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ooi. you mocking my query in the other thread izzit?

Tonight I strike toto, i set up my own ID firm. Joking. sigh what to do? I wasn't born Tommy Goh's son what..... nair mind. after tonight, got 10 million liao.

nope, dun haf... the only thing we paid was the $100 which they said was a token sum of interest so that they could start work with us. wonder what's been done so far?

Hi Mr Chong, I'm puzzled about what this missing corner really means. I mean, it's hard to find a totally square HDB flat these days right? Take mine for instace - Is any corner missing?

nope, nothing signed except the quotation. the $100 deposit was for them to start on the prospective drawings. (which we still havn't seen and it's been a month) no agreement of any sort. the 30% is what kelvin said we MIGHT incur if we cancel with our original choice

yup apparantly, if we voluntarily cancel, we might have to compensate them up to 30%

that's precisely our thoughts at first. but now kelvin say if we voluntarily cancel, might incur up to 30%. that's why he's hesistant.... sigh play by ear lor.... Newbie? With 500+ posts? rofl ok bro... whatever you say bro.... I'm the newbie. You're the old bird.

Yup I agree. The alaskan crab legs are the only thing worthwhile there. chuckle I still remember how my entire table had nothing but alaskan crab legs the other time we were there. piled sky high!

Yes, I agree that it increases the tension and the excitement a fair bit. But IMHO, the losing of that extra one card could make quite a substantial difference when it comes to the formation that you're playing, planning to play or hoping to play. the hidden animal cards(which could go up to two I assume because if I draw the centipede and the mouse, i will initially hold onto it for fear of it being "caught" by another player.) could make a huge difference in the outcome of the games. Ok, say for instance we play on a table where the cap is 5 tai and the minimum before you can game is 2 tai (quite common). I have no other flower except these 2 animal cards (the mouse and the centipede). Towards the tail end of the game, it only makes sense that I would have to reveal them to take in two more cards in order for me to play normally. They get caught and I'm left with 0 tai. Surely you can't expect me to, at that late stage, try to start doing Ban Se just to get the extra 2 tai that I need to game. Chances are, unless you're running to game, the people with the rooster or the cat will also keep them inside so that their tai automatically gets doubled once their prey gets revealed. From 2 tai to 4 tai immediately which is a Bao Da situation. Doesn't seem very fair to me. But then again mate, like I said earlier, every table has different rules. What matters most is that you have fun with the rule!

My fiancee just talked to Kelvin from GPlan and she got quite upset... Because Kelvin was very nice enough to point out to her that it's not nice to "Qiang" other people's business, esp since we have already paid a $100 deposit which we might have to forfeit. Apparantly if they turn nasty too, we might incur up to 30% in damages. Sigh He didn't understand that we're not being fickle minded. It's just that after reading so many bad experiences and having been ignored by them ourselves, we're getting a little skeptical about them. We're actually very easy going people so it takes quite a bit to rankle us - and we're gradually getting a bit rankled by their ignoring us. Sigh. What to do? We small fries with tight budgets...

Anybody staying in Jurong West like to play mahjong?

????? that's a weird rule. It kinda defeats the purpose of 'yao' right? Cause by right, you only get 'rewarded' with money for yao when you're lucky enough to draw the matching animal or the matching flower. the other player needs his 'tai' also what. what happens when you supposedly catch his animal? does his tai go over to you as well? as each animal is one tai what....

In fact, I'm trying to teach my fiancee how to play mahjong. She had her first actual game during this year's CNY and SHE'S HOOKED!! She's one step to her dream of becoming a mahjong playing tai tai. ROFL. In fact, she's only played in 2 other games since then, all over the CNY period but she's so hooked that she's now bugging me to play constantly. She's so hooked that when she saw the mahjong set that Guiness was giving away, she got super excited. But unfortunately for her, I don't drink Guiness. Besides, it's crazy. You had to have 36 mahjong tabs from Guiness before you can claim the mahjong set. (Every bottle has different tabs. Either the mahjong one, the poker one, the lucky draw one or the thank you for playing one). Somemore each bottle was like $5.50, so even if I were super lucky and get 36 of those tabs in a row, i still would be paying in the region of $198 for the booze. So I didn't get it for her. Imagine her delight when she found someone selling it on Yahoo auctions for only $70+. She leapt at it and she's now the proud owner of her first mahjong set! Not bad. She happy, most impt.

Qi Dui Zi isn't just played in taiwan, it's actually a Japanese Mahjong Rule. Their rule is that to have qi dui zi, you must zi mo. Cannot game on a discarded tile. But as with most mahjong rules, it differs from player to player. Hua Hu isn't played in Singapore. Bao-ing a player, although I admit there always will be the element of luck, takes skill too. Any player, in a bao situation, will therefore have to make a choice - take a risk and discard the tile (i.e bao wan zi, you still want to risk it by throwing the wan zi, that's your prerogative) or heck that hand and tear down your own tiles. Bao-ing a player using hua hu, the way you mentioned, is quite frankly, ridiculous as absolutely no element of skill is involved, purely luck. But of course, mahjong being mahjong, the rules will always differ and I'm not surprised to hear that there are people out there who play hua hu. I just won't play with you. Chuckle. Actually I don't know about you guys, but to be frank, IMHO, the most impossible kind of cards to get is still Tian Hu. Talk about being lucky! There have been many hands I've seen where the player is ALMOST there, but I've never actually seen anyone open up the cards, gasp in shock and tian hu. The rest, I've seen at least once or played with people who have successfully done it.

My turn - Jan and I are the proud parents to two furkids, both schnauzers - Our first is Pepper, a white schnauzer. birthday: 14/02/05 Male. Naughty and jumpy, but so so handsome. Our second is Lucky, a black schnauzer. birthday: 28/11/05 Female. The most obediant dog I've ever come across in my life.

actually this is a really valid qn... i'm wondering this too.... did the cost rise so much becoz nice lights were purchased or should i approportion 2K for the lights?

yeah... feel bad for my fiancee who's shouldering the cost bravely....

I heartily agree. Fuwell is pretty affordable and friendly. there's this other shop I would recommend as well. got my office PCs from them previously and was so pleased with their service and price that i went back and got my home PC too. Let me go dig out my old invoice to check the name of the store... nvr mind. my fiancee and i are going to sim lim soon. i'll get the name of the shop and then post here. Their service really is top notch, esp this plump ah beng guy in there. He was so friendly that when I brought my cpu down for them to help me install and test the new graphic card that i bought from them, not only did he spend another hour helping me to connect my frontal USB ports (when I got this pc DIYed earlier, the kuku who did it didn't connect my frontal USB ports which was why i could never use them) without me asking, he even whipped out a toothbrush to clear away the dust that got trapped inside the cpu. FOC. but my fiancee and i were stuck standing there for another 1 1/2 hours just watching him do these. I mean, when he's being so friendly, i felt paiseh also to tell him to stop.....

Oh no... you guys are going to think that I'm such a newbie kid... this is quite embarressing to admit but i don't know most of the answers to be frank. We've only met him once so far, and like i said, that first meeting took hours cause he was proposing to us what he had in mind and we were counter proposing what we were looking for. until my fiancee and i were so tired we didn't check some stuff like - 1)Warranty. I don't know how long sia... 2)Kitchen cabinets changed to solid surface top already. 3)Wardrobe to be honest, we're not that fussed. in fact, we were wondering if it might be better to just take it out of the package and buy our own coz when it comes to clothes, we don't have that many. Yet. 4)How many colours I also don't know. *ashamed* 5)Cost of tiles I also don't know.... *super ashamed* 6)Additional items to be fair to them, they didn't push anything in the first place. Jan and i were the ones who asked for certain extra things like the ceiling to floor frameless mirror on the feature wall and the wooden pillars to act as dividers... Other rooms not planning to do too much... especially not the guest room. but i'm gradually getting poisoned by this forum... am wondering if i can squeeze more out of whichever ID i get to make either the study room or the MBR a bit nicer....

Hi guys.... thinking of contacting Kelvin from GPlan to make an appt Could someone pls pm me his hp number? Cheers!

aiyo bro, please don't say that. You and all the other lao jiao forummers in here are taking time out to provide a xiao di like me with help.... i'm super grateful to all of you, esp pple like odie and sunboi well..... all 7 we didn't ask.... heh but i'm going down tmr evening to talk to G Plan to see if they can come up with a better quotation....

*Lost* Sorry bro, but your post left me going woah... Ok, we're super backwards coz we didn't even ask how much per tile and that sorta thing Blum system for kitchen cabinet is.......? Kitchen cabinet is top and bottom Electrician fitting? I THINK they said that they would recommend...

Yeah, I'm aware of that. But if I'm not wrong, most of the IDs also only provide the labour for installation right? We're still looking at several brands of hoods and hobs. My fiancee's credit card has a substantial discount on Meyer products, so that's definitely a brand we're interested in looking at. But kitchen stuff, I tend to leave to her. It's her domain. I'm not being sexist - she really loves cooking. In fact, she used to own her own cafe when she was still an undergrad. Water heater we're looking at getting those instant water heater types.... but also nothing confirmed yet. Still exploring the possibility and doing our sums on a nightly basis to see if we can squeeze certain things in.... heh. the woes of a homeowner without sufficient money.....

ok.... gd idea.... but how to test? sorry for being so troublesome. i'm very much a newbie in these matters

is he bad? a conman? share stories pls.......