Over Friday. Went Butter. Long queue. Queued till our turn & skipped the turn. 2 drinks for the cover none better than a 1.5 litre. Went lunar partied till the night was almost over.
Beginning Sunday... went John Little at S'pore Expo, bringing ah gong there for the first time. Initially kinda regret cos it was the NATAS fair as well, and it's JAM JAM JAM.
Luckily still managed to find a parking lot. My target was to buy a cutlery set cos the last time at robinson fair, me & hubby forgot to buy. Abt $199 for a 36 pcs set, contained in a nice suit-box plus another free item in another nice box as well (forgot wat is it). But so wasted, there was none at d JL fair. It was only those in light stainless steel which we doesn't want. So, I bought bowls, plates, ah gong's pillows, bolster, bedsheet set, sealed microwavable-tupperware, some keropoks, glasses and so...
Walking for about an hour not really finding what i wanted but bought what i also needed, we proceeded to the asian food fare. Buy more plates, bowls & spoons there, wanna spice up d' beautiful Kare dining set with all nice dining ware :)
Then wanna buy durian puff to let ah gong try (i've tried it before, bought @ AMK hub) & a box of 6 smoked peking duck rolls.
End our shopping day & dinner at Lerk Thai. 1st time trying there (usually will go eat d' xiao long bao at d' restaurant further up), the food was not too bad, surprisely the curry chicken was very delish, soft & smooth texture (my likings) + the curry sauce is very nice!
Following Monday was a Japanese lunch buffet with hubby & friend. Sumptuous & satisfying one, tried one of the best chawanmushi ever & black sesame ice cream (whopping $6 a scoop air-flown from japan), can try lah, but a bit too ex.
After lunch, went to Meidi-ya at Liang court to purchase toiletries, also bought a liptrainer x 4, pink for me, blue for father-in-law and dearest & green for mother. This liptrainer is too good to believe, but we still bought it & try. It looks like a pacifier when put on, but by using it 4 times a day for 3 mins each, it can maximise its effect to 90% to give a slimmer & better face feature, reduce the nos. of toilet visit in the night, for stroke patients, speech problems, gums bleeding, drooling, snoring, prevent various chronic disease, pimples, etc etc....
Not sure whether it is that great, but we were swayed by some of the positive results. Costing $89.90 per set, except for the green (rehabilitation), this simple plastic therapy device is scientifically design & clinically proven and is used in hospital. Sounds too good to believe, but we still go ahead to give it a shot, if it's really that good for being then it's definitely worth it. Dad-in-law says that he saw on TV, those cosmetic departments are selling it in Japan, and could be way cheaper than what we bought. Honestly the cost of those plastic mouth-wear looks like $5 lor. Hopefully, I dun waste the money & will use it to exercise my face regularly.
Oh, what a long story on the liptrainer....haha
Then back to Telok Blangah home, had dinner with family (ate fish-eggs, Tasty!) & went to collect d' lovely kare dining light. After that went to Balestier to continue sourcing for the hanging light in the bedroom, the shortage of the only last lighting item.
Spent quite some time choosing & selecting, also went to confirm the LED wall light & doorbell. Nothing attractive really came close to our eyes as dearie dislike chandelier, WHICH I MAD LOVE! So, I disagreed on the lights he chosen & he disagreed those I selected. He mentioned chandelier being the old design, and if i were to look into magazines, those 'IN' lightings had unique designs, which is modern & simple. But seriously, for the kind of price for lighting piece from Italy, I could really buy a big nice chandelier, but really, conflict again. Many pcs of lights from China were good copies from the western but hmmm....quality-wise. Yi-fen-qian-yi-fen-huo.
I had to keep my feelings, but come to think of it, what he said is quite true, those designs r out, it's common and cheap chandelier cost only few hundred bucks, but gd quality ones at least a four-figure sum. So ditched the tots of having one & we finally KIV one special one from Belgium, but I still insisted on sourcing for another hopeful alternate.
Was Tuesday, had lunar ghost 7th month celebration dinner with dearie & friends. I wore my favourite Miss Naughty T-shirt and dark green pants, still calling on to confirm if dear was wearing T-shirt, so i'll be wearing one too. Actually I had decided on a white blouse, somehow I feel I needn't wear so nice for such dinner, but find regrets later...
We ended up at the dinner organised in singapore swimming club. Most members/tai-tais/guests were at least appropriate min. clubwear standards & I felt a little bit out. Nevermind that, I still enjoyed the dinner throughout. Usually shout-bidding emcee speaks Hokkien, and coming out with many different sorts of Hokkien phrase, that rhymes with the figures bidded. This time, it was conducted in Chinese with selective Hokkiens. Items on bid was mostly hard liquor, sake, wine, bird nest, abalone, big sweep and the usual traditional 'huat kuay', pineapple 'ong lai' & rice with container. Other items such as cameras, juice maker, badminton racket, golf club & rice cooker were on bid too.
Love the sharksfin & mango puree dessert. Yum Yums! :p
Oya, saw Olinda Cho & her family too. She really slimmed down a lot.
Yesterday Wednesday, went to TB home and had a hot bowl of vege soup, went in search of d' last lighting at park mall, left shortly after 10 mins of walk, dissatisfied with all the chandelier once again, and going down to Balestier to find the last dim of hope. The search did not took long, we went to Lightology, which is selling very nice unique lights from various countries. From budgeted lightings to high-end lightings, many good varieties. Admiring and discussing over the different lamps and lights and finally gave up our search to confirm the light which we KIV previously.
Went Arnolds at City Plaza for dinner, and repaired my old sirocco at Dear's friend's hp shop that I put aside for like a good few months since it's mic problem. I missed using it. Ordered spring chicken and onion rings while waiting for repair. Finished dinner & happily went down with filled-stomach to collect my phone. Sold the spare phone for $40 into my pockets, haha....but dear spent $100 on something else. Went to enquire on PS3 SLIM. Yes, PS3 slim at 120gb, not PSP, is PSP SLIM coming out next week!!! Price at $550 with 1 free game, additional game console at 70 bucks each. Heard that PS3 slim could not be upgraded but PS3 80gb could be memory upgraded. But who cares, as long as it's slim.
Today Thursday, spent a day lazing, looking at paintings gg on in the house, sleeping, and growing fat. The 4 fans are finally installed today, I can't believe that fans can actually look so crazily 'chio' & add a sense of touch to the home. Love the mini fan in the kitchen that I would like to call 'ke ai'.
Tomorrow Friday, almost everything in place. Doors up, aircons up, final paintings, lights up. I can almost see a 70% view of the overalls.
The day after and, or after, Saturday & Sunday may be the shopping days for mirrors or plants or kitchen or home stuffs.
My next week...Polishing on Mon & Tue, chemical washing on Wednesday.
Almost! ALmost! My hell days r so almost over!!!!
