13 nov 08
15 years ago
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The introduction of the new meaning of KFC
From now on, KFC has a more complete meaning: Katy & Frank's Children :-)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Friday, December 17, 2010
Not so Soon anymore
Dear All,
If you have done your homework at Renotalk.com, you would have found that a lot of things went through for Ah Soon.
In short, he took projects and money, did not deliver on them, and got into hot soup with many many homeowners.
Ah Soon is no more.
If you have done your homework at Renotalk.com, you would have found that a lot of things went through for Ah Soon.
In short, he took projects and money, did not deliver on them, and got into hot soup with many many homeowners.
Ah Soon is no more.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Ah Soon, overrated?
There has been many discussions about the good and bad of Ah Soon that I dunno whether to continue recommending him or not:
http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21215
With more people asking him for quotations, he is getting a bit too "popular" for comfort.
He has been flying people's aeroplane, not replying to promised quotations, not giving due attention to client's projects (resulting in project implementation mistakes), and also higher quoted prices (subject to negotiation).
Perhaps when I first got him, he was not so well known (I haven't introduced him inside renotalk) and I was not presented with the problems his new clients are now facing...
In summary, as marvin puts it, go for Ah Soon if
1) You want slightly cheaper quote
2) Can have time to jagger and oversee the project.
3) Knows exactly what designs you wanted.
4) Threshold level is high for waiting.
Also, Ah Soon's brother , Jason, recently split from Fu Hua.
Jason is a talented project lead as he had started off as a carpenter since young, and he is the main guy for Ah Soon to help him "finish up" projects, after all the different parties (tile layer, carpenter, painter++) have done their work.
This might not be good for Ah Soon...
Finally, to answer all those queries about whether Ah Soon is a HDB-approved contractor... you can find out yourself :)
http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21215
With more people asking him for quotations, he is getting a bit too "popular" for comfort.
He has been flying people's aeroplane, not replying to promised quotations, not giving due attention to client's projects (resulting in project implementation mistakes), and also higher quoted prices (subject to negotiation).
Perhaps when I first got him, he was not so well known (I haven't introduced him inside renotalk) and I was not presented with the problems his new clients are now facing...
In summary, as marvin puts it, go for Ah Soon if
1) You want slightly cheaper quote
2) Can have time to jagger and oversee the project.
3) Knows exactly what designs you wanted.
4) Threshold level is high for waiting.
Also, Ah Soon's brother , Jason, recently split from Fu Hua.
Jason is a talented project lead as he had started off as a carpenter since young, and he is the main guy for Ah Soon to help him "finish up" projects, after all the different parties (tile layer, carpenter, painter++) have done their work.
This might not be good for Ah Soon...
Finally, to answer all those queries about whether Ah Soon is a HDB-approved contractor... you can find out yourself :)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Did Ah Soon lose YOUR quotation?
Ah Soon called to tell me that he has lost some of his quotations today due to some nebulous events resulting from bad karma (which resulted from him making so many people wait for his quotations [but this is bad cos more people will have to wait for his replacement quotes - more bad karma!])
Anyway, he told me that the quotation of someone I recommended (from Blk213 Yishun) was one of the ones lost! Good grief and fiddlesticks!
Ah Soon appealed for me to give him the guy's contact so that he can get back to the guy about it and generate a new one for him soon. Tricky part is, I don't know who I recommended. (There's just so many~!) Tricky business without proper tracking. Whoever it is who used my name to ask him for a good bargain, please call him back.
So I went back to google up mentions of Ah Soon at renotalk (so many people asking for his contact were directed from there) - and there's just so many mentions of Ah Soon!
Apparently after I blogged about Ah Soon (and posted mentions of him in renotalk) he became the hottest favourite in Renovation Town.
Hottest favourite, and infamous too for being the best pilot in Singapore at flying people's aeroplanes. Hardyhaha.
Anyway, he told me that the quotation of someone I recommended (from Blk213 Yishun) was one of the ones lost! Good grief and fiddlesticks!
Ah Soon appealed for me to give him the guy's contact so that he can get back to the guy about it and generate a new one for him soon. Tricky part is, I don't know who I recommended. (There's just so many~!) Tricky business without proper tracking. Whoever it is who used my name to ask him for a good bargain, please call him back.
So I went back to google up mentions of Ah Soon at renotalk (so many people asking for his contact were directed from there) - and there's just so many mentions of Ah Soon!
Apparently after I blogged about Ah Soon (and posted mentions of him in renotalk) he became the hottest favourite in Renovation Town.
Hottest favourite, and infamous too for being the best pilot in Singapore at flying people's aeroplanes. Hardyhaha.
Happenings. and, oh, Ah Soon.
It has been a long time since we last blogged about our renovations....but I'm not going to talk about renovations now. Need to talk about Ah Soon.
I digress to summarize stuff cos we all like to talk about ourselves - our motely crew of 2 in our tight ship has been sailing some epic journeys after the ones dealing with renovations in our nest (Finding the Right Contractor and Finding the Right Contractor II)
In a similar taste we went to great lengths (again) for the best deals:
I digress to summarize stuff cos we all like to talk about ourselves - our motely crew of 2 in our tight ship has been sailing some epic journeys after the ones dealing with renovations in our nest (Finding the Right Contractor and Finding the Right Contractor II)
In a similar taste we went to great lengths (again) for the best deals:
- Finding the Right Hotel in Singapore (in the likes of renovations, we went to soooo many wedding shows and talk to soooo many Banquet Catering Teams - more than 20. Final call - Hotel Rendezvous.)
- Finding the Right Hotel in Vietnam (long distance research + coordination is hell. Final call - Park Royal)
- Finding the Right Photographer in Singapore - in progress
- Finding the Right Photographer in Vietnam - in progress
- Finding the Right Honeymoon package (SGD$150. Return tix. Melbourne. No spelling mistooks. Beat that.)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Updates
Things have been moving pretty tight since the last post.
Weekdays (after work) and weekends have been devoted to sessions of housewarmings and recce-ing of hotels for our wedding in Oct this year, that there's hardly time for anything else!
Will need to take and post pictures of the house in its final completion soon, as I seem to be owing that to this blog.
Ah, and yes, we got our wedding bands~! We're probably the first couple to get our wedding bands AFTER the ROM, but I must say it is worth the wait. =)
Weekdays (after work) and weekends have been devoted to sessions of housewarmings and recce-ing of hotels for our wedding in Oct this year, that there's hardly time for anything else!
Will need to take and post pictures of the house in its final completion soon, as I seem to be owing that to this blog.
Ah, and yes, we got our wedding bands~! We're probably the first couple to get our wedding bands AFTER the ROM, but I must say it is worth the wait. =)
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