Kampar CS (Worked hard, but enjoyed)

Let's continue!

So, now instead of continuing with the house, we went to help the retaining wall. They need a lot of big stone!

That was tiring!

a way to show how tiring we are:p

If you were lazy, the punishment will be execution by burying you alive!:p

Mr. Fabio with the "dat dat dat dat" machine. That's what he said:p Need to redo the column part near the door coz it was not perfectly horizontal aligned to the door! A lot of work there..

A way to reduce the construction waste is to use them up.
The stones/bricks that failed were transported to the cage as wall's weight.

To fill the cage for the retaining wall took a lot of time.

Joseph with a very proud pose as engineer. :p
Engineer's pride.

Last step, tying the cage so that the wall act as rigid part.



Side view and...





...the "butt"view.

Mr Fabio came to check the progress.
He was very satisfy with the retaining wall as it was man-powered instead of machine.
Actually building a retaining wall is not an easy task.

Our retaining wall. So handsome!

And back to the house.

It was going to rain soon.

He was praying for the rain to come, so we can have reasonable excuse to rest:p

This is the toilet part. SO SMALL!
but compared to other houses...

see? The house we building is made from concrete blocks.
Other houses were papan nia.
This one must be ketua kampung's house, or someone with great wealth in the kampung!

Yeah, taking photo with all the hard workers!
The end of hard construction day!

Later on we had dinner at Kampar "nga bou" chicken rice.
Most of us had fully sweated our jeans(should not wear jeans for construction==)
so we changed to short pants.

wink wink**

Okay, FYI, that day was 9 of July.
Mooi sen, Fei, Yean and me took the last train to back KL.
The rest on cars.
So, I had a unforgetable BIRTHDAY night in train. Sob:p

Kampar CS (Engineers or labors?)

3 cars for our number of ppl.

We were working for HABITAT. Mr Fabio (if not mistaken) wanted us to wear the helmet all the time for safety purpose.











Yellow for the normal rank builders, while white for a higher rank ppl, usually architect or engineers.

Mr Fabio was a carpenter until he left his hometown to get involved in HABITAT.
He started to work here just few months ago.

These are concrete blocks. It's hollow as they need reduce the weight that will impose on soil. The soil is quite soft FYI, and it's besides a river. So the bearing capacity of the soil might not be that good with water in the soil.













Oh ya. Before I get started, let me tell you what project we were doing.
We were assigned 2 tasks,

1. Build a retaining wall
2. Build a house (b4 that already 50% done)
   

Outside, not far from the parked car, is the site for the retaining wall.
RETAINING WALL - is a wall that used to hold the sand from moving.

This was retaining wall previously done by other group, which as u can see,
not good enough. Showing signs of failure.

A short walk from the retaining wall site is the house construction site.

THIS IS THE HOUSE!
*Noticed that the wall were not even on the same level with the window frame.

So we started off by wearing helmet and gloves. Everyone looked excited.

6 persons helping with the house, while the rest went for the retaining wall.
I was on the house site.
SO following pictures I not so sure what's happening. hehe:p

Seng Chee was like =.="

"what are they doing ah?!"

AND THE BEST PHOTO TODAY!
It's no fake. The expression is real! heheh:p
He tersangkut with the cage i think.

The retaining wall is actually made of a steel cage, buried to an extent of ground, with stones as the weightier. Means that to build a retaining wall, a steel cage filled with stones must be buried to the wanted site. They started by shaping the steel cage 1st, then digging the ground, and finally place the steel cage to the ground before filling it with stones.

They were crouching at the hole they dug, which this act was seen by Mr. Fabio accidentally when he was back from house construction site to guide them. Must be very very embarrassing:p

This is the path way to the house construction site. Nice rite?
It's a bridge. Down there is a clear river.
You can see "african see"(fei zhau yu)

That's me, filling the hollow blocks with mortar.

The roof trusses.

We had a break on 12++.
Went for the famous Curry chicken bread,
which the bread contained curry chicken inside.
Yes, it's inside, you can only see the chicken after u cut the bread off.
Special huh?

To be cont.
2am d lo..sleep time.haha:p