can do wonders. If you have the time Google up on Lusail City and Qatar 2022 World Cup stadium. You be amazed. Qatar is slowly turning into Dubai.

7 Pearls, temporary accomodation

The bulb for the light is all burned out. left depending on the wall light

Skyvilla @ Tmn Palm Groove Klang

About 1KM from my house there is a new property development. It is a 3 storey bungalow. It has about 30 units of them.

The design of the house is spectacular.... is huge .. just the attic of bungalow is already 2000sqft.... then of course it come with a hefty price.. from RM 2.1 million....

That land area is well know for its price.. but I didn't expect it to be that much mainly the surrounding of that area isn't that great.. it is not like Setia Alam or Kota Kemuning or even came close to Bangsar... just normal housing area....

To find out more....
http://thinkproperty.com.my/realestate/ThinkBlog/0/Advertisement-Skyvillas-Klang-Selangor.html