Bed bugs are parasitic insects (tiny brown insects) that prefer to feed on human blood which is why they head for your bed. While you’re sleeping, you are like a bed bug buffet!  Bed bugs can get into your house without you even knowing – on things like your luggage, your clothes, and your furniture.

Once we stayed in a hotel in China which I think has a lot of Bed Bugs, it is very annoying because I can’t even sleep with the feeling of something is crawling over my body. We have no choice because we already book the hotel plus we are only going to stay for one night while waiting for our flight home.

Just want to share the article I read online, when traveling, think of the acronym S.L.E.E.P. to remember the following action steps to help avoid taking bed bugs home with you.

• Survey surfaces for signs of an infestation, such as tiny rust-colored spots on bed sheets, mattress tags and seams, and bed skirts.
• Lift and look for all bed bug hiding spots, including underneath the mattress, bed frame, headboard, and furniture. Typically, they come out at night to feed, but during the day, they are most likely found within a 5-foot radius of the bed.
• Elevate your luggage on a luggage rack away from the bed and wall, since bed bugs can often hide behind head boards, artwork, picture frames and electrical outlet panels.
• Examine your luggage carefully while repacking and when you return home. Always keep luggage off the bed and store it in a closet or other area, far away from your bedroom.
• Place all your clothing from your luggage immediately in the dryer for at least 15 minutes at the highest setting upon returning home from travel.

When at home, follow these handy tips to help keep bed bugs at bay.

• Remove all clutter from your home, which makes finding bed bugs easier.
• Wash and dry your bed linens often using the hottest temperature allowed for the fabric.
• Closely inspect any second-hand furniture for bed bugs before you bring it into your residence.
• Inspect your residence regularly – after a move-in, a trip, a service worker comes in, or guests stay overnight.

Source:

http://www.orkin.com/other/bed-bugs/

My husband was craving for some hotteok so I went out to buy some, it turns out that the restaurant near the gym has no more hotteok left so my only choice is to go to the public market and luckily I found someone selling the food I am looking for.

Daiso is just around the corner and as expected I can’t resist the temptation so I went inside to look around, I bought few items including this little Christmas tree for W3,000. I remember my husband saying  he feels like buying a  Christmas tree for our apartment so I think this one would be nice.

When I reached home and he saw the little Christmas tree I bought, he denied of saying he want a Christmas tree in our apartment, oh well I am used to his denials when he don’t like paying for an item. Hahaha! So I didn’t argue with him anymore I just told him that I am not telling him to pay for this stuff.

Well for the first time we have spirit of Christmas here in our apartment, I found this little Christmas tree so cute. Well  Merry Christmas guys!  May you have all a joyful Christmas and Happy New Year!

I have sent money last week to my family and my mother told me they already bought steel bars and additional hollow blocks for our house construction, the steel bars are quite expensive because those are bars that are made to build a second floor house. Yes, we are trying to build a second floor house so at least we have more space for the living room as we are building a house in a piece of land, even my husband was shocked upon hearing what we are planning.

Well I am hoping that we  can start the construction of our house next year and I think it would be materialized if I can send more money so they can buy cement and other construction materials. We have no problem with the labor because my father is  a carpenter but of course he need an assistant or a laborer and it means additional fund, my mother told me that nothing is left for them this Christmas because they also send money to my grandmother in other city, so I am hoping for more opportunity this month and next year so I can send big amount.

We had a bad internet connection these past few days, today the internet was gone for three hours. As I have nothing to do I started cleaning around our apartment.  I mopped the floor using water with powder soap and bleach, it is my way disinfecting our apartment.

When I am done I  cleaned the molds in the newly attached wallpaper,  I used vinegar and bleach to other part of  wallpaper. I have read that bleach  is also  useful for removing mold and mildew both inside and outside your home.

Then I cleaned our bathroom, and after cleaning I cooked sour soap and rice for my late lunch.

Home refurbishment is a big job; you do not just need to consider the walls or your furniture, you need to give some attention to the flooring of your home. If you live in a traditional British home, certainly the floors will all be covered in carpet. Even if you live in a conventional Uk house, you always have a lot of options available in the market to break the tradition.

If we look to the warmer countries of Europe for inspiration you’ll find ceramic tiled floors along with laminate and parquet flooring. Tiled floors are wonderful in hotter climates, but are also very useful for your kitchen and bathroom. A carpet is not practical for kitchensor bathrooms, as you’ll be continuously trying to mop up spills that leave nasty stains on the carpet.

Tiling your floor gives a practical along with cooling solution to these areas of your home, a tiled floor always being exceptional for low maintenance, a fast wipe down with a cleaner or a cloth always leaving it clean and hygienic. Not just is it an excellent way to keep cool in the hot summertime, but also you never have to worry about germs and bacteria which are harboured in the carpet from spills.

Moving on to the lounge, again there are all sorts of options to carpet such as trendy parquet. This kind of flooring is fashionable, but unfortunately not so inexpensive, although a similar affect can be attained with floor coverings which are sold on rolls and are easily laid down as they’re self-adhesive .

If you’ve made the decision to swap the carpets for tiles, but are feeling the cold in winter, then you can remedy this quite simply by adding some stylish rugs. These are great for areas like the lounge or where children play, but have the flexibility of being removable in the hot summertime and certainly washable. A conventional carpet harbors a lot of germs, and unless it is cleaned with special detergents and a carpet cleaner it can actually be a hazard to your house.

When you are renovating your house, you can look on line at catalogues or visit your nearby hardware store for ideas on your floorings. You have to decide what’s the greatest option for your individual circumstances and how you can refurbish your floors to offer you a refreshing break from carpets. Think practical and consider your pets or kids, and make the wise choice for renovating your house.

Geri Tomsen likes to write about flooring tips and ideas. The author invites you to visit: http://gulvafslibningpriser.com

That’s what we need, we need a total makeover to our house. Termites are already eating our whole house plus it was built in wrong location,  what I mean when the siblings divided the piece of land our house was cut in half,  so we need to push our house back ward to make way for my Uncle’s share of land.

With the help of my earnings online little by little we’re starting to purchase construction materials, just few months ago my family bought  five hundred pieces of hollow blocks, and the coconut tree on our back yard was also cut to use in constructing our house.

Below are my cousins who volunteered for labor fee to collect dirt to be used in building the foundation “pantambak“. They got the dirt free from the people that are constructing the canal and dirt road in front of our house. Yeah, finally they cementing the national road.

Just this afternoon while my husband and I is busy in front of our computer we heard that someone pulled up our door lock followed up by someone pressing the buttons. It went out that the number typed is wrong that makes an error sound, whoever that someone outside she repeated it three times (she because we can hear their voice from inside). My husband told me to check it and open the door, so I did to her surprised.

What I saw is tall woman with a short hair accompanied with a guy,  she said something and I just nod, all I understand is “Aniyo” (No). It seems they had  a wrong door or apartment,  the woman looks like an agent. So when my husband asked what do they need, I told him what I think.  There’s a vacant room just beside us, so I don’t know if that’s what they are trying to visit or they’re just in wrong apartment and it just happened that we have the same door number.

We’re just lucky that we are inside our apartment and very smart to use a number combination that only the two of us  has a knowledge. What if we are not around and we are using a default password? We don’t know what will happen next, isn’t it? They might throw away our things or re-arrange our apartment if  someone  mistakenly transfer here which is too morbid to imagine. Haha

Anyway there’s no harm Koreans are trusted,  you can even see a lot of expensive  mobile phones in the street and nobody show interest to stole one of them, they freely displayed items without inhibition, but the fact it is still an invasion of private property is kind of disturbing what if I just finished taking shower and I am all naked, nyah what an embarrassment.

Anyway this is one of the advantage of Keyless Digital Door Lock strangers cannot open it easily without knowing the code combination.  The lock bolt is control by digital chipset, with out any keyhole, so the lock-picker could do nothing to it.

As what  I know you can used RFID cards as the keys of your lock, and passwords/cards could be set in groups because I’ve seen our previous neighbor using a card to open her door.

This lock could be used widely in homes, apartments, condos, office and etc..

The landlord,  his wife and one of their friend was here this afternoon in our apartment to change add more wallpaper in our wall.  My husband told his co-teacher about the molds so Jade called the landlord and yesterday they come over to check it.

And today they fixed it by adding new roll of wall papers to the old one,  they didn’t remove the old one they just add new one.

They spend about two hours in adding wall paper in the kitchen and in our room, when they’re done you can see the landlord did it in rush or he just don’t know how to flatten the wallpaper in the wall, there’s bubbles in my husband’s dismay. He said much better if they just took the old wallpaper and painted it and he might help them painting the wall.,

Anyway just want to say thank you to the land lord and hopefully the molds will not eat the wall paper again.

The other day I have cleaned some of my junks at home when my husband saw them he wants all of them to be thrown away(lol). Oh well I just thrown the things that  I think I don’t need anymore like the plastics and paper bags, he called me  a packrat and he added it seems I am proud of it.

I just hold to the things I think useful and I am not really  a hoarder who just pick and collect anything at home. This junks are not literally junks they are my things like pen, tapes, notebooks and etc., it just happened that my husband called my things as junks.

My husband and I is planning to purchase a Dehumidifier for our apartment to prevent the molds  in building up, he asked me to look online and I was surprised that it cost a lot  about $250 and up which is normal price according to him.

I found mini dehumidifier which measures 154x130x218 (WXDXH) mm, it’s cheap but really small and we don’t think it will help a lot so we are planning to look a dehumidifier on Samsung store when we have free time.

According to Wikipidea a dehumidifier is typically a household appliance that reduces the level of humidity in the air, usually for health reasons. Humid air can cause mold and mildew to grow inside homes, which pose various health risks. Very humid climates or air make some people extremely uncomfortable, causing excessive sweating that can’t evaporate in the already-moisture-saturated air. It can also cause condensation that can disrupt sleeping, or prevent laundry from drying thoroughly enough to prevent mustiness. Higher humidity is also preferred by most pests, including clothes moths, fleas, cockroaches, and dust mites. Relative humidity in dwellings is preferably 30 to 50 percent.