Reno- During that time although most of the furniture has been finished, there are still many small nitty gritty things
- Outdoor furniture, finally selected a affordable yet comfortable outdoor set from Woods and Woods. As my balcony is rather big, and have a nice scenary, I wanted to choose a nice outdoor furniture so that I can relax and invite friends over in the balcony. It was a 3+1+1 set with a table with a cost of 1850.
- hooks for toilets,- my wife wanted to get decals (stickers) and we went to United Square twice at least, finally getting some flowers for the electrical cabinet
- choosing paintings - went to Balestier and a few places to look at drawings, finally settle it online
- kitchen ware
- sourcing for Movers, finally settled for Soon Seng Transport
- Got my outdoor furniture, and beds for my children's room in
Moved house on the 10 Oct - 10/10/2010 Yeah !Really tough weekend, on Sat. Packed since morning with just so much work, which seemed never ending. It is really tough for us as we need to pack with 2 small kids around, especially the small one whom u need 1 person attention when he is awake.
My sil came in the afternoon to "help" take care of my kids while we packed. However in the evening, she conveniently excused herself to see her bf sister and was away from 5-9. This really pissed me off. When you commit to help, people really depend on you to help during the crunch time.
During the evening, as always there is last minute things to get. I went out to get monster cable, tape to tape the boxes (which ran out) and ice box to keep food while we power off the fridge for 1 night before the move. Only when my sil came back did we have time to pack again.
At night after packing the fridge, I removed the cables slowly from my TV set which was connected to the AM, Starhub, DVD, Mio TV. I really hate such messy connections especially when the wires are so short and connected at the back. The reason why we disconnect them is because we wanted to assemble the wires in the new place before the move. Once the movers move the TV, all they have to do is to mount the TV and we can just pluck the cables to the TV withouht much hassle. The movers will not bother about connecting the wires for you. At my new place, we spent close to 2-3 hours just trying to assemble the wires from the TV console. This took us close to 4am .
The next morning on Sunday 10th Oct 2010 8:30 the movers came. They sure are professional, moving boxes really fast. There were close to 5 of them, and wrap all our things very well . The only thing that took almost an hour was the deassembly of our master bedroom, which had a hydraulic lift.
By 12 noon, they finished and we started to unpack. It was a good relief that the tedious part was over. We also started to rewire the TV and took about an hour before getting the Starhub and Mio Tv & DVD working.
The next day the furniture came in - sofa/dinner table.
For the next whole week till 18th Oct, we got a hanger installed, got the decal person to come in to stick, and moved whatever leftover from the old house. The left over really took some time to move as we could only move bit by bit and took almost 10-15 trips. eg. clothes, fish tank, toys etc.
We finally signed the HDB 2nd appointment letter on 18th .
For the new house,
- the painting was mailed to our house, and I went to Balestier to frame it.
- we also got grills for the house and
- got shades as the afternoon sun is rather glaring.
I was especially busy with my office work as well
- 2 targets setting / QBR/BMR/ Results which lasted till late November.
Had a house warming on 2 dates + celebrating my youngest son birthday
