Saturday, March 31, 2012

Fruitful day

Today, I asked my sister to rent a car so that we could move some of our stuffs to new house. I woke up rather early at 9am and started to do packing as we need to leave house by 12noon. Slot booked was 12 to 4pm. Our intention was just to transport the items over and I will unpack tomorrow myself.

I was so surprised that I had so many things to move over. 2 big bags of bags. Ai yoh. We went for lunch at MyVillage at Serangoon Garden. Chose Japanese ramen restaurant and glad that the food was so "Japanese style" and it tasted good too. The restaurant name is Daikokuya Ramen restaurant.

After lunch, we bought some ice-creams, drinks and instant noodles for storage at home since there was car today to transport over. Reached house at around 3.30pm and quickly went back to Pasir Ris to return the car.

Went shopping at Robinson Raffles City. Did not buy much. Moved to Tampines for dinner then went home.






Friday, March 30, 2012

Found the reason

Finally I managed to find what's the problem I encountered for the transferring of my phone contacts to google contacts. Shall do it slowly to ensure all is correct. Do it nicely once and future will be easy.

This evening, we had sushi dinner again in the theater. I kind of missed the sushi from Giant supermarket and since there was not much time left as we need to get the router for my house, we decided to buy 2 packets and sneaked into the theater to eat.

With my colleague's recommendation, I bought the router. Luckily I got the membership no from my brother-in-law as it saved me $30.

We watched "Wrath of the Titans" tonight. Totally unaware that this was the continuation of the "Clash of the Titans" that aired in 2010. No wonder I found the casts so familiar. I was so shocked to find "Lord Voldemort" in the movie. Guess who was that...

Answer is"Hades".

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Puzzled

Today, I continued to figure out how to read contacts from my phone sim card. I think really can't and need to import contacts to my google account. I am too traditional that wants to keep everything in my sim card.

New problem arised! I could not read the imported contacts in my google contacts. Real strange.

Hence... the search continues.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Too high tech

Back home late and started to play with my new phone. I have problem reading contacts from Sim card and still struggling. Also trying to figure out how the tethering works. The phone is too high tech that I can't handle. Kept asking 小珠 for help. :P

Shall continue to figure out. It makes me with no time to watch j-dramas.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Another late day

Today still a busy day for me. However, managed to eat snake for a while after lunch hour. We went to Ikea as my colleague wanted to buy something and I could buy cups too.

Bought 2 cups and few storage boxes. Kept them in office as I could bring to my house if my colleague drove to take a look at my house. Collected my handbag after washing it (cost $60). Kept in office too, waiting for longbang.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Late Late

Went for morning coffee at Suntec City with one of my customer. Reached office at 11.30am. After lunch, I visited one new customer and I left with not much time to do my own work today.

Had stayed in office till 9.15pm and thought we could go home. However, just left office a while, my boss called and asked 小珠 to go back to office as he needed her to run some data for our CEO. We turned back and luckily we were still nearby and not on the bus.

Done the data run and left office only at around 11.15pm. By the time I reached home, it was near to 1am and I was so so so tired.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

1st move

This afternoon, my dad helped to move some of my things to new house. All the pots, utensils etc... Mainly for the kitchen. I took few hours doing the unpacking. So many uh...

My dad helped me to hang up the flip clock. Like it so much...

I think I stood too long yesterday and today, I was so tired. My sister also had no strength to do more unpacking etc. Took a break today.

It was so windy today as it rained. If everyday is like that, so good uh. No need to switch on fan or aircon. :)

Had dinner at Siam Kitchen. The food was quite cheap and it tasted good.









Saturday, March 24, 2012

Cleaning

Reached my house at 11am and was on time for the first item to be delivered today. The mattress came first, followed by bed frame, then TV and lastly washing machine + refrigerator.

The uncle for putting up blinds came at around 3pm. Hence everything was completed quite early and we started to sweep and mop the floor. It was so dusty after so many deliveries. My living room now filled up with big boxes. These boxes have to be kept for 7 days to ensure no defects on the items I bought.

Tidied up kitchenware and after sweeping + mopping floor, we started to wash the 2 toilets. My sister actually did the washing and I only did the cleaning of the walls and toilet accessories. After all was done, we were so happy that we felt more comfortable walking on the floor tiles. So clean.

Bathed and left house for dinner at NEX. Our dinner was so late. By time we reached NEX, it was already 8.45pm. Had set dinner at MOF and went to Fairprice Xtra to buy some items which I am missing. Took cab and reached home at 11.20pm. So late liao. Very tired now...

Tomorrow will be another round to bring some stuff there. My dad will help to drive the items over.








Sunset view from new house

Friday, March 23, 2012

Movie time again

After one week's break, we went for our usual Friday movie this evening. Watched "The Hunger Games" at 8.45pm.

We tried to leave office early but was still held up a bit and reached VivoCity just about 1 hour before the show started. Had dinner at LJS and proceeded to Challenger as I need to buy the HDMI cable to link to my new TV. Tried it at home and it was so good. Next time can watch PPS through TV screen more shiok.

The movie was good and the ending theme song was very nice. Shall try to find this song online. :)

Tomorrow needs to reach new house before 11am. A lot of items to be delivered tomorrow. Will be a very busy day.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Thursday

Finally it's Thursday! One more day to go. Yippy!

Quite a busy day and lack of time to handle all enquires at same time. Had to delay replying to some customers. However, glad to close some deals today.

Eyes sleepy. Hope I can finish some J-dramas. Most of them are having last episode this week. Another season going to start...

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Tired

Today I am still tired and no mood to work lei. However, no excuse for me but to continue to work.

Left office quite late but still earlier than usual. Back home to watch J-dramas. :P

Today is Takeru's birthday. Happy birthday to my no 3 idol!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Early

This afternoon, we went to Alexandra Village to have our lunch. It was so hot that I perspired a lot. Wrong day to go there?

Bought some bread from Love Confectionery shop. Very nice and cheap breads.

This evening, I finished my work and decided to leave office early. I yet to settle the full payment for the items I bought from Courts. Delivery date is this coming Saturday. Left office at about 7.30pm and got a ride from my boss to Kembangan station. This cut down a lot of my travelling time to Tampines Station. I also managed to get to trim my fringe.

Very tired today. Will sleep earlier tonight.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Continue to buy and buy

This morning, my dad sent us to my new house as we need to do the 旺屋仪式. After today, I can slowly bring things to the new house and prepare to move in any time. My target is end of this month.

The place is still dusty and need another few rounds of cleaning. Hope after that, I won't feel the sandy sandy touch on the floor.

We completed at around 2pm and left for Simei. Went to Daiso again to buy some stuffs. My mum followed me and helped me to buy those kitchen and toilet necessities.

Still have many things to buy. Ai yoh....

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Aching

Today is our Malay neighbour's daughter wedding. They invited us and we went to sit sit a while for courtesy. This is the first time I attended a malay wedding. We ate a bit and left as we need to go to my new house to do some cleaning. Need my dad's ladder else we are too short to clean the top cabinets.



I reached Serangoon house at around 2pm with my parents. We started to do the cleaning and the weather was hot plus I hardly do housework, it was really a very difficult task for me to mop and sweep the floor. Worst thing was I was not using normal usual mop and broom, I bought the 3M products and kind of weird to handle the 2 monsters.

In the end, I decided to use a cloth to mop. But after mopping one room, I gave up. My dad's invention came : use the mop with a cloth. Haha... faster that way.

Did all the internal cleaning of the wardrobes and cabinets. Window and window grilles cleaning. After they were done, we were so tired. I mopped the floor the 2nd time as it still not so clean. My mum said she will buy one broom for me. Anyway, I still need it to sweep the floor outside the unit. Tradition still good.

My dad was tired. Took the cloth that we cover the window and slept with a roll of hand towel as the pillow. On the aircon for him to rest. My mum and me just sat at the living room floor waiting for him to wake up. Hee hee...

There goes my whole day. Now, my legs and hands are so aching... Back also. Tomorrow I am on leave as need to do some stuff at the new house with my parents. Will be busy for the coming weeks as I will start to move my stuffs bit by bit on every weekend.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Brand new home

Went to my house this afternoon and was glad the cabinets and wardrobes were nicely done. The TV console and shoe cabinets look matching to the flooring.

We did not do much cleaning as there was no ladder and we could only clean the low cabinets. Tomrrow, I will go with my parents to do the first round of floor cleaning. It was so dusty....

Left at around 5pm and reached Orchard Centrepoint at around 6pm. We shopped and I bought one knife and a set of knife covers. Had dinner at Causeway Bay Hong Kong Cafe and walked to Plaza Singapura as I need to get some bowls. We reached at 9.30pm and was lucky enough to have some time to get what we need to buy.

Reached home at 10.30pm. Quite tired liao.





Friday, March 16, 2012

Back home safely

Woke up at 4.30am and prepared for a day trip to KL. Luckily my alarm clock managed to wake me up. Supposed to leave house at around 5.15am as meeting my colleague at around 5.30am. Got a sms from her at 5.20am that she just woke up and would be at airport around 6am. Luckily we already check in online. Otherwise, will be late for our check in.

Met up with her at 6.10am and we cleared custom and had a quick breakfast at the SIA lounge. My colleague is PPS member hence could bring me in. Would be nice if we could eat at the business class lounge but due to lack of time, we just went to the PPS Gold lounge. She said did not why her alarm clock didn't work and she woke up only at 5.15am. Luckily she found something not right and looked at her clock when she suddenly woke up after sleeping for a few hours.

We reached KL and went straight to the customer's office. Had a cup of tea and a piece of prata before the session as we reached there rather early. The presentation took about 2 1/2 hours and we had a separate session for a review on our performance.

Today, we did not book limo from the driver we usually took as his charge is beginning to be more expensive. To prevent being questioned during our expense claim, we took an airport limo to town. But it was a pain to flag a taxi after the meeting. We waited at the taxi stand and there was no taxi until after about 20mins. Its Friday and most drivers went for prayer. Aiyoh!!!

We took a taxi to KL Central and took the KL Express to the airport. Quite comfortable. Next time I can take the KL express and change to taxi. Cheaper.....

My colleague's fight was earlier than mine. I was working while waiting for my flight at 1850hr. To prevent myself from missing flight as I was busy working on my Blackberry, I sat outside the gate and wait for the time to board plane.

There was flight delay and I only got to board at around 1915hr. It also took longer to land in Singapore. By right, plane should land at Terminal 2 but this time, it landed at Terminal 3. Perhaps there was berth congestion at Terminal 2. Well, good for me as I could take a bus home. I hate being given that kind of black face when taking cab to Pasir Ris from airport. Since it was just 8.45pm, would just take a bus.

Reached home and after having dinner, I started to clear my emails. Very tired day. More tired than normal working days.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Busy day

Rather a busy day for me as I need to complete my work as much as possible today. Had to leave office earlier as need to sleep earlier due to my early flight tomorrow to KL. Have to wake up at 4.30am as need to be at the airport around 5.30am. Flight is at 7.10am.

Managed to leave office at around 8plus and I could not make myself to sleep at 11 plus. Have to at lease watch one epi of J-drama. Hahaha.

Ok lah. Hope tomorrow morning I can wake up timely. :)

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tired day

Woke up and felt quite tired. Maybe too little rest as this few days, had been leaving office late.

Had lunch at O'Coffee Club with 3 of my colleagues. I need to use up the 3 vouchers which due date is 16 Mar. Went to HarbourFront and after lunch, we went to Best Denki to check out the model and price for TV. I saw one $899 Samsung 40" LED TV and I should be getting this one. Shall compare price at Courts and if it has no difference, I will buy from Courts so that it can be delivered together with my fridge/washing machine/bed frame/mattress.

Believe today I can only watch one epi of J-drama. Tomorrow has to sleep earlier as flight to KL for my business trip is 7am and needs to be at airport by 6am the latest.


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Stinking

Left office quite late again today and took train home. I was so unlucky as to get to sit near a very inconsiderate man. Below picture will explain why.



He took off his shoes and just happily sat there and enjoyed his ride by sleeping. The "fragrance" was so strong that I could not breathe and felt like vomiting. As all the other seats were taken and I was too tired to stand all the way to Pasir Ris, I tolerated with the smell and just hoped that he would alight soon. Too bad... his destination was Pasir Ris too.

When I was walking down the stairs from the platform to the 1st floor, I smelt the familiar "fragrance". I really doubt if it came from me but no uh... I smelt my blouse and it was not from me. Turned to my right and saw the man. OMG! The smell followed him even after he wore his shoes. That was how "fragrance" it was!

Monday, March 12, 2012

Tired Monday

Last night it was raining and the weather was so cooling until I did feel like waking up this morning.

Felt tired and how I wish no work today. My wishful thinking....

Had some problem at work and hope it will be solved smoothly. Otherwise, I will be in big big big trouble.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

IMM

This afternoon, went to IMM and shopped at Daiso for almost 2 hours. Bought some stuff for cleaning of my new house. Since my father was driving, took the opportunity to buy some items first. The shop is bigger at IMM and I did not really have time to look at all. Just walk and took whatever I think was more important.

Went to check the date for moving house. Got it as 19 Mar to do the 旺屋仪式. Need to take a day off. After that, I can move little by little bit. Will be busy for few weeks down the road.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

So surprised

This afternoon, went to my new house and I got a big surprise. After acid washing and clearing of the covered protector sheets on the floor, the whole place looks so different. It was a big surprise to me as it turns out very nice.

I was so glad that I did the right choice to paint the 3 doors into white colour. Otherwise, it will be very "o phiang". The matching of the colours went well and I am now looking forward to see the completion work after the kitchen cabinets, TV console, shoe cabinet, study table and wardrobes are installed. My mum also very happy that I asked her if the place is nice and she wants to come often. She said "YES". Now I have no regrets to spend more money to make 98% renovation of the house. :)

Went to IT Fair at Suntec. Took our dinner first and was so shocked to see the long queue at M1 booth. We queued for 1 hour to get registered and a queue no. Waited for another 1 hour before I got to the counter and sign up for the fibre broadband. Luckily we managed to get a seat. Otherwise, will be so tired in standing. The installation will be on 2 Apr and I need to take time off or half day leave. Shall see how it goes.









Our dinner at Tonkichi


Friday, March 9, 2012

Sushi

My boss told us no dressing down today but most of us just didn't care and continue to wear jeans. I am one of them. Haha... The only day I can wear jeans uh.

Finally, I was able to drink the Gongcha today. I was craving for it since Monday. Did not order dessert during lunch time and just want to wait for my Gongcha....

Left office quite late tonight and left not much for dinner. Our movie started at 9pm and we reached VivoCity only at around 8.30pm. Hence, we decided to buy sushi from Giant Supermart. Good deal as we bought 2 pkts at only $10. Discounted price.

Arrived theater and enjoyed the sushi while watching the movie. We watched "Art of Valor" and it was so exciting. Worth to watch and I am glad that we did not miss this movie.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

IT fair 2012

Today is the first day of the IT Fair at Suntec City. I need to pass a letter to my customer located at Suntec City. Hence, asked 小珠 to come along so that we could go to the IT Fair. I am currently looking into subscribing Fibre broadband in my new house.

Went to Singtel booth and got info on the packages available. Next went to M1 to check. Initially, we had problem locating correct staff/counter to check on our enquiries. After some explanation, we think that M1 package suits me better. I should be going down to the fair again this Saturday. :)

Manage to close one deal for USA just now. Lucky!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Draw Something

This afternoon, we went to Beo Crescent hawker center for lunch. Queued for fishball noodles and we were so lucky that after our turn, the stall closing. It's operating hour is till 1pm and although we were there by about 1.30pm, we managed to buy few bowls. Their noodles were running out of stock and to close stall. It really tastes good.

Bought another packet of fish crackers today. Glad that the stall lady reserved it for us.

Many of my colleagues start to play the Draw Something game. It was really fun to guess and draw. Sometimes really need to have some imagination in order to get it drawn. Very interesting.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

New game

Today, my colleague introduced one new game for us to play. It's called Draw Free. Free apps.

After learning on how to play, I started to draw and let my facebook friends guess. My drawings were no good. Hope they can understand...

Played during my whole journey back home and very fast... reached home.

Having problem with PPS today. 小珠 experienced it few days liao. Now my turn. To many people watching????

Monday, March 5, 2012

Prawn mee is back!

Finally, we managed to eat the prawn mee from Telok Blangah. The store reopens after 14 months. Got to know that it now only opens on every Mon, Fri, Sat and Sun. The taste no change. Still as good as last time. I even asked for bigger bowl of soup.



I decided to place order for the Acrylic coffee table that I like. It was not very big and comes with 3 pieces. I can use one of it as bed side table too. Can mix and match on how I want to use them as. It was SG$150.00 and shall now wait for the delivery. Website mentioned 12 - 16 weeks but I doubt it takes so long for this table.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Shopping at Ikea

My elder sister family came today and they wanted to see the progress of the renovation work for my new house so we went there in the afternoon after my niece completed her homework. Before we went, my mum asked me to buy some roasted pork from the coffee shop store that we just got hooked to the food.

After leaving Serangoon, we went to Ikea. My sister and brother-in-law were looking for suitable writing desk and cabinets for my niece. They want to refurnish their study room to make it a better environment for my niece. Found suitable ones and they decided to do painting first before buying the self assembly shelves and desk.

My niece was so happy that she could eat the $1 hotdog. Initially, asked her no to eat as the queue was so long and her face turned so long and black. After we finished shopping and were queuing for payment, we asked her to go and buy the hotdog. She was so so so happy and her face turned round and cheerful. Kids are like dat....

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Lighting

This afternoon, went to Balestier Road with my mum and sister to buy the lighting for my new house. Went to one shop (Chan Huat Lighting) but did not buy from this shop due to they were unable to deliver the goods before Wednesday. The sales person was good but too bad, I did not choose to buy from this shop as I already had in mind which ceiling light to buy and this shop did not have it.

Went back to LC Lighting and bought from this shop. Few weeks ago, came to this shop and saw the ceiling light that my colleague bought. It was not totally the same but very near to its material. They are easy to handle too. Bought total about $600 for 3 ceiling lights, 1 fluorescent tube and 9 PLC downlights. The sales girl was a bit blur but since we knew she was new, just patiently wait for her colleague to help her and teach her how to process the order.

In the evening, my dad met us at NEX for dinner. I was craving for Japanese food hence went to Sushi Tei. Wondering why we did not choose Tampines One Sushi Tei? That's because we banned it because the food was not that nice after we tried twice. Perhaps the chefs had changed to NEX. Hahaha...

Friday, March 2, 2012

Toilet bowl replacement

This afternoon, went to my new house to wait for the delivery man to do a one to one exchange for the toilet bowl for my common toilet. Hopefully, there will be no more problem. The plumber should be installing it next week.

No mood to work on Friday. Evening, we had dinner at O'Coffee club with another of our colleague. Total 3 of us (plus 小珠). We were going to be late for our movie hence asked for bill before we finished our dessert. However, the waiter did not give us our bill first but to print out all the tables bill as it was 9.30pm and time to settle bill for all.

We patiently waited for him to print out all and thought he would pass us ours first. To our dismay, he went to all other tables. In the end, I think his supervisor could sense we were a bit impatient liao and hinted to him to pass bill to us first.

It took another long time to settle the bill after I paid cash. There was problem with another table's bill and the supervisor and the waiter were busy settling. I had no choice but to walk to the counter and told the supervisor that we were rushing for time. Aiyoh... it the end, we were late for our movie.

Watched "Man on a Ledge" tonight and it was good. I thought the man on the ledge was a bad guy but it turned to be he was a good guy trying to expose the real bad guy's deed. He was framed and finally got to get out of his jail sentence. Nice movie. :)

Our dinner:



Thursday, March 1, 2012

Problematic toilet bowl

Took a later bus this morning and resulted in getting into office a bit late. Tomorrow has to be earlier.

Met with our ex-colleague for lunch. Original plan was to dine at Akashi Japanese restaurant but it was full house hence changed to Thai Accent. We ordered 2 main course with 2 side dishes + 1 dessert. Tasty food.







Got a call from my reno contractor and being informed that one of the wc was faulty. The plumber was fixing the 2 wc for my new house this afternoon but one of it has water overflowing when flushed. It was found that there was a hole at the base of the wc which caused the problem and it was manufacturing defect. Called Hoe Kee and managed to get them to do a one to one exchange tomorrow.

Delivery was 12 - 3pm hence I need to be there on standby as tomorrow there will be no worker station there. Fixed false ceiling today and tomorrow cannot do any work as it needs to let it get dried. Therefore, have to be there personally to check the new wc. Hope after this change, everything will be smooth.

Schedule for next week is to do painting and follows by fixing lighting. Friday will do acid wash so that following week can fix the glass door and wardrobe/study desk/shoe cabinet/TV console. Just heard that there will be slight change to the size of my TV console. Shortened a bit to make it looks better.