days of we time, plenty plenty

The last dinner at my in laws place was 3 Apr.

The last dinner with 125 was on 5 Apr.

W had not been attending to his nursery class since 6 Apr due to his flu and cough, followed by circuit breaker.

The girls hadn't been back to school since 8 Apr.

The last time I went to office was 2 Apr, since then, I had been working remotely.

Working from home wasn't new to me. But WFH with kids and no extended childcare help from our parents... First time ever...

I felt lousy at some point of time when I was torn between two full time job. A mummy and an employee.

The answer should be obvious but in reality are we able to function in that logical way? Nope... I didn't think the expectation was that logical.

So, I delegated the mummy role to my eldest girl. R had been through HBL and she could assist and guide her sis P who's doing it for her first time. 

For the first week, they kind of rot their days away the whole time when the instructions weren't quite meant for the kids. (Take photo and upload the completed work). They couldn't complete the online learning task without our help. Often, they gotta wait till night time when we settled down after our dinner to check through their work and upload the required docs.

For P, I noticed that most of her online assignments were repeated work from her previous classes. Those work were completed before the circuit breaker... Hmm... 😅

Recently, FB posted some memories from past years of these days... We were travelling... We were at our fav. Hangout... Couldn't wait for the resuming of normalcy.

For the time being... We yolo a little... Here's "Thanks giving" kinda dinner.

For some occasions, we would cautiously  head out for some exercises...

This is going to be such a memorable moments for all S'poreans... Hope for the best for everyone. 🙏🏼

大风吹

吹什么?

吹我们家的门!

大门被风吹得啪啪声不断,我所幸将门打开。结果就算没有用门塞,门也不会关上!

厨房的门也首次被如此的大风刮得从客厅翻开到厨房。下了我一跳!

有一点冷。。。

After 2 years...

After two years in this house we called our home... Things are starting to fail...

The definition of sweyness was when the aircon pipe was nailed onto the 0.5cm space where the live and earth wires were concealed... And it only got shorted (grounded) after the renovation warranty period had lapsed. After not being able to reach the original electrician, a licensed electrician under NTUC income was engaged to chop us like a fat and juicy carrot... This is swey!

Being not too dumb was instead of letting the black-shop electrician to continue juicing us, we got back the original electrician and was charged at 1/2 the price of the bad bad bad NTUC income licensed (asshole) electrician!

Our kitchen door had been giving a thunderous cracking sound whenever the glass door was being closed from either direction. The quotation for replacing the door hinge turned out to be $150... What? Holy s***, could I use rubber band to fix this thing?

Our Hitachi refrigerator with 4 ticks in power efficiency had been giving out LRT-alike disturbing noise whenever the motor/compressor started working to bring down the temperature... The service guy came, inspected the fridge and replaced the loosen rubber knots... That's $77...

Not one but two of our Hitachi 4 ticks for power  efficiency aircon units were also producing some wierd noises, though it was intermittent problem. Let's see how it goes... Hmmm... :(

Too soon... :(

Just like a mid-year Spring/ Summer cleaning

Within a week (before the raining days arrived), we managed to wash and iron all curtains at home!

Last week, we cleaned up our fridge together and its neater, cooler and more organized now... (Not that I hadn't done it before but as time passed and stuffs from different families came piling into my fridge... I kind of lost track of what it was supposed to have.. Excuses, I know!)

Yesterday, our helper packed our kitchen cabinets upon request. So many food was expired and had to be thrown away... What a waste!

Our helper is indeed a good helper. She cleaned up the cabinets and proposed new way of arranging our items, so that the condiments will be easily accessible by most of the folks without climbing up chairs... and the canned food or snacks are more visible in the frequently opened shelves to avoid turning bad before it was forgotten...

Just wondering... what's there to do in this tiny space after all the "big cleaning"... We shall see...

Day 10 下马威

今天，我吃饱了撑着给帮佣来了个下马威。那就是七早八早就坐在餐桌前吃着自己准备的早餐。。。

On day 10... My helper took afternoon nap... This is how small and 'nothing to do' it could be at my tiny 4-room HDB...

Did I also mention that she completed reading her story book in less than 10 days also? Haa...

Ohhhhh... And I helped to keep her laundry due to the heavy downpour in the morning... Zzz

I'd be reviewing the chores that we had planned for her and also find suitable time to debrief on the level of expectation of her cleaning work...

Anyway, I woke up early (6am today) and fixed myself this breakfast... While my helper was still snoozing... Hee! She'll help me clean up the kitchen later ^^

Good morning!

(Story behind this: I only wanted soft boiled eggs and choco-banana spread... But the eggs weren't cooked so I fried sunny side up and added a hush brown)

DIY or get chopped

Here's a thousand words of us being chopped... 

Don't call NTUC income for electrician...

If u r feeling rich... Call this man to 'fix' ya lights... >,<

My New Kitchen Gadget...

The Slow Juicer!

The freebie that came with the current promo was also worth mentioning here...

 BH told me that he had a strong feeling that we'll be getting a slow juicer in the next 6 months time...

That was when he witnessed me following crazily over the P. air fryer till I (we, actually) thought that I gave up on it, and till I eventually bought one after a long long while... See --> Promotion + Impulse = $$$ (fly)

I (we, again) thought that I had also given up on the slow juicer because of its sky pricing (beyond SGD500) just for juicing? No way.... Not from Wago's purse... Not in Wago's kitchen!

Nevertheless, sometimes, we just need to take our eyes off something in order to see alternatives... Hee! Wahhaha... which BH probably wished that I could stay focused on what I couldn't/ wouldn't get, accept the fact and forget about it just like how easily I could forgot about things...

However, I probably stayed too focus... and I had so many wonderful friends from all walks of life... that somehow, connected me to my new gadget, at a budget price (not really cheap but much more reasonable as compared to those sky priced juicer in the market)... So I got it!!! Why wait? WuhOO ^,^

It was a tough research and some sort of a gamble as I could not gather much information about this brand/ model... However, since it's been in the juicing industry for many many years and its a local brand... PLUS that my friend is working in the company (though not selling juicer), I gave it a try... Bravo! And before I got content/ or otherwise very unhappy with it, I set up a layman's review blog to share on my experiences on the entire process, as well as, to include demo of juicing videos on youtube so that more pple who went through the same thing as me could benefit from sharing... Couldn't believe that I actually did it! Haa...

And now I am a few hundred dollars poorer, with more fruits and vege in my fridge or chopping board... and having fresh juice anytime!

Bloody Days before turning 29

人倒霉时；方恨衰！

我要远离厨房！

昨天踩到玻璃碎片。。。

今天削皮却削到手指。。。

我还是以不变应万变好了。。。

新居的第一炮烟花

很难想像在这里还看得到烟花！

这都得托巷角庙开幕仪式的福了！

虽然可以和老公一起从高处＂赏花＂，原本应该是件浪漫的事儿；但与此同时也让我们小两口子惊叹。。。

原来未经设计的烟花不但不会绽放；而且还可以像垃圾一般地在天空飞舞。好可惜的啪啦啪啦声！

尽管我们对这新居的第一炮烟花有些许失望；但还是很高兴可以在家看到震天喀响的烟雾催泪弹！哈哈！

宝宝也一起看了哦！嘻嘻！

Working from Home

WFH would not be the same again... Specially on a cool rainy day liked this one... Yawn! ^,^ love our nest!!!

Moved IN Finally

Preface...

The excitement and joy of moving into our very own place didn't come instantly... it only instill to us every night when we crawled onto your $2K+ cosy Sealy bed, watching the programmes from the Samsung LED TV which hung on the beautifully done feature wall in our new Master Bedroom!


Acknowledgments

Special Thanks to Hubby for covering almost 80% of the move... Thanks to myself for coordinating the moving of bed (and of course my MIL and my parents for supervising the delivery and receiving of it). Not to forget my FIL for ferrying the bulky items!


Sat, 1st Oct


Chapter 1 - Morning, Breakfast

Of course we had to fill ourselves and gather more energy before the long-awaited move... Another good reason to take our own sweet time with a decent breakfast was the heavy downpour which started after we loaded the barang-bararng and ended right before we were done with our breakfast! (What a GREAT timing!)


Chapter 2 - Land Transfer

We ferried our barang-barang twice (to and fro) Seng Kang E and Seng Kang W... MIL took care of lift transfer and door access... FIL and Hubby took care of the barang-barang tansfer... Me? What else can a fat lady do besides staying with our vehicles to ensure we didn't receive tickets from summon-auntie/uncle...


Chapter 3 - Unpacking

We always thought there's nothing much we had to move to our new place... only if revised our primary school Mathematics... everything added up and Walah! We ended up with 4-5 boxes of items, 1 bag of stuff toys... 2 huge luggage of apparel... a big bag of medicines... and many more... "Now, where should we begin?" Hubby questioned... We agreed that we had to strategize our unpacking approach so that we could complete everything and head for a good dinner together! Of course, all the odd-tasks had to be covered by Hubby (just what else can a fat lady do!? hee...) I took care of the wardrobe and kitchen... while Hubby settled everything else!


Chapter 4 - Our Victory Dinner

We completed the work items with slight delay and headed out to T1 for Saboten, followed by some "marketing" at T3 basement... Visiting Changi Airport on a weekend is like going to any shopping mall! The crowd was... incredible! (The reason why we chose Saboten @T1 was to use its 20% off voucher which expires this month... yet, we stuffed ourselves to the max and received just another 20% off voucher!) O_O


Chapter 5 - Home Sweet Home

Returned to our nest from the airport with some basic grocery from T3's FP... it was an awful (yes, that's right, super awful) experience to be welcomed by a huge cockroach! Yucks! How did it come to the 25th floor? Took lift? err... Considering that we just moved in, we didn't prepare insecticide. So we had to rely on the most traditional way... What to do? Hubby rolled up some pieces of old newspaper to form a sturdy stick, while I grabbed onto a mop and a hanger to chase the cockroach out from behind the washing machine... 2, or rather, 3 of us 'danced cha-cha' at our service yard at 10pm until the episode ended when the you-know-what got slapped by the newspaper rod and flushed down the toilet bowl...

搬家前奏

过两天，我们就可以搬进自己的家了。

这是我们盼了好久的！

新家早在五月份就装修完毕。。。主要的家具也在七月份陆续就位。。。到现在，我也搞不清为什么等了那么久才搬迁。

尽管再过两天便有自己的天地；也没有感到特别兴奋。。。喜忧参半吧。

无论如何，我要努力地打造这个家！好好加油！

I miss 410A

I miss my new home... my laundry had been hanging there for almost a week...

I miss the soy bean in the freezer... the non-stick frying pan which I can cook my pancake or scrambled eggs...

I miss the campbell mushroom soup in the cabinet...

I miss the big mirror...

I miss my recyling bin coffee table...

I miss the over-priced ceiling fan...

I miss the soft and comfy carpet...

I miss my 46"...

I miss my fish-tank study room...

I miss the glasses all over the place...

(The only thing I don't miss is that "new furniture" smell... and the dust)

First 2D1N Chalet

First night stay at our new nest. So gooooooooood!!!! Hohoho ^,^

最近的生活

It wasn't a planned shopping weekend but we bought a whole lot of stuff for our new house...

4L Electrical flask, big door mat (Washable + anti-slip), Sharp Rick Cooker, Pasar Malam Cushions, Garmin 5" GPS, 120cm Anti-dust door strip brush and a couple of miscellaneous items...

Wahahahaha!!! \(^,^)/

Almost

After a long long wait, our love nest is finally ready!

Settled most of the necessity. Left microwave oven, a dashboard, door mat, carpet for study room... I think it's almost almost ready!

So so so many lessons learnt, so so so glad that the time has finally come!

Knock Knock...

Getting the keys to our new nest after the long-awaited (let me think... 3-4 years?) is absolutely ecstatic!

We can't wait to bring our family and friends to visit this tiny 96sqm space that is owned by us (not forever but at least for 99 years), even if it is just so empty and "raw"...

Where to put our TV? where to lay our bed? Where should the fridge stands? Should we use ceiling fan or system4? Plenty of considerations flooded to our minds, with more questions than answers, with much excitement and anticipation. I'm pretty sure that our family and friends are almost as excited as we are! Haa...

Visits made, Defects checked, Comments taken, Feedback received... We are looking forward to the 3-D design from our ID and hopefully, the quotation doesn't go way too high over our budget...

Here's a knock-knock shot collage. I swore that my bro was there just that I couldn't find his knock-knock pic... (NPNT?) Well then, he could just be the ginger-bread-boy for now! Cheers! :P