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Sofa! Fridge! Washing machine! Bookshelves! Study table! Chest of drawers! I IS HAPPYWAPPYWOO.

New gate

Billy bookcases in the study

Sofa and lamp

The Ronald McDonald corner – printer console and lamp

My poor injured toe on our new sofa

These are some of our inspiration pictures for the colors of our flat:

For the living room:

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For the study:

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For the bedroom:

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I don’t know if we want to go for green though – I love red bedsheets and I don’t particularly want it to be all Christmassy in the bedroom all the time. But forest green bedroom walls are lovely.

So we got our keys today!

And we went to put a new lock on the gate and inspect the place and dance around it madly in a celebratory fashion, screaming “It’s ours! It’s ours!” while flailing our arms about and grinning like drunk savages.

Living room

Kitchen

Study

Bedroom. That’s my FMIL and my FBIL!

And my FMIL and my FH <3

Vanity area and custom cupboard

Beams!

Got this pic of Bali’s Holiday Inn from Xiaxue’s blog. I believe photo credit goes to her.

See the colors? See? SEE?

:D

It’s been a long-kept secret that we’ve already bought a flat – most people know by now, but we actually bought the place in January, heh. We didn’t want to talk about the flat until he’d officially proposed, and that milestone is long past, but I never really got around to posting about it here. It’s a 4-room flat, awfully near where his parents stay now, and just about 7 minutes away from my own house, and we’re served by the brand new Circle Line. It’s a top floor flat, secluded because we’re in the corner and we only have one neighbor on our floor.

All in all, a pretty good deal :)

So here’s some pics of our flat, the day before we officially get the keys!

This is what it looked like today during our last inspection, with everything moved out.

The rest of the photos were taken back in January, when previous owner was still in occupancy.

Living room (left side)

Living room (right side) yes…previous owner had a wine fridge. Gaaah.

The study. Yes, previous owner had a rack of expensive branded handbags. Gaaaaaaaah.

(this is the study now, empty)

The previous owner hacked down the wall between the master bedroom and the adjoining room, making one huge bedroom. Awesome. AND. You can actually see the Singapore Flyer from the window! Perfectly framed between two buildings, too. Fireworks on NDP!! THRILL!

The vanity area, bounded by the master bathroom and a custom wardrobe. Nice. Really, it was this square sink that sealed the deal for me. That and the SG Flyer. :P

Our master bathroom

Kitchen, front view

Kitchen, back view

Keys tomorrow! And then contractor be coming in, and we’ll be pricing the Ikea kitchen, and then we’ll be replastering and repainting the walls, and then we’ll be furniture-shopping yay!

Fun!

Pool toilet. Pretteh.

Animal store selling ducklings

and chickens

and bunnies

and a kitty who tried to bat at my camera

We got a lovely shot of the river with St. Francis Xavier church popping up right in the middle

An alleyway (drainway?) leading to the river

Our feeties on the floor and reflection of our faces in the river

Teehee our wedding colors

Dad taking photos under the bridge

Me and the Mamee monster

Arches

Rawr

A’Famosa chicken rice

Hurhur colors

Graffiti

Lovers under a tree

Choo-choo

Hilarious condom brand at Carrefour – Shoooooot: Just come!

Masks!

Looking slightly more normal here

Daddy and his girls

Pointy towers of food!

Wooden house in the Portuguese village

Me

Little sister

Daddy

Waiting for lunch

Colors

Love this picture :) Our colorsssss

Fish spa! It was only RM7 for half an hour o_0 In Singapore, you pay $10 for 10 minutes. The soles of my feet are now lily soft

Where I bought a piece of my childhood

Postbox!

Lassi

Dad likes the salted lassi. Ick.

We like the sweet lassi!

Hanna hennaed my hand

And Hanna hennaed herself

The bougainvillea tree twined itself around and into the other tree. Parasitic

Pagoh rest stop on the way home. We bought durian :D

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Off to Melaka tomorrow for Bethel church camp – Dad’s the speaker, so his two girls get to chaperon him and make sure he doesn’t fall asleep on the drive there :)

(Though it’s much more likely his two lazybum daughters will fall asleep instead.)

Be back on Sunday!

New pretty things in fleurettejo’s Etsy shop!

Gorgeous red hairband!

Funkehhh. Black and white.

Lately I’ve been a bit mad over jewel tones, especially deep purples and blues and greens.

And I honestly really want this one. Maybe I’ll ask her to make me one in deep greens, heh heh.

Innit gorgeous! Can’t wait for my bridal ones to come :)

Jo and Beth :D

I dunno what’s wrong with Huat’s face!

And Huat took this photo.

Me and my baby

Oh noes we are all very old now.

Us and Tintin!

So my mom and my sis and I went cheongsam hunting the other day for my tea ceremony get up. Went around Chinatown and then Haji Lane…where I tried on thousand-dollar cheongsams at Hana. I must say they have the mostest gorgeousest cheongsams ever. Gorgeous. Handsewn. Absolutely lovely. And costing half my salary.

Pain.

Spent the afternoon doing the Karen Cheng pose. Here’s the first two cheongsams I tried on at Mama and Misse.

White-based with a green and black phoenix. I loved this one – except that its color scheme would probably cause my brother to spontaneously self-destruct. And the top was too starkly white, making it look awfully like either a servant’s samfoo or a mourning outfit. Grumps.

Thai silk. Looked boring and cheap (but wasn’t!) and I didn’t quite like it. This one was too big (looks fitting cuz it was pinned at the back for me).

Tried on a couple more that really weren’t too flattering – but my mom and I figured we would buy the fabric and get the Mama and Misse tailor to do it for us, because it was affordable and the cutting and workmanship wasn’t bad.

But we couldn’t find nice panel fabric cuz I wanted a design like the phoenix one – and we couldn’t find anything worth buying.

So my mother took me on a guilty pleasure trip to Hana, a boutique at Arab Street. Costly – though my mom had earlier indulged herself in a beautiful lime green cheongsam for my brother’s wedding (she says she’s going to wear the heck out of it to justify the price). The service was amazing – they pinned every single cheongsam for me at the back to show me how it would look tailored to my fit. They were attentive, personal, and wonderfully camp designers. Who can resist a gay brutha? Not me!

Most of them don’t fit well in the pictures because I could only snap the photos after they removed the pins for me…hurhur. So if you’re wondering why my arm’s always behind my back, it’s cuz I’m holding the cheongsam in place.

The first one I tried was in fire engine red with aqua flowers scrolling down the bust. I picked it out immediately because it matched our color scheme, heh. I liked it a lot.

I hated this one. Baby pink? You gotta be kidding me. Next.

Dark green with red flowers. Not too bad. I tend to look better in deep jewel tones because my skin is ridiculously white.

My absolute FAVORITE. I just had to try this on, black be damned. Who on earth wears black for a wedding outfit? Sigh. But I loved this. Love. LOOK AT THE AFASDFASDFSBEAUTIFOOL LACE. ON THE SHOULDER.

Also, it cost $1890. Excuse me while I weep silently in a corner.

They got me to try this even though I didn’t like the cut-out shoulders. I don’t know why these cut-outs make me feel so naked, when I feel perfectly natural prancing round in a tube. It’s odd. But these make me feel uncomfortably bare. Huh. Still, this one was C’s favorite on me.

I went home despairing because I cannot justify splashing half my salary and five times what I initially intended to spend on a cheongsam, no matter how beautiful it is, because the amount of wearage I get out of it simply would not justify the cost.

And then my mother finally told me that she has a brand new unworn cheongsam at home, red silk, long, and that if I really wanted to save the cash, I could alter it and wear it for the tea ceremony.

DONE.

Haha!

All I need to do, really, is find a nice frog button to sew onto the cheongsam because now it’s a bit plain the way it is. But I’m set, cheongsam-wise! Painless and free!

But I enjoyed being fussed over and wearing those gorgeous cheongsams at Hana :)