Not been posting much about the home recently mostly because it's actually been less action. We've gone around looking at furniture and lights and appliances and sanitary fittings (and being appalled by some of the prices we are seeing) and have been updating our budget sheet. We've also sent off various requests for quotations and some have come ( Read more... )

Yesterday night I attended my husband's boss' wedding, which was made more fun because my husband works in the ministry that is in charge of the statutory board which I used to work in (where we met) so we had some mutual friends who attended. (Also, my ex-Minister and my current Minister both attended! He also invited ESM ( Read more... )

So I've been playing around with Google Sketchup, initially just to try and reproduce (and then modify easily) our floorplan, but yesterday I managed to actually try my hand at the 3D part of things and came up with the following image to illustrate what I meant when I tell people to quote me for a pergola/trellis at our balcony:


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Stuff I've been lusting for the new place:


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And since I officially passed the property agent the cheque for the balance of the $5000 deposit and signed page 8 of the option to purchase, I think we can proudly say we are well on my way to owning our own place!


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Which if you think about it, makes sense. I will never spend so much money at one shot and land myself in debt for the next 15-25 years again ( Read more... )

Stupid? questions we ask ourselves during the process of buying our own house/flat for the first time ( Read more... )

Was the title a load of jargon for you? Then you probably haven't tried to buy a property in Singapore yet ( Read more... )

In line with the my-office-lets-us-leave-work-early-for-exercise-on-Wednesdays, apparently quite a few people in my office also organized and attends zumba fitness classes on Wednesdays, so I joined them yesterday ( Read more... )

But then, actually, for someone like me, doing anything relatively complicated entails plenty of research. Please see my bookshelf for my collection of cookbooks, travel books, and recently, pregnancy books. (No, I'm not pregnant yet, but these things need researching early no ( Read more... )