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Yeah I think that's usually the case for pte ppty - nothing start yet but already 50% out of pocket...abit insecure, if I may comment...

Oh you are here? Wanna drink kopi...hehe...or u home already...

I think pte ppty is more - by the time carpentry starts you would have paid up like 90% already...

Singtel! I used to be a starhub supporter because I thought no way a telephone cable can be as fast (or faster!) than a physical cable linking directly to my PC. I used to think all the singtel's ads on 'dedicated line' are b***sh*t. But now at my new flat, I changed my mind. Using the same PC where it was hooked up with starhub in my old flat, it is now significantly faster on singtel! And I am comparing apples to apples, both also subscribed to 6mbps plan. For singtel do look out for corporate plans; I think the market is abit ku-ku now, every company, big or small, got 'corporate plan' for its employees; don't know who will go sign up the 'normal plan'. So check with your company first and don't just go sign up at the shop. I sign up on corporate plan at $49.00 / mth, free mio modem (wireless-enabled), setup and installation. Somemore got free mio TV for 6 mths...(although nothing to watch one lah...hehe)

Ahem, not MY thread, its a thread for our little community at Tanglin Halt! Got time come down drink kopi with us!

Hi, would like to advise that you pay abit more for new doors instead, because I sold a door to one of the forummer here and it was quite a bad experience. Doors and frames are usually altered on the spot, depending on wall structure (got slanted or not) and flooring (too high, too low). So all our doors are customised to fit our door frames accordingly, and vice versa. There is no way you can fit a reused door to your old frame nicely; you must at least have a new door, or a new frame (best to have both new lahh!) Otherwise is **** ugly one, slant here slant there, or got sound when opening/closing. Then about cost: A door + frame would be about $300+, a frame alone would be about $100+ (close to $200). How much would you expect to buy the door from us? We bought it from HDB by top-up about $1K for five room doors. That time I sold the door to the forummer at $110 only, then he got to spend money to make the new door frame, but end result is far from desirable! He also commented might as well buy new door + frame, not worth to save a few tens of dollars. Lastly, logistics: The door is **** heavy one lor, even for room doors! The poor guy who bought from me, we altogether three guys carrying it, at one point or another still kana the floor and got chips and dents here and there.

Hey!! Huccome suddenly got my nick come out one?? I am no expert in reno lor, just a typical first-time HDB flat owner like some of you. But more than willing to share my experience lah, that might be true...just like many of the friendly forummers here... Anyway if anyone is keen, hanging around tanglin halt, just give me a buzz to see if I am home, then can come down for kopi! Everyday tok reno also sian, sooner or later will finish reno one mah... Friendship - That's what the ultimate objective is!

I thought Evov closed down liao??? Or just the holland village branch is it? I was there one day, then next day bring my wifey there and they are closed!! The sales also never tell me...so I thought they wind up liao...

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Yes you are too honest. I will just tell them I got a dent, I haven't reno yet so its your responsibility. Actually anyone can do it de, just WHO want to take the effort only. So I guess your ID became the good guy this time??

Yes, the building people quite good one, I also made small complaints like HS door cannot close properly, the main door's closer didn't work properly, etc and they came up to do. In fact, for the HS door, it was actually my contractor's fault because they painted the door thrice, so the thick paint made it unable to close properly; but the building people still rectified it for me. All these after the reno was completed...

"He gave me his name is Officer Khoo Boon Hui at Police HQ. CID Tower. Blk C, level 5." Haha, I didn't know the police force so shorthanded nowadays, even the commissioner himself will come down to do investigations...

Sat, yeah at home lor.

Yeah another neighbour! You wanna intro yourself?

Wah ur lunch so early??

He is trying to hit on you. Did you tell him that you are not married, hubby overseas or something?? A man will only act cute in front of women; if a guy msg me "din din" will immediately get a tight punch on the face... So dun worry lah, you don't owe him anything. He is just trying to make it sound like you owe him so that he got a chance to go out with you...

Yeah at first I also thought, siao, like that no privacy already. But then again, my neighbour told me anyway the loansharks write until like that even worse right? The agreement does not have any private details, just the name, address and when the sales transaction take place.

Is there a need to rub it in?? Its amazing why so many people always like to spend their energy on "why why why", questioning why the problem start in the first place, rather than to spend that energy on how do we resolve it quickly. So what happened after your dh called the guy? I used to have a neighbour who kana just like you, and boy! Was he innovative! What he did was to copy and paste his sales agreement all over the lifts, staircases and prominent places, to let everyone (including the loansharks) know that he is a new owner. This actually clear up the understanding with the neighbours because they will know that he is not the one responsible for all these graffitis. Also, because the loansharks draw graffiti and do funny acts is to shame the debtor, it will no longer work since everyone know liao, and so they stopped also. True enough, after awhile the loansharks did not come anymore.

Just calculate lor; your dinner is from 7pm earliest till 11pm latest, or four hours, or 240 minutes. One song average about four mins, so do the math and you get the result of 60 songs max lor. Sounds like alot? No, one disc can burn about 16 songs, so go burn four discs is much more than enough liao. If the hotel can let you plug in the iPod even easier. In fact after minus all the march-ins, yamseng, speeches and maybe sabo games, I would even think three discs is enough liao. Even if you replay the first disc towards the end of the dinner, nobody will notice also! Last time I used four discs, but the hotel did not even touch the last one... I think he is asking because he is particular mahh... I am also very particular about this; the guests can tell the difference, seriously... Burning four discs is not hard work mah, very fast only... During my wedding I went to JB Holiday Plaza and grab two discs at RM$6 each, and each filled with more than two hundred "lomantic" and "love" MP3 songs. Just listen and burn those you like lor...

There are tangible benefits for joining the RC; but if you join for that, you will burn out very soon. The reason is because you do fork out ALOT MORE than all these benefits; ie your blood and sweat, sometimes even fork out money also for all the religious dinners, functions, events, etc just so that things can go smoothly. You know lah, how long a govt dept will take to dispense money; for the RC to take funds from the PA or MCYS is also very long. Bottomline: Cheng Hu will not let you rip them off or ride on their wind; all the scholars there, if they are so stupid, how to earn their million-dollar salary?

Usually the items are left unattended at the void deck, but just like you, I was very uncomfortable at first. My items delivered were also left there for a few hours and sometimes half a day as well. I guess this is "market practice" ba?? But your husband is right, the issue for the missing items is between your contractor and the haulage guys, don't get involved. Even in the first place, the marble tiles being delivered also you all should not get involved; if missing then its their problem! Once you start to call them and all that, then you become involved and they will try to push things to you. Payment-wise, yes usually the haulage people need to be paid first before any work is done; that's what I did also.

For my case (5-rm) it was $1250, then my ID bargained with them saying that only living/dining, so they conceded at $900. However, the sand guy does not seemed to be the same one now... Perhaps now that alot of people had done their reno so the sand contractor decided to increase the price, and/or be more strict on bargaining.

Oops...this is the kind of trip that a married person would go and tell his/her spouse that s/he is on business trip... Double oops...

Ask the printer about vinyl material - they should know. My winkplay is using vinyl...

Not sure which chicken rice you talking about, but now there is still a stall at margaret dr hawker, 2nd floor, also very good! At nite go always packed one, must wait like 1/2 hr...