Shopping spree today!

We had finally gotten our internet connection at our new house from this morning onwards.

Followed by orchard shopping at noon. Have bought quite a number of stuffs, such as cargo pants for Jiet, jeans for Ger, rice/congee/soup cooker for new house and we exchanged our newly bought clock for a new one bcos we found that there is some mechanical faults that cause the clock to stop turning its gears.

Luckily, the shop owner allowed us to change to a new one. There's a bit of differences from the previous one. Anyone can spot the differences?Went to Taka Best Denki and we bought this 1.0 litre rice/congee/soup cooker. Looks small and cute with fuzzy logic function... heard from the sales person that it will make the rice fluffier...
Some of the kitchen appliances that Ger's daddy had given to us.

Sleepy now... already 1.45am... going to sleep liao... tata!

Our big day is coming!

Our wedding ceremony and dinner is coming! Another 16 more days to go. Every weekends seems very precious and hectic for both of us. Need to do planning for our special day and for our honeymoon that follows immediately after our dinner. Heehee... Guess where we are heading to.. "JAPAN- Land of the Rising Sun" As this will be our first free and easy trip, we had search high and low for ryokans and hotels to stay for our 10 days trip in 3 areas of Japan, namely, Hakone, Kyoto and Tokyo... Looking forward in visiting Mount Fuji, the temples and scenic view in Kyoto and the bustling streets of city like Tokyo. Will definitely upload some of the photos after our trip there.

Our latest additions to our new house:With our bridal package comes free with this 3-photo potrait that we hung it on our living area wall.This gear-mechanism clock was bought last weekend at Heeren Orchard. It doesn't cost a bomb but looks special and modern as it is triangular in shape... seldom see such clock in the market....

In the meantime, we are busying sending out our wedding invitation cards, doing plans for the seating arrangements and doing up photo montages during our wedding dinner.

Some of our baby photos during our prep for the photo montage... Give it a guess on who's that baby...Sorry... no prizes for guessing it correctly... :P

By the way, I will be flying to Bangkok on the 18th and 19th Sept next week. Sigh, another business trip out of Singapore... Hope that I will have more time for updates on this blog!

Happy 42th Birthday Singapore!

Title: Wo De Jia Jiu Zai Zhe Li
Director: thestar18
Singers: Zhou Chong Qing, Xiao Jia Hui
Comments: Edited Version for NDP 2007 Theme Song - There’s No Place I’d Rather Be

New furniture delivered!

Ever since our renovation is completed, we were busy during most of our weekends on receiving our furniture orders, such as the plasma tv, bed, roller blinds, dining table and chairs etc. Here are some of the things that is delivered and installed for the past few weeks.

The 42" plasma tv hanging on the pivoting divider wall:
Our dining table and chairs (notice the pivot divider is turned over to the dining area):
Simply love our Serta king size bed and the "88" sheep, it's so comfy:Our big day is also coming soon... another 50 days more to go... More things to prepared such as our wedding ceremony, our honeymoon to Japan... So many things to do, so little time...how we wish there will be more weekends for us!

House renovation completed!

It has been a long time since I have written something on our blog. Sorry for the delay as we are quite busy with the deliveries of our home furnitures and electronics appliances. We have been visiting our new house almost twice every week ever since our house renovation is completed. For cleaning and wiping and mopping... to make our new house sparkling clean. We knew it will take some time for the dust to settle but we make it a point that we will clean it once every week (for now...heehee).

For now, our fridge was the first to be delivered, followed by our sofa and plasma tv. Here is a photo showing our new sofa set. It really looked nice and comfy.

I will post more photos of our new furniture next time. Stay tuned!

Final touch-up of our house renovation

Immediate process of renovation: Final touch-up and handing-over
Following step: House cleaning and dust removal for about 2 weeks
Next month: Furniture and home appliance delivery and installation
Final procedure: Moving in... perhaps in the month of September, just weeks before our big day.

Our foyer area with suspended shoe cabinet and benchtop

Our feature wall covering bomb shelter door

Passageway view from our bedrooms

Two views of the kitchen tabletop with cooker hob, hood and sink

Lights up

Went down to our new house on the 20th June evening to check on the progress. The lights were fixed except that the "zhui-kueh" lighting in our master room. Vivian told us that the light covers was cracked at the edge and need to be exchanged from Lumieres. Sigh...

Here are some of the photos showing some of the lights fixed.

This 4 downlights are at our living room area.

The TV console pivoting wall was also fixed onto the bench as shown below...We have also taken more photos during our last visit to our new house on 23rd June.. At the moment, the reno firm is at the process of handing over our finished house back to us... will put the completed reno photos on my blog once I gotten the photos from ger... heehee...

Transformers... More than meets the eyes

We look forward in watching this childhood cartoon in real life movie...
Transformers... More than meet the eyes...
Transformers... Robots in disguise...
Look at this clip on the Transformers theme song... WAY COOL!!!

Little Love Song

Both Ger and myself love this song a lot... Enjoy!

小情歌
词曲:吴青峰
演唱:苏打绿

这是一首简单的小情歌
唱着人们心肠的曲折
我想我很快乐
当有你的温热
脚边的空气转了
这是一首简单的小情歌
唱着我们心头的白鸽
我想我很适合
当一个歌颂者
青春在风中飘着
你知道就算大雨让这座城市颠倒
我会给你怀抱
受不了看见你背影来到写下我度秒如年难捱的离骚
就算整个世界被寂寞绑票
我也不会奔跑逃不了
最后谁也都苍老
写下我时间和琴声交错的城堡
最后谁也都苍老

Blue floral embroidery

We went to GHA bridal studio on the 4th June for fitting of Ger's wedding and evening gown. Here's a sneak preview of the evening gown...
Ger, you are going to be the prettiest bride on the our wedding day!
We visited our house on that morning too and took a few photos to show the progress of our reno.
The whole house were painted and the floor tiles were polished though it was very dusty. Some of the floor tiles in the living area wasn't laid properly and we have to let our reno coordinator know.

Here are some of the photos we took when we're there...

The display niche on the living area wall is constructed and painted. The spots are reflection of the flash light as the room is very dusty. A photo taken in our masterbed room... Wall is painted with colour "galaxy"... Notice the new Starmex Mitsubishi aircon wrapped...
Ger's idea of getting one of the wall in one of the bedroom to be painted in bright red is daring and at first we are contemplating whether to paint it red... Now, we felt that we didnt make the wrong choice...
This photo is taken at the living area... We made a good decision of hacking down the wall of the study room and this made the living and dining room really bright. Notice the bright red wall in one of the bedroom.

The capentry work have started on Monday 11th June and we'll be going down tomorrow to see the progress.

We found our dining table!

It has been long since I have last update my blog. Last week was a busy one as we went to see our new house on 31st May, Vesak Day. First we went to check out our house. Here's some of the updated photos where our living room walls are flushed up and all the living balcony and service balcony windows are up.

After visiting our house, we went to IMM to make payment for our air-conditioner. As we won't be around at the new house to check on the installation, we need to pay in advance of one day. At the same time, we saw the dining table with chair that we liked. Here are some of the photos of the table and chairs.

The table on display was 150cm long but we ask for it to be lengthen to 160cm.

We decided to have 4 black and 2 white chairs to go along with our dining table.

Milo tincans and "Zhui Kueh"

We started our day on 26th May 2007 by going down to our house at around 11am to see if there is any progress with the reno. Here are some of the photos taken on that morning.

The tiles for all the rooms are laid except that the living area as shown above is not finished as the borders were not white cement plastered.

The foyer area was laid with the kitchen tiles. Hope to see more progress next week.

Next stop, we headed down to Balestier, shop name - Lumiere Lightings to meet our designer Diana to purchase light fittings. She recommended us this shop cos she can only find nice lightings here and no other places. It doesn't take us long to choose the lights as Diana made most of the decisions as she knows which lightings will fit our design theme. Here are some photos of the lights chosen:

These are the "Milo Tincans" lightings for our kitchen and toilets. We have chosen the white one in the medium and large size. They looked simple and nice.

Next our master bedroom light, it's the most expensive light out of all the one that we have chosen. It is sort of special and resembled the shape of an overturned "Zhui Kueh" as shown in the below picture.

The total damage cost us 900 bucks and will be delivered to our new house by this coming Saturday 2nd June. Next stop, we went to Novena Sq and the new shopping mall Square 2. Nothing much there but we had a tasty waffle but the shop owner took a long time to prepare the waffle... If not, it will definitely tasted nicer. In the evening, I took ger to a ramen shop Beppu Ramen restaurant to have dinner. The ramen tasted good and the service was not bad. Last year same day, we also had Japanese food for dinner. Such a coincidence.

House Reno Updates

Once I touchdown Singapore from my business training trip in Milford MA in the morning of 20th May, we went to our house immediately to check out the latest work in the renovation. Here are some photos to show the progress of the renovation.

Above photo taken on 19/05/2007 (Sat), the study room wall and the balcony sliding glass were hacked down making our living room very spacious. False ceiling is being constructed with the wiring hanging down.

Above photo taken on 20/05/2007 (Sun), false ceiling at dining area is up.

We went to our house on 23/05/2007 (Wed) after our work in the evening while there is still abit of light due to sun setting. The false ceiling in the living room is up (photo above) and the floor tiles on dining area, masterbed room and kitchen were laid (photo below, corrugated sheet protecting the laid tiles). Seems like the reno is progressing well.

We will be getting our light fittings on this Saturday 26/05/2007. 26th of May 2007 also marks our first wedding anniversary as we were ROMed on 26th May 2006. We'll be very busy on this weekend as there are alot of things to be settled. Plasma TV will be delivered to my existing house on 29/05 Tuesday. Looking forward to seeing our new house done up.

Happy one year wedding anniversary to my dearest ger ger!

200 Pounds Beauty

We went to catch this movie last Saturday. Nice comedic show with pretty korean actress and a touching plot. We both liked it very much although it is quite impossible that plastic surgery will turn her into such a beauty. Nevertheless, it is quite an enjoyable show. I have heard from the radio yesterday that it has the best box office out of all Korean shows in Singapore.

We had also bought our 707 Protek Instant heater from Sim Siang Choon before the movie. Latest news of our new house, our reno will start this coming Friday (11 May) with hacking of the walls first. Flying to Boston this coming Sunday. Will miss Ger...

Things we have not bought

We had made another series of purchase during last weekend Sunday. We bought most of our toilet accessories from Poh Joo (less the instant heater due to the high price as compared to others), non-inverter Mitsubishi Starmex System-3 aircon, and a king-sized Serta Louisiana mattress with a pretty king-sized bedframe.
Brought our parents to Bellari to look at the kitchen stuff, the cooker hob, hood and sink. Need to consult Diana before making the purchase due to the chimney hood.

Now what we have not bought is washing machine, instant heater, Dining table and bedding accessories. Thinking of having a break this coming weekend. Hope to catch a movie or two with Ger... 200 pound girlfriend and Spiderman 3... Looking forward to them!

The Quest of Dining Table

This few weeks have been very busy... Waiting for HDB to rectify our unit, looking for essential items and also some furniture items. One of the furniture items is the dining table. We wanted a long dining table for 8 people to seat in comfortably (8-seater). Hunt for it at different places of furniture outlets. Finally saw one that we are quite keen in getting (picture from Mondi website). It is from Mondi Lifestyle named Novvy, saw it at IMM. Reasonably priced. Will KIV this while consulting Diana for advise.

First series of purchase for our new house

The day starts with going to our new house to look at the progress of HDB rectification. Thought will finish by past Friday, but as usual, they have not finish most of the work. Saw one HDB Indian worker changing our kitchen wall tiles. Hopefully, they will finish work by the first week of May. Cross our fingers...

After which, we decided to go to Harvey Norman Sale at Expo. Our target: TV, Fridge, washing machine... First stop, TV section. Look through Panasonic LCD, Plasma... Sales people keeps telling us LCD not as good as plasma. But exterior is not to our liking although the price is reasonable. Next stop, Pioneer Plasma... PDP-427XG, the model that we have been eyeing since last year when it came out. Discussed with the senior sale exec and he told us about the great deal during expo sale. Buy Plasma TV, free home theatre system HTZ353DVD. We decided to ask for more... after much persuasion, got a better deal with 5yrs warranty and the small surround speakers that we wanted.

PDP-427XG Pioneer 42" Plasma TV that we have purchased.

HTZ353DVD Home Theatre System that comes with the Plasma TV.

The sales exec later got us an even better deal on the F&P fridge that we are eyeing on. What a guy! He could really promote the TV and even the fridge, finally his colleague got us a lobang to purchase the fridge at a bargain price, but need to go down to Millenia Harvey.

At the same time, we went to Lifestyle 21 expo exhibit at next door, to our surprise saw our designer having a display exhibit. Gave her the specs of the things that we bought and going to buy. After which went around to see furniture. Came across Westpoint furniture which is recommended by my colleague Serena. Saw this elegant piece of sofa measuring 3.2metre and with a big day bed (pic below).

Talked to the sales person Jeannie and negotiate a better price with alteration to have a bigger day bed to be about 1.1metre width. Brought our designer and decided to get this at a different colour-grey, poly cotton material. This is our 2nd purchase of the day. Delivery date is end July, hope that our house will be ready by then. One thing when we left Expo, the carpark charge comes out to $11.55 (so EXPENSIVE!!!), dad got stuck at the exit due to insufficient fund in my cashcard, in the end had to use sis cashcard to pay the charges.

Next stop to Millenia Harvey, talked to the person that is recommended by the sale exec in expo. Third purchase of the day... Really got the F&P E442BM (Iridium) fridge at a bargain price. This is the best buy we got today and we felt really satisfied...

After a long day hunting for these stuff, one word "tired" best describe how we felt...
Will update more when more things are bought....

Cool Refrigerator!

Ger and I have fixed our eyes on this cool refrigerator from F&P. It has a nice exterior and the freezer is at the bottom, which is different from the conventional one. Its colour is Iridium, though I have no idea why it is called Iridium but it looks kind of stylo and best of all, NO FINGERPRINT MARKS!

Quoted from F&P website:

"E442BRM 442 litres Iridium Stainless Steel
Active Smarts unparalleled refrigeration performance combined with the unique Iridium embossed stainless steel exterior - welcoming to the touch yet incredibly durable and resistant to the most stubborn fingermarks."

Happy anniversary to my dear Ger ger!

Some pics of our new house

Here are some of the pictures of our new house at Anchorvale link before renovation...


This is the view of our living room balcony, we are going to take away the sliding glass door to make the living room bigger.

View of the living room cum dining room, notice the big fat beam that run across between living and dining room... structural beam which cannot be hacked away. The wall at the study room will be hacked to make the dining room brighter and bigger.


This is the passage way from the kitchen to the bedrooms.
Please stay tuned for the pictures after renovation.... may take a few weeks to finish... patience patience...