11.06.09

Wedding Website

Posted in Recent Interests tagged , at 4:45 pm by reffine

These few months I have been creating a wedding website for my wedding celebration this year.. Have managed to create a wedding website since last year, but unfortunately that web has an expiry date where if the wedding date is already over then it will be removed from their system.. that time I was trying to put my ROM date which is last year July, so in the end I couldn’t change the date again, then end-up my wedding website can’t be used >,< *sighzzzz*

Secondly, I’ve been creating another wedding website under my country local website recently.. their web maintenance for editing is very non-user friendly.. and the refreshing of the edited pages was veryyy slow… I’ve been dealing with it without no complain till last nite… The server crashed till I can’t display my wedding website again.. so unluckily only my website got that error.. I dunno how to contact their IT team so..  >,< *double sighzzzzzzzzzz*

Finally I decided to move all the wedding website content to this blog.. hope I can manage to move it fast coz time’s ticking.. and soon will be my wedding already..  >,<

PS: you can find my wedding website under the listed pages at the right side menu.. to make it a shortcut, please click here.

10.26.09

Home Renovations 2009 (I)

Posted in Sweet Home tagged , , , , at 2:11 pm by reffine

As promised, in this post I will share about my home renovation which conducted around February this year.. After we confirmed our house on August last year, got our housing loan approved then began to process the handover of the flat. Our agent settled all the mandatory things, from paperworks, dealing with HDB officer and intro us to a lawyer..

The processing of the flat handover with HDB took around 3 months time. I forgot exactly when was the first appointment, think around early or mid September last year. While the handover of keys, should be around late December but our ex-owner had requested to extend the stay till another 1 month as they prepared to moving out.

We started to look around for our home reno vendor early October last year, during one of the home exhibition at Singapore Expo.. Actually just wanted to see and look around first, but end-up we signed with one of the interior design firm and put our first deposit which later can be used for whole house painting services.. maybe we’re both too naive, we quite amazed with their design idea and the 3D images they showed us hehe.. when I came home, I begin to do research about the company.. we heard about the renovation forum, “renotalk”.. and to my surprise, so many bad words about this firm.. o.O

I still continue doing more researches in renotalk about which vendor is recommended.. then from that I got ask few quotations too from another contractors.. Thanks to the forumers, quite a lot info I can get from there regarding the first time renovation.. We decided to do minor renovation only, as this is only our first home..

After so much arguing with my hubby, whether wanna give them a chance or don’t wanna use them to continue the renovation, we decided to keep our peace of mind.. we dropped the firm and only use their painting service.. for the renovation work, we decided to use one of the recommended contractor in the forum.. the decision had been made after we’ve been comparing the quotations and met him in person and we think that was quite a reasonable price he gave us.. as usual, my hubby was the one who did the negotiation hihihi :P

We made the right decision, the renovation works was done smoothly.. the contractor was good in followed-up the progress with us.. After the reno finished, then we continued with the whole house painting service that we got from the interior design firm.. luckily the interior designer that we rejected, still helped us to choose the wall combination colours for our house and gave some suggestions too.. hehe :)

Some of our own conclusion about the firm, we think that the person in office and the actual person who do the reno works were not in synch.. the designer may have a wonderful idea and talent.. but lack of control and management with the workers.. too bad.. compared with the contractor, himself who manage the workers and know the actual works on the field.. the painting was done a bit messy.. but we couldn’t say much, the designer also acted like he couldn’t do anything.. so we just accepted it.. a bit sympathy to the designer though..  I felt relieved didn’t take their renovation service intead trusted the reno works to our contractor :P

oh btw, our contractor is Henry Goh from Impress 21 :)

Here’s some pics of the rooms before renovation started, when we went to view the house with Henry to get the first quotation..

Before reno (1)

main door, living & dining room, master room

before reno (2)

master toilet, 2 common rooms, and kitchen

To be continued in my next post >> Home Renovation 2009 (II).

10.20.09

Our Home Sweet Home

Posted in Sweet Home tagged , , at 3:11 pm by reffine

This time I’m going to share my experience about finding and building our “nest” in Singapore.. ;)

We bought our sweet HDB home last year around August 2008.. After gone thru house viewing for a number of times already, I think since mid of last year and been dealing with 2 different housing agents.. Finally we set our heart to this home..

We purposely chose to find a house in the middle area between my hubby’s working place and mine, for the first time we decided to focus on Serangoon area, considering that there will be an interchange MRT station built there.. After few times viewing with the first agent, we almost dealt and set our heart to one of the HDB flat there.. The place is not bad, only walking distance to MRT, got eating places, and the neighbourhood seems not bad.. We’ve put our first deposit with the agent.. but for some reasons, the owner couldn’t sign and make a deal on that day.. so we need to wait for the next day as the owner’s wife not around to sign..

I didn’t know why, my feeling was so-so only, but it seemed that there was something that was not right. Looked like I was not satisfied enough hehe.. somemore it was an old HDB building, around 20+ yrs.. So I discussed with my hubby about my feeling, then after few times thinking I felt like the house a bit dark.. maybe coz the place was in corridor area so the owner only opened half of the window the other half was shielded.. so hurriedly we decided to cancel the deal.. a bit paiseh with the agent, but somehow it should be a nice place for us to live mah, how to live there if we didnt feel comfortable at the first place..

Thankfully the agent still managed to help us to cancel the deal with the owner.. fiuhh.. hehe :D so I guessed it’s not our destiny with that place hehe :)

After that one, we looked around more areas as Serangoon area not really much new HDB flats.. By then we tried to look around Hougang area with the same agent.. but still couldnt find the suitable one till the agent didn’t feel to follow up more I think hehe.. there was one nice HDB flat but we couldnt manage to get the deal as there was another buyer dealt earlier..

There’s a friend who intro us to another housing agent, from this agent we quite like with the houses that he brought us.. There was a couple of nice houses, some it was too exp for us and some I didn’t really like the location as it was just in front of the main street.. so I thought that might be a bit noisy and can get dirty easily.. hmm looks like I was a bit choosy hehe..

Luckily this agent is patient enough to deal with us hehe.. after going through 2-3 houses, finally we found our dream house hehe :)

The place is without afternoon sun coz it’s facing north east and it’s located a bit inside from the main road, just beside the small shopping mall.. so just nice I think hehe.. even a bit far from MRT, but there is a nearby bus stop hehe..

When we first came in to view the house, we were greeted with the nice Malay owner.. I like the open space and it’s quite windy in the living room, as the main centre of the house.. the owner was not fussy at all, same like us hehe.. they said we were the first buyer to view the house.. they were going to sell the house coz their family is growing so they’re going to move in to a bigger place.. which is a 2-storey mansionatte… wow.. >,<

I think I have fallen my heart with this place.. so told my hubby and he negotiated with our agent to deal with the owner’s agent.. then finally we got our own place to live hehe.. :D

I will continue my story regarding the minor renovation we’ve done for the house in my next post.. :)

PS: here’s some sneak preview of my living room, taken with my new camera Canon IXUS 200IS hihihi :P

did u see my hubby there?

Did u see my hubby there?

10.15.09

Scrapbooking..

Posted in Recent Interests tagged , at 4:56 pm by reffine

Recently I have created 2 scrapbook layouts for presents.. one is for my 1st year ROM Wedding Anniversary (for my hubby ofcourse) and another one for my parent’s 29th year Wedding Anniversary last month.. :)

It’s been fun browsing around the accessories like papers, letters, stickers, etc.. I like to mix and match the designs and colours which is very interesting to me hehe.. for the 2 layouts I created, the main colour I chose is soft pinkish and a little bit brownish or any vintage colours and pastel colours that matched..

Actually I’m not so familiar with the scrapbooking terms hehe.. sometimes I don’t even know what it is being used for, how to design using that thing, etc.. my vocabularies are very limited for these things.. :P thanks to nana who introduced me to the scrapbook thingy and have been patiently helping, guiding, explaining, and accompanying me to find the things I need to create for a scrapbook hehe.. :)

I would want to attach the 2 scrapbook layouts which I created here.. but it’s not with me now.. maybe tonight I will attach at home hehe.. :)

<updated on Oct 16, 2009> Here’s my first two creations.. just now got a bit lost, I dunno how to insert this pic into this post.. even when I’ve uploaded the pic already last night haha.. thank u kimchii for ur helpful guidance hihihi.. :P

My first two creations

My first two creations

<updated on Oct 20, 2009> As per requested.. here’s the bigger pic of my scrapbooks..

Scrapbook layout

My first two scrapbooks creation

10.14.09

Migrated old posts

Posted in Intro tagged , , at 6:38 pm by reffine

As mentioned in my previous post, here’s the few posts from my friendster blog which I migrated to here..

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A Miracle… - November 5th, 2006 by reffine
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Thanks God for the miracle that You’ve given to me.. Like a dream comes true.. I don’t know what to say, only praise for Your Great Gifts to me.. I’m too afraid to imagine, but really am appreciate for the chance that’s been given to me.

I want to thank Erna, for helping me and give me this opportunity, and I also want to thank my family, my parents, my sisters, thanks for all of your support and helping hand, luv u guys so much and I’m gonna miss u all..

And for my boyfriend, Wandi, thank you so much for accompanying me and supporting me all the time..  I will try my best to manage it wisely and change for the better me and also my life and career.

At the moment, hoping for my S-Pass approved, and preparing every single thing to be brought in my luggage.. Hope I’m not missing anything important…

NB: Thanks for all your support my dear friends.. you know who you are hehe;)

 
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New Year.. New Life…^_^ - January 24th, 2007 by reffine
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Hi everyone.. it’s been 2 months not writing my blog.. first of all want to say happy new year to u all.. hope this new year will bring us a lot more better life, love, and career than last year.. :)

Been in singapore for almost 2 months since last november, get used to my new life here.. the environment, the food, my new room, ‘n others.. so far so good.. hehe..;p

Realize something, i think my english’s not getting better, because i seldom talk to others, sometimes just can’t find the exact word to tell what i want to say.. it’s just easier to write rather than to speak directly.. don’t know why.. hope will get used to it and will improve my english.. but i think i will be influenced and getting to speak singlish hehehe:P

hmm.. there are many indonesian people work here, i think this year the recruitment job still getting more and more vacancies.. i’ve heard 2 people already getting a new job by applying via jobsdb, the process is quite fast until they’re accepted in the company..

ok i think that’s all for today.. want to sleep now, tomorrow must work again.. can’t wait for the weekend to come hehe.. 2 more daysss.. :)

 

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Birthday Month - June 13th, 2007 by reffine
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This month is a special month for me, it’s my bday month. I’m getting older now, besides that I also got promoted to perm staff ^_^ so happy to hear the news.. I dont have to wait until I finish my contract on December 2007

I’ll be permanent staff as per 1st of July 2007, hope I will keep up the good work and be more confident in my self.

Thanks God for everything that have been happening in my life, for everyone whom I get around with, every new and old friends, and my dearest family..

Time flies so fast, almost 7 months being here.. really miss those days in Jakarta.. Sometimes when I go home after work, I have a flashback to the time when I was in Jakarta.. At that time, I would be in busway not in the MRT.. Everything is not the same now..

I miss my family, mom, dad, 2 cute sisters, and my friends there.. Hope everything is alright with them.. Can’t wait to see them around again^_^

After looking back from the posts that I’ve written in older blog, I’ve filtered 3 posts which indicate the stage of my life when I was about starting to move to Singapore. It was one of the big decision that I’ve made in my life, since I would leave my family and friends in Jakarta and start a new career and life here..

Hello world!

Posted in Intro tagged , , at 3:43 am by reffine

Just created an account under wordpress.. hopefully can start the new blogging life like other active bloggers hehe :)

actually I’ve created one blog before under friendster, but since 2005 till now only got few posts hehe.. I’ve abandoned that one for so looooooooonng already.. hihi..

Thanks to kimchi and nana so I can manage to create one here.. even though I know I will be very slow to update this blog but I will try to keep it up to date so that I can refresh my memories hehe..

Hmm.. I’m thinking to copy and paste the few posts content under my old friendster blog to this new one.. maybe I’ll do it in my next post :P