2.5 Months after Moving in

We changed our sofa covers! Gonna send our 1st set for dry cleaning~



The new covers matches the curtains, haha


Live-in condition after 2.5 months, lol


- Phebe

Table Talk

Deipnosophist \dyp-NOS-uh-fist\, noun:
Someone who is skilled in table talk.

A deipnosophist I am not. In fact, now that I think about it, I don’t think I qualify as a sophist of any sort.

I always knew that making small talk was an art perfected through years spent feigning interest in the private idiosyncrasies of strangers. But I never knew that one could be awarded a specialist label for excelling in this area.

For those of you whose jobs require you to meet, greet and smile sweetly at perfect strangers, you would probably have honed a whole arsenal of deipnosophistic skills that you can fire away with ease.

For me, I make my visitors feel welcome by putting on my best non-fakey smile, which effectively utilises only the facial muscles on the right side of my face, and issuing mono-syllabic grunts when I’m greeted with chirps of “how are you?”.

The term, social Neanderthal, comes to mind.

Her Royal Majesty, on the other hand, has no problems meeting and greeting her loyal subjects. Perhaps, years of dispensing royal diplomacy have honed her social abilities, and it also helps that she has a natural sunny and cheery disposition. As a result, Her Royal Majesty often ends up being the one putting visitors at ease, and assuring them that I do not harbour criminal tendencies towards any of them.

I’m just glad that I don’t have to strain my facial muscles more often than I do now. Otherwise, I might just end up with the right end of my lips in a permanent upwards crook. You do know what they say to kids who like to make funny faces right?

- Melvin

The Cat & The Rat's Housewarming~!

10th Nov 2007 - We held our housewarming last Saturday, 10th Nov 2007. We ordered the high tea menu from Neogarden and guess what? They brought red table cloth instead of ivory ones which I requested for! Haiz, ok nevermind, small matter.

There was a lot of food and Mdm Yik cooked 2 big pots of curry chicken. I spent some time in the morning trying to figure out how to cook the crab balls while Hb woke up at 8am to clean the house and to wash the toilets. Believe it or not, we spent a hell lot of time the night before doing up the fruit satays! This is the first time in my whole like I cut a watermelon and honeydew, wahahahahahha. I really feel like a fruit seller!

There were quite a number of people who last minute sms me to say they can't make it. And mind you, most are those who have already confirmed their attendance, so as you can imagine, there was a hell lot of leftover food! I'm so glad my bunch of sec school guy pals were there. They helped me tabao-ed 3/4 of the leftover food home, so nice of them! It was quite fun overall and we receive pressies and ang paos, haha. In the afternoon, I got a surprise when a delivery man appeared at our doorstep with a large bouquet of flowers. It was an early anniversary surprise from Hb! :D The sunflowers are really pretty, and of course, cheery!

We only spent about 1 hour clearing up the mess and we decided to bring a pot of curry chicken over to our immediate neighbour. I packed some of the other snacks in a tupperware as well, haha. They later came over to return the pot and came in to view our place. Then being the kpo us, we also went over to view theirs, wahahahhaa! Very nice couple and I think its good to build a good relationship with the neighbours, so that in case anything happen (not that I hope there will be any), we can look out for each other!

Richard also came over to help us tabao a lot of food back, haha! So happy, and guess what we had for dinner?? Yes, you probably guessed it right - leftover mi fen, curry chicken, sotong you tiao and orange juice!

Oh and for the first time, we decorated our dining table with a vase of fresh flowers! It really brightened up the table!

- Phebe

LoSe sOMe tO gAin mOre

I broke my favourite water pitcher...... the very pitcher Hb and I hunted for high and low and finally found at Chinatown OG... :'(

So sad..... but until now I also have no idea how the glass jug managed to fall onto the floor, giving me a scare with the loud "piang!!!!!!!" Haiz....

Being the ever faithful me, I decided that I must buy back the very same sea shell shaped water pitcher. It was cheap and good, only $12, and so pretty too. Thus, I made Hb accompany me all the way to OG Chinatown just to look for the same jug. Alas, guess what? NO MORE LIAO!!!!! MAnz!!!! We ended up buying another design that looked ALMOST the same but slightly bigger, and more expensive too... $22.90 for a PLASTIC water pitcher! The good thing though about this water pitcher is the center portion. The ice tube can be filled with water and stored into the freezer, afterwhich when ready it can be screwed onto the lid of the pitcher to chill water or other beverages! No wonder its so freaking expensive... haiz. Anyway, its made of PLASTIC... no more breakage... I hope.

As the saying goes, no pain no gain. As mentioned in my previous posts, OG has become one of my favourite places to shop. I found THE CLAY POT there!!! Just nice to put frog meat, wahahahaha! Really cheap and nicer looking than those with traditional floral-like prints! Only $8.90! Yay finally found a clay pot that I like! :D

In the process, we bought 2 rice bowls too, having realised that of all the tableware we have, we have no white porcelain bowls! At first we didn't buy any as both of us use plates instead of bowls, but then we realised that some of our guests may use bowls...so... we bought two just in case, lol.

We finally received the cute door stopper I ordered online!

Hb was so hardworking today! He cleaned most of the WIW, the water pipes, stained pebblewash and the kitchen's solid surface top! I am most pleased with the solid surface, it is now sparkling clean and shiny after Hb used lemon pledge to clean it!

- Phebe