MELT, The World Cafe

Yohooo! We'll be going to MELT, The World Cafe at The Oriental Hotel again~~~!!!
Yes! Again! The first time was a memorial one, because that was when Hubby Kuo proposed to me. We had a great time munching on the breads, pastries, juices, egg omelette and lots lots more. Its a International Breakfast buffet in exact. By the way, its just 2 weeks ago that we first visited MELT. Hahahha~!

Anyway, it wont be costing us any *blink blink* which means cash lah :P
Well, because 2 weeks ago, Hubby Kuo booked a 3 days 2 nights stay at The Oriental Hotel, just for his propose plan and for our 3rd Anniversary celebration. The package includes complimentary breakfast but you see, my Hubby Kuo can be quite muddle headed at times, so he aint so sure about the breakfast thingy. Being someone who is very "Kaypo", I dialled the Operator during the 2nd night stay, to check with them about the Breakfast deal. According to the Operator, she said that we were only given a complimentary buffet breakfast for 2. Yes, she said that and I took it seriously. We skipped the breakfast!

However, like I mentioned, being someone who is very "Kaypo", I asked Hubby Kuo to re-checked his confirmed reservation details sent by The Oriental Hotel via email. Guessed what? The package actually includes 2 Complimentary Breakfast for 2 days! Damn that operator!
So, we actually wrote a feedback letter lor XD. The Oriental Hotel responded and apologised to us about this issue and we were given a free treat! Not really a free treat but our deserved buffet breakfast! Anyway, I am so so happy about it! Hubby Kuo and I planned to visit MELT this coming Saturday, which happens to be my Birthday! Yohoho!

Another good news to add on, HDB had approved our appeal for the 40K Grant!! Yay!
Thank goodness its been approved because 10K means alot~ Hurray for me and Hubby Kuo!!!

Click on the URL above as stated (MELT, The World Cafe) for review on this cafe

Wedding Banquet

Our first appointment date with HDB has been fixed! It will be on December 2nd, 2006.
Feeling kind of excited now because, 畢竟 it will be our first Property asset.
Months ago, we were still anxiously looking around for our desired unit. Had shortlisted quite a few but many were not within our budget, as in the cash amount that the sellers required were far too high. For instance, one of the seller wanted 12K of cash and many wanted an average of 10K, so "Bo pian" lor. Anyway, "Bo pian" means "no choice, what to do" in hokkien. Typical verse commonly used by singaporeans! Hahhaa~

Cannot understand right? Never mind, sometimes I talked so much that I also dont quite get it myself. Hahah~ Since flat issue had been loaded off our minds, we have to move on to our ROM preparations. So far, many of the ROM preparations are already more or less settled, like the mini gown and date. Venue, Make-up and hair styling professional, JP and also the shoes are not yet ready at the moment. Hopefully, we'll be able to get all of them done by end of November!

Now, we have to brain stormed about our Wedding Banquet. Many of the magazines advised couples to booked the venue one year in advanced but then, I guessed for both of us, since many of the preparations are still in process, thus we had to put the Banquet issue behind at the moment. However, now it seems that time is really running short, there is an urgent need for us to shortlist our venue before it gets fully booked.

So far, Hubby Kuo and I had shortlisted a few. For examples: Tung Lok, Dragon Phoenix, Novotel, Country clubs. Hopefully everything get settled before December. Anyone with packages information, please kindly forward to me okie!

A big thank you in advance! Arigato, 謝謝, Imakase!

Beat to the core

Today is a brand new Week for the school. In exact terms, its Week 8.
The moment I woke up this morning, I was so sleepy that I hope I could just squeeze back into my warm and cosy bed. There will be exams going on as usual. For my schedule, the first half of my day would be invigilating the Pri 5 students for their English Paper 2. Hopefully, they can do well because the class that I will be invigilating aint very good in their language. All the best to them and Gambate!

Anyway, having this slight headache now. Not really headache, I don't know how to describe it :S
I guessed its just tired. When you get too much sleep or vice versa, you tend to have such symptoms. Arghhhhh its kind of torturing me right now. Oh man oh mannnnnnnn~

How I wish the holidays would come now!!! Okay, day dreaming again. That's part of my daily routine lah. Beside day dreaming, I like to 發呆 also. Hahaha, 發呆 is actually a mediation okay! Its one way to stop all work issues from popping into your head and its so easy! Just graze into the sky, with your mouth open (okay, for me only lah >.<) and not think about anything! That's it!

假期,假期,假期,假期 拜託請你用你最快的速度飛到我身邊吧! Day dreaming again :(

A Companion for Charcoal Baby

First of all, before I start to get the ball rolling, I ought to introduce about Charcoal before I start my chattering here and everyone gets confused with questions like "Who is Charcoal?" "What is Charcoal doing in this Blog".

Charcoal is my beloved puppy, a cross breed. Suspected to have blood connections with Labrador, Rottweiler, Pincher and even German Shepherd. Charcoal's turning 6 mths old tomorrow and Hubby Kuo and me have decided to bring him over to our new house. I cannot imagine life without this cute little boy, although he may be naughty at all times, hungry and greedy occasionally and sleepy almost 24 hours. LOL! Charcoal is a real baby as he love being outdoor - playing and running around and his favourite past time is chasing after those poor birds. Yes, those poor little sparrows that are seen around everywhere in Singapore.

Anyway, though Charcoal's been with us for almost half a year, he's getting bigger and bigger each day and recently, we had noticed that he doesn't like to be kept at home. Actually, he was'nt like this in the past and I guessed it could be because, my dad who brings Charcoal with him to work allow Charcoal to roam freely only recently.

Charcoal was being kept in the office initally as there were a few encounters where strangers wanted to lure Charcoal away. But now, since he has grown up quite abit and he has gotten himself very farmilar with the surroundings, plus he doesn't like strangers, so it's quite safe for him to play around the area. I believe he has grown to like the outdoors even more, so when he is back at home, there is this urge for him to get out to the outdoor to get his fun and problems start to arise. Charcoal would start barking to get attention from us, so that we could bring him out. If we don't, he would continue to bark and we are very afraid that this might alarm the neighbours especially my malay neighbour, who got quite a fair bit of objections when we brought Charcoal back.

所以囉, Hubby Kuo and I had brain-stormed about this problem and have decided that IF Charcoal is unable to adapt to the new environment, then we shall get him a companion then. A companion to keep him company and have fun with. I believe he would like it :D

Beagle, Jack Russell and Yorkshire Terrier are the few that we had shortlisted. Many to come, I supposed. Frankly speaking, we would prefer to have a minature breed because, HDB doesn't allow the breeding of big dogs. Wish us luck in getting a companion for Charcoal but I do hope Charcoal can adapts to the new enviornment! Hehe~

My Lovely Charcaol

Furnishing Hunt

Yesterday was a fulfilling day. Hubby Kuo and me went to IMM for an important mission - Furnishing Hunting. Well, time is running fast and we had not even thought about how we are going to furnish our new house, moreover our Interior design was not ready yet due to the constraints of not knowing the measurments. The sellers of the house have not found a suitable unit yet, hence being super kind hearted couple, both me and Hubby Kuo agreed to "rent" our apartment FOC for another 2 months to them, so that they need not have to worry about shifting out, without having a place to stay in.

Actually, the real mission was to look out for the lightings that we wanted to place in our new house, especially the Kitchen and the Dinning area. Hubby Kuo's friend, Joshua is quite proficient in Interior Design, thus he had given quite an amount of ideas. He suggested some ideas which are innovative and cost-saving because both of us are really on tight budget. One thing was to replace the false ceiling with spot lights to a more innonvative kind of ceiling lamp for the Kitchen. Another idea that he gave us was to used dropping kind of dew to substitue for partition pillars. I like this idea very very much!

So, we walked around IMM and realised that there aint much Lighting shops, in fact, furnishing and Interior Design shops are all around IMM, plus Bridal boutiques. Hence, we decided to have a switch of misson. Furnishing Hunting was fun, but then it can be quite tiring as well. There are so many selections for us to look at. My eyes were turning here and there and it kind of make me feel giddy. LOL! Sorry, when it comes to shopping for apparels and shoes, I doubt I will have such problem. Anyway, been to quite a number of shops. We even went to the building opposite IMM, known as ODC building. Star Furniture/Furniture Warehouse's over there and its way much bigger than the shops over at IMM. Had a great time looking at the furnitures, especially the sofas! One of the Sales Executive was extremely helpful. He helped us alot by telling us when is the best time to come ( Promos and Sales) and what not to buy. Anyone who wants to go Star Furniture can look for him.

Anyway, that took almost the whole day. Hubby Kuo and me were lazy to walk back to the Interchange, hence we decided to take Bus 52 back to Bishan. Man, the journey was super long and the bus broke down twice or thrice? Never mind about that. I need to "download" the data that I collected back to my Hard drive before it gets transferred to the "Temp Internet Files" and gets deleted when I pressed the "Clear Cookies" or "Delete History Pages" navigation. Hah! Hubby Kuo's memory is even worse than mine! =X So I better starts the download now before he forgets everything! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH

Pictures that we took yesterday


Pouting Lips

Self Snap

Trying to act Innocent

Trying to be suave XD