Feng Shui

A brief post-dated entry...

Last sat.. the feng shui master came to our new flat to give us some feng shui guidance.

According to him the following are his readings:

1. The flat is quite ok not much 'xiong' areas, but only the dining area is quite dim
2. The kitchen is a good area which shows that most likely we will have 70% baby boy, 30% baby girl
3. Kitchen cabinets has to be in brown colour and 'L' Shaped.
4. All walls to be painted with light yellow or beige colour.
5. Etc.. List too long

Overall, both of us suits brown, yellow & white colour.. This applies to whatever items, clothes, etc. So i think Andy gotta revamp his wardrobe coz all his clothes are in BLACK!! Haha

We need to buy some 'ji xiang wu' to place at some areas to boast our luck. Luckily not very expensive..

The whole session took abt 3hrs and the feng shui master earns $500++ from us.. Seems like they are earning big bucks huh..Somemore that is after discount cos he is a distance relative.. On the whole, we are happy with his service and his readings are quite accurate for us..

** A little tipped off from the feng shui master whom dont know Andy at all**
Andy is ego, 'da nan ren', 'guan jia gong', a person who can lead but muz control his temper. If i were to quarrel with him, i am gonna lose.. so its best to agree with him.. *sweat* what is this.. but i gotta agree with him.. 99.99% accuracy!!

Formula 1

The F1 Fever-World's First Night Race..

Andy lovesss racing.. So how can he or rather we miss such event!

Location: Grandstand, Turn 1

Andy's Fav won!! F. Alonso!!

2 cents worth

Went for tiles selection with the ID yesterday at Hafary. It was so packed with ppl and they do have quite a wide range of tiles..

The ID started introducing the tiles and saying that for our package we could select tiles up to $2.70/pc. Anything above that we needa top up the difference..*walking ard to check the prices* and we are like WHAT! All the tiles available are above $2.70 except 2 tiles. So what does that means? "The hidden cost".. again.. Gosh.. but of course we know.. thats how the ID earns their commissions..

End of the day we choose a $3/pc tile and we gotta top up another $170.. luckily not much..give and take abit lah.. ppl also earning a living mah..

After that we went for lunch and headed to a lighting shop that the ID recommended to take alook..

Over there we have bigger findings.. their lightings are damn expensive.. while we are looking at a squarish downlight.. the sales person told us its $30/pc.. then a grp of family came over with another sales person to look at the similar downlight and the sales person told that family it cost $35/pc.. SEE! That's how they chop ppl like carrot.. so the next time if u going to buy any lightings pls look for shops w price tag coz this shop dont.. We are definitely not going back there.

So today i visited some webbies to do research.. managed to find some lighting shops under RENOTALK & SINGAPOREBRIDES Forum.. these forums provide very good feedbacks..For those who are really tight with budget and want to employ ID its best to do lots of homework coz there are definitely some hidden and markup cost by ID..

*Back to yesterday*

We went to courts to look at mattresses..The sales person who served us says that the material of all mattresses are brought from the same company. The only difference is how the mattresses are maufactured.. Its best to buy mattresses with individual spring so that the springs will be compressed based on body posture.

After lying and sitting on almost all the mattresses we set our eyes on Slientnight Monique Mattress. The best way to know which mattress is the best is to lie on it and once it give u a comfy feeling, that's the one! Plus.. for this mattress, u wouldnt even feel any movement fr ur partner..

What's more its definitely the best buy..cos this mattress usual price is $2169 and now courts is having a Hari raya sales and it is selling at $1269 and FOC 2 kingkoil pillows + mattress protector..

Unbelieveable!!!

Here's a brief intro for those have nv come across the brand-Slientnight.

Same co. as kingkoil. Its the biggest UK's maufacturer for beds and mattresses with 60 yrs of experience in the industry

The Hippo and Duck characters, created to demonstrate the unique 'no roll-together' properties of a Silentnight bed

Open Sesame

Open sesame with the magical keys..

We heeded our feng shui master advice and guidance and open the door of our flat last sat, 13th Sept 2008, 9-11am........

We brought along:
A bag of mixture of rice, tea leaves, salt
2 pineapples
8nos of oranges
1 bunch of banana

We enter the door with the left leg in first and say 'fa', place all the fruits in the middle of the living/dining room, open all windows and start to throw the bag of mixture to all corners of the flat. Begin with the master bedroom.

Then we begin to check for defects. There are some hollow tiles, crack lourves, etc to be rectify. Apart from that there are no major issues.

Thereafter, we left for lunch, leaving 1 pineapple there to allow it to 'fa'.. HUAT ah!!!

The Keys

We got our keys!!!

Went to HDB this morning for the signing of agreement and collection of house keys at 8am.. So Tired.. But the tired-ness didnt dampen our happy-ness.. Ah finally.. what a coincidence that HDB actually arrange for the collection of keys right after the next day of our ROM.

7 sets of 3nos of keys... Even comes in a nice pouch..

ROM Day + Birthday

Woke up at 7am today.. Trying to do all the last min preparation. Paint my nails, shave my leg hairs coz wear dress today mah. ha..ok getting too personal..

BTW today is also my birthday.. Mama made me mee suay w meatballs & abalone..

ROM at 325pm, so abt 1pm I reached Whitelink for make up and hair do while Andy do his hair at Ben's place. Andy came to pick me up late at Whitelink and thus we reached 10mins late at ROM.. To worsen the whole matter, he forgotten to bring his IC. We need the IC to register. Luckily, he managed to get his friend to send us the IC in 10mins and ROM had a grace period of 30mins.

The solemnization takes less than 2mins.. so fast.. while we took hrs for preparations..

We kept the ROM simple within our family members. Didnt invite friends coz its on a weekday. Didnt want them to take the trouble to apply leaves..

The day ended with a dinner at Orchid Country Club...

Here are the photos not much scenary lah huh.

Thanks for all the well wishes!!

Bachelorette Bash

Tml is the ROM day!!

Current feeling now ~ Anxious.. haha..

And today i am having bachelorette bash organised by my sweet colleagues..

Creative Sally even did an invitation. Nice Right!

Handicraft Ellen whom is best at tatt-ing skipped her lunch to made me this (so touched).

We headed straight to Furama for dinner from office.. And who knows.. got free makan still got free gift and poem..

Here's the peom read as:

Congratulations,

Andy and Cassandra for the unification

September Nine 2008,

Soon to be a more important date.

Adrenaline will rush through your veins,

No one can stop the love that reins,

Dad will look you in vain,

Releasing you to another man, hopefully a saint.

Andy will smile as he looks at you,

Adoring & feeling so lucky that he has you.

Note today will be your last day,

Do have fun on the final Bachelorette day.

A million best wishes for you,

Naughty gift accompanied with this too.

Dear Cassandra, happy birthday and wedding yah...

Yours truly-Sallyna,Cat,Daphenie,Daphne,Fiona,Ee Fong, Dot and Bee of Surbana

~ The dinner ended with laughter and tears from Daphenie!! ~

3mths in Surbana may seems to be insignificant.. There are times we 'suan' one another.. There are even more times that we support and help one another in work and life..

I am not expressive and good at words.

Deep down inside of me..I muz say what wonderful and great colleagues i had.. they took their time off from work, looking after their kids, bear with the hunger till 8pm to have a celebration with me.. I am totally touched!!(Am tearing while blogging this and after reading the poem the 2nd time)

THANKS LADIES!

BBQ

Had a BBQ at my place yesterday.. Intention = Gathering with my close friends for my birthday + before my ROM.. and yes.. 2more days to go to end my singlehood.. Thanks guys for coming down (u know who u r) and the presents..

Last but not the least, of course something from my Baby...Thanks for playing the chief at the BBQ.. U did a great job..

5 Days More

5 days more to ROM...Today, we are on leave to do some preparation for ROM..

Reached ROM abt 9plus.. was totally packed with couples.. old and young.. Some came to verify documents like us while others came to 'som pa'... We got a slight arguement there coz i put 2 $0.50 parking coupon instead of 1 $1 coupon.. then kena scolding.. crazy andy.. so 'im chim'.. sometimes i really wonder how i going to face and deal his stupid 'im chim-ness' for the rest of my life.. so Mr Yee if u r readg this.. pls improve on that or we will have a hard time quarrelling over these stupid things again.. o_o

After verification, we headed town for long john sliver breakfast.. yummy yummy i muz say.. especially the 'Big Fish' meal.. thumbs up.. Currently, they are promoting their $3 meal which comprises a cup of orange juice and half sandwich of its usual meal..hmm seems like LJS shld give me some commission for promoting for them.. hee.

We hit the stores to buy my ROM heels after breakfast.. Went to Robinsons(centrepoint)->John Little -> Metro(paragon). Finally set my eyes on these pairs of shoes at metro, cost me $100plus after a 10% discount.

About noon, we reached whitelink to try the ROM gown and jacket.. Hmm.. after going to ROM this morning we realised that we might be over dressed if we were to wear what was provided by the bridal studio. How? Cham?

Interested to know what we will be wearing for ROM? Stay tune for the post on ROM day!!