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oh, of coz there's a difference if you talk about supermkt and teo chuan kee coz teo chuan kee quite cheap in most of their daily necessities items. if you need to regularly top up these items, you will know the difference.

hi, the above is when the wife can prove that she is treated unfairly or when there are children/kid involve in the divorce. not necessary the law side more with the wife. if not, the law still will make sure both are evenly treated. if there are no kid/kids, the wife may not obtain more advantage then the man... meaning she will not be able to ask for eg. ailmony, maintenance, etc. if she is not able to prove that after she married the man, the husband let her used to live in more comfortable lifestyle and she is used to it thus she cannot live without it. eg. everyday she got driver with a car to pick her for the past 10 years, then in this case, she can ask to continue to have such comfort (also provided if she is not high income earner and also depending on various other factors and judge's view). if she is a high income earner, most likely alimony is hard to get from husband unless husband is even higher income earner. most importantly, when it comes to claiming of this and that, ususally it will bore down to the question of whether there is black and white to prove it.

dunno when oso... but at least the area is now cleaner. before that, many people buy things, open up and anyhow throw wrappers / papers / unwanted receipt slips / etc. all around the blk. and the shop also sell instant noodles to students and other people (mostly china people coz i heard the way they speak) and provide them with hot water to cook these noodles and they start eating it and littering it everywhere. and the poor cleaning uncle has to do alot of cleaning up every morning. now its much cleaner. hope when the new shop open, people don't anyhow litter and use the rubbish bins provided and act more civilised.

now OG is having a promotion on Zojirushi airpot, and water container (the container is similar to those provided by buffet caterer but proportionately smaller type), flask, food container etc. the water container can be used to store your after boiled water as the internal of the container feels like teflon coated. it feels like some of those rice cooker inner pot type. this container can at least contain 10 litre of water but it does not keep the water hot. I saw its going at S$68.00. anyone tried this? if not, can go to those household ware shop to buy similar type of water dispensing container. My mum bought 1 stainless steel type and it cost her $100. but it can take direct hot water but also do not keep the water warm. these containers provide room temp water for drinking as they do not keep water warm. hope the above helps.

hi all, just posting this for all forumers' reading. there's this website on electricity consumption and energy saving tips. http://www.nccc.gov.sg/Households/es_guide.shtm for a list of air-con energy consumption, there are list of air-cons and their websites: http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?sh...ic=9682&hl= hope the above helps

hi all, there's this website on electricity consumption and energy saving tips. http://www.nccc.gov.sg/Households/es_guide.shtm for a list of air-con energy consumption, there are list of air-cons and their websites: http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?sh...ic=9682&hl= hope the above helps.

Hi all neighbours who patronised Blk 468B minimart, TEO CHUAN KEE minimart at Blk 468B Admiralty Drive is moving out. Think last day is around 25 or 26. The town council has rent out the place to Shop & Save. This is the latest news from them.... no more cheap minimart's purchases liao...

hi, fyi. my clothes have been dried indoor for more than 8years and so far no problm. this is bcoz both of us r working and we hang our already washed clothes indoor and it is perfectly dried by the night time. if you have funny smell, you can wash your clothes with softnener. it will help to give a light frangrance. btw, i have been using TOP anti-bacteria washing powder (the yellow packing) since day 1 and all my clothes r well washed. me & hb worked in construction site environment so i need some of those anti-bacteria type of washing aid. sometimes, you can let it hang there for 2 more days to air the clothes. the smell will go away also. hope the above helps.

use cucumbers and not tea bags. cucumbers, water melon pieces are gd natural food to use for relaxing of eyes. you can put in the fridge before use to have a 'cold' effect but if use at room temp also can as they are cool to feel. helps to reduce puffiness of the eyes and nourish the eyes as well. but do remember to clean them well before use, as you will not want to kana eye infection.

hi all, fyi. if you have (ladies & men the same) sinus or nose allergies (eg. you sneezes alot in the morning / night), and constantly have running nose (eg. when you in office 9am to 5pm and you keep having running nose due to coldness in office environment), you will have dark eye circles as well. the bottom area around the eyes will be soft to touch, abit like puffy and its darken in colour. for some ppl who have sinus, when press around the eye area nearer to the nose, it will have abit of pain. i use to have nose allergies and during those days, my eye circles gets darker and when touched, it feels puffy and abit pain. i got this explanation from my gp. and now my allergies have gone down due to proper diet and enough walks in the parks. drinking of cold water in hot days feel shiok but there are many side effects to your body.. one of them is nose allergy. hope the above helps. and to add, if someone who drinks (liquor) alot tends to have eye circle also. and i meant those regular heavy drinker, not social drinker.

hi, for sponge cakes, its the same method use for baking of other cakes and cookies. use top & bottom heat (aka top & bottom element). you cannot use fan function or (eg) top heat + fan coz the inside will still be uncooked and the outside is chao tar. as for pizzas, it depend on what type of ingredients you put on top. if there are meat on top, you must use top & bottom heat + fan. not the fan grill. fan function is for spreading the heat all over the oven but will not cook the insides well. but it is also the most difficult function to gauge and use. if for meat, grilling is good enough. inner grill will not do good job on making it crisp. you just turn up the heat for a while and you will get a light crisps/browning on top. i have the inner grill & inner grill + fan and i find them quite useless or redundant. always remember, if use fan, the insides may not be cooked although the outside surface may be cooked / chao tar. experiment with your food and oven and you will know how to handle them. even those vy ex oven also need to experiment them. no 100% guarantee you put in the food, press the button, wait and WAH LAH, outcomes the perfectly cooked food. chef demo roasting turkey to us using Mayer's ex brand of oven. recipe says 1hr but took 1hr30mins then cooked. but chef told us that different oven behave differently and must experiment then can know.

hi, there are cheaper ones "turbo" brand (if im correct). go those neighbourhood store and they sell those. Price for a small set that is using gas cylinder is abt $500 to $700 (should be about $600) i think. ever saw this type at Goh Ah Bee.

for your infor, if emergency, school will call ambulance immediately and handle all procedures directly and at the same time contact the next of kin of the students to go to the hospital. no payment for ambulance or any kind is needed at this point. some of the school will foot the ambulance bill. if not the bill from the hospital will be mailed to your address in later date. my hb also ever encounter ppl asking him want to buy sound systems at carpark but hb say no and maybe hb got 'pai kia' face look (born like that, hb also say bo bian... ) , they quick walk off and drive vy away fast btw, they drive a van and they r Malaysians coz of their accent. Beware, there r many of this type of con-men. Don't expect to pay cheap price for premium products and premium products don't sell in this way coz this will damage their reputation also. One gd way is find out their company name and say, "Wah, so coincidence, my brother is the manager working in this company, let me try to call him to see if he want to buy... " juz joking, but do be vy careful as these con-men ususally target single man (meaning being alone without another person), so have to be careful they may physical attack. So guys, be vy alert and careful coz some may attack and rob you. this happen in JB accordingly to my colleague whose a Malaysian. his friend kana in JB even though he is Malaysian. Also, never invite such ppl to your hm, they may attack and rob you. Eg. they offer you free things and tell you that they have to go to deliver the items to your hm and ask you to bring them, never never accept. they r ready to rob you. ppl who knock and ask for $ is another kind. my mum being soft hearted will only give $2 no matter hw much they ask for. she will tell the person that $2 is enough to eat 1 meal, then she will shut the door. as for me, i will ask if i can follow them to their hse or send them to the hospital etc. which i know they will walk away when i say that. there is 1 blind uncle who sells biscuits and snacks around my hse area for many years. he is a genuine handicap and earn a living by his capability. he will sell these snacks in the evening time and sell lucky sweep in the day time at an allocated area. for him, i give willingly coz, 1st of all, we know him. 2ndly, he always insist only taking the right amt of $ for the snacks / big sweep he sells and he don't want to accept anything extra. he told us that he only can't see but not handicap, so he can still work for his living and don't need ppl to give $. He say if we got extra $, juz help him buy some more snacks will do and he will be vy happy. And he wouldn't insist or pester ppl to buy his things if ppl don't want. I admire his courage as he is really blind and going everywhere by himself, not those whose is followed by another healthy person. But this uncle is getting on age already and sometimes my brother will help to bring him downstairs as the lift doesn't go to ground floor. this is 'can er bu fei' spirit.

hi, can know what's the price now and which shop is selling La Germania? i hvn't been checking out these store for awhile now...

hi, i hope its the inner grill function u r talking abt. the symbol is like a mini coil but at the top rite? its used for quick browning of small quantity of food, eg. cheese or toast and use with it at mid level rack. same like top element. u juz flush up the heat abit for a while n food get that browning (but not burnt) juz like those selling in restuarant/pastry shop. hope it helps. can ask the promoter abt the function n how to use. if answer not satisfactory, call up their office n ask them your questions.

ya, best to go on sat morning coz no jam. evening time is a major no no... jam n difficult to find parking. n remember to put more than enough parking coupons coz Carpark Aunties vy on 1. duno if change to erp type of parking or not coz long time nvr been there for lunch...

actually, the result is abt the same except with blender, you can juice the whole fruit with the skin as well and the whole fruit will be fully juiced. the juicer will purge out the 'zha' which contain some of the most vitamins. so i still prefer using a blender.

charemme, u got beri gd methods n beri funny leh...

i duno if its foreign workers but got 1 time there's a used condom n many used tissues... ya, feel like complaining coz i think not oni the carpark area, many common used areas r not cleaned. think the cleaners are oni allocated to clean the individual blks oni bah...

heheheh... the pulps tend to stuck in the metal filter which has many many tiny holes even after you wash it immediately after juicing. this is the philips brand that i 1st bought and i kana it. i thought of having a juicer juz for jucing but after that i quite regretted it. so i bought the braun. much cheaper but much better performance, hygenic and easy maintenance. its abit loud though. manage my all kind of blending, juicing, ice crushing easily. but do take note that if you are trying to blend smaller items, eg. trying to juice pandan juice out of pandan leave, nuts etc. its better to use a small blender. i got a kenwood small handy blender for this purpose.

Hi, its ok if you didn't allocate for a oven then, look on the bright side. at least you have more cabinet space for use. you might like to read my post at this thread below. http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?sh...623&hl=oven there r simply too many brands out there. my logic is simple, buy what suits your needs (& budget) and with a little expansion needs, eg. if you think you are going to bake cookies now but you will be roasting turkey in time to come, choose 1 that can have that function for your use at the later date. don't buy something that will burst your wallet, or make you struggle with instalments, and you are only using the minimum of it. im taking into consideration the bad times that have hit everywhere now. be practical. but if one has plenty of spare cash to spend, by all means go and buy something that you feel gd with. for me, im practical coz i always think i don't have spare cash to spend.... do feel free to contact me should u have further other questions. hope to be of help to you... and also after you have your oven and start to experiment with receipes, do share your recipes and your bakes with us so that we can talk abt it. refer to the functions that i have highlighted in bold. extract from the above thread. glad that the above helps. and happy using your oven. there r many possiblities that you can try with a conventional oven. some are convection oven. you can google search to see their difference. just remember that the oven must hv a: 1) top element 2) bottom element 3) fan function 4) combine use of top & bottom element 5) combine use of top element with fan 6) combine use of bottom element with fan 7) glass door big enough for you to peep at your food / temperature gauge that you hv put inside the oven to measure the temp. 8) glass door is best to be double layer so that the outer layer will be cool to touch even when you r cooking. you don't want to scald yourself, or older folks or kids accidentally touch it when its cooking coz the heat is really high and hot. 9) hv a rack and a baking tray. 10) hv at least 3 layer for you to choose the appropriate layer to place your food to cook. eg. top layer for baking cookies, where its small in size & qty and cooks easily with a light browning on top. mid layer for baking of most cakes and cooking of most food that require longer time to cook. seldom we use bottom layer as it will burn the bottom of the food with the top uncook and the middle of the food (eg. cake, or chicken, turkey) half cooked. 11) light inside the oven (can be on for you to see the inside of the oven clearly without turning on the cooking function. once cooking function is selected and used, it will be on till you turn it off). 12) timer on the oven (the rest are optional coz you may not be using many functions most of the time) and some ppl may persuade you to spend $4k & above for ovens, do seriously consider if your usage of the oven is high and you are into full time cooking or professional cooking coz: 1) 1stly, technology changes vy fast, so if the oven last you for 10 years, there may hv spare parts if it broke down. 2) the more expensive an electronic item is, the more intricate and complicate component it has and thus any maintenance or repairs will be costly. eg. if you buy a jap car, there are plenty of cheap parts readily available, if you buy a beemer, the repair / maintenance cost is vy high. 3) self cleaning function i find this unnecessary. coz after every use of the oven, the heat will melt away all food / sauces that are splatter on it which is ususally not so if you protect your oven by putting the food in casserole pot to cook or wrap up the food in aluminium foil to cook. and if you are grilling a chicken (eg.), you poke a bbq stick through the chicken and you can place in a casserole pot without the lid to grille so that it catches the dripping sauce or have the bbq stick hang across the internal oven for a more rounded grille but do place a tray below to catch the dripping sauce. after the you hv finish the cooking, you will also wash your dishes right? so its the same thing, once the oven is cooled down (really cooled down), use a damp cloth to just wipe it will do. 4) turnspit this is a function where it have or allow a bbq stick in the oven where it will rotate the roast automatically while cooking. this will not require you to turn your roast to get it cook. but do be mindful. are you doing alot of heavy roasting? eg. every week there's roast ribs, roast turkey, roast chicken, etc. coz if not you will not need this additional function. 5) electronic selection vs knob turning selection ovens electronic selection press button oven: pros: more precise as you can choose the exact time and degree to cook the food. cons: some are hard to choose as its not well labelled on the oven itself, so you hv to keep refering to the manual for the settings. LCD display is small. once spoil, that's it. you hv to send for repair and its costly. knob turning selection oven: pros: you can see what you choose cons: the knobs can drop out due to wear & tear and you may plug it out to clean it, and forgot you hv turn to which function or accidentally turn to which function after that. never take out the knob for cleaning. selection of cooking temp is estimation, coz the temp selection comes in: 20deg, 50deg, 80 deg, 100deg, 120 deg, 150, deg, 180deg, 200deg, etc. so when you need something that is in between, you hv to estimate. if you go to baking / cooking schools to learn baking / cooking, do look at what type of ovens they use. most of these ovens are choosen by the schools coz they hv the basic functions that they want and can perform the job well. just like buying handphone. one can buy a handphone with plentiful of functions but honestly, most of these functions are not fully utilised. eg. your handphone hv gps logging system but do you ever use it? your handphone hv wireless function, how many times you use it or use it to send your infor to printer thru wireless printing or faxing from your handphone? hope you put your usage pattern, lifestyle, logic, experience, budget ($ no enough even if its for the richest ppl) etc. & combine them into your choice of buying an oven.

hi, r u looking for those that has a stove on top and an oven below but all are using cylinder gas? you can call or go to these 2 places to try: City Gas Gallery 111 Somerset Road #01-10 S238164 Tel: 6732 6910 Email: gallery@citygas.com.sg Operation Hours : Monday – Friday : 8:30am to 6pm Saturday : 8:30am to 1pm Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays http://www.citygas.com.sg/index.php?option...1&Itemid=82 Mega Discount Store 112 East Coast Road #B1-03-11 KATONG MALL, 428802, Singapore T: 63487998 F: 63487896

the cosmetics and perfume are international brands, juz that they r in smaller size and selling cheaper. so far i hv no problm using these products. what really ususally hurts the skin are those products used in salons. they always like to recommend their in-hse products that r so called from France, Paris, USA, etc. but never heard of brand. and also from those so-called treatments that r harsh on the skin.

you can try best buy cosmetic. its always advertised on 8Days. it sells cosmetics, perfume, skincare, cosmetic acceossories, bags, lingerie, etc. it sells alot of sample size products which is cheaper than retail stores. it also sells regular size sample products at a cheaper price also, especially the perfume. some of the items r that they don't hv a box or so and they sell them cheaply. http://www.bbcosme.com/ you can buy in bulk size or individually. you can pay via COD or credit card, juz indicate your type of payment when you check out. but do remember min purchase to qualify for free delivery is $50 otherwise they will charge a $10 delivery charge. you can combine purchase with friends, family, colleagues so that you can hit $50. their delivery is vy fast. today you buy, tomorrow they deliver (if purchase is made from monday to thursday, if its on friday to sunday, usually they will deliver the following week). btw, im not a staff or boss of this company, im their customer. being using their service and i find it quite gd. i can get my SK products cheaper there. hope the above helps.

white chalks can get from flower nursery. but i don't know if its toxic to humans but imagine if you draw the 'border' around your kitchen top to stop ants from crawling on the top, n you r preparing food on the same kitchen top... i also use combat like Lawry. vy gd. ya, the ants usually like to hide and build nest at such areas. it also like to build nest at cloth. i got 2 ants attack n trace their track to my kitchen knife holder. the 2nd time it nested in my quilting cloths (think i hv too much of the cloth). so i clean out everything, and put combat around or close to these areas, so far no ants trace yet. you can pour abit of aromatheraphy oil (eg. lavender, etc.) into a small pail of water and use it to wipe your cabinets, etc. can try to see if this works.