House Accessories Shopping..(Part 1)

Spent our whole saturday afternoon shopping for housing accessories...

Started off with the selection of tiles for toilets and the kitchen at a shop along balestier. Somehow, we managed to choose the tiles that we liked that was within the budget. (hooray!) Best of all, we were done within an hour.

Followed our contractor to his supplier's shop at Joo Chiat area after that. Our contractor actually drives a chio yellow Mitsubishi Evo!!! Imagine our pathetic Nissan sunny following behind him.. He did zoom by a couple of times wor. How sad. LOL.

Went on to the accessories shop for us to shop for toilet and kitchen accessories. It's scary how much there was to consider just to decide on what to purchase. Not only must we think of the kind of sink we wanted to get, we had to match the right tap to it, erm round sink supposed to be matched with a round tap.. erm... (OMFG). After choosing the tap, we had to decide on the toilet bowls. (One stoopid bowl costs $220!!!! ) Once the selection was done, we had to choose the shower taps. (NOT CHEAP either.. costs about $300+ for a complete shower set.) After all these, we had to choose the toilet accessories.. the towel bars, the glass shelves, blah blah blah.

Kitchen accessories also almost killed us. We had to decide on the sink, the tap (AGAIN), the oven and the stove. Turned out that we couldn't have a 4-stove ceramic or induction hob as the power volt of the HDB flat is unable to support it. (erm, apparently, it will trip if we use more than 2 of the hobs at any point of time), hence we ended up with the combination of a 2-cooker stove and 2-hob ceramic plate. Best buy of the day was the Ariston oven! Can't wait till we can start using it!

Finally.. managed to settle everything after almost 3 hours! (Our poor contractor, despite running a fever, had to sit around and wait for us to finish selecting.) Well, definitely a huge relief that we were finally done! (my head was spinning, stomach growling...) The bill came up to be within our budget (hooray again!) and we were very satisfied with what we have chosen! Hope everything turn out just fine during installation...Was so tired that I completely zonked out on the journey back...

^_^

Part 2 of shopping trip will resume in two weeks.. to shop for lights for the house... Till then...

Bridal Shoot..

I can't wait till friday is over... At least that means I can stop watching my diet and stop abstaining from certain types of food.. (Think cheesecake.... chocolate cake... rice.. ).. for a while before 10 Jan approaches..

Honestly, I have never been so stressed about my weight. While I might have gone on diet every now and then, I wasn't exactly stressed over my progress.. and didn't really bother me if I lost or gained any weight. Didn't even bother abstaining from food, but instead just exercise more to compensate.

Been quite a torture for the past month. Though I have not purposely gone on diet either, I have a constant nagging voice in my mind telling me that I cannot put on weight, cannot/shouldn't eat this. And it really sux. I actually feel guilty for eating certain food and sometimes just kinda blame myself for eating something I could have done without.

Best of all, I didn't exactly lose any weight.. tmd...Well, it's not really about the effects of the shots. It's more for the worry that I cannot fit into the made to measure gowns... Sigh~

Not happy. Really dislike this kind of life.. so I'm actually looking forward to the end of all these. =( Looking forward to when I can go for buffets, go and eat what I like and not be stressed by the consequences.. Put on weight, nevermind, just work it off overtime.

Almost there...

LA Ink...

Been watching LA Ink every night for the past few nights.. Found it quite addictive and interesting actually..

Just a little background...
LA Ink is a reality show that shows the events of a tattoo studio in LA called "High Voltage tattoo". It's actually a spin-off from the original series, "Miami Ink". While I haven't caught much episodes of Miami Ink, I prefer LA Ink as most of the tattoo artists are female, pretty cool huh? The shop is owned by Kat Von (above) and managed by artists Corey Miller, Hannah Aitchison, Kim Saigh, and Kat's best friend Pixie.

What i liked about the show is that it gives me a different insight as to why people want tattoos. While many foolish teenages in Singapore go for it for really silly reasons, customers in the show get tattoos because of personal reasons that can be quite touching at times. There were a couple of customers who tattooed the portrait of deceased next-of-kin as a way of remembering them. (One was a Dad who tattooed the picture of his 3 year old daughter who passed away.. =( ). Sad, but sweet...

Makes me wonder... if ah ping or ah pong disappears one fine day, maybe i can get their pictures tattooed somewhere to remember them forever.... (well, Zim gave me a disgusted look when i mentioned this.. guess I can pretty much gauge the amount of support I am going to get from him.. =P)..

Just a penny of my thought lah....

2nd Appointment...

WE GOT OUR KEYS!!! (and yes, I really mean K-E-Y-S-s-s-s-s-s-s)


I've no idea which key does what, but oh well, we'll figure it out ... somehow...

Want some dessert?

Macaroons anyone?

Nope.. I did not bake them (unfortunately...) but they rock!

yummilicious.. =P

Guest List..

It's a complete headache deciding my guest list... Due to constraints (we wanted to keep it small and simple) and the fact that I've a ton of relatives (63 to be exact), I am unable to invite everyone I wanted to or rather, I should.

Initially, I thought that I probably don't have alot of friends, just a few selective group of friends that I bothered to hang out with.. But after doing some head count, it turns out that i've actually burst my quota.... So the tough part begins - the process of cutting the guest list.

A wedding planning book I borrowed from the library gave the advice that you should invite friends of the future, not the past. Invite people whom you will keep in contact with, not people whom u shared a past with and probably nothing in the present. Keeping this in mind, I did indeed manage to cut my guest list significantly.

There are a couple of names that I am still pondering about. A part of me says "cut", yet the other part says "keep". At least I have till the end of Oct to think about it. Maybe I will be able to make a firm decision by then, and hopefully, stick to it...