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Friday, July 20, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Officially Married! So goodbye to Diary
Yes....I'm officially married on 5th May 2007. Hence won't be writing anymore on Diary of a bride-to-be. Thanks to all of you who've shared this part of my life with me. Will continue to journal about my life on my cookiejar of cookies blog...once my internet connection is up at my home.
So it's good-bye to diary!
So it's good-bye to diary!
Monday, April 23, 2007
12 more days...
Just 12 more days to my wedding...but I don't feel the excitement at all. Most of the time I just feel tired and hope that it can be over and done with. I'm more excited about my honeymoon actually...haha :) Cos my sweet sweet Hun is planning a surprise for me! Yay! I love surprises, big or small :)
The house is almost done...got a few mistakes tho...wrong colour, wrong lamination....except for the shoe cabinet which was obviously wrong, the rest were at least "uniformed mistake"...means the whole item is wrong lah....when everything is wrong, it looks right lah
The shoe cabinet tho was quite obvious...the laminate on the inside is the right one, but the outside and top portion is wrong...it's very obvious cos the bottom portion, which is part on the inside of the cabinet, is exposed....so at one glace, u can see 2 different tones of brown. But we're nice people and decided to just get him to change the exposed portion to the match the rest instead.
The feature wall also....colour abit wrong...we thot we wanted cream...but it seems pretty yellow creamy kind of colour to me. But contractor said he ordered according to the code number....he say like that then what can we do? I'm actually quite ok with it lah....cos it looks unconventional...and I'm one that prefer things that are simply different. But tink Hun is not very satisfied with it...but he oso trying to accept it.
Got some problems with the electrical points also...wrong positioning...I didn't notice cos Hun was the one liaising all along. Haha...dunno how I'm gonna handle all these without Hun...the aircon also positioned wrongly...it's like half a meter out from where we originally wanted it to be!! Hun was quite shocked to realise he didn't notice it...but it was too bad cos we had already paid up.
Anyway...when I saw the mistake (ie there's an extra length of aircon trunking), I'm already thinking of what small decorations we can put on the trunking to decorate it...haha...that's hoe different we are...he's so meticulous and detailed while I'm just too happy-go-lucky....guess that's why we click so well...as of course clash big time at the same time too.
No pictures for our house yet....cos nowadays really too busy...didn't think of bringing the camera along to track our progress...hope to take some pictures when we officially take over the flat, which should be sometime soon!
Am praying for the best for the house....and believe by faith that God is in control and the contractor has put in his due effort and more in making our home a nice nice place to live in!
The house is almost done...got a few mistakes tho...wrong colour, wrong lamination....except for the shoe cabinet which was obviously wrong, the rest were at least "uniformed mistake"...means the whole item is wrong lah....when everything is wrong, it looks right lah
The shoe cabinet tho was quite obvious...the laminate on the inside is the right one, but the outside and top portion is wrong...it's very obvious cos the bottom portion, which is part on the inside of the cabinet, is exposed....so at one glace, u can see 2 different tones of brown. But we're nice people and decided to just get him to change the exposed portion to the match the rest instead.
The feature wall also....colour abit wrong...we thot we wanted cream...but it seems pretty yellow creamy kind of colour to me. But contractor said he ordered according to the code number....he say like that then what can we do? I'm actually quite ok with it lah....cos it looks unconventional...and I'm one that prefer things that are simply different. But tink Hun is not very satisfied with it...but he oso trying to accept it.
Got some problems with the electrical points also...wrong positioning...I didn't notice cos Hun was the one liaising all along. Haha...dunno how I'm gonna handle all these without Hun...the aircon also positioned wrongly...it's like half a meter out from where we originally wanted it to be!! Hun was quite shocked to realise he didn't notice it...but it was too bad cos we had already paid up.
Anyway...when I saw the mistake (ie there's an extra length of aircon trunking), I'm already thinking of what small decorations we can put on the trunking to decorate it...haha...that's hoe different we are...he's so meticulous and detailed while I'm just too happy-go-lucky....guess that's why we click so well...as of course clash big time at the same time too.
No pictures for our house yet....cos nowadays really too busy...didn't think of bringing the camera along to track our progress...hope to take some pictures when we officially take over the flat, which should be sometime soon!
Am praying for the best for the house....and believe by faith that God is in control and the contractor has put in his due effort and more in making our home a nice nice place to live in!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Funny Conversations....
When Hun tried to describe a character he liked about me...
"Why do you love me?"
"....because you are soft."
"Soft?? Yar...I'm fat liao...I know..."
"Nonono...I mean your character....soft-approach....no head on clashes..."
Another random conversation we had in a cab on our way to Clarke Quay....
"My throat feels dry and heaty...I need some beer...Ang Moh Liang Teh"
(me breaking out in giggles) "That sounded like something coming from an alcoholic!"
"..."
Even the cab driver laughed....haha...
Funny little moments we share in the midst of our wedding preps stress.
Perhaps I'm just trying to see everything in a comical light...helps to relief the built up stress and conflicts which we're experiencing more of recently...
"Why do you love me?"
"....because you are soft."
"Soft?? Yar...I'm fat liao...I know..."
"Nonono...I mean your character....soft-approach....no head on clashes..."
Another random conversation we had in a cab on our way to Clarke Quay....
"My throat feels dry and heaty...I need some beer...Ang Moh Liang Teh"
(me breaking out in giggles) "That sounded like something coming from an alcoholic!"
"..."
Even the cab driver laughed....haha...
Funny little moments we share in the midst of our wedding preps stress.
Perhaps I'm just trying to see everything in a comical light...helps to relief the built up stress and conflicts which we're experiencing more of recently...
Monday, April 09, 2007
I can't believe it....
I can't believe it....I'm getting married in 27 days!! So unbelievable! It feels like it's not real and it's not really gonna happen...can't really describe it...haha! Just feel so unreal...
People have been asking me how I'm feeling. Frankly, I don't know how to answer that really...I just feel tired and maybe stressed most of the time. Tired from going so many places to try to buy furnitures and electronics, stressed from doing all the wedding preps stuffs like invitation cards, guest lists etc...
1001 things on my mind right now! But mostly just tired...tink it's the same as Hun. Both are just too busy and tired to really realised that we're getting married...haha...maybe 2 days after our wedding then will the reality of our "married" status start to sink in...haha...
It's strange how something that I've been looking forward to for so long just suddenly seems so unreal. It's like we're so busy preparing for IT that we have no time to look forward or be excited about IT. I think we are lah...but it's not like when we were first talking about it...the excitement is at it's max! But now is like "yea, we're getting married...there's so many things to do!! Not enough time!!"
Guess that's why a honeymoon is so important....guess we need that break to realize that we're married..haha...
The little ironies of life...I'm amused :)
People have been asking me how I'm feeling. Frankly, I don't know how to answer that really...I just feel tired and maybe stressed most of the time. Tired from going so many places to try to buy furnitures and electronics, stressed from doing all the wedding preps stuffs like invitation cards, guest lists etc...
1001 things on my mind right now! But mostly just tired...tink it's the same as Hun. Both are just too busy and tired to really realised that we're getting married...haha...maybe 2 days after our wedding then will the reality of our "married" status start to sink in...haha...
It's strange how something that I've been looking forward to for so long just suddenly seems so unreal. It's like we're so busy preparing for IT that we have no time to look forward or be excited about IT. I think we are lah...but it's not like when we were first talking about it...the excitement is at it's max! But now is like "yea, we're getting married...there's so many things to do!! Not enough time!!"
Guess that's why a honeymoon is so important....guess we need that break to realize that we're married..haha...
The little ironies of life...I'm amused :)
Updates...bought many things!!
It's been a fruitful weekend :) We made the following purchases...
Furnitures & Furnishings:
- Bedframe (From BarangBarang)
- Orthorest Mattress (From BarangBarang)
- Coffee Table with 4 stools (From BarangBarang)
- Wooden tiles & fence to spruce up the dust bin area (From Wihardja)
- 1 Quilt Cover Set & 1 Bedsheet Set (Compliments of mom)
- 2 more Bedsheet sets
Electrical Items (All from DAV's):
- Brandt Cooker Hood & Hob
- Mitsubishi Refrigerator (Stainless Steel)
- Brandt Washing Machine
- Fisher & Paykel Dryer
- Philips 37" LCD TV (from Aunt)
Items still not yet bought:
- Sofa Set
- Dining Table
- DVD player
- HiFi System
- Telephones (Haven't apply for home line yet!!)
I'd like to settle the sofa set and dining table soon....as for the rest, maybe not so urgent yet. Once the place is ready, there'll be quite a few smaller items that we'll need to get! Like hooks, holders for the toilets, pots & pans, cutleries, utensils, crockery, curtains, curtain racks etc...
hmm...seems like quite alot. Shall make a list tonight when I go look at my house...haha...
Furnitures & Furnishings:
- Bedframe (From BarangBarang)
- Orthorest Mattress (From BarangBarang)
- Coffee Table with 4 stools (From BarangBarang)
- Wooden tiles & fence to spruce up the dust bin area (From Wihardja)
- 1 Quilt Cover Set & 1 Bedsheet Set (Compliments of mom)
- 2 more Bedsheet sets
Electrical Items (All from DAV's):
- Brandt Cooker Hood & Hob
- Mitsubishi Refrigerator (Stainless Steel)
- Brandt Washing Machine
- Fisher & Paykel Dryer
- Philips 37" LCD TV (from Aunt)
Items still not yet bought:
- Sofa Set
- Dining Table
- DVD player
- HiFi System
- Telephones (Haven't apply for home line yet!!)
I'd like to settle the sofa set and dining table soon....as for the rest, maybe not so urgent yet. Once the place is ready, there'll be quite a few smaller items that we'll need to get! Like hooks, holders for the toilets, pots & pans, cutleries, utensils, crockery, curtains, curtain racks etc...
hmm...seems like quite alot. Shall make a list tonight when I go look at my house...haha...
Monday, April 02, 2007
Upgrading Boo Boo
They replied our 'complaint letter'...and clarified that we didn't need to pay for the upgrading as it has already been factored into the cost when they sold the flat. That's great news for us! But also made me wonder if we hadn't written in to complain, would we have ended up paying for nothing? hmm....Just shows how disorganized they are in handling things...the hand dunno what the leg is doing...sigh *shakes head*
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Now they tell us....
After the sales of flat was complete....now they tell us we need to pay for the upgrading fees...it's over $16k!! One of the rare times in my life that I'm so upset that I joined Hun to write a complain letter to HDB.
On our Official Sales Order, it states "Upgrading Costs: $0"....now they want us to pay over $16k. Not fair!!
I mean they definitely know that upgrading works are being done to the unit what...can't they just be abit more hardworking and work out the cost for us and inform us officially? Even if they can't determine the exact cost, as least give us official notification before we buy the unit that we will need to bear upgrading costs right?
How can they just call up one fine day as tell us "oh btw, u need to pay $16k for the upgrading"....hello...our OFFICIAL SALES ORDER states $0 leh! Quite pissed at the whole thing...
Not that we dun wanna pay...but u gotta let us be prepared right? $16k leh! Not $16 dollars! we just signed an agreement less than 2 weeks ago, and now u tell us we need to pay $16k more? Just 2 weeks ago your agreement states $0!!
Very pissed...this is not the kind of standards I expect from a government body at all...not that something unexpected cropped up...the upgrading works have been going on for months lor...u mean u can't even just give us a simple letter to say we need to bear upgrading costs? U mean during the WIS u still cannot decide whether we need to bear the upgrading costs? Can u just add a simple line to the handbook "Unit price excludes upgrading works" or "Upgrading costs to be paid by owner"
Anyway, wrote in liao....let's see who reply and what they say...
On our Official Sales Order, it states "Upgrading Costs: $0"....now they want us to pay over $16k. Not fair!!
I mean they definitely know that upgrading works are being done to the unit what...can't they just be abit more hardworking and work out the cost for us and inform us officially? Even if they can't determine the exact cost, as least give us official notification before we buy the unit that we will need to bear upgrading costs right?
How can they just call up one fine day as tell us "oh btw, u need to pay $16k for the upgrading"....hello...our OFFICIAL SALES ORDER states $0 leh! Quite pissed at the whole thing...
Not that we dun wanna pay...but u gotta let us be prepared right? $16k leh! Not $16 dollars! we just signed an agreement less than 2 weeks ago, and now u tell us we need to pay $16k more? Just 2 weeks ago your agreement states $0!!
Very pissed...this is not the kind of standards I expect from a government body at all...not that something unexpected cropped up...the upgrading works have been going on for months lor...u mean u can't even just give us a simple letter to say we need to bear upgrading costs? U mean during the WIS u still cannot decide whether we need to bear the upgrading costs? Can u just add a simple line to the handbook "Unit price excludes upgrading works" or "Upgrading costs to be paid by owner"
Anyway, wrote in liao....let's see who reply and what they say...
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