Christmas tree 2009

the baby grand

City Square has a huge NTUC in the basement!
Because it is newly opened, the stock is very fresh!
nice fruits and veggies.
I am going there for my grocery shopping now.
I also bought my contact lens.
Everything there is on promotion.
Went to check out METRO.
interesting......

Here's all my money plants!!!!!!
New Jin Jian Shu for outside my door......

my non-stick pan

Tangs was having a 12% rebate, so I finally decided to purchase my long awaited tefal non-stick pan. The above is 24 cm diameter, priced $29.90 on sale. After deducting the rebates in my card, I only paid $13 for the pan.
Now I can cook stir fry, fried rice, noodles, eggs without the food sticking onto the pan.

The baby that was on loan

This is for my sept performance.
Just as I thought that I was finished, manager said can I do some changes on the programme.
Grrrr...
Can I say no?

new clock

I bought this clock at ameba for $10.90
There is a new shopping mall opposite Bugis.
But I prefer to walk the pasar malam lane across from bugis.

Blocked view

This is the blocked view that my balcony faces now:(
New condominium.
You can see the plastic sheets being taken off as the glass panels are unvieled and a fresh coat of painting goes up.






GSS Tangs sale

This is my new sateen bedsheets. Costs $149

Reduced from 200 something.

I love it:)

new shoot

My jin chian shu sprouted new shoots!
Jin Chian coming in!

2nd floor lady vs 7th floor lady

Clash of the Titans.....

This is the latest. Yesterday 2nd flr lady sent out sms saying that she is going to 'saman' 7th flr lady for the following offenses:
bathing in swimming toilet
washing laundry in carpark tap
peeling prawns at bbq tap
charging hp, laptop, boil water, cook green bean soup on the socket in stairwell

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Reminds me of Jesus writing on the floor and asking those with no sin to throw the first stone.

repotting orchids

This fella is just starting to bloom today.

I repotted the sweet smelling orchid into a new hanging orchid trough.

This one has also been repotted and hopefully with the new charcoal, it will start to bloom.

This one simply refused to bloom for the past 2 years.

This is the Toshiba flat screen tv.

My father was going to give me the old akira vcd player, but when we plugged it in today, the vcd player cannot play, so my father took to home to run some tests on it.

gossip

And so there was all this sms updates....
How her sofa was burnt by some brute who threw down cigarettes.

And then there is that lady that peel prawns using the bbq sink. Plus taking showers in the swimming pool shower. Boiling water in the stairwell....

I don't know who is worse, the culprit or the one sms-ing all the details.

Character....
Honestly, I don't like either one.
I do not think public shaming is correct.
But on the other hand, if you go up to mahjong lady, she'll probably just ignor and continue.
What can you do but jump up and down?

And it is not worth it.
hmmm.....

keep pumping hormones into orchids!

After a year, my orchids have settled into a hormone feeding routine and blooming like crazy on my balcony. Maybe can bring some tao hua luck?

new orchids blooming

Flower buds....

This is the sweet smelling orchid...

The petals are yellowish...but turning a darker colour today.

crocroach bait

I bought this today.

I killed 2 roaches last night. There is still one lurking inside my kitchen cabinet.

The box comes with 6 packets....i placed them in the kitchen, yard, toilets.

I also bought bay leaves from the supermarket.

Very expensive.

1 stalk costs $3 something.

Anyway, I put the bay leaves where the dishes and pots are.

The grounded bay leaves are cheaper....$1.90

I spinkled some on a tiny dish and left that lying near to the stove.

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The star annise which is suppose to repel lizards and ants did nothing for the roaches.

The roaches didn't seem afriad of the napthelene balls either.

So I've moved the napthelene balls into my clothes cabinet.

Anyway, the important thing is to keep my apartment clean to prevent creepy crawlies from bugging the place.

crocroach in the kitchen

2. You can make your own insecticide by mixing equal parts of baking soda and powdered sugar and setting up a mock bait plate for the roaches. After mixing your sugar and soda, eave the mixture in a shallow dish where roaches have been seen or are known to travel. The combination of sugar and soda is lethal to the cockroach.
3. Roaches hate the taste of bay leaves. You can naturally and safely keep most roaches at bay by placing the leaves anywhere you've seen roaches moving. Using bay leaves is a great way to keep roaches out of the rooms and play area of children.

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Found this on the internet. I think I'll give this a try.
The roaches are bigger now...about an inch.
Maybe I will seal up the holes in the kitchen.
I've put napthelene near my kitchen and front door....don't know if it'll work.
Tomorrow I look for crocroach medicine in the supermarket.

I took my jin chian shu in for suntanning in my balcony....
I thought the leaves looked a bit yellow.

New...

New Footpath...

Hmm...interesting that the footpath reaches the tree and then turns abruptly. It has been so long that I used the side gate....er....cannot remember the secret code.

New Neighbor....

There has been a man moving in and out. Last time I heard a woman, don't know if the woman was the housing agent or she lives there. Anyway, neighbor put a couch on his balcony....and he could not decide on where to put his flower vase....he put it up, then 1 hour later, he took it in, then this morning it was out again, and he put it on the floor. And he put an ikea cushion on his couch.
hmmm....if I were him, I'd worry about how much dust the couch and cushion is going to collect from the nearby construction.
Oh...he has an UGLY shoe rack outside of his door. It is REALLY UGLY!

orchids in the bathroom

This is the spider lily looking orchid...
I've placed it in my toilet....will give it a few days, and if plant is not happy, I will move it to the balcony.
Cost $30


This is another hanging one. There are some buds on it. The orchid is supposed to be sweet smelling.
Cost $25

This is another spider lily looking orchid.

Cost $15

The side gate....
And now they planted a tree in front of the side gate and took away the measly slabs of concrete.
And all the people have to squeeze past the gantry to get in.
Not everybody drives OK?

tiny crockroaches

After the complaint, after the fumigation, what's left are the babies.
There was a bunch of tiny croaches running around.
They are less than 2 mm big.
Cruuuuuuuush them nonetheless!

Crrrrrrush that crockroach...

There are now little crockroaches running in my kitchen! I was eating ice-cream off the tub and left the lid on the kitchen sink. When I was done, a tiny crockroach was having dessert as well. CRUSH.....I am getting very good at this.
They come up from the rubbish chutte.

Then a moth flew into my kitchen....
I went to grab my ntuc brand of insect spray.
1st spray.....the moth was not even dizzy.
2nd spray...
3rd spray....
in the end I took a kitchen towel and whack the insect....
smack.....it died!
Moral of the story: don't get ntuc brand insect spray; use mortene (mom advised)
you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

neighbor's azilea plant

After figuring that the plant was not happy until it got some sunlight....neighbor decided to put the plant near to the stairwell. And lo and behold...it bloomed in time for chinese new year:)

plants and flowers

my floral arrangement.....tada!

Flowers from mom's cupboard. 'vase' box wrapped in la prarie silver wrapping paper.

This is my jin jian shu

money tree

http://www.speakingroses.com.sg/src/product.aspx?q=8132

See the money plant...
I cannot steal the photo so have to just show the link...
Cost $43!

I think I am happy with my money tree for $12 add another $1.50 for the pot

I will bring some charms and ang pows to hang on the tree next time i am at oz. Will take photos to show:)

copy flower arrangments

This one is called zen floral arrangement...
Only one BIG flower and lots of leaves! I think this is quite do-able.

I like this triangle shaped flower arrangement.

I think it will be quite expensive to get all those fake flowers. hmmm....need to source around for cheap flowers. Maybe I should look into what is available in my mom's cupboard in the store room.

This one is quite standard arrangement. Put the BIG flowers..I think have 2 compliment colours then fill in with baby's breathe and leaves!

I've seen my mom take classes on flower arrangment.

What happens is the teacher demonstrates, then the class will just COPY the teacher's version.

Then you have to buy all the flowers and basket and leaves from the teacher on top of the fees for the lessons. Er....I am going to do this the cheap way....hehe....copy from the internet. I think I will simply reproduce floral arrangement.

flowers for CNY

Artificial orchid from TP $8.80
Stick in daiso flower pot...$2
Outside selling $23 from taka


This is my floral arrangement!
I think total investment is about $14
Flowers from TP shop and Chinatown.



Vase is choya wine bottle.
Glass pebbles 2 packets from daiso.

New Shoe Rack

Shop and Save....
3 tier shoe rack, self assemble cost $9.90
Usual price was $12.90

Giant...
2 tier shoe rack, cost $5.90

Unanimous decision to go and get the 3 tier shoe rack.

Good Fortune arrives...

I stuck this up and took down the christmas deco....

Yep, 'Fu' or Good Fortune has arrived!

25 days to Chinese New Year.

2009 Happy New Year!

Fireworks at the Padang....
I managed to get myself a prime spot sitting on the steps of City Hall, Supreme Court.
And the Fireworks came on 90 degree straight ahead. Poor GU is stuck at the 3rd level carpark at Liang Court, where she has to do the countdown in her car!