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Haiz... new development liaoz! Wifey went down to house and saw a letter of demand for some BUGGER (REUEL SAMSON GELLIDO, NRIC: S7068217F) to pay up to some crappy company called Eurohub Credit. At least not some loanshark, but the person Mike (HP: 90262699) sure sounds like one. Called him up, told me to look for ICA to HELP him find where the guy went, but I asked agent and she advised us to go NPC make report. So wifey went down made a report liao and then I called that Mike to tell him the NPC said he should stop looking for us or it will constitute harassment. That son of b.itch actually had the gall to say "harassment ah? ok loh whatever you want" then hung up on me. I am looking forward to see what the NPC will do, or else surely gonna write up to Town Council or SPF HQ liao..

zis is a disaster... but i think we will still got for glossy darcoloured/black for bottom cabinets to have a warmer feeling to the kitchen~~ will have to pic colours soon! jason, you have seen aga aga how we want the kitchen/living room, so would appreciate if you can come up with a few colour schemes using your program so we can discuss as well! you can suggest other colours for us as well.. this one u can show us later when we need to choose laminates/paint/tiles!

So after the mattress hunt, we went to Courts (AGAIN!!! OMG I HATE THAT PLACE) to check out what we can do with the $888 credit. First off, I wish to inform everyone who reads my blog, NEVER EVER SHOP FROM COURTS, well, if you're a bargain hunter like me. Courts does not sell their things cheaply, even with their so-called Mega Raya Sale. It's crap I tell you! All their stuff is expensive compared to other stores like Best Denki or Gain City. Even Harvey Norman sometimes get cheaper than them. So I deeply regret having bought the **** LG washer from them in the first place. Ok end of rant. In short, we looked around, scratched head, discussed and argued about what is priority and we lan lan have to buy from Courts one.. so agreed it was the hob and hood. So went there, they didn't have Rinnai, only Turbo and Tecno and Uno.. urghZ! Suck thumb went with Turbo package $651.. Turbo Hob 703VTSC Turbo Hood T601-90SS Personally, I don't think it was a fantastic deal though but because we had to spend it so we just lived with it! In addition, we went ahead to get a sexy Panasonic Microwave and also a mini electric oven from Mistral. Sigh I think we ganna chop by Courts! Nonetheless, it will be the last time!

Another update on the damages: Bed Mattress and Frame This I did another bout of research so as not to be a "carrot head" for all the sales persons out there. There has been many threads in Renotalk, and there are even articles calling the entire industry a scam. So after much hours of reading and checking around, I summarized a few points: 1) Don't believe in salespeople who tell you "You spend one-third of your life on your bed so you should be ready to fork out ten bazillion bucks for this super duper mattress". Advice: It's a sales gimmick just like stupid DeBeer's campaign that caused all us guys having to buy overpriced pieces of charcoals for our beloved wives. Ignore them. 2) Try, try and try more. Don't ever let the sales people limit your choices, and don't feel compelled to stay in their section. Move around and try. 3) The big brand names of SSS (Serta, Simmons, Slumberland) and others like King Coil etc, all will result in marked up prices. This is the same with everything everywhere. Personally, I feel that there's no need to stick with the big names (again as with everything) if the small names can give you the same comfort level with cheaper rates. 4) Don't bother googling for your mattress model unless it's like some 15k mattress. All dept stores have diff names for their models (although the mattress is the same!!!!) to create the exclusive effect, and hence mark up prices. 5) Don't buy from big stores like Courts, Robinsons, unless you got a huge budget because they will mark up the prices like mad. 6) Look around at mattress centres around Singapore, besides dept stores, to have a better feel. I found two (Cheap Mattress Centre: 565 Macpherson Road, The Mattress Centre: 8 Jalan Ismail) which I went to check out. If you've been following my blog you would know that I have a $888 credit at Courts due to the LG washing machine. So we thought "Ok let's exchange for a mattress". So went there, tried the mattresses, the only decent ones (I won't even say it's good) were at least $1,500! And their headboards with 4 little crystals already $500. So in total, we were looking at a mattress+headboard of about $2,100, which I simply don't agree with!! that's ridiculous!! So, we went to Cheap Mattress Centre yesterday (565 Macpherson Road), and spoke to sales uncle KC Lim. When we reached, first impression was 'lok kok" haha.. building old, stairs old, showroom nothing to cheer about but they do have lots of brands to try on. We tried everything from crappy spring only (few hundred), to the ultra luxurious (3-4k). In the end wifey and I fell in love with a Princebed mattress lolz.. 2 inch latex and all that but it had the nicest feel, which was comparable to the 3k King Koil mattress next to it! It was kinda out of our budget.. with a price of $1,530, so I gave a sad puppy look to KC, who said lowest he can go is $1,500. Then wifey and I then ding dong ding dong a long while, then combine give sad puppy look number two ! He finally relented and asked our price range, so we said $1.2-$1.3k... so he went over took his calculator and type type type.. and guess what he gave it to us at $1.2k! Of course we very happy so went on to look at some headboards.. Argued with wifey over a white or black headboard, and wifey came up with a "I want a luxury item" and insisted in adding crystals into the white leather headboard (yeah she won the arguement ).. Headboard was $350 and the crystals (I calculated that they needed about 12 crystals) were $100 more so total damage of headboard and matteress is $1,650 So that ends the mattress/headboard hunt

haha rtk is short for romance of three kingdoms! I used to play this using diskettes (like 7 diskette install) on my really old comp lolz.. I think thats almost like 10+ years ago!

hey hey! that's fast! start ur reno blog too ya! get it on ur sig so we can all go see hey floppy thanks for the colourful insights (no pun intended ) the hanging lamps are definitely not those in the design haha it's just we can't find other light models so we just used whatever the program has.. the backsplash u mentioned glass but what kinda colour? we were thinking black colour wud look sleek and easier to maintain as well~~

yeah man! that's what im super worried about.. the scratches! I really wanna get glossy but heard from jason they will scratch even by wiping!!! omgZ.. colour matching is a headache and i can't seem to get it right!!! yeah red and black nice hor... but i think must have abit of white or else kitchen too dark... zzzzz i'm going mad with this 3 colours running around haha

hehehe... used my wifey's account to post.. forgot! fencer bro i was saying thanks and we are super duper excited to start but scared cos later ugly!!! now headache over the type of materials/laminates/colour etc... we have a good idea of how we want the kitchen like le!!! btw saw u using glossy laminates so how is it ah??? and kudos to my dear for doing so nicely!!! everyone please vote the nice and sexy red bar counter!!!!

ya thats right! very impt!!! dammit our stock only hold til sep 15.. hope my house almost done by then!! zzzz... spoke to jason yesterday very good chat.. hoping to seal the deal by next week and begin work!!! very excited!!! but very confused as to what the kitchen should look like haiz!!!

wa wat secret method u got.. hahaa sounds mysterious! heard u sold ur PS3 le!!! so have u officially moved in!! hope everything's nice and shiny!

ahhhhhhhhh i wan a PS3!!!!!! URGHZZZZ....... yo fencer u mean RTK??? the one in diskettes all that??? hahaha i played those like 10 over years ago too.. fun stuff!! nowadays games very little content but more graphics~~ last time sucky graphics so mus have gd content haha.. ngunadi so lucky... hope i can get a cheap deal too hehe..

Thanks aerial! but we likely gonna stick with traditional electric heater cos of the ugly piping and costs.. and from jeffcraze (another citygass user) comments, it seems quite problematic too! Lolz... now headache dunno what to buy and where to buy!! the mattresses... the table/coffee table everything is headache!! today meeting with jason to see final quotation!

wa go smack citygas man... still dare to say higher efficiency.. all the best in getting it ready!!

haha then shud buy one and become better loh!!! im thinking of buying but expensive zzz...

wa lao.. so jia lat ah? better see doc if got concuss feeling hor.. head injuries no joking joking matter

wa sei... hope your creative juices never "leak" out haha.. take care man! looking thru quotation now will meet up with u next week (prob weekday) and discuss!

really?? but the thing is... the entire set (14 pcs) of dining and coffee table going for 999!!!! sighs... where's this hommage u speak about?

haha oops that was me.. din know wifey logged in using my comp.. anyway just wanted your opinion about this table and coffee table set.. i tink it's fantastic but missus thinks it sux.. zzz so let us have your opinions!

haha grats bro!!!

Hello Jason... you never reply to my SMS.. How's everything le?

whoa... the damage from ur dining set and couch is already more than half way to my entire budget to furnish the house!!

haha thanks.. will do! and... whereeee is jasssoooonnnnn............ busy with jeffcraze's house ahh...

NoOoOooOO!!!!!!!!!!! shall try to get a nicer one... sigh but all the nicer ones are SO EXP zzzz... bad for bargain hunter like me haha

which FSM, i'm gonna employ him and make him tell my wifey that we need red in our kitchen haha!

yep yep i refer to the instand electric heaters, not the storage heaters.. Although the electric heaters are fugly and can't do shower panel etc, I've decided to go for them due to the practicality and less energy consumption..