Ultimate Hawker Fest 2014 + L'Entrecôte

Sister won $50 food coupons for Ultimate Hawker Fest 2014. Eh? So heng? Dragged Brother to go eat!

Review: Pobling Facewash Brush and Kingdom Face Steamer

12/10
On Brother's recent trip to Hong Kong and Shenzhen with X, I took the opportunity to ask him to buy me a face steamer if he ever came across a cheap one. There are many available on Taobao, I'm sure he could find one!

And he did!

A Day of Many First-Times

Gonna try out Sister's hair stylist for the first time. The salon is near Holland Village, so it's a chance for me to eat there since I haven't been there since... many years ago.

More Letters

Received letter from CPF for Use of CPF For Monthly Instalments. Letting us know that it will commence on 1 Nov 2014. Which is like 3 days later.

Letters, Letters

Received from lawyer the copy of mortgage-in-escrow - the document where we signed away our house to Maybank and yet still have to continue to pay for it.

Also a copy of stamped deed of assignment dated 13/10/2014 and letter of confirmation of property loan amount dated 15/05/2014.

No need to do anything, right?

Jurong Bird Park

We are visiting another Singapore tourist attraction! This time, it's Jurong Bird Park. With the corporate pass of course.

JBP is so ulu that the F&B options look worse than SAD. Not wanting to spend on food that already look unappetizing on the menu (mostly due to the tourist-oriented pricing), we made our own sandwiches. As a kid, I have always yearned dining out and viewed eating home-made food outside with disdain. Now I'm doing it willingly. How growing up changed me!

Waiiit! I Wanna Pay!

Finally CPF e-services are completely up. The process of filling up the request form was quite straight-forward, but there were still a few glitches.

I was prompted to print a copy of the form before submitting. Ok, so I clicked the Print button provided. The lousy button didn't allow me to print to Google, and printing to PDF got scrollbar. I should have tried changing the paper size, but I didn't think of that then. Fed up, I screenshot it.

Ok, done with the diversion and back to submission, but the Submit button disappeared! WTF, now must I redo the whole form????? Not that I had a lot to fill in, but just boey song lor. I tried the Back button. Phew, everything was still filled in. Carefully get it done without repeating my mistakes~

Successfully setup the payment with 1 day to go! Phew!

First Instalment Letter

I think I understand liao. When we were informed that the 10% for foundation is due, our lawyer got Maybank to disburse the money and passed it to the developer's lawyer. Now Maybank is going to get the money back from us slowwwly.

Haha Sotong finally connected the dots!

So now, Sotong has to go to the CPF website to submit the request to Commence CPF Monthly Instalment. But the lousy CPF website was down! Payments are due on November, now October liao wor!

Huge-sum Cashier's Order

Ok, I received another chim lawyer's letter. This time, our lawyer has sent the developer's lawyer a cashier's order for a huge sum of money.

What does this mean ahh, do I need to do anything?

iHerb - Vitamins, Hair, Face

iHerb shopping again! Mother was going to restock on flaxseed oil, so it's an opportunity for me to buy some personal care stuff too!

My Beauty Diary Vanilla Moisturizing Aroma Mask

I responded to a facebook promotion by My Beauty Diary to redeem a free sheet mask. Because no need to share, write fake posts, invite friends or go down to collect it!

It took so long that I thought I have been forgotten, but the promised mask eventually arrived in my mail.

Austerity Time?

First bombshell has landed!

Tomi Sushi

Sister chose this Tomi Sushi for her birthday celebrations this year. X was ill, so she didn't join us.

Conveniently-located at Novena Square. I was able to get to our table without much trouble.

Food is rather pricey. But since we were celebrating a birthday, I decided to splurge on some sashimi and a few pieces of sushi.

We ordered bottled beer. When the waitress served the beer, she brought us an appetiser-sized food... some fish skin I think, saying that it went well with the beer. So nice to give us complimentary dish for ordering beet! And it's tasty!

Asked for the bill. We were billed for the "complimentary" item. That's a sneaky way of shoving items down our throats, like the Chinese restaurant peanuts! Not happy!

Not gonna come again. Too pricey for no wow factor. Positive wow, I mean.

Hero 2

2014 Takuya dorama!

Hero 2

I wasn't expecting a 2 at all. Trust the Japanese to revive a franchise from 13 years ago! But I guess that was necessary with his crappy works these years. If a formula works, why not?

What a pleasant surprise that they managed to get so many familiar faces back! Even if it was just for a cameo. The previous female lead didn't return though. But I thought the bar owner who has everything, is more crucial than her LOL!

Like!

MAF 2014

Nobody bought specialty mooncakes this year. Eh... people who always go out, should go buy what...

iHerb Snackin'

Mother needed to restock her vegetarian glucosamine, so I bought something to top-up to USD60 to qualify for 5% discount.

So, You Wanted Some Feedback

18/8
Feedback form! Oh, you are so asking for it.

I just got a new PT, again. Obviously, there has been no handover done regarding my case at all. He's clueless about my HKAFO! Did he read my case notes? Or is there actually anything regarding it in my case notes?? I really want to know! It's unacceptable that everytime there's a new person seeing me, we have to go through the whole process again, wasting my time!

The usually no-comments me wrote a scathing essay (by my standards), lambasting the way they are handling me. Not accusing them of anything, I suggested that they start doing documentation in case even the last person with the know-how (and we are literally down to one last person; the rest were no longer working there) is not around, we could still proceed. How many times do they get to handle a HKAFO? Good learning experience ok?

Today
The manager came to speak to me. She confessed that my suggestion was good and wondered why they have not thought of documenting (!!! WHUTTT!!!)

The PT started my session earlier too. Hahaaha paiseh ahhh must have scared the boy :P

H's Baby Shower

Today is my JC friend, H's baby girl's baby shower. Ehh same name as another classmate's daughter.

Why do the angmohs call it baby "shower". Was it literally the first shower for the baby? :O

Mosquito Dropped Dead

On my table.

Means-Testing

Out of the blue in July, I got a letter asking me to submit a Means-Test Declaration Form. At first, I didn't want to, since it's a waste of time to fill in the form when my application is going to get rejected anyway. Even though Mother dumped her boss, we were still considered "rich"...

But hey, I discovered that the form already bore our family details, and all I had to do was to send Brother's payslip since everything pretty much remained the same. Ok lor I shall submit!

Today, we got the result. Zzz.

They sent the same reply to all members of my family. Waste paper lor.