For Sale: Hugging Salt & Pepper Figurines

We’ve got quite a few of these adorable salt & pepper hugging figurines leftover from our wedding; 38 to be precise.

So we’re letting these porcelain figurines go at half of what we paid – if you get all of them – at just S$ 1.50!

Otherwise, they’re S$ 2 each. We’ll deliver, if you’re getting them all. If not, it’s cash and carry from our work area (Millenia Walk) during office hours!

All figurines come with a shimmery white organza pouch, and measure approximately 7cm tall, and 5cm across (width).

Choose from a range of colours:

Hand in hand in sensual red
6 pieces left

Back to back in pretty purple
7 pieces left

Always in my arms in baby blue
7 pieces left

Follow the leader in sweet pink
9 pieces left

Always by my side in gorgeous yellow
9 pieces left

To get some, or for any queries, leave a reply to this post :)

Additions to our home

Today we’ve added 2 new items to our home – well technically 1 is officially in the house, & the other is on the way.

The first is our fridge, a sleek silver LG model, which only cost us $499! Ok, 529 inclusive of delivery. We thought it was a really good buy for that price, as we’ve been looking around & those that we liked were almost always above 1k. So now, great, tmr we can go shop for some groceries to fill up our fridge – grocery shopping together – something my Mrs loves to do.

The 2nd is our bed frame. We went to The Furniture Mall along Beach Rd. It’s really a gd place to get furniture, think it offers gd value. Got ourselves a nice plush looking bed frame. Can’t wait for it to be delivered!

Looks like we’re slowly but surely adding things to our home – feels like we’re slowly but surely building up our lives together.

Have a magical day!

Picture from Hong Kong Disneyland

We’ve booked an 11-day trip to HK, with 3 days in the magical world of Disney! Yay, finally some wintry weather to make it feel like Christmas is here!

Robot vs. Human

We decided on the human – for a housekeeper that is. We were contemplating buying the iRobot - an automated cleaner that vacuums and mops your place; but I was concerned about its effectiveness. Can it clean corners, move under and around furniture effectively, suck up as much dust as a normal vacuum cleaner, not go wonky a month after purchase yada yada…

So since we couldn’t decide, we thought we’d try the human first; after all, $30’s not much to lose. And she can do so much more – clean the toilets, scrub the sinks, wipe the surfaces, do the windows.

We’ve had her come twice; so far so good, not as dust-free as we’d like it to be, but still within tolerance level. $30 a week is a small price to pay for all the effort you’ve to put in to do all the cleaning yourself.

2 legs good; 2 wheels bad.

See them pictures!

The pictures from our wedding are ready! You should receive an e-mail to view them soon, but if you can’t wait, they can be found at http://photobucket.com/kyhm :)

To download the pictures at a higher resolution: Click on the image you want to download. After it re-loads in a page of its own, click on the “zoom in” button at the top left of the image. When the huge, original-sized picture appears, use the “Right Click -> Save As” function to download it.

Enjoy! :)

Stop 2: Sofitel Metropole, Hanoi

Selection of breakfast mains from the menu – “We’ll have the omelette, pancakes, pho and oh, can we also have the scrambled eggs?” Yes, our room stay at the Sofitel Metropole in Hanoi included buffet breakfast, just that in addition to the usual buffet spread, we get to order a selection of mains (& yes, 2 of us blatantly ordered 4 mains) from the ala carte menu – perks for paying just about USD30 more a night to be on executive club metropole. Being on the executive club metropole also meant a bigger and nicer room, and breakfast served in the executive lounge.

The perks didn’t end there. There was complimentary afternoon high tea from 2.30 – 4.30pm, as well as evening drinks and refreshments from 5.30 – 7.30pm. And the drinks included free flow of champagne, wine, cocktails etc. Totally worth it.

As you would imagine, one could effectively not leave the hotel and survive comfortably. And that was pretty much what we did! We probably spent about 80% of our time within the 4 walls of Sofitel – the executive lounge, spa, pool, gym, restaurants (not that the restaurants were really necessary considering we were fed pretty much throughout the day) kept our day sufficiently occupied. The remaining 20%, well, of course we attempted venturing out, but let’s just say we still preferred Sofitel afterall.

Cheers!

The scent of freedom

It’s only been 2+ weeks since we returned from our honeymoon, but already, it seems like an awfully long time; and I still haven’t found time to write on the other two legs of our honeymoon trip.

Working hours are seeming longer and longer each day too. And so, I quit.

Yup, I quit. Three more weeks to go. I’m already tasting freedom in the air… almost.

The world of fast cars and big bucks

Met up with 6 of my JC classmates today, and realised that we are a group of bankers – think we’ve covered almost all the foreign banks in Singapore (none at any local bank!).

I wonder if I’ll miss the banking scene when I leave – the glamour, the money (of course), the cool factor, the intellect, the speed, the conversation, the banking & financial privileges, the perks and benefits of belonging to an exclusive gorup.

Yet, there’ll be so many things I’ll be happy to leave behind – the foul play, the silent backstabbing, the splurging ways, the heavy, unspoken words, the bragging, the who-speaks-the-loudest (regardless of how little you do) wins, the cover-your-own-back e-mails, the way looks get you so far, especially when you’re a girl.

Maybe I’ll be happier staying in my own, little world.

Being Mrs

Some people have asked me how being married is like; Are you still you? Do you still get to do what you want to do? Can you survive with having someone around you constantly? Don’t you sometimes just want to be alone / with friends? Do you irritate each other? Who does the housework? Who decides what?

I’ve really enjoyed the past one month – yes, it’s been a month – it’s everything I imagined it to be, and more.

Waking up together, enjoying a slow, lazy weekend brunch, rushing to get ready for work. Driving to work together, driving home from work together, chatting in the evenings about the office. Planning for the weekends, for more vacations, discussing the nitty gritty like financials, bills and loans.

Reading the papers every evening, watching TV / movies, listening to the news, working side-by-side at home, doing the cleaning & vacuuming. Taking a swim in the evenings, a leisurely stroll after dinner, watching our wedding videos & admiring our pictures, buying the groceries and packing them in. Waking up late on weekends, doing whatever catches our fancy, deciding where to go for brunch on a whim, shopping whenever we feel like it, driving out for supper.

I wonder what’ll happen if things change. Life’s so perfect I can’t imagine it any way else.

Freedom!

Picture from Toyota Singapore

Finally… we have a set of wheels.

Two legs bad, four wheels good.