Sunday, March 30, 2008
Lady luck was somehow was with me on that day.
I never had the habit of buying 4-Ds... I can actually count the number of times I bought lottery the previous times. Practically less than 10 times I would say...
On thurday evening, while waiting for Meow at Serangoon interchange after work, my itchy fingers decided to scratch something out of the 4D paper.
And for the first time, I won something. Not much, but better than nothing as it was only a consolation prize. It's a good start that my upcoming new home unit no. opened on Sat night.
Heehee..... Hope to have more to come... kekeke....
Salsaera Paradiz signing off lovingly 3/30/2008 11:38:00 PM
Friday, March 28, 2008
Can someone inject some fun and adventure in Singapore that is not so expensive... OMG...
All entertainment activities are increasing their prices.
Cathay cinemas have their movie tickets at $10.50 .... not too sure of the price but it over 10bucks!!
Golden village.... damn them!!! They have raised the tickets to $8.50 on weekdays and up to $10 for weekends and now there is no further discount for HSBC Credit cards and even safra card members can only use them on Friday after 5pm. WTF!!!
Everything is getting just way too expensive la!!!
My life is getting really mundane.... hmmm....
I wanna go overseas!!!
1. HONG KONG
2. States
3. Thailand
4. UK
Hmmm....
Oh oh!! I wanna go Langkawi... the beaches are so beautiful!!!
Ok... no more day-dreaming... I shall start with my stupid photocopying of documents for at least 2hrs now. -_-'''''
Salsaera Paradiz signing off lovingly 3/28/2008 10:14:00 AM
Monday, March 24, 2008
Long weekends are always great!! But when it comes to Sunday night.... the 'don't wish to go office' mood is switched on once again without fail.
Good Friday was a day I would say that it was quite well spent.
Steamboat dinner organized at Meow's home.
Thanks to Ah Siao and Ash for their help. Or else I guess I would be dead tired with all the preparations. Lol...
Woke up 'late', about 930am and had to rush to do marketing at the Serangoon interchange area. With Siao and Ash waiting for us there as well.
Bought loads of stuff...
One whole big plastic bag of vegetables and mushrooms and tofu worth only $15.
One whole chicken for boiling of stock and chicken thigh for only $6.70.
One pack of pork slices for $2.
Loads of fishballs, quail eggs and other yong tou foo items for only $16.70.
Then we headed home and start cleaning up the chicken, marinating the meat and cutting up all the veggies. And starting boiling the steamboat stock base with the whole chicken with garlic-s and ikan bilis. *Slurp*
Then we head headed to Compass Point for our lunch at Sakae Sushi and next, Cold Storage.
Got more food.
Shabu Shabu pork slices, Sukiyaki beef slices and fishy fishy... lol...
Corns and bottled drinks AND!!
Not forgetting, 'Ben & Jerry' ICE-CREAM!!
Eveything added up to more than $80 buck man!!! *Faintz~!*
Back home again.... transferred the 1st round of stock to another pot and added the rest of the carrots, tomatos and white cabbage stems and bring it to simmer again. *Wootz* Sweetness~~!!
Next was awaiting for the arrival of the 'red-legged' prawns which my biker friend promised.... Waited till like 6+pm till I was almost so disappointed... But he finally made it!!!
So here are the pictures!!
Look at the huge prawns!! Almost the size of Ash's palms:-
'Red-legged' prawns lining up:-
Tada~~~!!! The whole feast me and Ash prepared for almost the whole morning and afternoon:-
Preparation is more tiring than cooking man...
Now I still have leftover food in the fridge... But had eating home-cooked food, prepare by myself.
Cooking is not that difficult... but need to experiment, experiment, experiment!!
Sunday
And invited Winnie and ZW over for lunch.
And it was 'thumps-up' for my sesame chicken with potato. Keke.... Nice one lor.... keke...
Too bad got no picture of it.
After then, we headed to Winnie's new home which she only just received the keys.
IT'S SO SMALL!!! Everything is so not spacious... lol... Can't even put much things man!!
We then headed to Hougang 'Goh Ah Bee', to find the electrical appliances store to be closed. So we went down to Katong 'Mega discount store' & 'Casa Italy'... OMG!!!
All the appliances and furniture needed in future would be more than $15k... Ahhh!!!
Renovation... haiz.... more than $25k....
MUST SAVE SAVE SAVE!!!
Lastly!
My newly re-vamped laptop with a Mario theme surface done by Ah Siao as a trial and for practicing his hand-done engraving skills. It's gonna be a side line for him. If you find it nice and wanna do it, I can help you ask him.
'Thumps-up' I would say!!
Ok... that's about all...
GTG!! Tata!!
Salsaera Paradiz signing off lovingly 3/24/2008 10:37:00 AM
Monday, March 17, 2008
Why don't EMIRATES have SG based.... Sigh!!!
It's so tempting to able to be in Emirates!!
Salsaera Paradiz signing off lovingly 3/17/2008 11:35:00 AM
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I guess it's really time.... it's time for me to move my cheese... move to a greener pasture.
I guess by continuing to stay here will only make my boss think that I am of no value.
Had a long chat with my ex-colleague on msn. For my current company, to think of it, I do have loads of flexible timing to leave earlier for school or even to come in at 9am and either leave on the dot or slightly earlier. Which I don't really care. I also have quite a lot of annual leave and Medical leave... hmmm... that's really the '+' factor. Can surf net, chat on MSN, write blog, do homework... *go where to find this kind of job wor...* lol....
I am just way too much in my comfort zone that I am partially unwilling to leave.
But if I don't leave now, how would the market be in 2 yrs time? No one will really know about it.
Now the only way to increase my take home pay is to have a job hop as that's the only way to have a pay jump.
But the thing is.... AM I REALLY READY AND WILLING TO MOVE ON????
OR??
Should I wait till I am about to complete my studies then do the switch but that will be 1.5yrs later....
How about my dream... can I really fulfill it??
Salsaera Paradiz signing off lovingly 3/11/2008 11:20:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
That was the date we made ourselves as one of the unit owners of Compassvale Beacon at Seng Kang.
It was a rather last minute and hasty decision. But at least I still did my homework with all the various observations with relevant facts. Knowing where which directions as to where should the windows be facing.
1 month later upon submitting our balloting money to the HDB, we were given a very good queue number of 24. Due to the fact that Meow's parents are now the occupaniant of his brother's Seng Kang's unit which is very near to to our future upcoming house which is just opposite Rivervale Plaza.
We actually wanted to forgo this project as my mum's friend who is a housing agent commented that the area is not a good choice as it is congested. But just 1 day before the appointment date, and that is when Meow told me about it, we made a last minute decision to go down to the actual plot of land to take a look and explore the surrounding area.
To my surprise, it was not as bad as it was told. All the necessary amenities needed are all there. Serveral clinics, dental clinic, childcare centre, tuition centre, bread shop, 2 foodcourts, NTUC, wet market.... etc.... and also the ESSO petrol station just outside.
What's there to grumble about when there are all the amenities available.
We were acturally contemplating whether if we should take up a unit in Seng Kang or wait for a unit in Punggol... Seng Kang with all the necessary amenities or Punggol which will be of higher value in future.
We then decided to head down to Toa Payoh HDB hub to sign our housing forms... and to notice that we did not prepare a lot of things. Lol... considering that it was so last-minute. But it was not that bad after all.... Now I have my $2000 cash with them to 'look-after' till we make our 1st down-pymt through CPF.
View of the plot of land:-
Rivervale Plaza:-
Model Estate Layout:-
Block 210B, #13-172:-
Internal future home Layout (with a bigger MBR):-
In 2012 or earlier, Me and Meow will be the house owner of Block 210B, unit #13-172. (^o^)
Need to improve my cooking skills since Meow's mum is not around to cook for us. I shall need to know more dishes and to be able to whip up a good meal of lunch or dinner.
Cooked dinner today and I think it should not be bad at all... since its edible... hahahaha....
It was really a coincidence. Me and Meow got our unit on a 'Leap Year'.
Zhi Wei proposed to Winnie on the same day as well but it was in a 'LIFT' ... lol...
But oh well... happy for them... (^o^)...
Having to think back.... It's really amazing how we walk through our life all these years. Ups and Downs there will be...
From a toddler who still feeds on milk....From playing with toys to entering nursery...
From Primary school to Secondary school...
Then as we get even older... from Polytechnic/Junior College to University...
To getting a house with a life-time partner...
To proposing...
Hmmm....
Till then... we are all old...
Hmmm......
Salsaera Paradiz signing off lovingly 3/03/2008 02:20:00 AM
