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February 07th, 2010 | Author: gabriel

Due to the situation where Valentine’s Day this year falls on the first day of Chinese New Year, Yin Sin and I decided to celebrate it a week earlier, as well… Valentine’s Day is kind of man-made anyway.. So, we just set it a date around that time.

The day started with a trip to Tampines’s Ikea. We were supposed to be there for breakfast but ended up there for lunch instead. We didn’t really have many things in mind to buy but just wanted to take a walk there…

So, we lazed around the Ikea setting…

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And had lunch there. With their famous Swedish meatballs.

ikea-meatballs

Bought a few stuff from Ikea (no bulky items) and we headed off to Giant, which was just opposite Ikea. The Giant there is really big.. Kinda remind me Malaysia when in GIant. Even the air smells like the one in Malaysia.

Giant isn’t really a good place to walk around, especially in the cold storage area. There’s so many people there!! Pushing the trolley around proves to be difficult. But one thing good is that, when walking down the aisles, we get to taste various samples of food..

After that, the silliest thing happened. We wanted to go back to the North East area and decided to take the free shuttle bus which takes us from the ‘retail area’ to Sengkang/Punggol. We managed to board the bus but the thing is, we didn’t know where to alight. We wanted to go to Punggol and I was waiting for the bus to alight at Punggol Central. The bus was so near Punggol Central… but it didn’t end up there… So, what happened was… we waited and waited.. and we ended up back in Ikea/Giant/Courts area. We took one big round around the area.. lols

One good thing happened from there was that, we took our nap in the bus and was energized to walk again. He continued our journey to Courts. Courts is a good place to shop. Lots of cheap electronics and many other electronics to see.. I even bought YIn Sin’s valentine’s present from there! haha

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It’s a comb + hair dryer! Hot air coming out from the brush end…  =)

And we did the smartest thing ever in Courts. We went and sit on the OTO massaging chair. Damn syiok.. lol

When we were done, it was almost evening. We headed to Punggol correctly this time and I took her to Punggol Beach.

punggol-beach

Lots of people were fishing there.. But the beach wasn’t very big. We just chose a cosy spot by the rocks and just enjoyed the waves there..

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Took some pictures there…

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Had ice-cream there and took some crazy pictures…

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The breeze was great.. even gave a nice effect to her hair..

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Right before it starts to get dark, we took the bus to Kovan for our dinner. We stopped by at some floral place where it provides landscaping solutions.. Very beautiful flowers..

yinsin-flowers

And of course, lastly, we had Thai Cuisine for dinner! Very good and spicy Thai food at Nakhon Kitchen… Both of us were having tears and our faces all red from the spiciness. The tom-yam soup is a must try!

 

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After stuffing our stomach with all the food… (did I mention it was a 45-min wait for us to be seated?), we walked around Heartland Mall in Kovan. Okay, it may not be a very romantic Valentine’s Day outing, but we sure did enjoy ourselves.. By the time we reached home, we were like half-dead already… Anyway, one more week to CNY!! Can’t wait.. =)

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August 03rd, 2009 | Author: gabriel

I’m very proud of myself!

I single handedly bought, transported and assembled my wardrobe bought from Ikea.

It all started when my 2nd sister, Alice stayed over at my place and took ‘pity’ of my room. I only have a drawer to store my t-shirts and shorts and an open wardrobe to store my shirts

Open WardrobeThen, she was very nice and gave me $150 and ask me to go buy myself a proper wardrobe! She said she’ll check that I buy the wardrobe the next time she come and tell me that it’s not for normal usage. haha
So, I went to Ikea today after work, alone to buy that wardrobe.

The box weighs 49kg and it’s damn long but what the heck, I’m already there. With the help of a worker there, I put the box on a flatbed and proceed to pay for it for $119.

After paying it, I tried my luck to see if it can fit in a taxi to bring it back. Of course, the taxi driver said it was too long and there’s no way I can fit that thing into it. Btw, the delivery charge provided by Ikea is $50. I find that very expensive. Anyway, not giving up.. I went to the car park in search for “good Samaritans”; strangers who  has big cars where I offer him/her money to help me transport it back to my place.

Again, no luck. Those people were ‘diplomatic’ enough by saying that they were rushing for time and not that I’m some crazy dude who randomly offers money to stranger for transport. Just when I was about to give up, a guy asked me if I was looking for transportation. And I said “yes!”. He apparently has a friend who deals with this kind of situation. Long story short, he helped me contact the driver where I negotiated and bargained with him to $20 for taking me and my stuff back to my place. =)

I carried that heavy thing all the way up to my unit. My housemates weren’t around except for yee weng. Unfortunately, he silent his phone and I couldn’t get hold of him to help me carry it up. Anyhoo, you know Ikea stuff, you have to assemble it on your own. And I took around 3 hours to assemble that wardrobe all by myself. hahah. I was short of some tools – a hammer. But I substituted it with a heavy duty padlock. lol.

Anyway, here’s the final product.

wardrobe1And I rearranged the furnitures to accommodate the newly added wardrobe

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