Home Renovation {Part 1}

It's been awhile since I last updated. As I've mention previously, our hearts are more or less settled on a contractor.. and we have finally award the project to Mr J & E.

Renovations works are currently on it's way. So far I can say, they work pretty fast.

So just to share what we are planing to do on our house.

• Kitchen

Carpentry works for bottom cabinets on both side of the kitchen.

Install kompacplus for kitchen top

Construct breakfast counter

Flooring for the whole house with skirting

• Living Room

Brick wall (Feature wall)

Suspended shoe rack

• Master Bedroom & Toilet

Full height sliding wardrobe

Construct vainty top with storage @ MBR Toilet

Construct glass panel at the shower area

• Others

Window grilles for the whole house

Some pictures to share on it's progress

Our living room tiles!!

Soooo love our wood like floor tiles

Aircon piping are being layed

Say Hello to our brick wall!

As we mention previously that our theme is Scandi- industrial.. so a brick wall is a must have!! 

Renovation permit was approved and hacking was done within 3 days. So loving my open kitchen!!

Currently I don't have much time to go up to our place to check out the progress so right now I only can rely on my contractor's update.

Next up... my shopping post for home stuffs!!

Have a great weekend!

Xoxo
Felicia

Mr & Mrs Lee : Our next milestone {Lee Family @ Fernvale Lea}

After a long wait for 3 years, we finally collected the keys to our flat in March!

We reached at least 30 mins prior to our appointment and went to straight up to pay our fire insurance at leavel 2 and then, went downstairs to get a que number.

So once our que no is being called, we quickly went in, settled down and sign my CPF savings away to finance the HDB loan.. there, within 5 mins, I'm a HDB slave for the next 25 years.

Upon our key collections, one will need to make payment for the SC charges of $50++ at level 3 and then went down to level 2 to make an appointment to switch our power supply.

Straight after all the paperworks are done.. we drove to our flat. Super super excited!! Finally step foot to our flat!

Since hubs is a Christian hence no pineapple throwing or anything.. He just said a simple prayer and we both enter the house. Though I hang a small cross on the window ledge... God bless this house.

Our small abode (4 room flat)

So after collecting the keys to our home, we went to make an appointment for SP (Singapore Powers) to activate our electrical and water supply. So we can go up at night when lights and all.

Next would be to meet up with the shortlisted contractors & Interior Designers.

These are my shortlisted list

• Mr K from H2O Renovation
• Mr J & E from Chun Xiang Renovation
• Butterpaper Studio
• Rezt & Relax 

MR K - H20 Renovation

Mr K seems like a man of a few words. He basically just took down some measurement and didn't even write down what we wanted. Didn't give much input on space planning. But the quotation that we received has almost 80% of what we wanted. However I feel that his quote was kinda sloppy. Looks like he took someone else quote and just edit here and there. There is even 1 or 2 items that was listed but not what I required. Hmm... anyway his quote is 30K hence I need to drop him

Mr J & Mr E 

A small team of 3 man (Including Mr J & Mr E) came by.. told them what we wanted and was quite impressed that Mr J could immediately sketch out the kitchen layout for me. They also gave me afew suggestion. Quite responsive when we asked for a 2nd revise quote.

Quote was within my budget.

Butterpaper Studio

A husband and wife team who are architect during the day. I love love love their works and right from the start, I was very very keen to hire them to do the renovations. However their quote (as base on the past works) came out to be 45K. That's way above our budget so I guess... they kinda drop us instead of the other way round..

Rezt & Relax

An ID was recommended by my gf and he happens to be our school mate. Though I have to recollection of him. So anyway, 1 week has past and I have yet to receive his quote and drawings soo... He did mention that my budget of $25 - 27k is pretty tight based on the items that I want.

So I wonder if he is going to drop me either??

Anyway, after much discussion with Mr Lee.. We have decided to go with contractor so we are gonna schedule a final meet up and place the deposit. Hope they do remember us and schedule a meeting soon!

Will blog more when things are confirm again! Gonna be a busy mama this period of time.

Xoxoxo
Felicia

Remembering LKY

This day, Singapore has lost her Founding Father. It's sad to hear that Mr Lee Kuan Yew has passed away.

Thank you for giving us a safe and green country. A safe place where we call our HOME. A good education system which benefit all Singaporeans. No enough thanks can express the appreciation we have. For the red passport that we hold, brings us to lots of places without applying for Visa. A 3rd world country to 1st world country..

He has fought the good fight. He has completed the race. His legacy will live on to our younger generation.

May we remember this day and honor him for the sacrifices that he made in order to provide a better life for all Singaporeans.

Love,
Felicia

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

It's eve of Chinese New Year!

Am excited to spend our 2nd CNY together with Danielle.

Last year during CNY, she was just a newborn and now this baby girl is ONE year old.
Damn chatty and she know how to do the "gong xi gong xi".

Didn't have much to prep for CNY as I'm still living with my in laws.. and partly because I'm too lazy to pack anything when our space is so limited and yet have so much stuffs.

But I am also super excited to received news from HDB that I can collect our home keys in March 2015!!!!!!

I seriously can't wait to have my own place... a place that I can really call my own..

Now it's time for me to feast and spend lots of quality time with my family and loves one.

After CNY, am going to start looking for ID / contractors!!

So here a Happy Chinese New Year to all..

My favourite past time.. TV DRAMA Serial!

As I grow older.. I realized that many of my habits and hobbies has changed.

Before I got married, I need to read novel before I sleep. That's the only way for me to unwind and relax. However it's pretty bad on the eyesight..

And when I got married, it's bit difficult for me to read cause I don't have a bedside lamp. And me, being lazy.. didn't want to get up when I'm all cosy and comfortable on bed.. So i switch to watching HK & US tv drama!


But recently, you see me watching alot more US dramas! So here are some of my favorite!!!

Synopsis: 

Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a New York City medical examiner who studies the dead for criminal cases, and to solve the mystery of his own immortality. Since his first death 200 years ago while working as a doctor in the African slave trade, Morgan disappears almost immediately each time he dies, and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water. Having also stopped aging, Morgan's long life has given him broad knowledge and remarkable observation skills which impress most people he encounters, including NYPD Detective Jo Martinez (Alana de la Garza). Flashbacks depict events from Morgan's life, during which he has fought in wars and been married, dissected, and hanged for heresy; when he has been exposed, Morgan has fled to somewhere else in the world. Only antiquarian Abe (Judd Hirsch), whom Morgan and former wife Abigail found as a newborn in a German concentration camp during World War II, knows that he is immortal. Morgan is stalked by a murderer, "Adam", who has learned his secret, and claims to have had the same "curse" for 2,000 years.

Source: Wikipedia

Criminal Minds (Season 10)

I've started watching this show since Season 3 ~ 4... by the far crime tv drama!!

Synopsis:

The tenth season of Criminal Minds of the American police-procedural television show premiered on CBS on October 1, 2014. The series was officially renewed for a tenth season on March 13, 2014.^[1] It consists of 23 episodes.^[2] This season will have an addition to the cast with Jennifer Love Hewitt playing an undercover agent who joins the BAU.

Source: Wikipedia

I only get to know about Constantine through the movie that Keanu Reeves stared in.

But this drama is alot more darker and intense. I hope like the other drama, Supernatural, Constantine can last till Season 10! 

Synopsis:

From the popular DC comic book series "Hellblazer" comes John Constantine: a demon hunter and dabbling master of the occult who battles the demons and tricksters of Hell with a wicked wit and a dangerously deep understanding of the dark arts. Struggling with his past sins, his soul already damned to Hell for when he did the same to a child, John is pulled back into events of the demonic world after having given up on it. Now, he'll do whatever it takes to guard the innocent from the converging supernatural threats that constantly break through to our world, which occur more and more frequently, due to the "Rising Darkness". Balancing his actions upon the line of good and evil, Constantine uses his skills and a supernatural scry map to journey the nation to send these terrors back to their own world, all for the hope of redeeming his soul from eternal torment.

Source: Wikipedia

Synopsis:

After witnessing his mother's strange murder and his father's wrongful conviction for the crime, Barry Allen is taken in by Detective Joe West and his family. Allen becomes a brilliant but socially awkward crime scene investigator for the Central City Police Department. His obsession with his tragic past causes him to become an outcast among his peers; he investigates cold cases,paranormal occurrences, and bleeding-edge scientific advancements that may shed light on his mother's murder. No one believes his description of the crime—that a ball of lightning with the face of a man invaded their home that night—and Allen is fiercely driven to vindicate himself and to clear his father's name. Fourteen years after his mother's death, an advanced particle accelerator malfunctions during its public unveiling, bathing the city center with a previously unknown form of radiation during a severe thunderstorm created by the accelerator. Allen is struck by lightning from the storm and doused with chemicals in his lab. Awakening after a nine-month coma, he discovers he has the ability to move at superhuman speeds. Dr. Harrison Wells, the disgraced designer of the failed particle accelerator, describes Barry's special nature as "metahuman"; Allen soon discovers that he is not the only one who was changed by the radiation. Allen vows to use his gifts to protectCentral City from the escalating violence of metahuman criminals. He is aided by a few close friends and associates who guard his secrets.

I seldom like to watch historical drama.. cause it's too slow and lengthy.. Just not my type..

But Reign, something abit different.

Synopsis:

The highly fictionalized series follows the early exploits of Mary, Queen of Scots during her years living in France. The first season opens in 1557, with Mary living in French court and awaiting her marriage to Prince Francis, to whom she has been engaged since they were six. Mary has to contend with changing politics and power plays, as well as her burgeoning feelings for Francis and the romantic attentions from Francis' bastard half-brother, Bash. Francis' mother, Catherine de' Medici, secretly tries to prevent the marriage following Nostradamus's confidential prediction that the marriage will lead to Francis' death. The series also follows the affairs of Mary's Scottish handmaidens Kenna, Aylee, Lola and Greer, who are searching for husbands of their own at court.

Opening narration for Season 1 (episodes 2-11):

“

Since Mary, Queen of Scotland, was a child the English have wanted her country and her crown. She is sent to France to wed its next king, to save herself and her people - a bond that should protect her, but there are forces that conspire, forces of darkness, forces of the heart. Long may she reign.

”

The second season opens after the death of King Henry II, and follows the rise of Francis and Mary as King and Queen of France and Scotland. Together they have to balance their marriage with their roles as monarchs, and deal with the rising religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants.

That all for my currently favorite tv serial.. feel that I've sorely neglected my TVB HK drama. But I think with CNY coming, it's a good time for me to slack at home and complete all my dramas!!

Xoxoxo,
Felicia 

1st year as a mother

Today marks my first year as a mother. Guess till one is a mother, you will never forget the day you went into labour. Thank fully for epidural.. I had a almost painless labour.

Our lives has change with her arrival. Yes, there are those days / nights when it's tough. To soothe a cranky baby when you only have a few hours of sleep. To exercise those patience when we don't know what Danielle wants and keep whining and crying.

There those nights where Danielle sleep through the night.. I got a good solid 6 - 8 hours sleep.
And those first milestones that she hits. The first time she calls, Mama and Papa.

And now that we are a parent for 12 months, I think my patience level up abit. My knowledge on Danielle has increased. I know what she likes and don't like. What makes her tickle and laugh. And my hug as her comfort and soothe and ease her pain or fears.

Being a mother for 12 months, I often wonder how can someone so small yet hold my heart to tightly?

This quote is exactly how i feel.. I guess all mothers will feel the same.

Took childcare leave today to spend some time with Danielle and I hope to bring her to the indoor playground to play.

Hopefully her flu is getting better...

Xoxo,

Felicia