My wedding is falling apart and noone seems to see it.
I am trying so hard to keep myself together but it is under control no longer.
Already 3 close friends have cancelled on me. I'm just waiting for more cancellation to come.
Music is not done.
Photo montage is not done.
Invite is not done.
Invite list is not finalise.
I just want a memorable wedding....doesnt seem like thats gonna happen anymore...
Monday, November 27, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
Yup, we failed in our first attempt of getting our first home.
I spent at least half hour crying my heart out.
What did we do wrong?
Why we didn't get it?
Did we not submit our application early enough?
Did we not appear enthusiastic about the flat when we went to view it?
Did we fill in the application wrongly?
How could we have better our chances in getting a flat?
When did they decide who got the flat?
Who actually got the flat?
Is god playing tricks on us?
I spent at least half hour crying my heart out.
What did we do wrong?
Why we didn't get it?
Did we not submit our application early enough?
Did we not appear enthusiastic about the flat when we went to view it?
Did we fill in the application wrongly?
How could we have better our chances in getting a flat?
When did they decide who got the flat?
Who actually got the flat?
Is god playing tricks on us?
DID WE NOT WANT IT ENOUGH?
So many questions that will never be answered. Fact remains that we didn't get the flat. Period. No arguing.
I felt so guilty because I had just last week ask Hei whether we can give up Sengkang and wait for Premiere. From his previous entry, the worse of the worst has come true.
WE ENDED UP WITH NOTHING.
Having had a few days to think about it, I starting to think this might be a blessing in disguise. True, we really like Premiere. But it is more expensive and more than we budgetted for.
At least now, if we buy a resale flat, we probably can get it a more affordable price, a bigger unit and in a more mature estate. So it can free up our finances a bit and it may be easier to sell in future. More importantly
At least now, if we buy a resale flat, we probably can get it a more affordable price, a bigger unit and in a more mature estate. So it can free up our finances a bit and it may be easier to sell in future. More importantly
WE CAN MOVE IN SOONER!
Oh well, at the end of the day, I suppose its BUILDING our first HOME that's IMPORTANT. It shouldn't be about the house. It should be about the HOME.
HOME. HERE WE COME....
SALES OF FIRST DBSS FLATS - THE PREMIERE AT TAMPINES
Sales Registration Number :5000647F
NRIC No :S77XXXXXB
We are sorry to inform that your application for The Premiere at Tampines is unsuccessful due to overwhelming number of applications. As we have informed in the Sales Brochure, we are inviting applicants up to two (2) times the flat supply to select a flat.
Your queue position has exceeded 2 times the flat supply available for sale.
Thank you for your keen interest in this project.
Sales Registration Number :5000647F
NRIC No :S77XXXXXB
We are sorry to inform that your application for The Premiere at Tampines is unsuccessful due to overwhelming number of applications. As we have informed in the Sales Brochure, we are inviting applicants up to two (2) times the flat supply to select a flat.
Your queue position has exceeded 2 times the flat supply available for sale.
Thank you for your keen interest in this project.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
A movie of good looking people who drive 3sec cars, live the high life and gamble enough to feed a small country in Asia. Whats there not to like?
I wasn't extremely keen to watch this movie, but after paying $9.00 and spending about 2.5 hours in the cinema, I didn't felt like it was a waste of time. Sure the movie has it flaws and it was TOO LONG for a action flick, but the first 10 mins of action was unbelievable (Even better than Jackie), the cars and the hotel room and the beach was divine and Daniel Craig was pleasant to the eye as well. Still, I don't think he is perfect for the part. 007 should have a bad boy, charismatic, playboy look where a woman knows she will only have her heart broken yet unable to resist the charms. He looks too serious, too 'committ-able'. But I was told this is the first episode of 007 and this was what moulded him to what he became, so it ain't half bad.
The LONG poker game was turn-on-ish. I love a man who can play the game and have the poker face...
Still....it was TOO LONG a movie.....I ended up sighing at the last half hour, wondering when will the movie ever end. For a moment it felt like the Hong Kong series "A Kindred Spirit", too many twist, almost like the director simply doesn't want the movie to end.
The woman could have been more babe-licious. That was a little disappointing.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Our Dilemma
Well... I dun know where to begin...
Baby and I are trying to get a place and have been looking for a little crib that we can call our "home"... Though we have been to a few freehold condo, like Costa del Sol, the Bleu, Riveria, The Montage..... realistically, we have only applied for The Premier and have also taken a "number" for Seng Kang after the recent Walk-In-Selection (WIS) by HDB. Obviously, the Premier is our first choice, and if by luck of teh draw, we didnt get the ballot of the place, we would have to settle for SK....
But the thing is, ballot result for the premier will only be out at end Nov, BUT we would have to book for SK (if we so decide to do so) this coming thursday - 16 Nov. Well, it seems as it is, we have 2 choices
1 - To apply for SK... or
2 - give up SK and wait for The Premier
This is currently the hand delt to us...
1 - Apply for SK.
No Money No Talk - An exec unit (if we ARE apply for SK, we are going for Exec unit, nothing else....) cost about slightly more than 300k. We have enquired about a housing loan, and it seems that if the price of the place falls around that range, both our CPF contribution should be able to comfortably cover for the loan repayment, without having to top up cash monthly.
In addition, we can save maybe about 2, 3, even 400 dollars of CPF monthly without having to commit them. In the future, when we so decide to sell the place, we would have some CPF in our account, on top of whatever we can sell the house for.
Planning for our Future - With the place going at 300k, there is a better chance for the place to be sold at a higher price in the future. Currently, SK is not very well developed yet, and I reckon with more young families settling there, DEFINITELY lobby groups will be formed to push for better amenities and infrastruture. That will jack the price of the place higher in the future.
When we wanna sell it in, say 5 years time, we would have some money in CPF (having not committed all our monthly contributions), and having sold the place at higher than 300k, we can afford a better place, and maybe, something like The Montage (freehold), or the Bleu (freehold!) would be realistic. Something that, at the end of the day, belongs to US, after 99 years and not the government....
SIZE Matters - SK Exec units are slightly bigger, at 130 sqm, though the layout is a little.... querky... but I reckon if we can employ partitions or false walls smartly, we can overcome that.
Location, Location, Location - Its near nowhere! To be honest, we hadnt really explored the place, but frolm what we have witness, there arent much malls, not a lotta coffeshops. I dun think there is a swimming pool. There is only an egress/ingress route to TPE/SLE.... sure jam in the morning... Its so inaccessible to anywhere...
First Impression - The flats that we have viewed, the paint on its walls are peeling off. And it dun give us the homely feeling. In anycase, our number is 2739, there are only like 1000+ plus on offer... I reckon by the time it reaches 2739, and the 2,738 people didnt oick the unit that we chose... something is really wrong...
2 - Give up SK and wait for Premier
Our First Home - Whatever we chose, it'll be our first home and we wanted it to be perfect. We wanted something NEW, not something built in 2001, unsold for the next couple of years because ON ONE wanted it.
Size matters - The largest unit is 113sqm, and the corner units that we are eyeing on are 109sqm... But, as before, I think if we can decor it smartly, it shouldn't be that obvious...
Money Talks - With our current combine CPF contributions, to purchase the most expensive unit, we would have to pay 1,4k per month, i.e. we would need to fork out about 100+ in cash, having expanded all our monthly contributions. Thats not a problem for now, but just worried of not being financially flexible in the future... in addition, in the event that one of us loses our job, then what... will we still be able to afford the monthly installment for the premier?
Selling the place - with the place going at 450k, I dun think we can sell it for very much higher, and the freehold condo dream might be... well... a dream... heck lah.... no free hold condo so what.... when we die, we prob wont have anything for the kids, and they can learn to be indenpendent like their mummy and daddy...
9 applicant/1 unit - For every unit in the Premier, there are 9 applicants vying for it.. But that was BEFORE the WIS exercise... hopefully, the number would have dwindled down significantly as majority of the applicants have gone for SK/Punggol/Hougang...
Location, Location, Location - Its Tampines... everthing is there... its near the central... need me to say more?
Premier No More? - It would be an interesting situation if, after we gave up the SK and wait for the premier... and if the ballot results is not in our favour, we would end up without a place... well... guess by then we would have to settle for re-sale...
TOP date - The premier's TOP date is third quarter 2009, compared to SK, which I think... we can move in pretty soon.. that means after we get ROM at the end of this year, we would have to wait for 3 years before we hold our customary wedding. My mum is a little... concern about what the rest of the people will say about me, that I cannot afford a place after marriage and have to stay with her baby's parents.. hello.. not I want... If it helps, i will pop by the construction site to buld the premier with them, just so it can be ready earlier... can my dad "wait" for so long?
Decision, decisions, decision....
Before baby left for phuket, we have decided that we will hold out for the premier... thats what we wanted. whatever happens in the future... its all conjecture and postulation... as the saying goes... when the river flows from the mountain and into the river, there will be fishes... (go figure...)
what would you do?
Baby and I are trying to get a place and have been looking for a little crib that we can call our "home"... Though we have been to a few freehold condo, like Costa del Sol, the Bleu, Riveria, The Montage..... realistically, we have only applied for The Premier and have also taken a "number" for Seng Kang after the recent Walk-In-Selection (WIS) by HDB. Obviously, the Premier is our first choice, and if by luck of teh draw, we didnt get the ballot of the place, we would have to settle for SK....
But the thing is, ballot result for the premier will only be out at end Nov, BUT we would have to book for SK (if we so decide to do so) this coming thursday - 16 Nov. Well, it seems as it is, we have 2 choices
1 - To apply for SK... or
2 - give up SK and wait for The Premier
This is currently the hand delt to us...
1 - Apply for SK.
No Money No Talk - An exec unit (if we ARE apply for SK, we are going for Exec unit, nothing else....) cost about slightly more than 300k. We have enquired about a housing loan, and it seems that if the price of the place falls around that range, both our CPF contribution should be able to comfortably cover for the loan repayment, without having to top up cash monthly.
In addition, we can save maybe about 2, 3, even 400 dollars of CPF monthly without having to commit them. In the future, when we so decide to sell the place, we would have some CPF in our account, on top of whatever we can sell the house for.
Planning for our Future - With the place going at 300k, there is a better chance for the place to be sold at a higher price in the future. Currently, SK is not very well developed yet, and I reckon with more young families settling there, DEFINITELY lobby groups will be formed to push for better amenities and infrastruture. That will jack the price of the place higher in the future.
When we wanna sell it in, say 5 years time, we would have some money in CPF (having not committed all our monthly contributions), and having sold the place at higher than 300k, we can afford a better place, and maybe, something like The Montage (freehold), or the Bleu (freehold!) would be realistic. Something that, at the end of the day, belongs to US, after 99 years and not the government....
SIZE Matters - SK Exec units are slightly bigger, at 130 sqm, though the layout is a little.... querky... but I reckon if we can employ partitions or false walls smartly, we can overcome that.
Location, Location, Location - Its near nowhere! To be honest, we hadnt really explored the place, but frolm what we have witness, there arent much malls, not a lotta coffeshops. I dun think there is a swimming pool. There is only an egress/ingress route to TPE/SLE.... sure jam in the morning... Its so inaccessible to anywhere...
First Impression - The flats that we have viewed, the paint on its walls are peeling off. And it dun give us the homely feeling. In anycase, our number is 2739, there are only like 1000+ plus on offer... I reckon by the time it reaches 2739, and the 2,738 people didnt oick the unit that we chose... something is really wrong...
2 - Give up SK and wait for Premier
Our First Home - Whatever we chose, it'll be our first home and we wanted it to be perfect. We wanted something NEW, not something built in 2001, unsold for the next couple of years because ON ONE wanted it.
Size matters - The largest unit is 113sqm, and the corner units that we are eyeing on are 109sqm... But, as before, I think if we can decor it smartly, it shouldn't be that obvious...
Money Talks - With our current combine CPF contributions, to purchase the most expensive unit, we would have to pay 1,4k per month, i.e. we would need to fork out about 100+ in cash, having expanded all our monthly contributions. Thats not a problem for now, but just worried of not being financially flexible in the future... in addition, in the event that one of us loses our job, then what... will we still be able to afford the monthly installment for the premier?
Selling the place - with the place going at 450k, I dun think we can sell it for very much higher, and the freehold condo dream might be... well... a dream... heck lah.... no free hold condo so what.... when we die, we prob wont have anything for the kids, and they can learn to be indenpendent like their mummy and daddy...
9 applicant/1 unit - For every unit in the Premier, there are 9 applicants vying for it.. But that was BEFORE the WIS exercise... hopefully, the number would have dwindled down significantly as majority of the applicants have gone for SK/Punggol/Hougang...
Location, Location, Location - Its Tampines... everthing is there... its near the central... need me to say more?
Premier No More? - It would be an interesting situation if, after we gave up the SK and wait for the premier... and if the ballot results is not in our favour, we would end up without a place... well... guess by then we would have to settle for re-sale...
TOP date - The premier's TOP date is third quarter 2009, compared to SK, which I think... we can move in pretty soon.. that means after we get ROM at the end of this year, we would have to wait for 3 years before we hold our customary wedding. My mum is a little... concern about what the rest of the people will say about me, that I cannot afford a place after marriage and have to stay with her baby's parents.. hello.. not I want... If it helps, i will pop by the construction site to buld the premier with them, just so it can be ready earlier... can my dad "wait" for so long?
Decision, decisions, decision....
Before baby left for phuket, we have decided that we will hold out for the premier... thats what we wanted. whatever happens in the future... its all conjecture and postulation... as the saying goes... when the river flows from the mountain and into the river, there will be fishes... (go figure...)
what would you do?
Friday, November 10, 2006
Hi Doctor,
I am sick. Symptons includes; coughing in the morning, coughing in the afternoon and coughing at night. The cough is dry so there is pain in my throat everytime I cough and because I cough so much, my chest is beginning to hurt too.
On the optimistic side, I am working my abs everytime I cough and they are beginning to ache, like I have doing sit ups.
Doctor, is there some way that I can continue to work my abs involunteeraily yet stop coughing?
Appreciate if you could help.
I am sick. Symptons includes; coughing in the morning, coughing in the afternoon and coughing at night. The cough is dry so there is pain in my throat everytime I cough and because I cough so much, my chest is beginning to hurt too.
On the optimistic side, I am working my abs everytime I cough and they are beginning to ache, like I have doing sit ups.
Doctor, is there some way that I can continue to work my abs involunteeraily yet stop coughing?
Appreciate if you could help.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Sex
& SIt has been a long discussed topic on Singaporeans and Sex. How we have one of the lowest sex rate in Singapore, how Singaporeans are uninterested in sex and how sex is only a neccessity because of heir making.
Well, recently, I stumbled across another article of such. A survey was done and findings shown that Singaporean wants more leisure time, more time with family & more money as compared to more sex. The articled featured 2 interviews; one with a celebrity couple who can't live without sex and 1 single (fugly) actress who prefers shopping to sex (which btw, we feels its simply because she is so fugly noone wants to f*** her anyway).
Anyhoo, that article didn't sit well with me. 1 simple reason. How can you compare sex to money?
It's not an even playing field. Honestly, one can live without sex, but one certainly can't live without money. We no longer live in a world where we can exchange a cow for a sack of rice. We can only exchange dollars for that. So money is critical to the pure survival of a human being. Without money, I will not be able to buy that latest fashion trend, I will not be able to purchase the HOPE OF A BETTER SKIN offered by Clarins, I will not be able to attain my A4 size paper that certifies my prescences in UWA, I wouldn't even be able to buy that $2.30 packet of chicken rice to feed my empty stomach. In conclusion, I WILL DIE.
Sure, the lack of sex in my life will cause pent up frustration which will make my shopping trips unenjoyable, it will make me a very grump and unfriendly driver (which I am already anyway), and make me even more fed up when the waiter at swensen's ask if I wanted a banana spilt. But life goes on. I WILL NOT DIE.
So to that reporter of that article. Shame on you. How could you have not realise this?
On this topic of sex. Men have to understand this. 90%+++ of the woman population do not attain orgasm through vaginal penetration. So stop asking how many times we came, because most of the time? None at all. We have been so disllusion by Samantha from Sex and the City who somehows climax everytime a penis entered her vagina. Is that even remotely possible?
And yes, size do matter. Unfortunately for those who have a small penis and try to make up for it by boosting that you are good in bed. Face the truth, how can a 3inch pencil tip accomplish anything? Men. Try to understand that orgasm for women means quite different. I don't think we are looking for the 'out-of-body', 'yes! yes! yes! yes!' experience.
Don't get me wrong, SEX IS PLEASURABLE.
Well, recently, I stumbled across another article of such. A survey was done and findings shown that Singaporean wants more leisure time, more time with family & more money as compared to more sex. The articled featured 2 interviews; one with a celebrity couple who can't live without sex and 1 single (fugly) actress who prefers shopping to sex (which btw, we feels its simply because she is so fugly noone wants to f*** her anyway).
Anyhoo, that article didn't sit well with me. 1 simple reason. How can you compare sex to money?
It's not an even playing field. Honestly, one can live without sex, but one certainly can't live without money. We no longer live in a world where we can exchange a cow for a sack of rice. We can only exchange dollars for that. So money is critical to the pure survival of a human being. Without money, I will not be able to buy that latest fashion trend, I will not be able to purchase the HOPE OF A BETTER SKIN offered by Clarins, I will not be able to attain my A4 size paper that certifies my prescences in UWA, I wouldn't even be able to buy that $2.30 packet of chicken rice to feed my empty stomach. In conclusion, I WILL DIE.
Sure, the lack of sex in my life will cause pent up frustration which will make my shopping trips unenjoyable, it will make me a very grump and unfriendly driver (which I am already anyway), and make me even more fed up when the waiter at swensen's ask if I wanted a banana spilt. But life goes on. I WILL NOT DIE.
So to that reporter of that article. Shame on you. How could you have not realise this?
On this topic of sex. Men have to understand this. 90%+++ of the woman population do not attain orgasm through vaginal penetration. So stop asking how many times we came, because most of the time? None at all. We have been so disllusion by Samantha from Sex and the City who somehows climax everytime a penis entered her vagina. Is that even remotely possible?
And yes, size do matter. Unfortunately for those who have a small penis and try to make up for it by boosting that you are good in bed. Face the truth, how can a 3inch pencil tip accomplish anything? Men. Try to understand that orgasm for women means quite different. I don't think we are looking for the 'out-of-body', 'yes! yes! yes! yes!' experience.
Don't get me wrong, SEX IS PLEASURABLE.
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