Love Nest: HoHo Gates

Initially we didn't want to change our gate but sadly after the painter gave the gate a new coat of paint, we couldn't close our gate anymore! So had no choice but to change. 



We searched around the market and decided on HoHo Gates as they were having a promotion at the Expo. Sadly our gate size belongs to the more expensive category.

The process of changing the gate was fast, took only about half an hour and yes we were very satisfied with the outcome and the service rendered :)

PetiteFreckles ♥

Love Nest: Lights

Lights! Lights! Lights!

After 1 month of lights-hunting, we purchased the following:

Entrance

Entrance light for S$16 from Taobao (purchased via Daigou)

Dining

2 pendant lights for the dining area from Johor

If I'm not wrong, it's about S$70 for 2 with bulbs. 

We replaced the bulbs to cool white after because the free bulbs were warm white and it was unbearably hot to dine with it.

Kitchen

From Ikea! It requires 2 bulbs.

About S$75 spent.

 

2m of Yellow LED strips from Johor to be placed under the top cabinets.

Bathrooms & Yard

For the master bathroom, we purchased 1 of the square LED white lights plus a yellow T5 mood light. Common bathroom and yard will be using the square LED white light.

All purchased from Johor.

Living Area

We have 8 track lights for the living area. Also purchased from Johor.

 

Bedrooms

And lastly in addition to the ceiling fan-light, we purchased 2 tri-colour lights from Taobao! Each costs me about S$76. The delivery fee was the same price as the product 0_o

Sadly, we misplaced the remote control for the light in the study room!

PetiteFreckles ♥

Love Nest: Purchases

J and I bought some items from this electrical shop in Bukit Merah called Hong Liang Electrical Enterprise.

 

Address

123 Bukit Merah Lane 1

#01-70

Singapore 150123

 

Not sure about their opening hours, but they open till 8pm.

 

Here's a photo of the boss, Vincent haha

Their service was good and the price pretty reasonable so we bought these items for the house:

♥ 2 707 Everton water heaters

♥ 2 Otto toilet bowl

♥ 2 Otto toilet basin - 1 top mount and 1 wall hung 

♥ 1 Mayer Chimney Hood

♥ 1 Delizia Hob

♥ 2 Crestar Fans -  1 with light (for the master bedroom) and 1 without (for the living room)

♥ 1 Carysill black jumbo kitchen sink

♥ 1 Rubine pull-out kitchen mixer

♥ 1 Samsung Fridge

♥ 1 Samsung Washer

 

Below are some photos, will update more once they have been installed :) The items are not necessary cheaper but the service was pretty good. They are very busy so have to be patient with their replies at times but it's totally acceptable for us!

 

P.S. Oh the more item you buy and payment by cash, might be able to get you a better price.

 

PetiteFreckles ♥

Hubs 's Bday Lunch Celebration

First-time celebrating J's birthday as husband and wife. Since MIL would like to celebrate his birthday for him on the actual day in Johor, I decided to celebrate it for him in advance. After the fabulous experience at Full of Crab, I decided to bring him to Crab in da Bag @ East Coast for lunch.

 

It was a Sunday afternoon lunch time but there were no other patrons, maybe it's due to the bad haze.. At least we didn't have to wait long for our food :D

 There was a 1-for-1 promotion for the clams with Maybank card!

So yes, we went straight for it!

 

We ordered loads of food for 2:

Sweet potato fries

2Kg of Clams in Ultimate Curry Sauce

1 portion of Squid in Mum's Special sauce

1 portion of Tiger Prawns in Salty Splash sauce

1 portion of Alaskan King Crab in Caboodle Mix sauce

 

Total bill came up to about S$130.

 

We were so so so full after the meal! Forcing ourselves to finish the food haha..
Overall the food is good but personally I still prefer full of crab, the sauces tasted better.

It was J's birthday so they gave him an agar agar "cake", so nice of them :D So only had a couple of bites as we were too full!

Overall we enjoyed our meal but the low point came when we were making payment. Their terminal some how wasn't able to read my credit card after 2 times so I decided to call the bank, the bank personnel told me there was nothing wrong with my card and suggested a few methods for the cashier to resolve the issue. With each method, it was a failed attempt and throughout the process, the cashier and manager was getting annoyed and saying that it really my card issue and made it seem like we can't afford to pay or something! Geez! If it wasn't for the maybank promotion, I would have used other CC and get it over and done with! And finally after another few minutes, ta-dah the transaction went through, and found that their terminal had some issue so couldn't read the card well -.- And the cashier gave an embarrassed sorry after.. but it still left us feeling blue when we left the restaurant...

PetiteFreckles ♥

Love Nest: Aircon Servicing

The current Daikin aircon is about 6 years old and changing the whole system will cost us about $4000 to $5000, so we decided to call for repair and servicing instead.

We noticed that the casing of the master aircon pipe had some leakage stain& the air isn't exactly cold, so the repairman told us that we needed to change the motor and insulator. To change the motor was the main bulk of the repair cost. Our bill came up to $430 excluding servicing. We will request for servicing after the completion of the renovation, I think it should be about $25 to $50 per system. 

Not sure how long this system will last but it is good enough for now. Hopefully it lasts another 5 years or so because it will be a very messy business! *cross fingers*

Before

 

After

PetiteFreckles ♥

Post-Wedding Celebration

My friend, Dawn, brought me out for a post-wedding celebration and we ate at Full of Crab for dinner and had Fat Cat's for dessert! 

Full of Crab

195 East Coast Road

Singapore 428900

Opening hours: 

11.30am to 2.30pm and 6.30 to 10.30pm (Mon to Fri) 11.30am to 10.30pm (Sat to Sun)

Closes on Tuesdays

We were the first customers for the night! And had lots of time to slowly decide on what to order while munching on the free dried fish snack. We ordered a Pirate's Pick Combo (S$85) that came with 500g of King Crab Legs with 500g of prawns and a choice of corns or baby potatoes. On the side, we ordered the cajun wings (S$11.90) and a Ciderfall to share.

The awesome thing about FOC is that they do not charge for GST! 

The food came quick and since we had to eat with our fingers/hands, we weren't able to use our phones at all so it was a really good bonding session for us :D we both gave the restaurant 2 thumbs up for their food & awesome ciderfall!

 

 

 

After a satisfying dinner, we headed to FatCat Ice Cream Bar for their famous salted egg yolk sauce with ice cream and waffle! Ordered 2 scoops of ice cream - Butter beer and Hay & Honey!

 

We both felt that we should have ordered another serving of the salted egg yolk sauce :p The ice creams were super good, except for the caramel sauce that was drizzled around the waffle which was a little too caramelized for us.

Address

Blk 416 Bedok North Avenue 2

#01-25

Singapore 460416

And yes, we ended the night happy with a tummy full of cholesterol haha.. Thanks my friend- for the lovely treat and night out. XoXo..

PetiteFreckles ♥