Always liked this brand of household products, but since I did not have a need to buy for my house, I didn't bother to check out their prices...just assumed that the price was too high for me...
Yesterday, while flipping through the papers, saw that there was this warehouse sale on Leifheit and it was in the west part of Sg...so wanted to go to check it out. But GM was adamant that a warehouse sale is not a time to check out prices...he said that I should have researched the prices thoroughly prior to this.
I don't understand why there is this expectation of a wife...to know prices of all these...I AM NOT AN AUNTIE OK!!!! Can't rattle of prices at the supermarket like my telephone number!
Anyway, to GM, to go to a warehouse sale, means one is prepared to buy...well, I don't know what got over me... we bought a mop + ironing board, which was way beyond my budget for household products. Feeling lousy now...that we spent so much....
And it's just a low tech thing...not even this high-tech mop!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKrJjN9SNg
Today is like the 3rd time that we went to IKEA and came back empty handed...each time we go, we say that we need to get this or that. In the end...we still left empty-handed.
Today, we were supposed to buy:-
1. Basin mirror
2. Dining table + chairs
3, Plastic container for toothbrush and paste
& also check out the curtains selection.
Basin mirror
None of suitable size...all too big for our little area...in the end, we went to a neighbourhood shop at Alexandra Village. Nice and cheap.
DIY Bathroom + Fans
Blk 123 Bukit Merah Lane 1 #01- 09
Tel 6270 9239
Business Hours: 9.30am to 8pm.
How I came to know of this place? Passed by while having lunch...
Dining Table + chairs
We were informed by IKEA staff that we have to order it only when we want to purchase it or only 3 days in advance if we require delivery. So we have to go back 3 days before our planned delivery date.
Plastic container
Can't seem to find the one which mum bought. :(
Curtains
LP who were also doing renovation for their place bot IKEA curtains for their place due to "budget constraints". I also liked IKEA curtains, but GM didn't believe in wasting time to sew our own curtains or if we buy ready-made ones....they won't have the exact fit for our window size...so we had our curtains tailor-made.
We ordered our curtains at
Kar Bee Company
Blk 449 Clementi Ave 3 #01-249
Tel: 6777 8115
Served by Edward
Opening Hours: 10:30 am to 7:45pm
We chose them cause we liked their curtains selection...and also they were cheaper than the place that quoted us at Tanjong Katong...and definitely closer to our place.
How I came to know of this place? This store has been there since as long as I remember...but somehow, no one I know have used them before...
I originally wanted this for my utility room windows...
However, as the size doesn't seem to fit, I had to pass on it.
看到这本书的名便对它感到兴趣， 便把它借回家读...
其实这本书是在教读者如何策划新家， 但似乎也有作者对爱情的看法。在某页读到：
爱情就像投香油钱。我们到神社拜拜投香油钱，完全是出自本身的意愿，而不是故意要表现给他人看。
平常只要想向对方表达感谢，就悄悄将手中的香油钱投在对方心里。每次投个一元，十元的小硬币，对方或许无法察觉这轻轻送出的情感。
但某一天你猛然发现。其实，对方也投了不少香油钱在你心里，在不知不觉间自己已接受了对方这么多的爱。或许这就是支持着你生活的力量。
All of us must be so muted that we have no sense of danger at all...
Today, on the bus on the way to work...I was about 2 stops away from the bus stop when I heard someone telling the driver that there was smoke coming out from the back of the bus...turning to the back of the bus...indeed there was white smoke bellowing from behind the bus!
However, the bus driver didn't stop to let the passengers alight immediately...he drove off and continued til he reach the next bus stop. I quickly alighted although I was only 1 stop away...wonder why the other passengers didn't alight too...don't they have a sense of danger?
Overhead the bus driver calling back to his depot to inform that the bus was overheated... hence there was really a possibility of the bus catching fire...but all the passengers seem only interested to reach their stop without thinking about the danger. It's good that the bus didn't catch fire...
Finally had a chance to go Batam ...this time it was for Church Retreat...had planned to go Batam with different group of friends for massage but in the end...none came to fruitation, so it's good that I finally went!
We stayed at KTM resort...the place is not very new...but it was good as we could have the 2 bedroom villas as we were a group of 15. It seems that not many resorts / hotels in Batam offer villas / rooms that can fit 4 in a room.
No pictures of the rooms as they are not very fantastic...just a pix of the sea...(no sandy beach here!)
Actually from our front door, we can make-out Singapore's profile...the building that we can identify the easiest is MBS, but my phone-camera is not made for taking such photos...
Most should have heard about the long Q at Ippudo ramen at Mandarin Gallery. Well, if it is really so good, then we had to try it in Japan...from the guidebook, we read that Ippudo was within walking distance from our hotel in Osaka, hence when we reached our Hotel at around 11am that day, we quickly went to Ippudo to beat the lunch crowd.
There was no Q at that time, the ramen was really good! And the Q formed when we were having our ramen..so we quickly vacated our seats when we have finished to make way for others....
Somehow didn't know how to adjust the camera on my phone to take better pictures...
Anyway, we knew we had to try Ippudo in Sg so that we can compare...there was no way we were going to wait an hour for our food, so we had an early dinner at around 5+...no need to Q too...Hee!
