Tuesday, June 18, 2013
@ 4:47 AM
18th June 2013
Woah.. Has been a couple of years since i last write in this blog..
Let's have a little update!
I'm happily married on 31st October 2011, very wonderful and successful wedding with sweet surprises from my hubby..
I'm a mother of a little girl name Kayla, she's born on 13th Nov 2012.
She's a healthy, happy, cheeky and lovely little girl and I'm so bless to have her and I'm so so so much in love with her..
We're still staying in Ubi but with a few addition house members.. my FIL, helper and our new addition to the family. Not forgetting my 2 naughty girls (mango & misha) are still with me.. as usual Misha is the mischievous dog, but I still love her very much and feeling guilty not spending quality time with them.
Been busy with many things.. a new helper as our old helper "Seng" request to go back for studies. The new helper still under observation on her working attitude and how well she can handle Kayla and the 2 dogs.
Life is still the same in STM, not much changes.. been here for 3yrs plus and feeling too comfortable to move on.. Living expenses is shooting up with many mouth in the house we need to feed..
Oh dear, I hope we have luck to strike lottery or get better luck with finances.
For my next post, I'll try to update some pics..
Woah.. Has been a couple of years since i last write in this blog..
Let's have a little update!
I'm happily married on 31st October 2011, very wonderful and successful wedding with sweet surprises from my hubby..
I'm a mother of a little girl name Kayla, she's born on 13th Nov 2012.
She's a healthy, happy, cheeky and lovely little girl and I'm so bless to have her and I'm so so so much in love with her..
We're still staying in Ubi but with a few addition house members.. my FIL, helper and our new addition to the family. Not forgetting my 2 naughty girls (mango & misha) are still with me.. as usual Misha is the mischievous dog, but I still love her very much and feeling guilty not spending quality time with them.
Been busy with many things.. a new helper as our old helper "Seng" request to go back for studies. The new helper still under observation on her working attitude and how well she can handle Kayla and the 2 dogs.
Life is still the same in STM, not much changes.. been here for 3yrs plus and feeling too comfortable to move on.. Living expenses is shooting up with many mouth in the house we need to feed..
Oh dear, I hope we have luck to strike lottery or get better luck with finances.
For my next post, I'll try to update some pics..
Saturday, December 25, 2010
@ 8:52 AM
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my friends... May you have a lovely Christmas with your loves one =)
Preparation for our BIG day gonna kick in soon!
Getting all excited with the upcoming changes and of cos the event on 26 December... walking down the aisle hand in hand and the beginning of our life together..
Thursday, December 16, 2010
@ 9:51 PM
I'm counting down! 9 more days towards our ROM on 26 December 2010.
Well, it's kinda rush and pack for me with renovation and wedding stuff running concurrently.
I'm hoping to be a pleasant one but at times things doesn't seems to flow the way u wanna it to be or probably a smooth one :(
Today is my first post at our new house @ Ubi. Arranging for the appliances, air-con and bedding to delivery to our house and very upset with the workmanship of the house which I did not mention in the earlier post. I feel so disgusted with the outcome of the workmanship and I believe my expectation is reasonable and not asking for the ridiculous!
They rejected some of our request which make dear pissed off and they seems to address our concern at all.
- Request to re-paint 2 bedroom and top-up but was rejected. Reason being, will affect the handover date.
- Request to custom-made a small alter table but was rejected too. (even we willing to pay)
- Request for a small ledge at the side of the balcony (agree to it but see nothing at all)
- Bedroom doors delivery are not what we saw in the catalog. (pending to revert to us)
The handover has been delay from end Nov to 1st week of Dec and dear have told them to handover on the 19 Dec. Blogging and arrive at our new house since 11am, I have yet to see any of the workers coming to rush the work and all in front of me is the delivery and schedule that I made earlier.
Schedule for 17 December 2010
- Delivery of appliances from Havey Norman -- DONE
- Delivery of MBR mattress from Simmons -- DONE
- Installation of air-con units -- DONE
I'm ultimately disappointed and upset with KEITHWORKS!. Why did I get to meet such contractor or engage him in the 1st place. I should have chose to engage Gillian instead. It's such a agony where my renovation period is close to 3months and yet it's still not close to completion yet! Bed frame is not ready and I have to place my mattress on the floor! Gosh.. I have spoke to Keith previously before arranging for the delivery and he say the bed frame will be up by today!
Again they're so screw up! They sucks big time!
They can't seems to delivery what they promise, the so called touch-up or plastering the worst job I have ever seen! Moreover, with the dateline give by dear I have yet to see any of his worker rushing to complete our project. Basically, they lack of the urgency and they have very bad time management! I'm trying to calm myself down and leave all the conversation to dear. Basically, I can't accept the workmanship and I hate that this is taking too long. It's so close to Xmas now, our ROM and also my birthday. All my wish and hope to held a celebration at our new house is highly not possible. I'm extremely disappointed and upset with the progress and status of our house =/
Labels: Best Tech, Delivery, Harvey Norman, Home, Home Appliances, Simmons
Monday, December 13, 2010
@ 9:44 AM
We have finally brought the bedroom set for our temporary bedroom at Ikea before we could move in to the MBR. We will be moving to the MBR only after customary.. Friends who know the date please "SAVE THE DATE" and I love to see all of you on our actual day!
Next, we need to decide which dryer & washer to get for our house. It will be an extremely busy month for us. Lots of coordination work to be done, arranging for delivery, check on the renovation progress, handling our budget, purchasing of new items for the house, preparing my ROM aka selecting songs, getting the favors done, fishbowl etc... I wish I got alot more $$$ and also time.. Work is so crazy that I frown whenever I face my laptop.. tons of work to do and it's killing me... Now, I only look forward to 22 Dec and fully concentrate on house and ROM stuff.
Updates on ROM Preparation
- To collect stickers and stick on the favor
- To purchase fishbowl for our deco
- To purchase goldfish
- To get wines for our guest
- To get shirt & pants for Mr. Lo
- To select and burn song that will be play on 26 Dec
- To print place card/menu/seating plan
- To plan time schedule for the event
- To go facial on 16 December =)
- To distress and look pretty on the actual day!
Update on house
Too many details, I prefer to let post the pictures and let it speak for themselves but I'm arranging my furniture to come in on 17 & 22 December. Hopefully things will fall in place and we start moving in soon... I can't wait to move into our house!!!
Date: 12 December 2010
Ikea : $1282
Date: 4 & 9December 2010
Ikea: $484
Labels: Home, Home Expenses, ROM
Sunday, December 12, 2010
@ 10:44 AM
Finally food tasting day arrive!
We meet up with Jane & Gavin at 1827 Thai Restaurant for food tasting complimentary from The Art House to try at least 75% of the food in our menu for our solemnisation event on 26 December. The moment we enter the restaurant, gives us a very grand, classy and intimate feeling as the crowd is minimal and we have a very nice cozy corner for the food tasting. We tried almost all the dishes except for the Green Tea Tiramisu with Japanese Red Bean served in Shot Glass and the food is exceptionally good except for the green salad which we top up the different and change to the Assorted Sushi Platter. So... let the photo does it's magic to bring you around 1827 Thai Restaurant @ The Old Parliament House..
the entrance of 1827 Thai Restaurant @ The Arts House
Nice coaster of 1827 Thai Restaurant
the small cozy corner for our food tasting
Here comes our sneak preview for some items on our MENU!!!
Thai Green Mango Salad in Crushed Peanuts Dressing
Grilled Boneless Leg of Chicken with Pepper & Spices
Pan Fried Fillet of Dory with Lemon Butter Cream Sauce
Roasted Leg of Lamb with Tom Yum Flavoured Sauce
Pineapple Fried Rice Topped with Chicken Floss & Cashew Nuts
Mini Oreo Cheese Cake & Mango Mousse Cake
Mix Fresh Fruits Platter
We have a very lovely and enjoyable dinner together and all of us love the mango salad! I believe it will be the favourite of the day! Before we left 1827 Thai, I took some interior pics of the restaurant.
upon entrance the left & right corner with very nice chandelier
The oblong table which seats 10pax
another view of the oblong table
After providing feedback of the dishes to the TOPH personnel and did a wine tasting, we head back to Gavin & Jane house to catch fishes to be put inside dear tank and invite them to our renovated house =)
Our first friend to our humble house which is currently in a messy state...
Labels: The Arts House
Saturday, December 11, 2010
@ 10:22 AM
Updates on 10 December 2010.
It's a extremely busy schedule for us today as I have schedule for quite a number of stuff to be done today. This morning chemical wash will kick in and before heading to our new house we head to Kallang Macdonald to have big breakfast!
We arrive the house at close to 11am and to our surprise the worker from Besglas is here to install the remaining WIW already and chemical wash is in progress.
10 December Schedule
- Finish the remaining installation of the WIW by Besglas
- The touch-up work from Yon Tat on our main door
- Delivery of Ikea items (our study table)
- Delivery of our dining table (Hommage)
- Site visit by PUB personnel & Town council plumber to rectify the water pressure issue we encounter
Shortly, the Ikea logistics workers is here for the installation of our study table. We did a mis-calculation as the air-con piping is at the left corner hence there's a a between the walls & the table. We will be getting in some shelves and hopefully it's not so obvious and the end result isn't that bad.
the worker preparing to assemble 
the assemble process for our study table
Thereafter, we head for our lunch and I called up Charles from Hommage to arrange to deliver the dining table earlier than the schedule time slot. I highly recommend Hommage for their sales & after sales service and Charles for his extremely good and efficient service.
Charles with his worker
Removing the stand from the box
Next, the glass top to be secure on top of the stand
Moving over and the aligning the stand/tableIn the midst of the installation, the worker from Yon Tat was here to assist on the touch up of the door. Justin (Director) provide hassle free door installation and excellent service. Even after receiving our full payment, he made an effort to send his worker to check on the outstanding issue we're facing with the laminates. Initially the uncle who did the installation of the main door make a wrong measure and remove excessive wood while driling for the lockset. To rectify this issue, he fill up the gap with another small piece of wood and remove the laminates on the side and leave a bad laminating job after everything is done. Have inform Justin about this and no question ask, he send his worker down to touch up within the next free days. I'm happy with both the touch up and service received from Yon Tat. Unexpectedly, I received a call from Justin later in the evening to check on the touch up work. I'm not expectating a call from him but he actually did make the effort to do this and follow up on the issue. I'm extremely happy with the service rendered and highly recommend him to all my friends who're looking for main door. Go for YON TAT for your DOORS!!!
Shortly, the PUB personnel & Town Council Plumber came to check on the water pressure issue as our contractor is unable to check and refer us directly to HDB/PUB w/o even doing the 1st round of check. Dissappointed & pissed I decided to contact the relevant department for assistance on the 8 December and here they are! After the check, there seems to be a problem with the water meter as it seems to be choked. Therefore the PUB officer will be getting the relevant personnel on 13 Dec(Mon) to replace a new meter for us. Hopefully the water pressure will be better.
the crowd outside my houseAfter everything is settle, we head back home to change and prepare for our food tasting at The Arts House.... to be continue...
Labels: Home, Hommage, Ikea, PUB, Renovation
Friday, December 10, 2010
@ 9:14 AM
Updates on 8 December 2010!!!
The day I got my part II proposal unexpectedly!
Anyway, some areas of the paint and lighting are up so here we go for the tour!
Foyer area leading to store room & living area
View from the foyer area
View at the bedroom doors area
Common toilet with accessories
Common toilet ugly piping with storage heater (will re-locate the pipe)
2nd coat of paint up and our fans up!
MBR toilet tiling & toilet bowl w/o vanity top
Study room with fan & lightWe held some discussion with Keith on the carpentry works, laminates for the shoes cabinet, kitchen cabinet, bedroom laminates etc before he went off and off we go to have our lunch at City Square Mall and I brought roses for myself which I love it so much as it's imported roses and they look so lovely! Happily buying the roses and gong cha we head back to rest and schedule to meet up with Lindt at 8pm.
So before we leave the house, here comes the comical proposal from dear.. it's so funny to me and dear is so angry.. Hahaha.. Anyway, do ask me if you wanna know cos he will not let me off if I were to blog this online.. I'm extremely shock and surprise but extremely happy that he gave me the part II proposal which he have promise me in 2007 (my part I proposal). I feel so bless and love especially knowing the tight budget we're in, he actually honour his words and proposal to me which I thought he might delay in doing so..
Thank you so much my dearest "LAO GONG to-be"!!!! Hehehehe..
Anyway, we meet up with Lindt to discuss on the flora deco on our solemnisation day itself and she's extremely nice to provide us the pearls and the doves as part of the deco which was not discuss initially. It's complimentary from you! Love it!!! Thanks Lindt & 85 Flowers!!! So we discuss our main theme for the day & also the hand bouquet for me.
Meet up with kk to pass her the invite and head back home to prepare and finalise details for our solemnisation...
Labels: Florist, Home, Proposal, Renovation
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