Love Nest reno updates

Finally started Our Love Nest reno after delaying it like for nearly 1 year on 11th Jan~ We confirmed our contractor with Promax Design as dar’s used to work @Queensway shopping centre. He happened to know the boss there..


Updates of Love Nest reno:

(Location at Punggol, abt 5mins walk to Punngol MRT/interchange)


Mid-End of Jan:
i. Kitchen & ServiceYard base(For placement of washing machine area)

ii. AirCon(A/C short form) trunking for all 3 rooms

iii. L-box & lighting points in living hall("LH" in short form)


Early-End of Feb:
i. Window grilles for all 3 rooms & LH (inc near to A/C compressor small window, which i completely forgotten abt~)

ii. Service Yard sliding windows

iii. Master BedRm toilet: Shower screen

iv. Kitchen additional power point

v. Whole house painting (1st coat) except LH & service yard areas

vi. A/C units in 3 Rms installed

vii. Both toilets “swing&slide” design


Early Mar:i. Kitchen & Master BedRm carpentry in the midst of doing when i went over yest after work

ii. All 3 rooms wooden doors up, they did some sanding of all edges for smooth finishes..
(stove/sink shld be up by early next week, followed by both toilet accessories & hopefully lastly lightings~)


Furniture hunting:

1.  2 burner Stove/Hod (Turbo brand) 

Gotten from Courts, apparently no more stock whole s’pore stocks controlled by this lady. Initially need to wait for end of mar for new stocks arrival, after calling up supplier saying tat we’re “return customer”. Then we able to get it, kudos to tat lady.


     2.    Toilet accessories fittings/water heater unit/kitchen sink & tap à gotten from hardware shop @ kovan, near to hougang central by this nice elderly couple. Lady in shop very patient in explanation & give alternative solutions also. According to uncle, he said got quite a number of customers from Punggol area.


     3. Lightnings -à Premier Lighting Centre
Recommended by dar’s fren who’s working nearby. Most of my hse lightings more to simple designs. Apart from my MasterBedrm-more to a diff contemporary design. Also those 3 rms lights are “warm-lights” as compared to the norm bright white type.


     4.  Dining glass table, 4 *atas type black chairs, customised design cover bedframe,mattress, TV side board, coffee-table and 1 shoe cabinet all bought @ Full-house Furnishing. It’s a like warehouse located at Yio Chu Kang, aimed tat place like 1 year ago.

Left pending sofa (maybe fr Sea-horse), my dressing table and computer table in study room(most likely from Ikea bah)

Total damages-abt nearly 6k if including my 40” TV i gotten from expo “GAINcity” sale~

P.S Will post some pics when more/less completed & when most furnitures tentative arrival by 3rd week bah.. Stay tune for more updates..

feeling of simple L.O.V.E~

Family BG:

Parents both not working, mum became "mentally depressed" 2mths just after given birth to son. She also need to go hospital for her follow-ups and req injection like every 30-60days? On the other hand, dad become "semi-retired" wif constant battle of chronic disease like diabetic which req injection, coronary heart disease which causes blockage of the arteries.. Difficulty to find stable jobs due to his acute illness, making ends meet by working as odd-job worker. However, he got assistance from some organisation which helps pays off his monthly electrical bills and gave out cash abt 350.

Also he used to work as unlicensed fruit seller, got caught by authorities due to unable to pay fines (amts to abt 120k!!) and got jailed twice (once for 90 days n another time for abt 120 days..) While he was in jail, due to his wife's unstable mental condition, her sister came over and help out with daily chores. Whenever his wife did visit him in jail-she would often cried w/o fail during each visitation.

Due to such poor family support, their only 11 y.o son had no frens/mentor in school to talk to in regards to his family BG. Thus his character becoming abit of shy/introverted when he 1st stepped the hse after sch wif full of strangers in it.. 1 "saddening" Q raised by Quan YiFeng during the program: How did the young boy felt whenever his dad often told him to scatter his ashes into the sea once he passes away? The boy replied: He felt very scared/lost w/o his dad and does not wish for it to happen.. Shortly after, tears streamed down his cheeks.

Condition of the hse:

Full of bed-bugs, BIG-fat Fleas, Mattress/walls stained with blood inside their bedroom.. Kitchen-no stove/kitchen sink in place.. Full of "family of cockroaches" hidden under stacks of plates, utensils placed in baskets on the floors. Many cute "hello-kitty" stickers inside toilet's wall and kitchen's tiles could be seen too. Upon 1st look seen by both hosts, they thought that there was another "daughter" ard the hse-it turned out to be his WIFE favs.P Which the husband in turned said his wife becoming his daughter as the age gets older.. Dirty toilet bowl, un scrubbed walls/tiles inside the cubicle. Lastly, a super-tattered and torn out sofa at the living room area.

Major Transformation to the hse/family:

1st of all, most impt they need to spray strong chemical spray to get rid of those pests residents in the bedroom and kitchen. Next, volunteers came and shifted all existing furniture outside the flat. Thrown all un-used or too old items out the areas. They were sponsored 1 brand new set of sofa, mattress, a kitchen stove/sink and also a kitchen cabinet. Laminated flooring replaced the current pest-infected tiles at their bedroom area.

Upon seeing these major changes, both the son/wife were very happy. However, as the husband were too happy while trying to fight tears in his eyes. He commented that, for all his life he had been living shabbily. Neva did he dreamt that he could own such a "NEW" home. As for his wife, she was too excited for the new kitchen sink that she didn't slp a wink since the nite b4?? (for all of u out there, which "major" event in yr life would makes u slpless...)Also, a very heart-warming sentence which often came out of the wife's mouth: "I can't survive w/o my Lao-Gong beside me.." Upon hearing this, the husband gave a light peck on the wife's cheeks at the very end of the program.

Also, as for the boy "surprise gift" from the show:he gotten his very owned-football and a Bday cake to celebrate his Bday which falls on the next day of the show. Guess wat's his simple Bday wish? He jus wished for now that his dad could recover faster and becomes healthy day-by day.. He now could go to the student care centre everyday after sch to do his schwork and gets counselling support from the centre itself. In additional, he gotten a new pair of spects from his nearby optical shop. (He could visit the shop every year for free eye check-ups too..)

P.S: Rem to catch each diff heart-warming episode shown by Chn 8, on every Mon at 8pm slot starting from 14-Dec-2009

Personal opinion of 1st Episode of Life Transformers 2 at Chn 8:

A new bed frame/mattress, sofa, kitchen sink and even "simple inexpensive GIFT" aka a football is enuff to make a family full of joy, gratefulness and MOST IMPT feeling of simple L.O.V.E~ Watched Life Transformers2 made me moved to tears several times

As in relation to current issue: young couple's view of marriage; which leads to divorce rates on the rise recently. Perhaps, this local drama series would touch some of their hearts and have another diff mind-set/perception towards taking marriage lightly??

Well at least for me, it DID send me a message..

P.S: For now, i jus need to pray that tml's dad surgery, will be a success. No complication from the op and no neg findings from the tissue histology report..

Wrong decision lead to regretful outcome.

Venue:neighbourhood "newly opened coffeshop".. After work-super tired/mentally drained out.

At 1st wanted go nearby my hse's prata shop, but fren not free to acc me for late dinner.

Stall holder errant attitude towards handling of food. (yong tau Foo)

1. neva used pair of palstic gloves/tongs to replenish food (using his pair of "bare" hands"..) eeeks..

2. I picked 7 items, but end up i dun wan tomato last min. Uncle told me to put back using my "bare hands" even tot i wanted take the stack of empty soup bowls in front of him. He was unwilling and said in an reluctact tone-" Put back yrself lar.." (speechless*)

3. most "applaued/shocking fact": he neva take out his gloved hand, using the same hand he took my money and gave me back the change.. **Goodness.. Then he carried on serving next customer behind me ^0^

**P.S quite famous chain of coffeeshop ard SG lei. even if next time i were 2 die of hunger, i would rather go hm munch some bread/cook instand noodles.

Most of food stall owners/table cleaners are quite elderly, but no excuse shld be give for such behavious. Maybe newly opened, last then 6mths or so-thus no "licensed" alphabetical issued by local food authories. Or reason could be near neighbourhood area?? But i noticed-the coffeeshop could still draw some crowds even ard 9plus evening time.

Luckily for me, mine stomach gastric quite good-if not i sure kena food posioning de.. Dun wan next "rojak" incident to happen once again..

So my fellow frens/readers any personal opinion on this incident??

Thus for the tit;e of my blog---> Wrong decision lead to regretful outcome. Shld have gone wif my "woman's 1st instinct"..

Takeshi Kaneshiro considering a career advancement in Hollywood

Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro was recently sighted at the Los Angeles airport, and this sparked off speculations of the actor's plans to make a breakthrough in the Hollywood market. Coincidentally, there have been a recent influx of Asian artistes entering the western market, for example, Korean superstar Rain (Ninja Assassin), Lee Byung-hun (G.I. Joe), and Jay Chou in the upcoming movie remake, Green Hornet.

"He has friends over there [Los Angeles]. He went on a holiday to have fun and did not expect people to recognise him," said a representative from the management company.

Known to be very cautious about his overseas projects, Takeshi's 1998 film with Mira Sorvino in Too Tired To Die was a flop at the box office. Since then, the actor chose to keep a safe distance from the Hollywood market and rejected the offer to act in Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai.

Despite his initial letdown many years ago, Takeshi has successfully piqued Hollywood's interest in him again after his roles in Zhang Yi Mou's House of Flying Daggers and John Woo's trilogy series, Red Cliff.

A representative from his management agency expressed, "We have been receiving scripts as invitations to participate in Hollywood productions. Nothing can be confirmed now." Source: Xin.sg - Wednesday, November 4

Personal view: yesh~ finally after so long-i might be able to catch my idol on the hollywood BIG screen rather than in japan/asian movie industries.. Looking 4ward to seeing his matured- handsome look" once again..

Interesting fact abt "upcoming Next apocalypse?" aka movie 2012

In numerology every number has a corresponding letter associated with it.
The date 12-21-12 reads as, A-B-B-A-A-B. When you consider that the Hebrew language is read from right to left, this date would read BA ABBA.
The Hebrew translation for BA ABBA is "Father comes / is coming"

2012 is claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the twelfth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Several experts have predicted a special astrological/astronomical alignment between the Galactic center in the constellation of Sagittarius, the Winter Solstice point, and the open cluster of the Pleiades. Factually, the coincidence of the Winter Solstice point (due to the precession of the Equinoxes) and the galactic center is basically true.

Jesus said that no man knows the hour or the day of the End of Days. Even Jesus didn't know. Only his father did. But Jesus added that he hoped that those who will live in the Final Generation would look for the signs in the hope their suffering would not be so great.

There are exactly 2012 days between the June 20 2007 Summer solstice and the December 21 2012 Winter solstice..

Albert Einstein said if the honey bees were suddenly gone mankind would have about 4 years left to live. Well, the honey bees are going extinct now and at the present rate in another year or so there will be no more honey bees left on earth. One year from now plus another 4 years gives us the year 2012..

NASA predicts that the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of current 11-year sunspot cycle. Some believe this will amplify the effects of retarding magnetic field on earth, as harmful charged particles blasted away from the sun would more easily penetrate the earth's atmosphere.

In this final episode of the X-Files, it is revealed that on December 22 2012, aliens will invade and take over the world, one day after December 21 2012. It was like Chris Carter was saying to us that the aliens don't need to invade and conquer us, all they need to do is move in to a vacant earth ..

The Vatican holds very closely to the Prophecy of St. Malachy. This Medieval Monk had detailed visions of 112 Popes until Doomsday, also known as The Biblical Apocalypse. The current Pope, Benedict XVI is the 111th named Pope, only one Pope remains~ Interested to noe more, visit the link http://www.december212012.com/

Thomas Ong was forced to marry a Turkish woman while filming Diminishing Horizons

Xin.sg - Wednesday, November 11

As a newbie travel host, local artiste, Thomas Ong had much to learn from the filming of his upcoming travel programme, Diminishing Horizons. Apart from making long treks to faraway places, the host even committed a few errors due to the differences in cultures.

The camera crew's first encounter was when they visited the Beehive houses in Harran, Turkey. After the actor drank a cup of water delivered by a 17-year-old Turkish beauty, he unwittingly sealed a marriage agreement with the lady. If Thomas were to back out of the marriage agreement, he had to pay her a token of 50 camels as alimony.

"He [The girl's father] said that I had to exchange my freedom for 50 camels. That was considered as the alimony and divorce fees." The 17-year-old's father eventually decided to let Thomas off the hook after he understood that the actor was filming a programme.

Apart from his brief encounter with his "prospective" bride, the filming crew bumped into a motorcycle driven by a father with two children sitting on it in Mali, West Africa. They did not wear any safety helmets and were sent to the hospital to treatment for their injuries.

The entourage's tour guide informed them that the Western African government originally made it compulsory for all motorists to wear helmets. However, their legislations were met with protests from the country's females as they explained that they had to use their tresses to attract the men and their husbands. The government decided to heed the people's words and allowed them to ride without their safety helmets.

Thomas was perplexed at the women's fixation and love for their long hair, "In itself, life is so precious, and they actually feel that their hair is more precious!"

Traipsing from one corner of the world to another, Thomas shared, "Their toilets are a hole - how do you use it? Their water is yellow and normally the water I use to wash my face is even cleaner than that. Do I use their yellow water to wash my face? Before using it I struggled a little. This makes me feel very fortunate. After I returned, I won't waste water, I am more appreciative now."

Produced by WAWA Pictures, Diminishing Horizons will be broadcasted on Ch U every Wedesday starting from Nov 11 at 8pm onwards.

Oiishi jap food at riverside hotel.. Our 6yrs anni 13th-Oct-09<3

2days ago was our 6 years anniversary. Time really flies past lor-still rem on this day 6yrs ago. Supposedly to meet him after chatting online for like 6-8mths in the "then IRC".. I was out with my frens at town area, happily chatting away. Forgotten all abt the meet-up, till to my horror i saw a few missed call n sms from him. He waited like 4hurs plus, hanging ard or rather "combing thru" the whole Toa Payoh area.

So i leave as it was quite late ard 10plus to HDB hub. I was looking ard then i saw a guy which looks like him wearing a black top, so i called to see if it was him anot.. Then he picked up, as it was late alrdy no more rest/food. We ate the cold sandwich which was bought frm the near-by 7-11 with a slurpee. As it was getting late, he passed my the vcd InitalD disc whichi i wanted to borrow then he send me back in cab.. He then send me a text, asking me wats my 1st impression of him-does he stand any chance?? I didn't noe how to reply him, so we continued our online/phone chat. Our v 1st date was at PS and the venue we started holding hands-make a wild guess ppl~ *drum-roll* it was @traffic junction at geylang.. (dun get the wrong idea hor!) Geylang beer hor-fun was our 1st un-romantic dinner. LOLs.

Enuff of remeisence of the sweet/bitter memories.So we decided to head back 2nd time to this jap rest at Riverside hotel as our 1st visit was a satisfying meal.. This timne we called to make reservation. We reached ard 6plus. Its was a all-u-can-eat buffet cost abt 35+ per adult, exl soft drinks. So we had 2 servings of FRESH sashimi, the tempura ebi prawns, fried veg tempura, soft shell crab hand roll, grilled shisaimo, grilled chic wings, the super silky chaiwaimushi.. Look out for more pics k, its inside my phone.

For my gift i got a pair of Cute MashiMaro wedding couple. He bought it while waiting for me at CentralMall.. Hehe, i could use them for my bridal car deco n reception table liao~ As for my wedding prep, still awaiting for email from a club.. Keeping u all in suspense 1st~