Extreme Makeover @ Pandan Gardens

[mae29 2]

Hi Mae, not to worry of your elder son relationship coz my elder daughter told me that she may not be getting marriage when she was 24 years old (maybe phobia of the parents broken marriage) but after 1 year later she come to me for advice on her courtship between 2 boys 顺其自然吧

The girlfriend came to take away most of her personal belongings while we were at work yesterday. She is really a nice girl, still bother to tidy up my son's room before she leaves. I sent a text message to my son in the evening and scolded him for being so cruel to a nice lady, but yet he gives her up and decided to go with the former 'ah lian'. I was really very angry at my son's behaviour and warned him not to bring that 'ah lian' back sneakily, as I can't stand the sight of that lady!!

Later, my son sent me the following message.:

Quote" I've called her already. Mum, I'm sorry I didn't know what I was doing. She said give us time to cool down as it's too sudden. I'm sorry mum." unquote

My younger sister, and even my youngest son also asked me not to interfere my son's relationship! But I don't want my son to get cornered and stressed out due his bad handling of relationship matter, as his BaZi chart says he will be predisposed to such problems especially in year 2012!! OK lah, I am hoping nature will take its course, as you said 顺其自然吧!!

[May_dream1 14]

The girlfriend came to take away most of her personal belongings while we were at work yesterday. She is really a nice girl, still bother to tidy up my son's room before she leaves. I sent a text message to my son in the evening and scolded him for being so cruel to a nice lady, but yet he gives her up and decided to go with the former 'ah lian'. I was really very angry at my son's behaviour and warned him not to bring that 'ah lian' back sneakily, as I can't stand the sight of that lady!!

Later, my son sent me the following message.:

Quote" I've called her already. Mum, I'm sorry I didn't know what I was doing. She said give us time to cool down as it's too sudden. I'm sorry mum." unquote

My younger sister, and even my youngest son also asked me not to interfere my son's relationship! But I don't want my son to get cornered and stressed out due his bad handling of relationship matter, as his BaZi chart says he will be predisposed to such problems especially in year 2012!! OK lah, I am hoping nature will take its course, as you said 顺其自然吧!!

all parents want the best for their kids but sometimes its good to let them learn from their own mistakes. hehehehe.....

[BlackCookie 0]

mae-jie, it's not right for me to comment but my parents brought me up with very loose whip. They never stopped me from doing anything and I have come a long way from bad choices of men and all. Throughout my journey, I have learnt alot and right now, I'm really thankful to my parents. They have taught me certain values which helped me in my adulthood in terms of decision making. With most young people (myself included although it's shameless to call myself young), you can't do anything to control them nor make them change their decisions. You can only be there when they come come and need a hug from Mommy...

Mommy never tells me much in terms of my relationship, not even when I went through a very bad breakup. One day, they just put her hand on my shoulder as I was leaving the house and told me, "Mommy is always here..." *tears*

[frigginfuchsia 0]

I've not been ard in a while thus my late reply..... OMG! is there a fengshui secret to yr youth? Am in total envy!!!!

ps. why is it bad to have an open concept kitchen?

The drive to border between China and Pakistan, passing by Aoyitage primitive forest. Two days prior to our arrival, it was snowing in the mountain!! By the time we arrived at the border, the snow was already melted but there is still traces of small patches of snow everywhere!!

Hmmmm....the smiles on my face say it all!

I squad down to collect some snow, but the tour guide didn't capture my hand with the snow ball!!

The border between China & Pakistan:

[mae29 2]

> All sisters here, thank you for your comments. Actually for a 26 yr old guy, I shouldn't interefere as he is already an adult & should be responsible for his own future.

Watching the news now & was reported that earth quake rocked Kashgar, the town which we visited were affected!! Thanks GOD that we moved forward our travel plan, as we don't want to travel during Ghost month!! Heng ah!!! We have avoided the riots & earth quake in Kashgar!!

[Kobelala 8]

> Watching the news now & was reported that earth quake rocked Kashgar, the town which we visited were affected!! Thanks GOD that we moved forward our travel plan, as we don't want to travel during Ghost month!! Heng ah!!! We have avoided the riots & earth quake in Kashgar!!

Heng Ah Huat Ah

[snoopy2006 0]

Very nice pix taken!

Edited August 15, 2011 by snoopy2006

[snoopy2006 0]

Picture from White Horse, the shop which ID brings to choose tiles. All tiles are chosen by him, he was browsing and matching over and over again, and once he is satisfied, then only he will ask me to come near him and check with me if I like it or not. Save me the headache! <img src="http://www.renotalk.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

This is the color scheme of floor and wall tiles for the common toilet. While & black wall tiles, dark greyish floor tiles.

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For the master toilet, but the ID will add 2 rows of mosiac tiles along the darker tone wall tiles. He can't find the right color match, so he said he will choose from elsewhere to match the dark brown panel. Another credit to Donny - really responsible and he does not simply choose what is available in the shop <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="good.gif" /> I give Donny another credit: he re-selected the floor tiles of master toilet as he is afraid it may be slippery for me. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Wonder if other IDs would have shown such concern or not? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Hi,

your flat make me drool !!

Please shared your ID details !

My email is Livianwan@yahoo.com.

Am in the midst of searching for ID. Wanted to compare yours and ** too..

Will use your house as reference if you dun mind!

Is really not easy to find a good responsible ID..and hope i am able to find one.

I cant afford to have delay in renovating my place as i need my boy to start their school next year Jan 2012.

Really hope to have a good reliable ID And i have no experience in all these. My hubby leave all to me to handle so i got to do research on my own and also to manage my 2 monkeys at home..

Thanks or sharing your beautiful house!

[marshmallow 0]

sis Mae, just drop by to say Hi nice photos you have from your trip~ i'm also looking forward to my holiday later this year... kekekeke

[May_dream1 14]

sis Mae, just drop by to say Hi nice photos you have from your trip~ i'm also looking forward to my holiday later this year... kekekeke

i am taking leave for next 2 weeks.... got to go back be maid cos the maid going back home to indonesia for Hari Raya.

year end i am going HK. Will you be going back too, marshy?

[mae29 2]

sis Mae, just drop by to say Hi nice photos you have from your trip~ i'm also looking forward to my holiday later this year... kekekeke

Sis Marshy

You must be very busy....disappeared for so long but once you re-appear, it is only for a short moment and then you MIA again!! Actually, I am also like that nowadays..been busy too

i am taking leave for next 2 weeks.... got to go back be maid cos the maid going back home to indonesia for Hari Raya.

year end i am going HK. Will you be going back too, marshy?

Sis May_dream1

One of my friends just emailed asking me to join them for holiday in December, either to HK or BKK. Still planning....

[mae29 2]

Hi,

your flat make me drool !!

Please shared your ID details !

My email is Livianwan@yahoo.com.

Am in the midst of searching for ID. Wanted to compare yours and ** too..

Will use your house as reference if you dun mind!

Is really not easy to find a good responsible ID..and hope i am able to find one.

I cant afford to have delay in renovating my place as i need my boy to start their school next year Jan 2012.

Really hope to have a good reliable ID And i have no experience in all these. My hubby leave all to me to handle so i got to do research on my own and also to manage my 2 monkeys at home..

Thanks or sharing your beautiful house!

Hi, sister snoopy2006

Thank you for popping by... and your compliment Shall email you and we discuss more offline.

[mae29 2]

Heng Ah Huat Ah

Bro Ko

Heng Ah! You still have budget leftover for our durian party!!

When huh??

Don't plan it when we sisters here go for holiday!!

[mae29 2]

Some months ago, forumer 'ej' organised a group buy for these Luminer cubes and shipments arrived weeks ago:

As I do not want to travel all the way from one end to another to collect the 2 Cubes, I asked for delivery service. Initially, I was quoted $50 for transport fee but I deemed it too expensive. I asked them to take their time to arrange delivery and they can deliver to me when they have delivery around my area. Yesterday, while they were delivering goods to IMM, they include my order and charge me $30 for transport fee which is reasonable because if I were to collect the two bulky cubes personally at Bedok, I would end up paying more than $30 for taxi fare!!

Here are the cubes which I tested last evening:

The remote control:

I have mentioned that I bought these cubes for feng shui purpose. I will write something on this aspect shortly.

[mae29 2]

Dear sisters and brothers,

Nine months ago, around this time, I started this reno t-blog to document my extreme home makeover journey.

Today, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who had commented or wrote me privately for the past 9 months, especially during the beginning of my renovation journey, to render me your unwavering support, encouragement and advice in one form or another!

You all have helped me maintain my strength and focus to keep this blog going, even when it was difficult at times juggling between reno inspection, my work, my course study and my family!!

It is your support that help my blog to garner over 101,500 viewships within a 9 month period!!

Brothers and Sisters, my sincere gratitude to everyone and wishing you all a smooth journey in your career, a blissful family and a healthy lifestyle with abundance of joy and happiness!