Sunday, December 29, 2013

The making of the new 陈府

Ikea on sale and hubby is not working that day so he went over to Ikea to see what he can buy. Some of the item we wanted were sold out, there were a lot of people that day. Hubby have to queue for 1 hour to make the purchase. He gotten himself a new table!

Finally he has a proper table for him to do work or play game when I'm asleep in bedroom.
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There will be a few more items we need to get for the study room, hopefully all can be settled before the Chinese New year!

Catz Christmas celebration

Christmas is mostly simple for us, on the eve we met LH for dinner then movie. I want to watch Hobbit 2 so they booked the movie for that night.

We went to our favourite Ramen store at Bugis, Hubby & LH can leave office early so they went to queue. We didn't need to queue very long so happy!

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After dinner we went for coffee break before movie.
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On Christmas Day, as I was not feeling well we stayed at home the whole day. Dinner was Pizza Hut.
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We also exchanged Christmas present to each other! :D Both of us like our Christmas gift!

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Christmas is that simple and lovely!

Saturday, December 7, 2013

The making of the new 陈府

Finally hubby managed to get someone to do the installation for our digital door lock. The person suppose to come and install it at 10am but was late only came at 11.30am.

As mentioned by my contractor before doing the digital will make a mess, which is really the case. He took quite a while to get it done and lots of drilling actually.
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The final product is done! So now I can just open the door using my thumb print! Like!
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Catz look dessert!

Guess not just me but many woman will like to eat dessert! Sweet stuff makes people happy I personally like to eat cakes & ice cream!

Love the way they write this Stressed = Desserts! Yup when you are stress maybe you can try eating dessert to help you distress! It helps a bit for me.
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That's my favourite! Pear Tart from Toast! It's very light not too sweet and just nice for me. Simple yet will make you feel happy.
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Catz getting ready for Christmas!

Christmas mood always comes early at office, this year we gotten Sesame Street characters! Love their songs & dance, cute characters too. Bring out the childhood memories!

Manage to catch the show last Friday and took a photo with all the characters!

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Well there must be some Christmas mood at home too! And YES I finally can have a Christmas tree at home! I don't want a big standing tree just want a not too small and yet not too big on on the TV console. This is so that it's easy to keep in the storeroom after Christmas. 
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Loving my Christmas decor corner!

The making of the new 陈府

Some furniture add on to Mother-in-law's room, she wanted a small TV console from Ikea. Hubby went to purchase it during one of the weekend. We shifted our old mirror to Mother-in-law's room, she wanted a mirror and our mirror only used for one year in Ubi. She don't mind taking over the mirror so now it's in her room.
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We shifted our old book shelve from Ubi for our rest & relax room, it's kind of turning yellowish for the top after a year. So I decided to give it a new look with some stickers.

This is how it looks like in it's original from Ikea website. 
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After the new look it looks like this. This will be hubby's side table in the future but currently it's holding some of our stuff and the TV. 

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More adjustment to be done for our rest & relax room. :)

More deco for new house

Yes added more decoration for the house!

I like all different types of wall stickers, so before moving in I already brought a few wall sticker that I find on line. Finally decided the location to paste them. Cute! :)

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Hubby want to have some plant in the house, those small and easy to manage. I want to get some to place it inside the toilet. Manage to get a super cute pot from taobao! In a shape of a cat! Gotten a plant and put it in place! Currently it's at the living room not at the toilet yet. 
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Well there will be more to work on for the whole house. Dec we will work on our rest & relax room after we get more stuff from Ikea. Hope to get all stuff in place before CNY comes. This year CNY is on the last day of Jan which is very soon! Time pass so fast!

My cooking diary

When I'm sick at home usually soupy food suits me well, if I got the energy I'll cook my own lunch or dinner.

This is one of my favourite! Miso soup macaroni.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

My Cooking Diary

As mentioned many of our weekends dinner are cooked by me. So I try as simple dish as possible, steam food is usually the best dish for me. Steam only ma how difficult can it be right?

After I have purchased the thermal pot I start to cook soup as well. I'm happy with the purchase it really helps a lot and the soup taste ok to me.

Of cause there's more room for improvement but I'm still happy with what I'm cooking!

Photo by LH, 1st time cooking for outsider. ABC soup, Hot plate egg, steam fish, Stir fried pork & sotong.
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My lunch Miso soup udon.
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Another weekend dinner, ABC soup, steam fish, stir fried chicken & mushroom.
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Tonight's dinner, Steam beer prawn, Luncheon meat, stir fried chicken with mushroom and egg tofu, Old cumber soup.
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That's all so far there will be more updates on my cooking diary. :)

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Favourite & Dislike activities in new house

Shifted into new house for closed to 3 weeks, staying into our new house there are many duties we need to do. Cleaning the house is the major part of the duties, many couple will fight over each person's duty. So far hubby & I will just do whatever we think it's time to clean. Cooking is still my job hubby do the washing.

So the most dislike activities of cause is cleaning the floor, it's so tiring after cleaning. But the flooring is very easily dirty so have to mop every week at least 2 times. But with our working schedule we can only do it on weekends.

The Favourite activities for me? Enjoy the massage on my Osim chair together with the Buddha Radio playing. 20mins of massage then fall asleep for 10mins. BEST!

Other than that staying in new house most weekend I'll cook for dinner, because there's not much food court or kopi shop around our place. So cooking is the best choice so far, which I have to keep looking for recipe as well.

Staying in new house feels good there's still a lot to do adjustment. More post will be coming about new house adjustment. Stay tune.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

The making of the new 陈府

Mother-in-law's mattress and bed frame is delivered. There are more stuff she required we have yet to go ikea and get her console table. Guess will have to wait a while more.

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More decor are up! The wall stickers I gotten online, and now it's at my living room mirror! This will be my house rule! Like!

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More home & decor to be coming up!

The Best combination!

It's Christmas season again! Which means the Starbuck's Tuffee nut latte is here! How can I missed it right? The best must match coffee must match with some food right? The cake that I have been wanted to try badly!

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Gotten their signature fruit cake! Very light and yummy till the cat is also eyeing for it!

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Best combination! Love it!

1st guest dinner!

Layheng need to pass hubby some stuff so came over new house and had dinner with us too. So I decided to cook a proper dinner for the 3 of us!

Used my new thermal pot and cooked the ABC soup, 1st time using it and 1st time cook tat soup. I must say it taste so good!!! 

I also cooked a fish which is something tat I don't dare to try yet. Hubby loves it! 

Of cos there are more improvements need to be made but I am still happy with what I have cooked! :)

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Officially moved into the new 陈府

Yes finally we are officially moved into the new 陈府! Kind of a last minute thing, we basically shifted in all our stuff into the new house within one and a half day. Why did I say it's kind of last min? Because Hubby's Uncle moved over to mother-in-law house and he offer to loan his car to shift our stuff to new house. Since got car we decided to shift all our remaining stuff to new house.

After shifted it we also got to pack the stuff into the proper place, it was in deed very tiring!

Other than moving & packing, we also managed to add in decorative stuff to our house! This is still the part I like most actually.

The 1st decor item is the cushion that I brought from Taobao! Love it! 
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The 2nd decor that was put up is the Average artwork that Hubby & I DIY. Now the 4 heroes will help to look after the house!
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The living room finally has some colors and looks more better....
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Next is our living room clock that I brought from Taobao too... It's a little small but it still look so cute!

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Also I added some smaller display items the living room... the swan is one of my lucky draw prize I got from my company D&D. Luckily the color theme match my new house so I decided to place it at the living room. 
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I'm going to do more dressing to the new house so far Hubby & I are happy!!!

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Attend Chris Didi's wedding

Looking forward to this wedding as it's at the Crown plaza hotel at Changi Airport, can dress up again.

Went over to sis's place to do my nails, that's my pretty sweet nails.
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I also managed to do some styling to my hair for this wedding, 1st time DIY a little messy and got hubby to help me a little with my hair too. haha
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The wedding is a lunch wedding very rush for us but luckily still make it on time.
The couple...
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I like their wedding gift very much, and it matches our new home's theme too. 
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Lovely Sunday couple! :D

Monday, October 21, 2013

1st night stay over at new house

We actually wanted to stay over next weekend but I mentioned we need to do the "move in ceremony" so went online to search if there's a auspicious date. The only weekend date that is auspicious is Sat 19 Oct 2013, so very last minutes we decided to make a weekend stay over.

After work on Fri 18 Oct we went to purchase all the necessary stuff for the "move in ceremony". Found the list of stuff online and the meaning behind it. Wake up at 8.30am and went supermarket to purchase outstanding stuff and rush over to new house. It was really very rush and only manage to reach new house at 11am.

We open all doors and windows to allow the flow of energies and light up and turn on water pipes, gas and electrical appliances in order to declare the preparedness and perfect function of your new home. Put a kettle over the stove to boil.


Then I go into the kitchen with the five essentials to ensure a stable supply of food on the table. They are a bottle each of cooking oil, soy sauce and vinegar plus a packet of salt and sugar. Place fresh fruits comprising Oranges (for prosperity), Apples (for safety), Pineapple (for good fortune), Pomegranate (for opportunities) and Peaches (for good health). Couldn't find Pomegranate so we brought pomegranate juice. haha Also to place Prosperity Cakes (发糕) for good luck!

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After which I cooked a simple meal with the water we first boiled. I cooked udon noodles with prawns & fish ball very simple yet nice!

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After all the things are done we went out to Gain City to purchase iron, and had our dinner. We had a very rest & relax weekend at new house. 

Saturday, October 12, 2013

The making of the new 陈府

Today hubby's pocket has a big big hole, he arranged the storeroom shelve to be installed today. We also try to transport some of our stuff to new house, reach there early waited for awhile for the storeroom shelve to be here and installed. 

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After the storeroom shelve is installed, we came back Ubi to rest awhile before we go to Expo the IT fair by Courts. Hubby plan to purchase a 32" TV for Master bedroom and see if we can get a vacuum cleaner. Then we saw a great deal for LG TV! Hubby's eye got crazy over the deal as it's purchase a 47" 3D LED LG TV and get a free 32" LED TV! We planned to get at least a 46" TV but hubby wanted to buy it later due to budget constrain. But now is buy one big one free one small one....so we couldn't miss the deal so we gotten it too!

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Dinner with Twins

Been very long didn't meet up with Twins, both of us is busy with work. At least we finally make time and had a dinner together! I am off on Friday 11 Oct so meet her for dinner at night. We went back to Porn's for dinner, nice Thai food and we enjoyed very much.

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After dinner we walked over to Haji lane for some drinks, there has got some pub, blog shop, cafe, restaurant....a quite interesting place. We settled a cafe and chit chat the rest of the night.
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It's always good to know how blessed you are when your friend will always give you the moral support and knowing how busy you are with your life they will never keep pester you to meet up during your busy period. And when you finally got time to meet up you will never fail to feel relax and enjoy every moment of the company. It's the friendship that even if you only meet once in a few months you still know they are the best friend of yours. 

Well I'm blessed to have many friends like that.... :) 

The making of the new 陈府

The long waited item is finally delivered, the custom made sofa. Gotten our sofa from Hommage Lifestyle, got to know this place from my colleague. First time we went there we didn't make the decision to get the sofa from them, but after going to a few furniture show we decided to go back there for sofa. 

So this sofa at the showroom, quite like the design I did some change to the color skin and the size of the sofa to fit to our living room. I'm glad it turn out exactly how we wanted and very comfortable. 

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Loving our new sofa! 

Celebration party!

After weeks of hard work, we decided to go out for dinner and chill out after one peak period. Everyone make time and we went Vivo for dinner, it's my favourite Chilli Crab! Yummy Yummy!

It's also Bryan's birthday the next day so we decided to celebrate his birthday for him. Brought a Hello Kitty cake for him! LOL 

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After dinner we went for drinking and enjoyed the rest of the night. It's been a long time we haven't go out after work and really enjoy food together. There will be new colleagues joining the department soon don't know if we will go out together again soon. But guess the next outing might be at my new place already....

The making of the new 陈府

Our kitchen is the point that is facing the sunset, so when it's the evening time the service yard will be damn hot. I know this when we selected the unit so that there's some sun to dry our cloths. But then we realise it will be hard for us to do cooking during that time too. So no choice we need to paste solar film for the window.

As I was busy so hubby did everything to get it done

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Now it's looking good! :) 

1st Oct 2013 Dinner & Dance

It's the annual thing, but this year's dinner & dance location is finally somewhere new! Resort world Ballroom! It's our first time holding the D&D there, well I guess it's only going to happen once in 20 years. This year many of the suppliers were invited to the D&D as well, programs of the night is kind of boring as compared to the past year.

Anyway, we just simply go there to enjoy the food and laughter looking at what the others preform on stage.

This year we also took a group photo by the instant print booth, which we don't usually do.

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This year department photo is also very crowded.... short of Mr Yamamoto as he was sick and couldn't attend. 
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Overall it's fun but the cab fare is damn ex too!

So much happenings so little time

October has been a busy month always, this year it's even worst than ever for me. Work is double the worst, I have worked so many years in the company and have never work so hard that I have clocked 53 hours of overtime. If ever these are converted to cash....wow I will be damn rich now. Sad to say I can only claim time off, so there are total of 6 days time off to claim. I guess I will just use it to do my packing & unpacking for moving house. 
Other than work, this 2 weeks I didn't do much for new house because my work already taken up most of my time. Hubby still doing research for stuff that we need to purchase while I focus on my work. There are so many things I want to blog about this few weeks of my life but I couldn't make time for it. Finally I can take my off day after working consistently 12 days without rest day and some days are working 12 hours full. I am just too tired and the rest is deadly needed. 

Well the super long weekend time can't be wasted, as much as I wish to blog I also need to prepare stuff for new house. Will hope to at least finish all my writing by this holiday as there will be more post for my new house!

Meanwhile this is just a small post to write down how I feel, I am not MIA, I just need some time to write the post....stay tune for more!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

The making of the new 陈府

As I am busy lately, we can only find one weekend day to go new house. Last weekend some items were delivered too!

Wanted to bring the Pooh Pooh door stopper to new house but keep forgetting, so last week finally remember and it's finally in good use!

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And finally my long waited Osim U-angel is delivered!
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I am so so happy! Enjoyed my 1st trial session with my massage chair and fall asleep after the massage. Feel so great after that! 

Last but not least our new bed is delivered!

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Many of our stuff are delivered, still waiting for our sofa to be delivered. We hope to target to move in by end of Oct, but Oct is a busy month for me let's just hope it will be on target! Can't wait for everything to be finished!