New fridge.. and patok surround Farrer Park

Kekekeke.... weird title, isn't it? Well, our house's fridge was spoilt since 2 days ago. The freezer's part can't freeze. Just cold. My hubby was little bit headache with the situation and invited 2 so called 'fridge technician' to come over our house and analyze the situation, which I prefer to call them 'cheater'. My hubby just picked any number from the newspaper and called them up. Both of them delayed the time for few hours then finally came. Funny thing was.. they both came empty handed and both wasn't sure if they can solve the problem. They both suggested if we can try to fill the gas but they don't have any equipment with them. And also.. one of them suggest if we want to have second hand one. He said he can find one for us which cost about 150 bucks. Errr... no thanks. I suggested my hubby that he can do part time job like that too.. Just put advertisement in newspaper as ur cost, then if someone called, what you need to do is just go over their place, talk non-sense thing here and there, and tell them that you are not sure if u can solve their problem. And suggest them too to fill the gas.. but tell them also that u don't have the equipment. Conclusion? U got 10 dollar each time u go to people's house. Easy job rite??? Now u know why I told you earlier.. that I guess they more look like 'cheater' rather than a 'technician'. Don't you agree??

So yesterday, after fed up with no solution but already forked up 20 dollar for nothing, my hubby so kanciong went out to Ang Mo Kio to see the fridge at NTUC and Courts. I told him, we may meet at Dobhy Ghout once I finished working then we can look for it at Carrefour and Best Denki. But since when I finished working, he has finished browsing around and found nothing, then we both proceed to Mustafa Centre taking the MRT to Farrer Park.

It was our first time going there by MRT. Usually we took the van there. But since Mustafa is a well-known place to shop, it is not difficult at all to find it. After reached the MRT, we just follow the direction to the nearby exit and walked about 5 minutes. We straightly went in and looked for the fridge. What I like about shopping there is.. there are lots of choices there. Any brand, any model, and of course, cheaper price that what u pay outside. We can compare the products easily. All is there. Rather than go to one shop and see one product and lesser type, Mustafa has offered us with what we want. We managed to pick our choices, narrowed it down into two, either Samsung or Sharp. Quality wise, I dunno which one is better, but I guess, brand wise, Sharp is better. Almost the same price, 560 and 575, with slightly different size.. we then chose the Samsung one. It is bigger (more spacious inside), cheaper ($560), but only 1 year guarantee (Sharp has 3 year guarantee), and Sharp consumes less electricity (annual consumption of 543 instead of 611). Anyway... considering that we have quite lots of people at home and my mother in law won't go to market everyday (maybe twice per week), then we buy a bigger one lor. Well.. done. Problem solved.. at least for now. We paid $25 for delivery charges and now the fridge is in our home.

We cleaned the place first before putting the new new one. We also transfer and select the food from old fridge to new one. Tried to ask few karang guni whether they want to buy.. but nobody is interested in it. Haiz... Perhaps we will just put it downstairs till someone came and picked it up. Otherwise.. I have no idea..
Continue.. after settle our fridge, we had our dinner at nearby Indian food stall.

Both of us ate roti prata and teh ice. The curry was nice. We ate there before.. about two years plus ago.. so it brought us back some memories.. That time we were there to buy the Samsung TV. And now we bought Samsung fridge. Just think.. what to buy next with another Samsung brand. And I told my hubby, perhaps washing machine would be the next one. Hahahaa.... The washing machine at home is quite old already leh... He said.. they use it for 15 over years.. Believe it or not? Hahaha...

Then after makan, we went in again and looked around. We bought something. Then he said he wanted to eat the curry rice at Kitchener Road. We also used to buy the curry rice during our patok time. So we walked there and bought a plate and share it *we were quite full w/ our prata. But I felt very romantic lor.. holding our hands and walking around the area.. and sharing our food.. Hahaha... Well.. just love the moments. We went back by bus and reached home safely.

Today I just cut my hair at nearby our house. Very cheap.. only $7.60 for wash, cut and blow. Baobei cut his hair for only $3.80. Not bad la.. I trimmed my messy hair. And now I'm going to Bishan to have my facial. Gotta go now... hehehe.. have a great weekend everyone... Muach..

Happy Father's Day

Today is the father's day in Singapore. After woke up at 9am, I prepared breakfast for my dear hubby and son. Hehehehe... it's a special day mah... I fried bacon, sausages, eggs, and took out orange juice and yoghurt from the fridge, and took out the cereal as well. It was enough to make 4 portions. 3 for 3 of us and the rest for others to share.. I didn't have enough for all la.. hehehehe.. sorry ya... My hubby was very happy lor.. too bad it's only once a year. Hahaha.. better than nothing ma... Forgot to take a picture..
After that we went out and had a walk in Suntec. Wah, so many people sia... There is PC show there. Very crowded la... We only went in for a while, then had our lunch at food court before had a walk and went back home. The weather was quite hot in the afternoon so it's better to hide ourselves inside the room and turned on the air-con/fan for a while before we headed to pasar malam at Hougang Mall. We bought pisang goreng and some snacks, then went to library for a while, and had chicken rice before walked back home. Quite a tiring day.. Anyway... it was fun! ^^ Happy Father's Day once again Laogong!!! Muachh.....

Family Day

Hehehe... We joined the family day held for SMC's staffs in Bottle Tree Park somewhere near Yio Chu Kang. Flo emailed me last time about this and asked me whether I wanted to join in or not.. Since I long have never attended such an event, I agreed to her. My hubby was also able to attend the event since his boss has flown the day before.

So yesterday we took the bus from SMC together w/ Flo about 9am in the morning. We reached there before 10am and went in for registration. I met lots of ex-colleagues there, including my ex-boss.. kekekeke... Hm... seemed like not many people attended this event. From fin dept itself there were only few who came. The rest have their own reasons on why they don't join in.. which I found.. a little bit too bad lor...

My co doesn't have its own family day. We have one, but under 1 big group above us, which I found.. little bit too far to know other people closer. Anyway, I'm not joining them.. They will have one next month in Sentosa.

Back to the event... I met my ex-GM, and other EXCOs members. I also could see lots of new faces there. There were quite a bit change la... At 10 am, we had warming up session (doing chicken dance) led by the emcee, which then led others to have telematches, kids corner's, paintball competition, prawn fishing, longkang fishing, etc. My kid only joined in the kids corner where he made his first sand colouring assisted by his father. Hehehe... We didn't participate much this time 'cos I knew that I wasn't the staff anymore and I gave others chances to join the games. It's better this way too 'cos I would have more freedom to see or do things whatever I want. I saw how my friends catching the prawns.. hm.. quite interesting but I myself would not do so.. as it would kill or hurt the fragile prawn. I had a 20-minute massage for only $6, not bad la... and we watched the other game for a while before we decided to leave the place. The weather was quite humid there and we were quite sticky too w/ our bodies..

We went to AMK Hub and had our late lunch there before went back home. I slept for few hours before we had our dinner and shopped little bit at NTUC for breakfast this morning. Well.. overall I am quite happy w/ the chance given to us to join the family day.. and so happy too to meet my friend, H, who passed me lots of doraemon magnets to me... Thanks H!!! It's almost created another one set.. but too bad, I don't have the shield... I tried to find in any 7-11 shop but they are out of stock. Hiks.. hopefully can find it one day...

Well.. enjoy some photos taken there...

Days before exam

I took leave on Thur, Fri, next Mon and Tue. My exam is coming next Tue, which is probably my last exam ba! I stayed in my bro's house since Thur and I just came back home this evening. I arrived in afternoon and tried to adapt to study there.. but I just couldn't stay long. Hahaha... maybe it's the mentality.. 'cos when you are at home, you tend to do this or that, rather than sit still in front of ur book. In evening time, I just smsed my hubby and asked him to accompany me by staying there w/ me. In order to support me, he agreed. Hehehe... thanks Laogong! He reached Bishan at 8pm. We met and had dinner together. We shared a bowl of rice, pig organ soup, and pig trotter. The stall is still quite new, about 2 weeks ba! The soup was nice, but the trotter was so so. We then walked around the area. There was pasar malam then we went to Junction 8, as if we were on holiday. Hahahaha... My hubby bought some snacks before went back and managed to buy one Doraemon thing for me... Hehehe... *See how my son wore it at the first time... dumb dumb... hahahaha......

Friday morning, we had our breakfast at S-11. I then proceeded to library while my laogong went back home. I sat in Galileo, the restaurant/cafe inside the library. I had my cup of coffee latte there and started to study. I had my lunch there too after smelling the fragrant smell of neighbour's fish and chips. I ordered the same one. Quite nice and big for only $7.50. Hehehe....
My hubby and son came over at about 4pm. They were going to watch Kungfu Panda in J8's Cinema. It's the first day of the film. Reever was very happy and looking forward to watch it since few weeks ago. Finally he did! While I had to continue studying.. hiks... I stopped studying at 6pm and went back to the room to put my stuffs, then met them for dinner. This time, we had chicken rice at Kim San Leng food court, my hubby's favourite for chicken rice. He had to queue for a while before he managed to get it. Again, after dinner, we walked around as if we were in holiday.. Hahaha... They went back home at 9.30pm. This time, I went back to the room alone.. Hiks.. so lonely..
This morning, again, woke up at 9am, had my breakfast at S-11, then studying again in the library. Had lunch there, and finished up at 6pm as I felt tired... And this time I went back home. I decided to stay back at home and will study again tomorrow in airport. Hehehe....
Haiz.. it's very hard la to study for exam. Actually I like to study, but I hate exam le... But choosing this paper, I have no choice but to go for exam. That's why I decided to make this as my last exam... It's only half way.. still another half to go.. but I don't think I can make it la.. Hiks... Oklah.. write 'til here. Hope u enjoy reading my blog. Hehehe.. Byeeeee

04/06/08 ~ Nice number ~ Our 6th Wedding Anniversary

Hehehehe... very nice date ya for this year...
We celebrated our 6th Anniversary by having dinner at Jack Place's Restaurant in Ang Mo Kio. Usually we went there to celebrate w/ the exception of last year, where we had our dinner at Cafe Swiss. And this time, it's not only the two of us... We brought Reever along to our dinner... Hehehehe....

Three of us met at Ang Mo Kio MRT and walked down to the place. Hm... it supposed to be a memorable dinner.. yet.. we really had one.. although didn't mean good one.. hahahaha... and it's spoilt by the waiters - who can barely understand English. One guy took our order and he messed up quite lots of things. I actually ordered Mixed Grill for my hubby - his favourite dish there, Chicken & Mushroom spaghetti & Chicken Cordon Bleu for me - what a greedy wife... hahahaha... - Kid's meal, Chicken & Fries, for Reever, and Chef Salad for all of us. I also asked for 1 warm water and 2 cold water. And what served us were... first.. a lady brought us 2 warm water and 1 cold water. When I told her that I actually wanted 2 cold water instead of 2 warm water, she was smiling and still serving us the 2 warm water - I assumed she didn't understand what I said in English. Only after I told her in Chinese, then she understood and she took back the warm water and brought another cold water for us. Then our food came. The salad and kids meal were perfect, and so does my Cordon Bleu. But we felt something amiss when the guy brought us the Seafood spaghetti (instead of Chicken & Mushroom), and my Cordon Bleu together. There was no sign that the Mixed Grill was coming or on the way. I thought, they deliberately arranged that so that we could slowly enjoy our two dishes first. And when he brought the wrong spaghetti, well.. I thought.. it doesn't matter.. Anyway, I also can eat it.. So I didn't say anything to him. Just when I almost finished the food in my plates, the guy came to us and he wanted to clear my hubby's cutleries. I was looking at my hubby and he was looking at me too... I told him right away.. "Excuse me, our mixed grill has not come yet." He smiled very fast in respond to my word and say sorry about it. He also said that he would replace the cutleries w/ the clean one soon. He went in to check into our order too 'cause when he came back, he brought his menu pad and asked us once again.. "Excuse me, which grilled do you want? Chicken grill? Or beef grill?" Haiz... I knew it! I knew that the guy didn't note down the mixed grill that I ordered. So I told him in Chinese that we actually have ordered it at the first place, even the first thing that I ordered. And I also told him about the wrong spaghetti that he brought to us. He realized that he has made mistakes. He kept apologizing for what he has done and looked very worried too if we were going to complain to his manager or make a scene there which would make his boss know about his bad service. I also had nothing to say already. Lucky my hubby has eaten quite lots of spaghetti and salad before that and he decided not to order his mixed grill - again, which is his favourite dish. Not long after that, the guy came to us and brought a glass of orange juice as a compliment to my hubby and apologized once again. Haiz... lucky we were in good mood.. otherwise we could have complained it to the Manager. Some more it was our special day, not just a normal dining out. We just finished up and paid the bill and got out from the place.

It was in newspaper recently about the front-line staff who can barely understand even a simple English. Now I encountered it myself. If you notice, there were less Singaporean now working in service line. If you visit shops like Bossini, Hang Ten, you can find more people from Phillipine working there. And If you notice the food court in some shopping malls, you can find lots of them are from China. I just wonder, how my brother and his family will be shocked on how much different Singapore is only in less than 2 years. Not just changing in Singapore population, but also changing in price. Anyway... that's life!

Lagu Buddhist

Hari ini seharian gw ke airport lagi.. blajar dari jam 1 sampe jam 9.30pm kali ye.. tentu ada break nya la.. tangan gue dah pegelnya minta ampun nulis mulu dari tadi.. hiks...
Trus sambil bikin latihan, gua sambil denger lagu di hp.. soalnya berisik lah di sekitar gue.. trus denger lagu itu2 mulu, jadi boseeennn banget.. makanya sekarang dah pulang rumah, langsung deh online.. mo cari2 lagu gitu loh... sapa tau ada lagu ok.. eh sial.. malah ke d/l virus.. untung cepet ketawan en langsung di delete ama anti virus.. moga2 beneran ilang deh...
trus keinget, mo cari lagu buddhist.. sapa tau ada yang bisa di d/l online.. ternyata ga banyak tuh... Sempet ketemu satu lagu.. lagunya tenangin banget, bisa di d/l lagi, tapi bahasa pali deh kayanya.. ga ngerti.. trus cari2 lagi.. tau ga ketemu apa?? Ada CD 10 tembang lagu terbaik lomba cipta lagu Buddhis taon 1994 booo... en ada lagu2 yang dulu tuh bener2 ngetrend.. cuman sayang sih ga bisa di d/l, jadi kalo mo denger, kudu ke webnya.. yah.. ga papalah.. daripada ga ada sama sekali.. ini gua taro sini linknya... ada liriknya pula... jadi bisa sambil2 nyanyi.. padahal dah mo jam 1 pagi lohhh.. hehehehe... ah yang laen juga pada belon tidur di luar, masih pada nonton tv, so.. cuek aja dah...
Ini linknya: http://www.buddhistdoor.com/Media/ciptalagu_Buddhis.html
Lagu yang gua suka diantaranya adalah Gita kathina, Sujud Kepada Sang Buddha, inget ga si Sekat yang nyanyiin tuh.. btw, dia dah ganti nama ya.. apa ya? lupa euy gua.. hahaha.. Sangha, Waisaka Suci.. de el el.. wah.. pokoknya.. nostalgia banget deh.. btw, sejak di sini, dah ga pernah ke vihara lagi tuh buat baca paritta, denger ceramah, de el el.. tadi pagi ke Kwan Im temple sih sembahyang, tapi kan beda.. dulu kalo ke vihara bisa berjem2.. seharian ampe malam.. hahahahha.... padahal sih kebaktiannya cuman 3 jaman.. tapi abis itu centil aja ikutan vokal group.. trus buntut2nya nonton, jalan etc.. hihihihi... Yah.. moga2 sempet lepas kangen juga deh buat yang dengerin.. Sabbe Satta Bhavantu Sukhitatta Semoga Semua Makhluk Hidup Berbahagia Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu...