Happy 5th Wed Anni

Happy 5th Wedding Anniversary
to my best friend, my boyfriend, my lover, my soul mate, my bedmate (haha), my darling hubby

Electrical System

We've almost finalised the electrical system for our home - the usual upgrading of single power points to double, extra light points, security sensor light unit, bathroom heat lights, etc. We've decided to have ducted air cond throughout the house and ducted vacuum system. We figured having ducted air cond is more cost effective than having separate units of split air system installed in each room. We're also getting wiring done for surround sound system - Kiwi G truly deserves it, to be able to enjoy watching his Sci-Fi DVDs with more oomph (it's a guy thing). Now, these are all pretty standard options that people go for, in a new home. We're not doing anything out of the ordinary. But of course, unfortunately it costs a bomb - you wouldn't want to know.

Cheap Domain Names

Until Oct 31, Yahoo is offering an incredibly low USD2.99/year up to USD14.95 for a total of 5 years domain names. Dirt cheap!

Emails

*Headache* I am such a lazy bum, never got around to completely clear my Inbox. These 412 emails were accumulated over the past few months. Wish I am rich enough to employ someone to attend to email enquiries so I can concentrate on other stuff. I hope by talking about this here, I might push myself to clear at least half of them.

Chiffon roses

My artificial chiffon roses arrived yesterday

I used to preserve all rose bouquets and other flowers Kiwi G gave me over the years but had to throw most of them away after a long time. The last of the bouquet I have is pictured here ... this bouquet must be at least 3 years old. I have requested Kiwi G not to buy me bouquets anymore as they are very expensive and I get sad when I had to throw them away. So I told him that if he really wanna buy me flowers still, he can just buy a cheap bouquet that's priced AU$15 and below (crazy wife, huh?). Anyway, below are pics of the preserved real roses & the new artificial flowers I just bought - whole new bunch for only AU$12

Lights & Chocs

Bought 14 oyster lights off eBay a fortnight ago. Am pleased with the purchase, the lights are in excellent condition, the seller even threw in the fluorescent light bulbs for free. I paid only AU$4.30 each (oyster shell + light bulbs) - what a steal! A new oyster light without bulbs would cost at least AU$20 and a new light bulb itself costs AU$8.

Here are photos of the chocolates I bought Kiwi G for his b'day last month
He finished the boxed chocs in record time but the monkey choc is still in the fridge
He says it is too precious to be eaten

Land

Went to inspect the land last evening. First sign of work done ... levelled and filled the land with additional 100 tonnes of soil. The next step is the concrete work.

Dealing with the builder prior to everything almost gave us high blood pressure (but then again, people we know, experienced the same thing with other more reputable builders ... so perhaps it's the norm).

We've got an appointment with the electricians in a fortnight ... that'll incur another few grands to do additional power points and wiring.

We have yet to find a contractor for our floorings ... we still have about 3-4 months to do that as the floorings can only be done after the house handover (note, most new houses here do not come with marble or parquet floorings yeah, except cement floors).

From now on, our money only goes one way - OUT. Nevertheless, we're very excited. Having been renting for almost 5 years now (I hate living in apartments although I must say the current apartment we live in is superb with first class security and caretaker - I'll talk more about this apartment and show piccies later), I can't wait to have a little nest we can finally call home ... our very own home where we can have a cute doggie (you've to obtain permission from the landlord and the building committee if you intend to keep a dog or cat in most newish apartments), hang pictures on the wall (have to obtain landlord's permission to put nails on the wall) and our own backyard for sunbaking & BBQ!

My eye candies

I used to collect Me to You, Forever Friends (FF) teddies and Precious Moments (PM) figurines in the past few years but decided to stop as I didn't have room for them and it's a rather pricey obsession too. These are my precious eye candies. Looking at them makes me extremely happy and go awwwwww.

Most of these teddies were gifts from Kiwi G, the rest were given by friends
Though I still have some cute FF bears not pictured here (these are old photos).
I don't recall seeing original FF bears being sold in KL but they're everywhere here in Sydney, a myriad of variety too.

Right now, these poor bears are kept in a big box on the shelf.
Can't wait to free them and let them live in my new bedroom next year - Kiwi G will have to get used to the audience, haha

My super soft fluffy bears



A few of my PM figurines

I also love small artificial flowers in a basket (especially daisies). I've ordered some chiffon roses. Will post a pic when they arrive.

New layout

My itchy hands decided to change the layout a bit again. Added stone age photos to the header and footer.