Sleepy Monday...zzzz...
So hard to drag my feet out of the bed this morning.
The Sunday was absolutely crazy. The day out started at 11am, had a chop-chop breakfast with the hubby at Clementi hawker then rushed over to West Coast to pick the sis and family to Balestier. Finalising on the lighting plan for the sis's new house was no joke. We had a hard time confirming which room to use PLC (energy-saving) or Halogen lights, which pendant light for the study room and which set of stylo light fits the dinning area and etc. It took us a good 3 hrs hopping from one lighting shop to another shop in Balestier buying all these lights. The sis and bro-in-law were both stressed out that they had a "mini" confrontation in one of the shops. He didn't want to overspend and wanted to have something simple and practical lights for the house. But she wants something stylish (all stylish stuff come with a price right?) to bring out the modern concept of the house reno. So I, being their daring sis, acted as mediator and made the effort to scruntize the corners of all the shops for cheap and stylo lights for them. Sigh..reno can be a pain the arse, but I guess it's all about compromising. They should have sat down and discuss about the budget they want to spend on lightings and what kinda lights they are going for prior to the shopping, like what the hubby and I did during our time.
Anyway, after the shopping, we dropped by at the designer's office and confirm the materials and colours for the carpentry and paintings. I did most of the decisions cos' the sis was not good at visualising and the bro-in-law was busy entertaining the little one, bringing her to playground and buying her Barbie VCDs. Let's hope that the outcome of the reno turns out good, else they are gonna ban me from entering their house when it's ready!
By 6pm, my energy was all drained up. The bro-in-law had to catch a flight to BKK so we went to pick up the hubby and headed to Geylang for dinner. Why Geylang? Cos' they have a couple of nice lighting shops in the Lorong 40s and I want to bring the sis there to take a look as she was a little upset that she couldn't find one earlier in Balestier. Well, I thought it was a good move as she was spoilt by choice in 2 of the shops there. So mission was completed and we went home happily.
Though it was tiring, it was good sharing my reno experience with the sis. We were never this close before, esp before she got married. Things started to become even better when she gave birth to little meg, we fostered this close bond we have never shared and meg was there to bridge the gap we had. Right now whenever she's in town, she calls me to update and pass me stuff she bought from her trips here and there. Me? I will also reciprocate by running her errands and jio-ing her for some retail-theraphy when I'm bored. Gee, talk about sisterly love...haha...
I lup my family!
The Sunday was absolutely crazy. The day out started at 11am, had a chop-chop breakfast with the hubby at Clementi hawker then rushed over to West Coast to pick the sis and family to Balestier. Finalising on the lighting plan for the sis's new house was no joke. We had a hard time confirming which room to use PLC (energy-saving) or Halogen lights, which pendant light for the study room and which set of stylo light fits the dinning area and etc. It took us a good 3 hrs hopping from one lighting shop to another shop in Balestier buying all these lights. The sis and bro-in-law were both stressed out that they had a "mini" confrontation in one of the shops. He didn't want to overspend and wanted to have something simple and practical lights for the house. But she wants something stylish (all stylish stuff come with a price right?) to bring out the modern concept of the house reno. So I, being their daring sis, acted as mediator and made the effort to scruntize the corners of all the shops for cheap and stylo lights for them. Sigh..reno can be a pain the arse, but I guess it's all about compromising. They should have sat down and discuss about the budget they want to spend on lightings and what kinda lights they are going for prior to the shopping, like what the hubby and I did during our time.
Anyway, after the shopping, we dropped by at the designer's office and confirm the materials and colours for the carpentry and paintings. I did most of the decisions cos' the sis was not good at visualising and the bro-in-law was busy entertaining the little one, bringing her to playground and buying her Barbie VCDs. Let's hope that the outcome of the reno turns out good, else they are gonna ban me from entering their house when it's ready!
By 6pm, my energy was all drained up. The bro-in-law had to catch a flight to BKK so we went to pick up the hubby and headed to Geylang for dinner. Why Geylang? Cos' they have a couple of nice lighting shops in the Lorong 40s and I want to bring the sis there to take a look as she was a little upset that she couldn't find one earlier in Balestier. Well, I thought it was a good move as she was spoilt by choice in 2 of the shops there. So mission was completed and we went home happily.
Though it was tiring, it was good sharing my reno experience with the sis. We were never this close before, esp before she got married. Things started to become even better when she gave birth to little meg, we fostered this close bond we have never shared and meg was there to bridge the gap we had. Right now whenever she's in town, she calls me to update and pass me stuff she bought from her trips here and there. Me? I will also reciprocate by running her errands and jio-ing her for some retail-theraphy when I'm bored. Gee, talk about sisterly love...haha...
I lup my family!
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