Lunch is served

Cooked 420g of hor fun. Remember during CB days, always enuf for 3 of them. Today, suddenly left with just settling the girls’ lunch when the man had to go office last minute. I noticed 420g would barely be enough for them 3 if hubby didn’t go back office. 

Lil’ one’s (on HBL) lunch time is from 12 - 1pm. The moment she came out of the room it’s an indication I can heat up the food while she takes a shower. Food on table at 12.12pm

Then che-che’s lunch (WFM today) served at 1.09pm. This kind of heating food at different times is still easy. Just needed to reheat the noodles in frying pan, reheat the gravy and then assemble the plate and pour hot gravy over. 

What’s left for me. 

After her meal, I ate whatever is leftover from che-che’s plate. So yah, 420g of hor fun is definitely not enough if it’s for the 3 of them. 

@ 2.32pm - heated up nonya dumpling to eat. My meals is always 不三不四. Either I have leftovers or not is always dependent on the girls. 

Adeniums

2nd Nov 

After a few days of intense unbearable heat, I noticed this pot of adenium has a few bunches of flowers sprouting. 

Dunno what species as I bought this pot from the nursery 

Feather Coat - bought from guy who brings in different species of adeniums

Underglaze Red

Romantic Star 

4th Nov

These beauties took my mind off things (for awhile) 

Not much growth from Romantic Star. Or are they sprouting leaves and not flowers? I bought these small pots of adeniums (3 or 4 of them) 2 years or more (?) back and only one pot has flowered once. That’s it! Fertilisers and heck care in watering and I don’t see any flowers. So disappointed. 

Feather Coat

Everyone at home on weekday

Abit of history first 

Just a few days back when I was telling the family we need to quickly use up the CDC vouchers and was finding ways on how to use up the ‘Hawkers and Heartland Merchants’ vouchers asap. We can use in almost every shop opposite us. Yay! 👍

I told che-che maybe she can log into my Singpass and use the vouchers during her lunch time. She mentioned it’s so troublesome and perhaps “when you send me to work in the mornings, we can go opposite to buy the carrot cake. Sure can use up one.” I responded with a laugh and asked her if she is indirectly asking me to send her to work every morning. 

This evening (3rd Nov)

I went into her room, “ for the girl who wants a free ride to work tmrw…..” She turned n smiled at me 🤣 “what time do you want to leave house?” Then she mentioned she might work from home. Yippee! Sometimes I do pity her and pick her up from work. Haha ! Cannot stop this bad habit lor! 

So happy! 

Feels like CB where everyone is at home. Lil’ one usually has her HBL on Mondays, hubby works from home and now che-che is working from home just today (the first WFH was on 11th Oct) 

Plan to cook Ipoh horfun for lunch. One dish meal. 

** edited on 4th Nov @ last minute hubby needs to go back office when he received a phonecall from office. Sigh….. and I’m worried about him driving. 

Pic added pic on 4th. 

Ipoh hor fun

Dining set

Changing the dining set has been on my mind since last year after the renovation. I had always wanted a SS dining table to match the kitchen. The Queen of Procrastinater 一直拖拖时间.  Checked local furniture shops’ website then realised all of them take their dining set from China!

Last week, looking at how badly the seat has become. Decided I better quickly do it now. Kindda recalled that I did upholster the Cellini dining chairs (when we stayed in Punggol) in Joo Chiat before and maybe can do the same to upholster the 4 chairs and couch. 

Messaged Mxxx for estimate quote to upholster, so that I can decide to upholster or just buy a new set. They promptly came back with their reply. $75/chair in either fabric or PVC, $280 for couch, transport fro and to my home $60 all before GST. In total that adds up to $697.60 😱. I can probably get a whole dining set with 4 chairs for $500++ from Taobao. I couldn’t check with Joo Chiat their price as they didn’t have any website. 

If I had upholster the chairs, there’s no way I can upholster this table. Simply not worth it, so I didn’t bother to ask them quote for this. 

Che-che don’t like the table, she keeps hitting the base. I don’t hit the base. She did say I have bad taste, the set is so ugly. I think I have classy taste tho.

I like the new japandi tables but it doesn’t match my existing cabinetry. 

This table seems okay but I don’t like the 4 legs that makes the table look so cheap style. Che-che says she hates the one we have, huge base and then food drop below difficult to clean. I asked her if she did the cleaning, I’m always the one cleaning the house so why is she complaining? I do drag the table and chairs out to vacumn and mop every once in a while. 

I can’t select the colour of the legs. I don’t like to have any furniture black and gold except for the piano which we can’t do anything about it

Old folks like me think this is nice but I don’t like the glossy table top. If I wanted to change, I’d change to matte table top

See this? A dining table + 6 chairs plus shipping fees $312.24 

Needed to save money so looked for chairs and the compartment couch. A search in Shoppee shows this chair  is selling at $111.82/pc

I only paid $56.26/pc

In total 4 chairs and one compartment couch costs $244.29

I just need to fix them. I don’t think I’m that lousy that I can’t fix the chairs right? Hope nobody falls 😂

I hope the new set can last us a long time. This chair only lasted us for 9 years before all the seam came undone and sponge visible. 

Another thing I had always wanted to do was to do a wooden decking in PES. That would costs us average $3k? Gasp! 没有钱没有钱！