Officially, the IMF is over today and my reservist duty for the IMF period ends yesterday. It had been a hectic 1 and a half week or so with little rest plus me getting our new house this Monday. But hey, here's some quirky things that I've encountered
1) I've been brainwashed by TV Mobile!!!! Imagine having to sit in a bus escorting delegates with the notorious TV Mobile screening unnecessary stuff eg "Planet's Funniest Animals", "Singapore Idol", trailers of Little Man (urgh) and John Tucker Must Die, etc... Funny thing I noticed is that the foreign delegates were just simply bochap with our new bus technology...
2) Referring to above, I happened to watched an episode of a current Arts scene related program called "Front" on TV Mobile hosted by Eunice Olsen, Kumar and Debbie Wong. There was this segment on the Singapore Biennale 2006 . More specifically, the program has a puppet segment called "Arty Farty" and in that episode, Arty and Farty critised the spate of the mascots of the Singapore Biennale, "Mocmoc and Mermer"... Hmmm wonder who came up with such stupid names and stupid designs which looked like the Teletubbies hah. Anyway, here's an image of those mascots in this blog. Now look closely at the middle of Mermer... and what do you see? Heheh....
3) The notoriously long bus rides which the lengthens a short trip from their hotel to Suntec City made a female delegate from France blew her top. Apparently they were quite late for the meetings but yet the route that the bus was supposed to go is SO long that they insisted to be taken to Suntec City ASAP!!! They said that they don't want to go for sightseeing and just wanted to go there to work pronto... So planners of the IMF for SG please take note of this when doing such plannings...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
After the HDB second appointment... finally the house is ours...
The wait for our new flat was finally over last Monday. Despite of my busy IMF schedule, we managed to get the keys to our flat from the owners. I almost blew my top when our agent Adi, told us that not all of the listed previous tenants of our flat could come to HDB Hub for the appointment! Apparently one of them just got discharged from hospital that day and prefarably all of them don't want to come down for the appointment! Adi informed me that I might have to come down again on another day for the completion of the HDB legal process. Urgh.. These people caused me plenty of inconvenience ever since we signed the option to purchase agreement. Also Adi said that their agent did not control them well. We had waited for them for around three months until they managed to secure a deal for their new flat.Then came the 8 weeks wait for the second appointment date... Macam macam dugaan sey!!! Luckily for us, neither of us need to come back to sign any papers.
Then came the second flat inspection later in the evening. It seemed that the family did not take good care of their flat. The walls are full of scribblings by the children, kitchen sink has leftover food at the water outlet (yikes!!), place not cleaned up properly and just today I found some cracks near the kitchen sink... I guess from this day onwards we are definitely going to renovate the toilets and perhaps the kitchen too. The living and dining area looks ok. *sigh* I thought I would not want to spend much on renovation works but it seemed otherwise now. Oh well...life begins on a new chapter for us. Hope that Iffah will be happy with us in our new home and can adjust well to soe new arrangements; like waking up in the morning and make our way to Atuk's place across the street before me and Lina make our way to work..
Then came the second flat inspection later in the evening. It seemed that the family did not take good care of their flat. The walls are full of scribblings by the children, kitchen sink has leftover food at the water outlet (yikes!!), place not cleaned up properly and just today I found some cracks near the kitchen sink... I guess from this day onwards we are definitely going to renovate the toilets and perhaps the kitchen too. The living and dining area looks ok. *sigh* I thought I would not want to spend much on renovation works but it seemed otherwise now. Oh well...life begins on a new chapter for us. Hope that Iffah will be happy with us in our new home and can adjust well to soe new arrangements; like waking up in the morning and make our way to Atuk's place across the street before me and Lina make our way to work..
Monday, September 11, 2006
Our new house...what's it like now
Geesh.. it's been a pretty long wait for our new house. And finally the waiting period will be just one week and from 18th September onwards the flat in Blk 486 is ours. Some general info:
1) A 5 room improved (5I) apartment on the 3rd floor
3) Cost is less than $300K
3) Floor space is approximately 121 square metres (I really treasure big floor space apartments rather than having to squeeze into those 'new' flats in Sengkang or Punggol)
Now the question is, how far are we going to refurbish or renovate the apartment? Typical renovation packages nowadays would cost more than $20K and definitely you can get the look of your dream house with that kind of budget.
But I think we would do things slowly instead of renovating everything in one shot. Here's some images taken from the apartment 'inspection' that I went just now.
Here's the dining area facing the kitchen (those kids are the children of the current owner!)
Here's the view of the dining area facing the kitchen:
Lots of work need to be done. Painting, repairs, etc. But all that can be done slowly and most importantly both of us must love the finished product. So looks like any form of open-house can be done much later.. haha.. I hope that Iffah would adjust easily to our new home. Hopefully I can post some pictures of our house after we moved in and done some touchups. Till then...
1) A 5 room improved (5I) apartment on the 3rd floor
3) Cost is less than $300K
3) Floor space is approximately 121 square metres (I really treasure big floor space apartments rather than having to squeeze into those 'new' flats in Sengkang or Punggol)
Now the question is, how far are we going to refurbish or renovate the apartment? Typical renovation packages nowadays would cost more than $20K and definitely you can get the look of your dream house with that kind of budget.
But I think we would do things slowly instead of renovating everything in one shot. Here's some images taken from the apartment 'inspection' that I went just now.
Here's the dining area facing the kitchen (those kids are the children of the current owner!)
Here's the view of the dining area facing the kitchen:
Lots of work need to be done. Painting, repairs, etc. But all that can be done slowly and most importantly both of us must love the finished product. So looks like any form of open-house can be done much later.. haha.. I hope that Iffah would adjust easily to our new home. Hopefully I can post some pictures of our house after we moved in and done some touchups. Till then...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
