CCK Crescent
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Hi wise, thank you 
. The FS shifu gave a few base colours and then i played with the shades. Green is my favorite colour and it suits us so use it.... thou my hubby is at first quite adverse to it. hahahah....
Hi iceblue. sure we will keep a look out for you guys.
Hi Meow, nowadays the weather is really bad. Hope Sheryl is feeling better today. my niece has also just recovered from a cough and flu.
Hi Amelia, thank you ah Did you manage to get curtains from Ikea last evening?
Hi dubdub, jiayou jiayou... you have about a year to go right for your PT studies. U better take a break now and then... otherwise you will get burnt out real soon.
Hi serene, amelia is right contrast can be good. use cushion covers that complement your living room. or have a vase with pebbles/flowers to add accent to ur home.
. The FS shifu gave a few base colours and then i played with the shades. Green is my favorite colour and it suits us so use it.... thou my hubby is at first quite adverse to it. hahahah.... Hi iceblue. sure we will keep a look out for you guys.
Hi Meow, nowadays the weather is really bad. Hope Sheryl is feeling better today. my niece has also just recovered from a cough and flu.
Hi Amelia, thank you ah
Did you manage to get curtains from Ikea last evening? Hi dubdub, jiayou jiayou... you have about a year to go right for your PT studies. U better take a break now and then... otherwise you will get burnt out real soon.
Hi serene, amelia is right contrast can be good. use cushion covers that complement your living room. or have a vase with pebbles/flowers to add accent to ur home.
wiseharmony
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Hi purple star & Iceblue,
May b u gals can jalan jalan around that area to see which are the few blocks/area u liked so when they released & fast hand fast leg go & "book".
For WIS, the buyer/couple must buy 10$ stamp fee & selected a unit on the spot...
may b u can read abt the procedure on the HDB web for WIS.
http://www.hdb.gov.sg
May b u gals can jalan jalan around that area to see which are the few blocks/area u liked so when they released & fast hand fast leg go & "book".
For WIS, the buyer/couple must buy 10$ stamp fee & selected a unit on the spot...
may b u can read abt the procedure on the HDB web for WIS.
http://www.hdb.gov.sg
thks blurstg
hi wise,
u mean $10 rite?thks for ur info.
btw not book unit on 2nd appt?
btw purple star i talk to the hdb staff, she say can( i was askg abt getg parents) she say as long as hav the couple full particulars can liao, then wen go sign agreemen also no nd 2 pax to b ther. 1 arnd also can
hi wise,
u mean $10 rite?thks for ur info.
btw not book unit on 2nd appt?
btw purple star i talk to the hdb staff, she say can( i was askg abt getg parents) she say as long as hav the couple full particulars can liao, then wen go sign agreemen also no nd 2 pax to b ther. 1 arnd also can
Hi Amelia,
isn't spotlight things slightly on the higher ends. why not try those shops at Clementi kind. They also have those ready made ones.
Hi Meow, good to hear Sheryl is getting well. Once bb gets unwell, the parents are the most worried.
Your hubby is in the army???
Hi iceblue and purple star, my blk 690B do still have empty units for the executive(I think 7 or 6th floor and below, may have some high floors) and five room (4th floor and below).
Ice blue, good for you that you can not rest your mind in piece now that you confirm your parents can do it for you. Better give them your IC and a letter of authorisation just in case as a backup. Prepare your cpf statements /salary slips too and birth certificates on standby. I forgot whether you need this on the first appt or second.
Wise is right, go and take a look, it is very obvious which units are not taken.
isn't spotlight things slightly on the higher ends. why not try those shops at Clementi kind. They also have those ready made ones.
Hi Meow, good to hear Sheryl is getting well.
Once bb gets unwell, the parents are the most worried. Your hubby is in the army???
Hi iceblue and purple star, my blk 690B do still have empty units for the executive(I think 7 or 6th floor and below, may have some high floors) and five room (4th floor and below).
Ice blue, good for you that you can not rest your mind in piece now that you confirm your parents can do it for you. Better give them your IC and a letter of authorisation just in case as a backup. Prepare your cpf statements /salary slips too and birth certificates on standby. I forgot whether you need this on the first appt or second.
Wise is right, go and take a look, it is very obvious which units are not taken.
wiseharmony
New Member
Hi iceblue,
hmmm... strange leh! for our WIS for CCK. we buy stamp & upon submition we can selected on the spot. tat y mi & hubby so shock coz we have yet to decide any unit @ tat time.
think unless it balloting then can only selected during the 2nd appt. For our 2nd appt we collect key & paid the downpayment... & then there goes all our CPF!!! sob' sob'
Hi meow,
Oh dear, BB Sheryl is sick. hope she recover fast. the weather for the past few days is bad- foggy. try not to bring her out. & may b can boil some barley drink for her but not too much.
Hi Amelia & blursotong.
*~wave~*
hmmm... strange leh! for our WIS for CCK. we buy stamp & upon submition we can selected on the spot. tat y mi & hubby so shock coz we have yet to decide any unit @ tat time.
think unless it balloting then can only selected during the 2nd appt. For our 2nd appt we collect key & paid the downpayment... & then there goes all our CPF!!! sob' sob'
Hi meow,
Oh dear, BB Sheryl is sick. hope she recover fast. the weather for the past few days is bad- foggy. try not to bring her out. & may b can boil some barley drink for her but not too much.
Hi Amelia & blursotong.
*~wave~*
Meow,
Yah weather is really bad these days, alot of us are sick too.Giving her more water may help and also dressing her in light clothing.
Blursotong,
Spotlight's curtains not nice leh and pricey too
Think I will go down IKEA again today.Do you think they customise curtains for living room?The bedrooms fit..just not the living room.
Wise,
haha allo!!
you selected ur ID yet?
Yah weather is really bad these days, alot of us are sick too.Giving her more water may help and also dressing her in light clothing.
Blursotong,
Spotlight's curtains not nice leh and pricey too
Think I will go down IKEA again today.Do you think they customise curtains for living room?The bedrooms fit..just not the living room.
Wise,
haha allo!!
you selected ur ID yet?
wiseharmony
New Member
Hi Amelia,
not yet. not yet. but the HDB contractor is replacing all the defacts items.
Hi Iceblue,
we visited the neighbourhood 3x before deciding. looked at the surrounding. accessable to MRT/bus-stop/hawker? do u mind low level? wat is the "lowest" u can accept? look out for "west sun"? is corrider too dark? your new neighbour ok? other things liked do u mind main door facing another door/ staircases or near lift lobby/ rubbish chute etc?
u will b the one staying there. most important u must liked it.
& yes. the neighbourhood there is friendly. can knock door to "visit" & look see see look the inside & hv a better idea. but dont visit the house alone, not only for secuirty reasons. go wif yr hubby/ family member. diff pple got diff views so they may looked out for things which we dont.
happi viewing...
not yet. not yet. but the HDB contractor is replacing all the defacts items.
Hi Iceblue,
we visited the neighbourhood 3x before deciding. looked at the surrounding. accessable to MRT/bus-stop/hawker? do u mind low level? wat is the "lowest" u can accept? look out for "west sun"? is corrider too dark? your new neighbour ok? other things liked do u mind main door facing another door/ staircases or near lift lobby/ rubbish chute etc?
u will b the one staying there. most important u must liked it.
& yes. the neighbourhood there is friendly. can knock door to "visit" & look see see look the inside & hv a better idea. but dont visit the house alone, not only for secuirty reasons. go wif yr hubby/ family member. diff pple got diff views so they may looked out for things which we dont.
happi viewing...
Hi iceblue... I am not sure if there is 4rm kind...
I took the list from HDB on the available units and went to every level of the block that I like to check out on the corridor and my neighbours. I viewed the homes of similar design to see if i like the size and layout of the place. neighbouts are impt as they help to look out for your house when you are not in. My neighbours are nice pple and they helped me during renovations. Help me to check on my contractors at times. Glad I bought that unit.
Most importantly, you and hubby must have the feel of the unit that you choose. Otherwise, skip that unit.
When i selected the unit, it was the decision of only me and my hubby. My parents and in laws came into picture after we selected the unit.
I took the list from HDB on the available units and went to every level of the block that I like to check out on the corridor and my neighbours. I viewed the homes of similar design to see if i like the size and layout of the place. neighbouts are impt as they help to look out for your house when you are not in. My neighbours are nice pple and they helped me during renovations. Help me to check on my contractors at times. Glad I bought that unit.
Most importantly, you and hubby must have the feel of the unit that you choose. Otherwise, skip that unit.
When i selected the unit, it was the decision of only me and my hubby. My parents and in laws came into picture after we selected the unit.
Thanks everyone for your concern for little Sheryl. She's ok already,
She didn't poo for 2days. Really gave me a fright. No matter how much water we give her, she still wont poo. Finally she did it today. Wow really stinks
Iceblue,
when i look for my unit, i try to look for one that the evening sun wont shine direct at my unit.
Iceblue,
when i look for my unit, i try to look for one that the evening sun wont shine direct at my unit.
Hi iceblue.. for my block, it has a 5 rm unit amongst four other 5 five executive units. Like a point block and the corridor is spacious. I think 690C has a similar layout. Think dodo can advise on 690C. you will have good neighbouts too.
Hi meow, good to hear sheryl is doing fine... make her drink lots of water to poo poo. maybe she is too heaty internally then so that is why no poo.
Hi purple star and ice blue, fyip, i did not see any notice of WIS at our area yet.
Hi meow, good to hear sheryl is doing fine... make her drink lots of water to poo poo. maybe she is too heaty internally then so that is why no poo.
Hi purple star and ice blue, fyip, i did not see any notice of WIS at our area yet.
hi blursotong, Amelia,
i didnt do curtain.. my hubby said we will defintely lazy to wash the curtain after sometime. so we jus paste those type of translucent paper (meant for pasting glasses, window). in this case opposite building will not be able to see inside our hse n also to prevent strong sunlight..
we save quite alot on this part n one thing dun need to wipe or wash the window ofen. haha... save trouble...keke... (excuse for lazybumbum)
i didnt do curtain.. my hubby said we will defintely lazy to wash the curtain after sometime. so we jus paste those type of translucent paper (meant for pasting glasses, window). in this case opposite building will not be able to see inside our hse n also to prevent strong sunlight..
we save quite alot on this part n one thing dun need to wipe or wash the window ofen. haha... save trouble...keke... (excuse for lazybumbum)
doraemon16
New Member
hihi!
sorry for MIA fro so long... just back from my bangkok trip... really shiok & shiong man!!!
we had our bridal photoshoot on 23.06... it was really a sweet n happy experience... both my fiance n me got those "we are really getting married soon" kind of feeling
we went to holland village n botanic garden for outdoor photoshoot,indeed a very different experience! we were approached by 3 groups of tourists to take photos wi them! hee... my photographer asked us to charge them a fee for that
then we flied off to bangkok the next day for 4D 3n trip... we bought A LOT of stuff there!!! many cutleries, utensils, house decor stuff and even a big painting! hee...
just reached home and finished bathing... so so tired... really must have a good rest later...
sorry for MIA fro so long... just back from my bangkok trip... really shiok & shiong man!!!
we had our bridal photoshoot on 23.06... it was really a sweet n happy experience... both my fiance n me got those "we are really getting married soon" kind of feeling
then we flied off to bangkok the next day for 4D 3n trip... we bought A LOT of stuff there!!! many cutleries, utensils, house decor stuff and even a big painting! hee...
just reached home and finished bathing... so so tired... really must have a good rest later...
Hi serene,
good idea. But really cannot see what you doing inside? How much did you do up the whole house with this translucent paper?
Hi dodo, WOW.... enjoy ah....you should charge the tourists some royalty fees. ehhehe.... Photoshoot really makes you a star.... all the attention is on you.
All the shopping you did..... I am so ENVIOUS. Really cant wait for a break now.... Show us the pictures you have taken during your trip if you have any....
good idea. But really cannot see what you doing inside? How much did you do up the whole house with this translucent paper?
Hi dodo, WOW.... enjoy ah....you should charge the tourists some royalty fees. ehhehe.... Photoshoot really makes you a star.... all the attention is on you
. All the shopping you did..... I am so ENVIOUS. Really cant wait for a break now.... Show us the pictures you have taken during your trip if you have any....
doraemon16
New Member
hihi blurstotong!
ya, the photoshoot really make me feel like a star! the photographer told us tt he took ard 280 shots of us... think we will have a hard time to choose n shortlist... headache ah...
hee.. actually this is not a relaxing trip... we kept surveying ard, comparing prices and bargain till my mouth dried...
haa.. only take a few photos during this trip... i tried to post 1 here but not successful leh... maybe i upload wrongly.. if u wana see my photo, just email me k
ya, the photoshoot really make me feel like a star! the photographer told us tt he took ard 280 shots of us... think we will have a hard time to choose n shortlist... headache ah...
hee.. actually this is not a relaxing trip... we kept surveying ard, comparing prices and bargain till my mouth dried...
haa.. only take a few photos during this trip... i tried to post 1 here but not successful leh... maybe i upload wrongly..
if u wana see my photo, just email me k
hi dodo, same same leh, i went to bangkok 1 day after my photoshoot.. mi n my hubby also been looking around for haha...
hi blursotong, my hubby spend about 60bucks for the whole hse, except kindow window. yes, really cannot see from outside.. i even walk nuded around the living room.. haha...
hi blursotong, my hubby spend about 60bucks for the whole hse, except kindow window. yes, really cannot see from outside.. i even walk nuded around the living room.. haha...
Hi dodo...
Yep want to see ya photo. my email is [email protected]... I love seeing photos.
Hi serene, you are so funny... will talk to hubby about the stickers. It is really cheap...
Yep want to see ya photo. my email is [email protected]... I love seeing photos.
Hi serene, you are so funny... will talk to hubby about the stickers. It is really cheap...
doraemon16
New Member
hi serene
so qiao ah! hee.. very tiring shopping n surveying there hor... but the painting there really cheap! i saw a similar one here cost S$900... there only selling S$150! so we quickly grab liao...
so have u select ur bridal photos already?
got photos to share share?
hi blursotong, u got mail!
so have u select ur bridal photos already?
hi blursotong, u got mail!
Hi dodo...
Saw your pictures and replied....What kind of painting? Scenery base or portraiture or abstract?
I have not even taken my wedding photos yet. All my gowns are still in the making.
Hi Ice blue, there is no stench so far from the visits i went down.. Which blocks are you looking at?
Saw your pictures and replied....What kind of painting? Scenery base or portraiture or abstract?
I have not even taken my wedding photos yet. All my gowns are still in the making.
Hi Ice blue, there is no stench so far from the visits i went down.. Which blocks are you looking at?
hi dodo,
realli miss my OD photoshooting..
yes already selected my photos n hv gotten my negatives n sample bk. givemme ur email addr i will email u my photos.. take ur time to view cos i got 105photos... keke...
i wanna to see see ur bangkok photo too
my email addr: [email protected]
10q : )
realli miss my OD photoshooting..
yes already selected my photos n hv gotten my negatives n sample bk. givemme ur email addr i will email u my photos.. take ur time to view cos i got 105photos... keke...
i wanna to see see ur bangkok photo too
my email addr: [email protected]
10q : )
Iceblue,
you dun have to go only in the evenings for the sun. Jus bring a compass will do.
As for the stench, think i did smell it on monday morning, really smell like shit. Initially i thought my hubby jus finish his big business, but he say no. Could it be fertilizer rather than chicken shit?
you dun have to go only in the evenings for the sun. Jus bring a compass will do.
As for the stench, think i did smell it on monday morning, really smell like shit. Initially i thought my hubby jus finish his big business, but he say no. Could it be fertilizer rather than chicken shit?
Hi Serene and dodo,
Got photos?I wanna see too especially the stuff you bought from bangkok!
[email protected]
How did you guys bring household stuff back to s'pore?Did you have to pay extra for shipping?
Yah I didn't want to do curtains initially becos my flat has no direct sunlight.Thought of getting ready-made ones from IKEA but I custom-made sheer curtains(organza type) eventually..shld be ready for collection soon.
Hi girls,
Yup I smelt it too!The stench I am sure is from the canal haha!Quite jialat..but the canal will be completed very soon.If you're moving in a few months later, you definitely won't be affected..
Today is my busy day.I had to bathe the cat and clean up my home for my built-in wardrobe to be installed.Alumix wardrobe itself is ok priced...it's the false ceiling and false walls that kills.Sigh $$$$$$!!
Meow,
How's baby now? Did u tell hubby that Sheryl looks a lot like him?
Got photos?I wanna see too especially the stuff you bought from bangkok!
[email protected]
How did you guys bring household stuff back to s'pore?Did you have to pay extra for shipping?
Yah I didn't want to do curtains initially becos my flat has no direct sunlight.Thought of getting ready-made ones from IKEA but I custom-made sheer curtains(organza type) eventually..shld be ready for collection soon.
Hi girls,
Yup I smelt it too!The stench I am sure is from the canal haha!Quite jialat..but the canal will be completed very soon.If you're moving in a few months later, you definitely won't be affected..
Today is my busy day.I had to bathe the cat and clean up my home for my built-in wardrobe to be installed.Alumix wardrobe itself is ok priced...it's the false ceiling and false walls that kills.Sigh $$$$$$!!
Meow,
How's baby now? Did u tell hubby that Sheryl looks a lot like him?
Hi Serene,
Your PS photos turn out very nicely. Your hubby got the cool look. The seaside and evenign sunset shots are gorgeous. The weather is fantastic for shoots that day ya.
Where do you get those stickers from? From your description, seems really tough to put them up. Needs a pair of skillful hands.
Hi ladies, the smell seems very bad. Meow you so funny...
Hi Amelia,
so your wardrobe is done. You must be very happy that you have settled your room and have new furniture to your house.
Your PS photos turn out very nicely. Your hubby got the cool look. The seaside and evenign sunset shots are gorgeous. The weather is fantastic for shoots that day ya.
Where do you get those stickers from? From your description, seems really tough to put them up. Needs a pair of skillful hands.
Hi ladies, the smell seems very bad. Meow you so funny...
Hi Amelia,
so your wardrobe is done. You must be very happy that you have settled your room and have new furniture to your house.
wiseharmony
New Member
Hi Iceblue,
found this.... on finding new flat
http://www.renotalk.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=1
Hi ladies,
Good morning!!!
found this.... on finding new flat
http://www.renotalk.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=1
Hi ladies,
Good morning!!!
hi Amelia,
i bought the clay type cutlery (bowls, chopstick, soy source, pepper, salt container), 2 set bamboo type table mats n coasters
2 zen type small lamps (wanna to buy big one but hubby said diff to bring bk to singapore). also bought those triangular pillows.
actually not did not bought much BUT veri bulky n heavy.. especially during check-in at the airport.. we used those "Dao Lu" red, white, blue bag to squeeze everything into the bag n hand carry those fraglie items. phew.. everyone looking at our BAG lor.. so embarrass.. luckily there were 2 friends wif us, so they also helped us wif the BIG bag.. When we returned bk to singapore, the custom officer checked on the BIG bag lor n ask us y we bought so many things like going to sell in singapore. haha... Anyway not the 1st time for mi.. last year i went to HongKong also kan na check by the custom officer.
i did not take any photos on the items i bought from bangkok. will take pic of my hse to show u.
i bought the clay type cutlery (bowls, chopstick, soy source, pepper, salt container), 2 set bamboo type table mats n coasters
2 zen type small lamps (wanna to buy big one but hubby said diff to bring bk to singapore). also bought those triangular pillows.
actually not did not bought much BUT veri bulky n heavy.. especially during check-in at the airport.. we used those "Dao Lu" red, white, blue bag to squeeze everything into the bag n hand carry those fraglie items. phew.. everyone looking at our BAG lor.. so embarrass.. luckily there were 2 friends wif us, so they also helped us wif the BIG bag.. When we returned bk to singapore, the custom officer checked on the BIG bag lor n ask us y we bought so many things like going to sell in singapore. haha... Anyway not the 1st time for mi.. last year i went to HongKong also kan na check by the custom officer.
i did not take any photos on the items i bought from bangkok. will take pic of my hse to show u.
Amelia, forget to add on.. i have my ID & OD photo. u wan to see see? hav u taken ur ID & OD photos, or ROM or customary?? can see see??
[email protected]
10q : )
[email protected]
10q : )
Serene and dodo,
Havent gone through my customary but I do have a few ROM pics.Sent the link to both of you.Any comments pls email me instead becos I don't come in here often enough...thanks.
I also haven't started planning my customary leh...suppose to be end of this year but i'm not keen at all.Husband told me I have to take wedding photos at the very least..haha we'll see how it goes..I'd rather spend the money on tangible things..
Serene, how much did u spend on those items?I feel like going over bangkok to shop now..last time i went there was many years bk.
Haha you used that "Dao Lu" bag?...Customs must had thought you were from mainland hehe
Havent gone through my customary but I do have a few ROM pics.Sent the link to both of you.Any comments pls email me instead becos I don't come in here often enough...thanks.
I also haven't started planning my customary leh...suppose to be end of this year but i'm not keen at all.Husband told me I have to take wedding photos at the very least..haha we'll see how it goes..I'd rather spend the money on tangible things..
Serene, how much did u spend on those items?I feel like going over bangkok to shop now..last time i went there was many years bk.
Haha you used that "Dao Lu" bag?...Customs must had thought you were from mainland hehe
doraemon16
New Member
hi serene, i wana see ur ID & OD photos too!
doraemon16
New Member
hi ladies,
we bought quite alots of things from bangkok... same as serene, some bowls, plates, sauces containers, mugs, throws, cushion covers, table coaster, vase, flowers, wood deco strips & boards and a painting.. spend ard S$300+...
really very very heavy leh! we also bought an extra big bag! those army bag...we din buy much for our own personal stuff though, and all our bags weigh 44kg in total... so we split the load, 22kg each... heng the airport staff din charge us for that...
we bought quite alots of things from bangkok... same as serene, some bowls, plates, sauces containers, mugs, throws, cushion covers, table coaster, vase, flowers, wood deco strips & boards and a painting.. spend ard S$300+...
really very very heavy leh! we also bought an extra big bag! those army bag...we din buy much for our own personal stuff though, and all our bags weigh 44kg in total... so we split the load, 22kg each... heng the airport staff din charge us for that...
hi blursotong,
tks for ur compliments. alot of ppl like my OD photos. tks to my photographer. keke.. those beach photos was taken at changi beach.
i hav seen ur ROM photo. i like ur ROM dress. did u custom made or ur bridal shop loan to u? where did u hav ur solenmazation??
u can get those stickers at hardware shops. u have to get the measurement of each window pane and cut them out. both my hubby n i realli hav a hard time to get those stickers to b paste nicely on the window pane. in e end we gave up. so my in-laws decided to help us lor..haha...
tks for ur compliments. alot of ppl like my OD photos. tks to my photographer. keke.. those beach photos was taken at changi beach.
i hav seen ur ROM photo. i like ur ROM dress. did u custom made or ur bridal shop loan to u? where did u hav ur solenmazation??
u can get those stickers at hardware shops. u have to get the measurement of each window pane and cut them out. both my hubby n i realli hav a hard time to get those stickers to b paste nicely on the window pane. in e end we gave up. so my in-laws decided to help us lor..haha...
wiseharmony
New Member
Allo Ladies...
It's
Jus wanna to share this wif u:
Ouch!!
It's
Jus wanna to share this wif u:
Ouch!!
doraemon16
New Member
hi serene,
i haven see ur photos yet... can email me @ [email protected] thanks oh..
hi blursotong,
can i see ur rom photo too?
hi wise,
thanks for sharing
very meaningful.. sad to say, tt's what ppl usually behave...
i haven see ur photos yet... can email me @ [email protected] thanks oh..
hi blursotong,
can i see ur rom photo too?
hi wise,
thanks for sharing
very meaningful.. sad to say, tt's what ppl usually behave...
Hi Wise...
you are really WISE..A meaningful reality excerpt for a friday...
Hi Serene and Dodo,
Do your hubbies feel very paiseh when there are so many big bags to carry back to Singapore after all the shopping? My hubby sometimes feel like we become so auntie and uncle. A typical Singaporean to buy so many things back home when it is a shopping trip. But well who cares at the end of the day. It is a sense of achievement when you can get cheap things overseas and it is not a common thing.
Hi Iceblue, do not be discourage. Patience will pay off soon.
Hi Serene, I got my gown at a bridal shop at a price of $120. It is not custom made. It was OTR. I loved it the moment i saw it at the shop. had my ROM in NUS at the very place where i met my husband.
Sounds like tough business for the stickers.
Hi Carol, you've got mail
you are really WISE..A meaningful reality excerpt for a friday...
Hi Serene and Dodo,
Do your hubbies feel very paiseh when there are so many big bags to carry back to Singapore after all the shopping? My hubby sometimes feel like we become so auntie and uncle. A typical Singaporean to buy so many things back home when it is a shopping trip. But well who cares at the end of the day. It is a sense of achievement when you can get cheap things overseas and it is not a common thing.
Hi Iceblue, do not be discourage. Patience will pay off soon.
Hi Serene, I got my gown at a bridal shop at a price of $120. It is not custom made. It was OTR. I loved it the moment i saw it at the shop. had my ROM in NUS at the very place where i met my husband.
Sounds like tough business for the stickers.
Hi Carol, you've got mail
wiseharmony
New Member
Hi dodo,
Well u see.... sometimes truth hurts!!
& not many of us can accept the TRUTH!!
Hi blursotong,
mi didnt write tat!!! so not so wise...
& yr r not so blur or sotong too.
Well u see.... sometimes truth hurts!!
& not many of us can accept the TRUTH!!
Hi blursotong,
mi didnt write tat!!! so not so wise...
& yr r not so blur or sotong too.
wiseharmony
New Member
"Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much."
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much."