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:

1. 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.)
2. Finding the Right Hotel in Vietnam (long distance research + coordination is hell. Final call - Park Royal)
3. Finding the Right Photographer in Singapore - in progress
   
4. Finding the Right Photographer in Vietnam - in progress
   
5. Finding the Right Honeymoon package (SGD$150. Return tix. Melbourne. No spelling mistooks. Beat that.)

...If I live to tell the stories about each of them, then I will. But I have digressed. I'd better get to my next blog about Ah Soon, which is why I even started to blog this post at all.

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. =)

Open House on 20/12(Sat) - 21/12(Sun) ~!

KFC is finally done up~!

Well, almost. We are still waiting for a dressing table and our lovely dining table to arrive on 19/12/2008. (Just in time for Christmas!)

We're also in the process of purchasing knick knacks like utensils, crockeries, decorative stuff, but it should be ok...

As such, we are opening our house to anyone who wants to visit on 20/12-21/12~!
Renotalkers are welcome~! =)
Fellow renovators are welcome~! =)
Anyone is welcome~! =)

Burglars are not.
-_-"

Contractor overloaded~!

Ah Soon shouts to me

'Don't recommend anymore people to me now~! I'm fully booked till after Chinese New Year~!'

So I say to all,

Sorry, won't respond to anyone who needs Ah Soon's service BEFORE Chinese New Year. He is too overwhelmed with work to even come my house to drill a few holes for my own fixtures. Sob...

Storeroom rack

Getting my storeroom rack from Yee Sin. http://www.yee-sin.com/

Opting for an L-shaped configuration like the one below, I was quoted $325 for a 5-layer wall-to-wall configuration, using 12mm indonesa plywood boards.

Latest pictures of KFC are in~!

95% of the renovation is done.

Here are the pictures in advance. =)

081114 95% Renovation Completed

Internet is finally up at KFC~!

Yay~! Singtel came over and setup my Mio Plan Voice/Internet/TV today (12/11/2008) at KFC.

And yes, I have not updated the blog for one month already, because there have been many many events going on (chasing contractor for fine items, furniture buying, house-moving, settling into the new house, going for interviews for a new job, ROM, went for a Bali trip with K, going back for ICT, RT sessions @ Maju camp)

Will attempt to post-update.

I have received many emails/phone calls/sms from people who are interested in getting my contractor, and I'm not responding to the new ones (yet!) for selfish reason - Ah Soon still owes me some renovation items, and he's pretty bogged up this period.

Was actually quite angry with Ah Soon for delaying me all the small nagging items (I had a 3 page list, now left 1 page) until I saw my friend's writeup on his NorthWest contractor

Will update more later.