Me Myself & I

April is going to be a busy (and very siong) month for me and James.

04 April (Fri) - Delivery of our new wardrobe ($1.3k)
14 April (Mon) - Number 2's ROM & Guo Da Li Day
15 April (Tue) - Appointment with HDB to select our flat ($2k)
19 April (Sat) - Number 2's Wedding
23 April (Wed) to 27 April (Sun) - BKK Trip ($1k at least?)

Ya, we had changed our trip to end April instead coz we did not want our car to come just before our trip. End up we changed the date for nothing. Haha... But anyway James and I are over-worked and extremely exhuasted and we are in desparate need for a getaway so end April will be good too, at least we do not have to wait until mid May. Next on the 'to do' list is book our hotel!

Wow, so many entries at one go. Its been really long since I update yah! :D

Home

Well well well, Number 2 is getting married in April, and my wedding bells are ringing too, at the end of 2008, and also that James and I will be staying with Mum and Dad for the next 3 years at least, Mum decided that we had better renovate the bathroom in the masterbed room (which is the room that I am currently occupying and will still continue to occupy after marriange). This bathroom is in a pretty bad state right now - WC is leaking, floor tiles are dirty (regardless of how much scrubbing I have done), floor is not even which resulted in puddles of water, wash basin looks as though it might fall any moment, wooden door is rotting away, etc... Really terok yah... So this 'save the bathroom' process will happen tomorrow (25 March) and costs $1.5k to change everything (minus the wall tiles)

And with my wedding coming up, I thot it would be better to change our wardrobe to a bigger one. His working clothes are currently occupying some space in Dad's wardrobe coz our current wardrobe is extremely small and is only enough to put part of my clothes. Yes, part of my clothes. And there are clothes stacked everywhere in my room. Extremely messy. And as I had joked to Brenda, my room would need more than 3 months to tidy up! Haha.. Yeah, that is how messy my room is.

So on 16 March, we went in search of a suitable cupboard. Suitable in the sense of space, area occupancy, and also the price. We cannot get a 4D coz the L-shape table and queen sized bed already occupies quite a bit of space and we only have enough space area to get a 3D. Actually a 3D wardrobe is not sufficient for me and James, but with some tidying up (I mean a lot of tidying up), I think it should be enough la. Finally set my eyes on one 3 door wardrobe and that set me back by $1.3k. And yippie, my new cupboard is coming 4th April!

With the wardrobe coming in 1st Friday of April and the renovation works of the bathroom happening tmr, we had to do a "save the room" act yesterday. Spent the whole Sunday tidying up our room, threw away lots of clothes, I think about 5 bags of clothes. And had to shift the TV onto the L shaped table, have to throw away the moveable TV consol in the room to make room for walking space when the wardrobe comes. This "save the room" act left me with a runny nose and headache for the night... :( But at least my room is a lot cleaner and tidier now! Next "save" will be the accessories and miscellanous items still left in my wardrobe. Will have to leave that for next Sunday already!

Month of March has been busy busy busy busy. Originally we had booked our Fit with Jenny (end Feb). However the 2 COE biddings in March left us disappointed. And with her most recent phonecall on the last day of the 2nd COE bidding made me mad (she claimed that our car can only come in end June and that the car price is up by one K), I decided enough is enough. Even though her deal does not require us to pay deposit and that she is my cousin's fren, I do not wish to have the car-buying experience totally wrecked or ruined by her. And boy am I glad that we did not and do not have to pay her deposit, coz that means we can go to another agent without forfeitting any deposit! :D

So on Good Friday James and I went down to Kah Motor (KM) and we booked and confirmed our car. Had enough of parrallel importers, it is better to get from authorised dealers. And our Jazz will be coming in June/July, even though it is still a bit late, but at least you will not fear that they will increase the price or tell you that you need to pay this extra, that extra, etc. And KM has COE rebate at 15k, which means if COE exceeds 15k, KM will absorb. COE less than 15k, they will rebate us. A good deal yah? And this dealer is pretty straightforward with us (thanks to Sharon) and gave us an additional 1k off the price list. And with the loan discount of 1k, we got 2k off the actual price. Maybe this is one of their gimmicks, but I dun really care, the most important thing is I am happy with his service, and I walked out of KM that day feeling that I had bought my car!

Going by Jenny's calculation and the recent COE price, to buy from Jenny is not worthwhile at all. Her Fit price increased by 1K, so she is selling to us at $41.5K (w/o COE). With COE price (let's assume the next COE closes at 16k), buying a 2008 Fit from her would cost us $57.5k. And this price does not include all the other accessories that Kah Motor has thrown in.

Work
With Superstar's departure, we thot that we will finally see some light in our direction. However we were absolutely wrong. The 'greenies' mgmt really think of all aspects. With Superstar's resignation, they grouped us under one of the 'blueies', so that we will be better controlled under this 'blueie', due to the fact that we had belonged together before the merger. And that we had belonged in the same organisation before the merger, they are hoping that under this 'blueie' we would not hamtam their people anymore. But anyway these people are all wrong. Regardless of blue or green, mistakes and failures we will still hamtam. Anyway with quite a bit of changes in the org chart, life in this org will soon become unbearable. I have to endure at least until end April before I can move on. Have lotsa things coming up in April.

Whole of March has not been smooth sailing at all. Lotsa problems at work, accounts that involved me, and accounts that did not involve me yet still involved me... Wonder how got myself entangled in that. For the account that involved me, things just exploded and went to the MD. Suddenly everyone become interested about this account, and the whole world wanted to meet and discuss where they can come into the picture, and everyone wants to get involved. And thus there were lotsa meetings lined up - useless meetings, meetings that stretched over lunch, meetings that stretched past knock off time, meetings that people ended up in arguements, but all in all, meetings with no conclusions. Silly meetings that were just a waste of precious time.

Family
Haven been speaking to Number 2 since CNY (Shanel's place). We used to travel to work together everyday, but ever since the first day of work after CNY, we have been travelling separately to work (even though our buildings are just next to each other). Neither have we been lunching together anymore. Initially this puzzled me a lot, and I had been speaking with Mum to find out if Number 2 had told Mum anything. Mum initially told me she is ignorant of all these until I told her. Then on one Saturday in Feb, Number 2 told Mum the reason (which I only got to know in early March).

Number 2 claimed that I had not been re-imbursing her for the petrol money. Apparently last year when we started taking cabs to work together, it was a 'today you pay, tmr I pay'. However in Sept/Oct, Number 2 ran into financial difficulties, so out of a week of 5 working days, I paid for almost all 5 days. Then came Dec whereby she was really broke and got her future husband (J) to fetch us to work. However J did not fetch us every single day, out of 5 days, it was max 4 days, usually 2-3 days only. So on days that we took cab to work, I paid for the cab fare. So it became fair and square right?

However in her version to Mum, it was that I had NOT been paying for the cabfares on those days that J did not fetch us to work. My conscience is clear, and I am extremely upset with her accusations. And we are sisters, by blood. Are these money issues so serious that she cannot tell me face to face and must take the cowardly approach instead? If she feels that I should re-imburse her for those bloody diesel, then tell me face to face. Why do this kind of 'small people action'? We can always trash things out isn't it? Apparently to her monies are more impt than family. And I did not calculate with her on those times when I paid for the transportation almost every single day. What is this, man? She is making me absolutely pissed and disgusted with her.

Anyway I have a good mind not to be her 'jiemei' at her upcoming wedding in April. If she does not open her mouth and ask me to be her jiemei, I will just feign ignorance and NOT be the jiemei at her wedding. I used to feel that she is selfish, money-minded and materialistic (with several incidents that she wanted to 'borrow' money from Mum, flaring up when Mum did not 'lend' her money; etc)
and with this diesel thingy, it has only reinforced my opinion and proved that my judgement is right.

And with her wedding in less than a month's time, our family should be happily preparing for her wedding. However we are in the dark about all their arrangements and schedules. Everything is decided by them and J's family. Number 2 did not even bother to come back to discuss anything with Dad and Mum. They only came back once (since CNY day 1 till now, end March) and that was to inform Dad and Mum of the buffet thingy on her actual day. Anyway this wedding has not thrown the family into any kind of happiness mood, we are supposed to be feeling happy for her ya? But in the end this wedding has made her drift further apart from us. She drifted to J's family and has almost totally cut us off. Maybe we should be happy for her that she is blending in so naturally with J's family? Ok, then congrats.

Me Myself & I

April is going to be a busy (and very siong) month for me and James.

04 April (Fri) - Delivery of our new wardrobe ($1.3k)
14 April (Mon) - Number 2's ROM & Guo Da Li Day
15 April (Tue) - Appointment with HDB to select our flat ($2k)
19 April (Sat) - Number 2's Wedding
23 April (Wed) to 27 April (Sun) - BKK Trip ($1k at least?)

Ya, we had changed our trip to end April instead coz we did not want our car to come just before our trip. End up we changed the date for nothing. Haha... But anyway James and I are over-worked and extremely exhuasted and we are in desparate need for a getaway so end April will be good too, at least we do not have to wait until mid May. Next on the 'to do' list is book our hotel!

Wow, so many entries at one go. Its been really long since I update yah! :D

Home

Well well well, Number 2 is getting married in April, and my wedding bells are ringing too, at the end of 2008, and also that James and I will be staying with Mum and Dad for the next 3 years at least, Mum decided that we had better renovate the bathroom in the masterbed room (which is the room that I am currently occupying and will still continue to occupy after marriange). This bathroom is in a pretty bad state right now - WC is leaking, floor tiles are dirty (regardless of how much scrubbing I have done), floor is not even which resulted in puddles of water, wash basin looks as though it might fall any moment, wooden door is rotting away, etc... Really terok yah... So this 'save the bathroom' process will happen tomorrow (25 March) and costs $1.5k to change everything (minus the wall tiles)

And with my wedding coming up, I thot it would be better to change our wardrobe to a bigger one. His working clothes are currently occupying some space in Dad's wardrobe coz our current wardrobe is extremely small and is only enough to put part of my clothes. Yes, part of my clothes. And there are clothes stacked everywhere in my room. Extremely messy. And as I had joked to Brenda, my room would need more than 3 months to tidy up! Haha.. Yeah, that is how messy my room is.

So on 16 March, we went in search of a suitable cupboard. Suitable in the sense of space, area occupancy, and also the price. We cannot get a 4D coz the L-shape table and queen sized bed already occupies quite a bit of space and we only have enough space area to get a 3D. Actually a 3D wardrobe is not sufficient for me and James, but with some tidying up (I mean a lot of tidying up), I think it should be enough la. Finally set my eyes on one 3 door wardrobe and that set me back by $1.3k. And yippie, my new cupboard is coming 4th April!

With the wardrobe coming in 1st Friday of April and the renovation works of the bathroom happening tmr, we had to do a "save the room" act yesterday. Spent the whole Sunday tidying up our room, threw away lots of clothes, I think about 5 bags of clothes. And had to shift the TV onto the L shaped table, have to throw away the moveable TV consol in the room to make room for walking space when the wardrobe comes. This "save the room" act left me with a runny nose and headache for the night... :( But at least my room is a lot cleaner and tidier now! Next "save" will be the accessories and miscellanous items still left in my wardrobe. Will have to leave that for next Sunday already!

Month of March has been busy busy busy busy. Originally we had booked our Fit with Jenny (end Feb). However the 2 COE biddings in March left us disappointed. And with her most recent phonecall on the last day of the 2nd COE bidding made me mad (she claimed that our car can only come in end June and that the car price is up by one K), I decided enough is enough. Even though her deal does not require us to pay deposit and that she is my cousin's fren, I do not wish to have the car-buying experience totally wrecked or ruined by her. And boy am I glad that we did not and do not have to pay her deposit, coz that means we can go to another agent without forfeitting any deposit! :D

So on Good Friday James and I went down to Kah Motor (KM) and we booked and confirmed our car. Had enough of parrallel importers, it is better to get from authorised dealers. And our Jazz will be coming in June/July, even though it is still a bit late, but at least you will not fear that they will increase the price or tell you that you need to pay this extra, that extra, etc. And KM has COE rebate at 15k, which means if COE exceeds 15k, KM will absorb. COE less than 15k, they will rebate us. A good deal yah? And this dealer is pretty straightforward with us (thanks to Sharon) and gave us an additional 1k off the price list. And with the loan discount of 1k, we got 2k off the actual price. Maybe this is one of their gimmicks, but I dun really care, the most important thing is I am happy with his service, and I walked out of KM that day feeling that I had bought my car!

Going by Jenny's calculation and the recent COE price, to buy from Jenny is not worthwhile at all. Her Fit price increased by 1K, so she is selling to us at $41.5K (w/o COE). With COE price (let's assume the next COE closes at 16k), buying a 2008 Fit from her would cost us $57.5k. And this price does not include all the other accessories that Kah Motor has thrown in.

Work
With Superstar's departure, we thot that we will finally see some light in our direction. However we were absolutely wrong. The 'greenies' mgmt really think of all aspects. With Superstar's resignation, they grouped us under one of the 'blueies', so that we will be better controlled under this 'blueie', due to the fact that we had belonged together before the merger. And that we had belonged in the same organisation before the merger, they are hoping that under this 'blueie' we would not hamtam their people anymore. But anyway these people are all wrong. Regardless of blue or green, mistakes and failures we will still hamtam. Anyway with quite a bit of changes in the org chart, life in this org will soon become unbearable. I have to endure at least until end April before I can move on. Have lotsa things coming up in April.

Whole of March has not been smooth sailing at all. Lotsa problems at work, accounts that involved me, and accounts that did not involve me yet still involved me... Wonder how got myself entangled in that. For the account that involved me, things just exploded and went to the MD. Suddenly everyone become interested about this account, and the whole world wanted to meet and discuss where they can come into the picture, and everyone wants to get involved. And thus there were lotsa meetings lined up - useless meetings, meetings that stretched over lunch, meetings that stretched past knock off time, meetings that people ended up in arguements, but all in all, meetings with no conclusions. Silly meetings that were just a waste of precious time.

Family
Haven been speaking to Number 2 since CNY (Shanel's place). We used to travel to work together everyday, but ever since the first day of work after CNY, we have been travelling separately to work (even though our buildings are just next to each other). Neither have we been lunching together anymore. Initially this puzzled me a lot, and I had been speaking with Mum to find out if Number 2 had told Mum anything. Mum initially told me she is ignorant of all these until I told her. Then on one Saturday in Feb, Number 2 told Mum the reason (which I only got to know in early March).

Number 2 claimed that I had not been re-imbursing her for the petrol money. Apparently last year when we started taking cabs to work together, it was a 'today you pay, tmr I pay'. However in Sept/Oct, Number 2 ran into financial difficulties, so out of a week of 5 working days, I paid for almost all 5 days. Then came Dec whereby she was really broke and got her future husband (J) to fetch us to work. However J did not fetch us every single day, out of 5 days, it was max 4 days, usually 2-3 days only. So on days that we took cab to work, I paid for the cab fare. So it became fair and square right?

However in her version to Mum, it was that I had NOT been paying for the cabfares on those days that J did not fetch us to work. My conscience is clear, and I am extremely upset with her accusations. And we are sisters, by blood. Are these money issues so serious that she cannot tell me face to face and must take the cowardly approach instead? If she feels that I should re-imburse her for those bloody diesel, then tell me face to face. Why do this kind of 'small people action'? We can always trash things out isn't it? Apparently to her monies are more impt than family. And I did not calculate with her on those times when I paid for the transportation almost every single day. What is this, man? She is making me absolutely pissed and disgusted with her.

Anyway I have a good mind not to be her 'jiemei' at her upcoming wedding in April. If she does not open her mouth and ask me to be her jiemei, I will just feign ignorance and NOT be the jiemei at her wedding. I used to feel that she is selfish, money-minded and materialistic (with several incidents that she wanted to 'borrow' money from Mum, flaring up when Mum did not 'lend' her money; etc)
and with this diesel thingy, it has only reinforced my opinion and proved that my judgement is right.

And with her wedding in less than a month's time, our family should be happily preparing for her wedding. However we are in the dark about all their arrangements and schedules. Everything is decided by them and J's family. Number 2 did not even bother to come back to discuss anything with Dad and Mum. They only came back once (since CNY day 1 till now, end March) and that was to inform Dad and Mum of the buffet thingy on her actual day. Anyway this wedding has not thrown the family into any kind of happiness mood, we are supposed to be feeling happy for her ya? But in the end this wedding has made her drift further apart from us. She drifted to J's family and has almost totally cut us off. Maybe we should be happy for her that she is blending in so naturally with J's family? Ok, then congrats.