Tuesday, July 17, 2012

1950 American Diners Payphone

Finally it's here.

A few weeks ago, while at Centrepoint, Robinson looking out for iRobot Roomba, we came across this 1950 American Diner Payphone selling for $300+

It was love at first sight but it's a little too costly for us, considering that we seldom use the landline at home nowadays.

But considering that we have this feature column post at our new apartment, we thought it would enhance the living area.

So, as a veteran googler, i jumped into the world wide web, and dig on that.

Armed with only the brand of the phone, "Wild & Wolf", I founded 3 sources.

2 from overseas site while another from Kris Store.

However Kris Store only allows purchase for people departing Singapore (crazy rule here) while one of the overseas site doesn't ship to Singapore.

Thank goodness, the last source does shipped internationally. And not juz that, they are way cheaper then buying it at Robinson or Kris Store. The difference is like almost $100+ more.

Side track a bit, retailer ought to wake up their idea about these crazy mark up of the prices. Especially when Internet is the way to go, if you know where to look.

Anyway, not only our last source are selling much more cheaper, but we got it like 3 days after paying and their customer service beats Singapore's hands down (just had one miserable encounter during the weekends when a service provider threaten to seek legal action against me, after I commented about their less then average services)

Anyway, behold the most expensive deco which I might have at the new place.











Monday, July 16, 2012

1st Appointment to Sell

Finally after a long wait, today we are at HDB Hub for our first appointment to sell our current place.

It's pretty fast. Got everything done within 30 mins.

So now for a little breakfast before heading back to office.




Sunday, July 15, 2012

1st site visit with ID Firm

Today was the 1st site visit with our ID firm to access any issues with the house prior to renovation.

Also bought my parents along for this.

Basically there wasn't pretty much issues there, except for the HUGE pipes in the bathroom.

Well, as we intend to have a bathtub or some sort, in an orientation which we had fixed, these huge plumbing pipes seemed to be in the way no matter how we look at it.

This is specially highlighted to us by Sam, our ID firm representative from 3D Innovations.

So next weekends, we are scheduled for some tiles shopping with Sam, plus maybe shopping for a tub suitable for our bathroom.

Oh, took this picture showing the Views from our MBR.

Nothing pretty but at least we have some distance from the opposite block.





Thursday, July 12, 2012

Up up we go

Yup it's getting stack higher and higher.

Still, we are still talking about the tip of the ice berg here.





Too much clothes

Ok, I know that this is some sort of a "first world" problem but yes, we have too much clothes.

Considering that we wouldn't be having any full height wardrobe at the new place, this might be an issue.

So I suggested to my wife about vacuum packing those winter clothing plus those which are too dear to be thrown away, to reduce the space required to store them.

Oh not to mention the blankets and bed sheets as well.

Anyway it seemed to be doing quite well and it might just work.











Too many things

Ok, I am gonna confessed that I am not doing a lot to help in packing for the new place.

My wife had been doing most of the hauling here.

Anyway, realize that we really have plenty of stuff here.

Despite wife clearing and throwing a lot of them out, we still have plenty, accumulated over the past 10 years living here.

Now I just hope that my design would accommodate all that is left and essential.

P.S. we still have open the pandora box (the storeroom)





Monday, July 9, 2012

Expensive Decorations

In the era of mobile phones, I can say that the landline phones are losing its popularity around the developed world.

That is why our decision on this purchase, is a excessive one, making this one of the our new house most expensive decorative item.

The classic Wild & Wolf 1950 Diners Payphone



And guess what? It's reaching us by end of this week. Awesome.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Time to slowly start packing

Ya, many might say packing 2 months in advance is an overkill.

But we really had tons of stuff.

So after scouring through Renotalk, we finally found out mover.

Elite Mover was chosen due to the good reviews in Renotalk by home owners who had previously used them.

Though they might not be the cheapest, but as long as they are not the most expensive in town and they can provide a good service, why not?

Afterall, with so much things on our list now, getting into too much hassle with service issues, are the last thing we hope to get.

Oh, we were given a total of 70 boxes based on Elite Movers' estimation.

And we really need start early, considering we have to stop whenever Ashley said so.





Drawing Principles

"Some people starts drawing by simple geometrical shapes like Circle, Square, etc before adding in the details to form the shape. But there will also be a handful who prefer to jump in direct, skipping the basic ground work. No right and wrong though"

- Just Saying 

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Dinning & Chairs for the Studies

Our intention to use Laminate for the whole house, including kitchen, had brought us to a big decision.

1- To use normal laminate and risk water damage in the Kitchen
2- To pay a premium to use HERF and enjoy a lifetime worry free flooring though out the entire house.

Ok, we pick "Worries Free" hence we have asked our ID firm to quote us Evorich Allure HERF.

But his quote didn't came out too "beautiful", so to let him understand that we are not just a pair of "blind" consumer, buying without thinking, we told him that we will be going direct to Evorich for a quote.

And we were glad that we did, as the price is unbelievable. So we past the information to our ID and hope that if he is interested, he will have to do something magical about it.

Since Evorich is at Tai Seng, we thought why not drop by Lush Lush for a peek.

Wow.. this trip to peek had made me poorer this weekend.

We have bought 4 EM Plastic Chairs for the dinning area, 2 EM Plastic Chairs with Arm Rest for the Studies and 2 Panton Chair for the Living Room.

Ouch.



Sunday, July 1, 2012

Boring Lightings to be avoided

Been through many blogs on their lightings and even did a little of googling around.

One word, "Boring".

More of less, what I am seeing a a combination of down lights and clove lights, making everyone's house almost identical.

So the search is on for interesting lighting ideas.

We can't be using too much hanging lights, as we have intention to put up ceiling fans at areas where people will gather. We need to avoid the "Hellish Flickering Light" cause by the ceiling fan syndrome.

Also, as I have the fear of height, the lights chosen eventually, shouldn't need me to meddle around too much just to change a bulb or tube.

But yesterday while on an outing, I saw this lighting while waiting for my wife outside the ladies, and I thought, wow.. this is interesting.