An-Chuang Bedsheets Bought (25-7-09)

Yeah~ Another thing done.
Have finally bought our new bedsheets last Saturday at Tampines 1!
I have been 'eyeing' for a pink color bedsheet from Co'zy for a long time already ever since I saw it on display at IMM. hee...

So that day, we bought 2 sets of King-sized bedsheets sets, 2 pink pillowcases, 2 bolster cases and 1 quilt for a total cost of hmm..... about S$345! Wooops..... that's the most I've ever spent for buying bedsheets..haha...
Alright..the comforting part is that one set of King-sized bedsheets that comes with 2 pillowcases,bedsheet and quilt cover already costs $300+..and now Co'zy is having discount.. ^_^. I bought 2 colors : Pink and White with light blue flower embriodery.. :p

Royal Bed Selection (Part 2)

I was surfing on the internet for mattresses and came upon the following (extracted from Serta's mattresses website), which I think would be useful for new couples who are looking for their new royal beds.. hee hee...

Royal Bed fit for a Princess & Prince (Part 1) (31-5-09)

Sunday, I dragged BB for a haircut again @ Tampines 1. After that, we initially had the intention of only dropping by the SIMMONS and SERTA showroom to see whether are there any offers on the bed.

However, when we passed by SIMMONS, there was no customers inside and there seems to be no attractive offers too. So we walked 2 shops ahead and stepped in SERTA. To be honest, I've not heard of this brand before until I remembered I saw Xiaohui and Seng Hwee's new bed has the 2 infamous sheep toy! haa.....

The SA who attended to us was Claris. I was too engrossed at jumping onto the different beds and didnt really catch what she was saying, as I left BB to listen to what she has to say lor. hahaha... There were quite alot of different models that I really can't differentiate which is which. The bigger beds all looks and feels plush to me. *lol* I was attracted more to the Missouri and another model which I really can't remember its name.

Missouri's having a promotion whereby I can get a free upgrade to King size if I buy Queen, etc. On top of that, I'll get 30% discount + another 8% discount (which that Sunday is their last day of promotion) + 1 lucky dip (which we got another 1 free pillow) + 1 mattress protector + 1 sheep + 1 bench + 2 pillows + another 1 premium gift (which we got another mattress protector).
I'll need to top up another $699 for the bed frame if I want that too.

The price is affordable for us and BB bought on the spot. *faint* I was quite worried because we haven't done much research on beds yet.. but Claris said that it's better that we lock in the price first and should we see a lower price set of Serta brand next time, we can bring our receipt there and she'll reduce for us. (I know this is sales-talk lor... sigh...but then again, both of us like the feel of the bed.)

Anyway, BB only paid a small deposit.
When I got home, I quickly try to search for some info online. It was said that the 3 "S" brands are the most popular brands in USA; namely Sealy, Simmons and Serta.
Sealy won the award for " World's Best selling mattress" whereas Serta won the award for "We make the World's best mattress." Simmons on the other hand, is more popular with hotels which are using their brand of mattresses.

Below is an extract of a search by one fellow forumer who has done her research on the 3 brands:-
"For simmons they r renowned for the support for their original pocketed coil technolgy .Simmons is the first that bring in individual pocketed coil decades ago it is the orginal only orginal pocketed coil are pre-compressed. I know u all dont understand. For example when we pre-compresses a coil from a 7 inches(Simmons have the highest coil height in the market) to a stardard height simmons set, the coil actually will be insisting on getting up so we slp on the mattress we can feel the support.Imported from USA,Japn,Korea,Canada,OEM malaysia,OEM China n OEM Thailand.

Sealy entered Singapore market not very long. Sealy are renowned for their Posturepedic coil, we call it open coil. all the coils are fully connected with wire.Posturepedic coil have sensory arm n triple off set it is said to be able to adjust to the correct alignment for our body.Sealy mattresses are mostly very comfortable.Sealy is the world's best selling mattress. Total Sales figures (world no. 1) Sealy + its two other sub companies.Sealy also have very wide price range(cheap to very expensive)as compared to Serta n Simmons.Most range Asemble in Thailand.Only some Unicase(expensive) from USA.

Serta is the youngest in Singapore mattress industry compare with the other 2.Serta is renowned for its mira coil technology is also name open coil fully connected with wire among the coil, n their comfort level for mattress.If serta says it is no.2 no one dare to compete with it for comfort level.But Serta these recent years did come out with their pocketed coil series for their mattresses.Serta did also won the title (We make the world's best mattress).Most range asembled in indonesia. practise OEM(original equipment manuafacturing).Some from USA.

Well If u wanted support higher can go for Simmons,if u wanted Comfort level higher go for Sealy or Serta open coil(motion transfer high) are used to make soft n comfortable mattresses.If you want support n no motion transfer between u n ur partner can go for Individual pocketed coil.If u only more concern about enjoying of comfort level 3 minutes before u slp u can go for open-coil Sealy or Serta.Only Simmons USA range can be compatible to Sealy n Serta for the comfort level.If u r more concern about the 8 hrs of sleep u will need good support u can go for Simmons.Choose a mattress according to what your needs.Hope it will help u to choose a mattress wisely."

Hope the above helps new couples buying new beds! (*^_^)

I'll only be able to feedback on my bed only in November after I've lied on it. hahaha....
In the meantime, there's only pics to show..

This is the Serta - Missouri mattress. (I think it's considered as a Pillowtop + Eurotop..Darn.. what exactly does this mea? I guess need to google again.. :p If I'm not wrong, pillowtop's referring to the layer of latex 'stuck' on top of the mattress..)

This set below is the Night Star Prestige Series... Looks posh and plush right? hahaha... I'm attracted to the bottom part of the bed frame that has those Martha Stewart's lace designs... :p

And this below, is the bedframe titled PRINCESS with bench.. I am going to go for leather/PVC bedframe!! ^_^

Painting House (Part 2) 17-5-09

Yeah~~ Finally done with the full house painting during the last weekend.

Now BB's only left with the 2 toilets' ceiling to paint and finding a vendor to make a new main door and the kitchen sink. *lol* sounds like a new re-vamp of the entire 5-rm flat. :p

The living room wall was painted with Rose White color, our room - Sky Blue color, MIL's room a light lavender-pink, BB's bro's room - a Mulberry color that looks like those Chewy fruity grape flavor color (*hahaha...Ah Hong and the rest were laughing cos it looks like a princess room) and cos his room is opp ours, so somehow if u stand outside in the middle facing both rooms, it really looks like the LADIES and GENTs toilet.. ahhaha...

P.S: this mulberry color is not chosen by his bro ya..hee.. somehow it's a combined decision of me, BB and MIL and he said he's ok with anythg though his initial color was a dark blue... =p

Didnt take any photos of the rooms yet cos it's very messy that day..hahah.. conquering both living rm and his bro's room in 1 day lei..

Furthermore, I think some paint dust flew into my eyes and caused me to have sore eyes that evening till this morning then it healed.. SOB SOB..

Oohhh... currently, I've been preparing a prop for my 1st photoshoot nx mth. haha..

Nearly done with it... now's only left 1 part.. can GUESS what is it? *lol*

Don't know why the picture turns to this angle..it should be viewed/rotated 90 deg to the left.. ^_^ hee...

Materials:

Cardboard (that I coup from office's paper box)

Orange Construction Papers

Scissors, Scotch-tape

Silver Metallic Wrapping paper

House Painting starts! 26-4-09

Today during lunch @ Amoy, saw Zoe Tay. I was like murmuring "zheng huiyu, zheng huiyu" to Ms Xixi BUT she didnt hear me. Instead it was Zoe who heard me calling her and turned her head slightly, acknowledging my call-out. *hahah* so malu* ..
I wanted to take a pic with her but she seems like in a rush and went off with her 2 helpers.. haha... nvm.. better luck next time! But I have to say, she's really slim! hehe...

Oki, yesterday morning, we started our room painting works! *abit ahead of schedule but then again, the earlier we complete, the better cos will be one thing off our To-Do list*. ^_^
We were lucky to have the help of Ah-Hong jie and her brother aka BB's cousins to help us do the painting as well!
By the way, they're professional designer and renovation contractor. And alot of people say Ah-hong looks like our national pingpong player Li Jiawei, esp when we go to the market together, the aunties will ask her if she's Jiawei?! *lol*
Anyway, Thanks alot Ah Hong jie and cousin!

Our room is now a nice cool shade of ANGEL Blue... very cosy and aquarium-like.. hahhaa...
*happy* Even Xiao Ziqi (Hong's daughter) says our room is very nice!

Painting artists at work. BB and Ah Hong jie in the background. ^_^
Me is the Quality supervisor - scrambling around looking for 'defects'. Hhaha...

Our newly painted room! Oops.. but I think I wasn't able to capture the real color of the walls in this picture. (T__T;)

Next to add, will be new furnitures for the room! haha...

I didn't want to post the Before pics of the room because I think BB will 'scold' me..haha.. cos it was such a messy room *lol*

Ah hong's bro say will make us a new cover top for the tables shown above because the top part is peeling off le... :p I was thinking whether should I paint the tables in white? Because I want a country-style kind of white furnitures... hmmmm..... let me find photos and post in my next post.

I also bought a HelloKitty mini-fan and a Disney Princess fan @ Tampines 1, to bring out for my photoshoot. *lol* so cute.. shall post pictures next time. ^^

Punggol Arcadia (Part 2) 12-4-09

Happy Easter to all! ^o^
Friday was a public holiday, me went to meet BB and we went to explore the newly opened Tampines 1.
Gosh! It was damned crowded! It's like the whole of East side people just came specially that day and jammed up the whole place!
The queue was exceptionally long for this new and 1st Japanese Casual wear store in Singapore -- Uniqlo. *Horror*

As the queue was so long, I decided not to rackie the store until today 12-4-09 (Sunday), me and BB went there early at 11am. Haaa... but people were already queuing! OMG! However, it moved quite fast, so we don't need to wait for very long.

Hahaa... it was SPREE time again for me!!
I bought 1 grey jacket and 1 light blue cardigan, both amounting to $79.80. Not cheap sia but their material is good, I would say :)

I also bought 1 new pair of Bling Bling flats on Friday from Mitju and also a sunblock.

Saturday, me and BB went to Vivocity. I went to Daiso and wacked up some DIY stuff for ROM. hehee... currently left all these stuff at BB's house! I also bought a very nice cotton vest for BB to wear! Hahaha... his ROM outfit should be settled :p Easy task...hahhahaa...

BB also went to have his hair cut @ Twister, Tampines 1, today. It's nice!! hahaha... I showed the stylist a photo of the hairstyle and she knows who the person in the picture is -- Xiao Zhu! ahahha.... So BB, next time you can have your haircut by Faye liao lor! Somemore, you may be able to bump into Andy Lee (one of the bosses of this salon, a joint venture of Mark Lee, Quan YiFeng and Michelle Chia and Andy Lee), just like I saw him today! :p

We also went to see our new hse @ Punggol on Saturday night. *Surprised* I counted the time taken to walk from the MRT to our new place and it's only less than 5 mins. hehe...
They've already started the foundation works! *Good Good*
BB and I then took our time to walk around the neighbourhood..although it's very quiet partly due to the place has not been fully developed yet and also it's at night, it's still going to be a nice place in future I think. :)
Also, there's 1 direct bus which takes us within 10 mins to reach the 3 big malls - IKEA, COURTS and GIANT. This bus no. 34 also takes us direct to BB's house, so it's rather convenient :p hehee...

OKie, that's all for today...it's time to sleep again.... yawnz... byebye for now...

Photos of my new flat

Went to HDB to submit some documents on 14-Mar-09 (Sat), and then while I was there alone... I went to take some photos of my new "palace"! =p hee... so that you all can visualise how it is like!

Am also delighted to learn from NaNa that her friend has also went down to select the flat and hers is Blk 288A which is in front of mine! Yeah~~~ I've a neighbour! NaNa ..remember to intro us ya... hee.. then next time do drop by our palace to play mahjong/have tea parties! Yiippeee ^o^

The Pavillion Porch area..=) my flat's on the top right corner and Punggol MRT station is somewhere near the bottom left corner.

This's my flat! Blk 289B!!

Side View of my block, below's the car porch area leading to the underground carpark.

View from the top. My block is on the left. =)

This is my neighbouring block opposite mine. Blk 289C.

View from the top again. The bottom is the children's playground & Exercising area etc..

Here's the layout of my unit..something similar..just that mine's the reflection of this layout..^^ meaning my bedrooms are on the left side instead of the right side as shown below.
The below layout is very similar to Seng Hwee's unit, right? :p




Master bedroom has full length windows whereas the 2 other bedrooms have 3/4 length windows.


See!! I've planter bed! Yeah yeah~~ Can grow a small garden!



Master bedroom on the left... ^^


The 2 Royal Toilets!


A picture showing the different tiles/floorings used for our "palace"

We've got a Flat!

Yeah! Me am happy that we've finally gotten our own flat! (*^_^*)
We were invited to go down to HDB to select a unit for Punggol Arcadia yesterday 2-March-09 (Monday).
hmm... though there were only 465 units offered and our Q number is 553, we were lucky that there were still 90+ units left over for us to choose from.

But of course, we don't have the luxury of choosing high levels but we managed to choose one which is on the 4th storey corner unit. *hahah*
Nonetheless, I'm excited cos even storeys come with planter beds! Yeah~~~I want to plant flowers! ^^

The estimated completion date will be in Feb 2013..seems far...but not too far from now lei..haha...