Directions to Lake Fields

For those who are coming to the morning session of Celeste and Ming Han’s wedding, here are some quick directions to Lake Fields.

Directions from Kesas (Lebuhraya Shah Alam) to Lake Fields

1.

After the KESAS toll, travel eastward on KESAS towards KL

4.0 km

2.

Take right fork towards Cheras. You will be now on Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR 2)

2.0 km

3.

Look out for Bandar Tasik Selatan LRT station on left. Take left ramp and make a U-turn to the other side of MRR 2

0.3 km

4.

Continue on MRR 2 until you see the turning to Serdang, Balakong, UPM on the left

1.7 km

5.

Take that turning and continue straight. You will come across a traffic light. The Sg Besi LRT station is on your left

0.2 km

6.

Continue straight and take flyover on the left that says Lake Fields

0.3 km

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Directions from Federal Highway to Lake Fields

1.

Head east on Lebuhraya Persekutuan towards Kuala Lumpur

0.2 km

2.

As you pass MidValley on your left, take the exit onto Jalan Klang Lama

3.1 km

3.

Travel straight and turn left at Jalan Kuchai Lama

2.6 km

4.

Continue straight all the way and you will be travelling on Lebuhraya Sungai Besi

4.0 km

5.

Take “Lake Fields” ramp when you come to a 3-fork that says Sg. Besi/Cheras (left), Lake Fields (centre) and Serdang/Balakong (right)

0.4 km

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Directions from KL Seremban Highway to Lake Fields

Take the Cheras exit from KL-Seremban Highway

0.1 km

Take the left ramp to Sungai Besi (via Lebuhraya Sungai Besi) *warning: do not take leftest ramp to Putrajaya

56 m

Keep right at the fork to continue toward Lebuhraya Sungai Besi (towards KL)

1.0 km

Make a U-turn

2.5 km

Continue straight on Lebuhraya Sungai Besi (towards Serdang)

4.1 km

Take “Lake Fields” ramp when you come to a 3-fork that says Sg. Besi/Cheras (left), Lake Fields (centre) and Serdang/Balakong (right)

0.4 km

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When you reach Lake Fields, you will see white 3 storey houses that look something like this:-

House Renovation

At the end of 2007 and in search of a new home, we looked around from Taman Tun Dr. Ismail to the myriads of new and confusingly named Damansaras but somehow Lake Fields always had a spot in our hearts due to its contemporary design and finishing. At that time, the realtor had 2 units from us to choose from: a Feng Shui friendly one (which had the entrance to the powder room sealed and hence not facing the main door) and another one which didn’t. In the end, Feng Shui played no part in our decision and we chose the one that was nearer to the guard house and the water tower. We figured then that the clear unblocked path from the main door to the powder room would work out well in cases of emergencies that couldn’t wait. 

Flash forward to roughly 7 months ago, which is the amount of time required to “complete” a purchase of the property (which warrants another rant), we appointed a contractor to perform some renovation work on the house for us. Perhaps “some” is relative as the work turned out to be quite major indeed. In addition to sealing the powder room entrance (after reassuring ourselves that the odds of the sort of emergencies that would actually occur in which such a configuration would serve to be beneficial is quite infinitesimal), we decided to include a show piece in the house.

One idea that immediately struck us was that our new place has a double volume living area. This would look very nice if the house that we got was a corner unit like below:-

But unfortunately, we got a non-corner unit so it unexcitingly looked like this:-

Which wasn’t too bad but we wanted to explore what we could do with all the space. That was when the thought of building a loft came to us. The more we thought about it, the more we fell in love with the concept of having a loft overlooking the living room. To build the loft, our contractor first built the structure of the platform with wood (as a mold for the concrete) and reinforced the stucture with intenal steel wireframes.

Next, they poured the first layer of concrete onto the structure. The holes in the walkway are for the downlights below. The white pipes contained electrical wirings.

Once the initial layer is set, another layer is added on top to even up the surface.

The whole concrete structure was allowed to dry. (I resisted the temptation to run into the area to jump up and down).

And penultimately, they’ve added the railings recently which made it safe(r) for me to climb over there to perform my jump tests. I did and the new loft was strong enough to withstand my jumps.

The whole process of building the loft took place over the span of 4 months. The final step will be to add in the wood railing and the timber floor which will take up another 4 to 6 weeks.

Hopefully, we will be able to move into the new place before June this year (fingers crossed so very tight!)