7 Nov 2009
The old cat and I are starting to replace things in the house. Things that we (or rather, I) feel are an eye sore. Right now, there are a few items that have come to our attention:
1) Spoilt Rubber Sealing Strips on glass doors
2) Bedside table lamp that we have used no more than 5 times
3) The big canvas photo of us in the study that has become yellowish over time
4) Window grilles in the house to prevent our future kid from falling down (choy!)
We decided to deal with the first 2 items. They are "cheaper" to deal with, lol.
Somehow with some luck, I found this old, crumpled name card which I think the glass supplier gave us back then when we were doing our renovation. There is nothing on the card that indicated "glass", but I told the old cat to give it a try. He did, and yes I was right!!! Apparently, the vendor gets his supply from another company, so we had to contact that company. We did, and yay, they have the sealing strips! We went all the way down to Woodlands East Industrial Estate on Saturday (7 Nov) to get the strips. Got the U-shaped type - more sturdy and lasting.
New U-shape sealing strips:
The old cat at work to cut the 2.7m strips to the desired length:
Tada! New strips for both the MBR and common toilets!
After getting the strips, we made our way to Toa Payoh. Philips was having a Carnival Sale. There wasn't anything that we need but after seeing people leaving the place happily with their purchases, I felt a bit... sad? You see, I don't like to walk away empty handed. Somehow I always have this mentality that when I go shopping, I have to buy something to make my shopping trip "worth it". It can be anything, doesn't have to be expensive. It can even be just an ice-cream and I'll be happy, haha! Sounds weird huh? So we scouted around the compound and I saw something cheap - a clock radio with mobile charging! Its the same one my boss bought to put in the office, except that its now selling for only $30!!!!!! 
This is a good chance to get rid of the bedside table lamp and let the clock take its place!
I cleaned the lamp and packed it into the store room. It is now on my eBay selling for $25. Any interested buyers? It's in very good condition. Switched it on no more than 5 times. Usual price $250.
Actually, we already have a clock in the room on the TV shelve but its ok, no harm having another one. This is better. You can control the brightness, set weekday/weekend alarm, set alarm to buzz or radio and best of all, you can charge your mobile! Now our bedside table looks "cleaner" and "simpler" without the table lamp, haha!
It has different plugs for different hp models, and a USB hub for me to charge my iPhone!
Haha, now we are only left with 2 things to "solve", the big canvas portrait and the window grilles. I have found a custom frame maker, so all we need to do is to decide which photo to use, print it out and bring it to the frame maker for mounting. Sounds relatively easy but we are sort of procrastinating, cos we haven't really sat down to discuss what kind of photo we should use. Wedding pic? Honeymoon pic? Scenery pic? It's not gonna be cheap, so must consider carefully before we dump our current $167 canvas frame for good.
As for the window grilles, we'll start looking around for suppliers and costing next year. We can still afford to procrastinate for this, cos 1) it ain't cheap and 2) Plan B will only kick in after our US trip. If fail then too bad... we'll have to wait for the next trip, lol. So we still have about 1 year ++ to settle this issue??
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