Path to a HDB tai-tai: Storage Rack

I've never expected home reno would take away more of my time with my Goddess than the wedding preparations!

She's like out every weekend with the Horny Devil, first checking defects, then home furnishing/lighting/electronics shopping, curtain sourcing...and now that her renovation has started, being there from morning till evening to supervise the renovation works!

The first house purchase that they purchased and was delivered was their storage rack for their home shelter.

This rack is from the popular Yee Sin from Renotalk. Initially my Goddess wanted to get the really chio boltless rack from Gawa. It looked so chic with its seamless design, and best of all, it's available in cream - their house theme colour!

Path to a HDB Tai-tai: First day of Renovation!

Today was another milestone to note for my Goddess and the Horny Devil - it was the start of the renovation of their love nest!

My Goddess is very blessed to have a very good father-in-law (FIL). As an architect, he wanted to help out in their renovations so that they wouldn't spend unnecessary money on the ID and/or main contractors. So in the end, he helped them to do space and light planning, perspective drawing, detailed drawing of the carpentry. Basically everything you would find in an ID, minus the additional project management fees/ markups of subcon works.

Being so hands on, the FIL took leave to monitor their renovation for the whole day, though he didn't really have to. Furthermore, he is also tied down with a major renovation of his own house. **Super grateful**

Briefing the false ceiling worker 小勇 on what to do

DIY Half-moon Nails

Half moon nails have been quite popular for a while already. But my Goddess haven't had the guts to try it cos it looked quite difficult to conquer. When done nicely, it looks real chic.

One day, having itchy fingers, my Goddess tried to DIY half-moon nails last night for the very first time. Was quite a flopz. She did the red overall base first, then tried to paint a pink semicircle at the bottom - first with masking tape cut horribly into semicircles. Ended up the masking tape didn't stick well and she has to do everything 'free hand'.

Super duper thick & messy

After a few more coats of pink and cleaning up the edges, it looked much better.

Pre-wedding Shots of Seng & Lian

In my post one month back, I wrote about the wedding of my Goddess childhood (secondary) school friend and the Horny Devil's also childhood (secondary) school friend, and that I will share pictures of her wedding with you, if she's ok.

GOOD NEWS! She's totally open about it, and so here's sharing with you first her pre-wedding shots!

Her friends Chewy and Seng, under the recommendation of my Goddess, engaged the services of my Goddess' bridal shop, Labelle Couture too for the exact same reasons why my Goddess and the Horny Devil selected them:

1. Their wedding gowns are simple but GORGEOUS!
2. Their service is UPZ.
3. Their pre-wedding photography is not your cliche - look far and act 'seh', unless you request for it, nor over photoshop until you can't recognise yourself
4. Their price is duper reasonable.
5. Their makeup artist Vivi is very professional - you don't look overly made up, and also not way different from yourself - she brings out the best in you.

Can't imagine the Chewy who used to look like this...

This was already taken after secondary school, during their JC days

Will turn out a stunner like this!

Doesn't this look like some shot taken off from a magazine

I Heart Charles & Keith

Charles & Keith service is so good lah! My Goddess recently bought a bag from them online. Ended up she's not very keen with her purchase. So yesterday she went down to their shop to check if there's still stocks of the other bag that she wanted and asked them to reserve it for her.

She thought that since it was an exchange they probably didn't take her request seriously. So today, she went to Charles & Keith again with her original purchase.

And they did keep the bag for her!! And furthermore, it was the last piece. (Somehow my Goddess seems to be always getting the last pieces)

Anyway, they were really nice! They gave my Goddess a 10% off the original price of this bag. So she just needed to top up a difference of $10 instead of the usual $16! But had she chose to buy it straight off the rack, she could have saved $3...

After one big round, she still chose this bag in the end... =_="

Path to a HDB Tai-tai: Defect Rectifications Over!

It's been 5 weeks since my Goddess got her keys to her new place. And one month plus later, the defects were finally all rectified (until the next time she finds anything new ;\)

Officially, it took them 3 weeks to rectify them. (The Horny Devil and Goddess took 2 weeks out of the 5 to check the defects). Majority of them were rectified in the next 2 weeks, but my Goddess being very anal meticulous, checked every single nooks and cranny to make sure the house is brand new. After all, they have spent so much on the house - better make sure they get their money's worth right?

She didn't take pics of the defects, but here's a list of what's wrong and those that she can recall (30+ altogether):

1. Low water pressure for toilets

2. Windows hard to close

3. Keys for doors can't be used/hard to lock/unlock

4. Chipped off wall/cupboards/doors

5. Uneven tiles in living room

6. Holes/dents on room floors

7. Scratches on kitchen tops

8. Door doesn't close/latch on properly

9. 'Concealer' used to cover cracks on doors

My Goddess calls it a concealer cos it's beige in colour, so looked totally like one, and it's used to cover flaws (works like one too!) And the workers think this boo-boo can go unnoticed, they are wrong! My Goddess is so into make-up that she can spot concealer from afar!

And the engineered wood given by Hoi Hup was totally lousy! It gets chipped/dented/soiled so easily!

See the water marks on the timber?

Now they have to wear bathroom slippers whenever they are in their room. And no drinks allowed in the room! I cannot imagine when the aircon leaks.

My Charles & Keith bag is here!

Just a few days ago, I posted that my Goddess ordered a Charles & Keith bag online for the first time. (Read here for post).

And so she opted for a Saturday 9-11am delivery. And it was really here at 9 plus in the morning!
 

Super duper efficient and it comes with a nice ribbon and paper bag + sticker packaging too! So that's where the $9.90 handling charges go to - packing the bag in dust bag and putting it in a big paper pag with nice sticker and ribbon!

Charles & Keith.com

My Goddess shopped at Charles & Keith for the first time today. Why did she shop online when she can buy it off the stores, you may ask. Don't ask me why. She saw a bag in the stores that she really liked and wanted to check out if there are having it for sale.



This was the bag she saw and liked initially

 Ended up she saw another similar looking bag which was on sale - $53.10!!

Featured on Wedding Tweets

Glad my Goddess' months (a year and a half in fact) of planning and hard work got recognised once again, this time in Wedding Tweets, another wedding info/inspiration site. She's got quite a lot of her inspirations from sites and pictures all over the world -  States mainly, and pulled it off the Singaporean way, and all via DIY - no professional wedding planners involved!

Wedding Tweets even featured their wacky pre-wedding shots.

To check out the post, click here.

DIY Cat-winged Mod Look

Last week was the Horny Devil's colleague's wedding. Guess La Belle Couture which my Goddess engaged for her wedding (gowns/pre-wedding album/makeup + hair/ actual day photography) left positive impressions and so many of her friends/ acquaintances, including this colleague engaged their services thereafter. 

Very sweet half-do with braids - the in style now!

Didn't managed to get a good shot here but the Chinese cheong-sam inspired modern day gown is really unique!

Take a Leap of Faith

The Horny Devil once made a very meaningful analogy.

Life is like taking a bus. You flagged it down, knowing that it will bring you to where you want to go. But along the way, the bus may break down. When that happens, you just have to get down and take another bus to your destination. The alternative route may be longer and bumpier.

But given another chance another day, you will still take the same bus if you are going to the same destination, knowing very well that the bus may break down on you again.

Home Small Home

Finally, two years after they selected and purchased their place, my Goddess and the Horny Devil's place is ready for collection!

Going up to their home for the first time - my Goddess faced mixed apprehension - the house is going to be damn tiny and will take some time to get used to, and most importantly, they have to now pay their own bills, do their own housework and laundry!! She suddenly feels more married within a day, one year after their wedding.

The narrow corridor. Luckily her apartment is not adjacent to any other houses, unlike the other 2 units

Welcome home?

Knock knock!

Ah Lian & Ah Seng weds

Seems like the last weekend was a popular and auspicious time to get married. There were so many wedding pictures posted up on Facebook! My Goddess and the Horny Devil were also involved in one wedding that they have helped match make 2 years back.

This was the first and probably the only time which my Goddess and the Horny Devil will be brother and sister of the bride and groom concurrently. And so my Goddess especially cherished the moment which she can ‘tekan’ the groom and the Horny Devil!

The pretty sisters all ready to tekan the groom and his brothers!

Smokey eyeshadow

My Goddess is always awed by nice makeup, and especially now that she's on Pinterest, there's just so much inspiring makeup and pictures out there that she could pin and keep track of. Follow her on Pinterest if you are keen to find out her fave styles and what she pins.

Anyway, she was really mesmerized by one of the smokey eyes done. Being the experimental and adventurous her who always try to create different looks, she decided to try it out for herself at the company's D&D.

Isnt this just beautiful?

And so she did. Doesn't look as good as the picture though, but she's satisfied with the results. Furthermore she didn't have the exact colours - dark purple and white. Think she needs to get a white shadow one day - it's really useful to brighten up the eyes!

Atrocious Service at MPH

Didn't want to write about this initially, but MPH's lousy service is really driving my Goddess up the wall.

A while back. My Goddess wanted to buy a book for the Horny Devil, but wasn't sure if they carry it in their stores. So she found their Raffles City outlet number online and wanted to call and check first so that she won't make a wasted trip.

And so she called for 15 minutes and no one picked up. Her mobile phone was on auto-redial mode, so there was no moment in which she stopped dialing and the phone stopped ringing. She was irritated after 15 minutes, and so she stopped the auto-redial for 1 minute before trying to call again. And when she called this time, the phone line was dead.

Irritated, she travelled to the store. And she went to the counter to check on the book and found the phone hung up at the counter!

Why does others' permed short hair look so chic but mine looks like shit?

So in love with this Korean fashion blogger from NYC. She's got so much style - all her get-up looks so good! Plus she's Asian, so I could relate to her better and picture myself in the items she's wearing and learn from her style!

For more pictures of her blog, read here.

Anyway, Ms Pouty had her hair cut and perm recently. She looked damn chic and good no matter how messy the wind may blow it. It was so inspiring to my Goddess.

Magnetic Nail Polish

My Goddess has read about magnetic nail polish, but haven't had a chance to try it out. Thanks to her twin who brought her one to try all the one from Italy!

Kiko seems to be a big brand from Milan, offering a wide range skincare and makeup products!

And the results of her first attempt with magnetic nail polish - somewhat successful!

One Year Part Two - Back to where we begun

Remember two posts back my Goddess said she wanted to change her hairstyle? Well, she started off with her hair colour. And for the second part, she wanted to curl her hair while waiting for it to grow. And so she wanted a Korean short hair curl look.

Like this, it looked really sweet.

Or this, modern and spunky.

This is quite sweet too.

One Year Part One - Picnic @ Marina Barrage

Tuesday 22 May was my Goddess and the Horny Devil's 1st year wedding anniversary. As it fell on a Tuesday, and due to some circumstances that my Goddess decided to not take leave on that day, they had a change of plans and did an early celebration the weekend before.

And so their celebration was broke down into 3 parts.

Part 1 was planned by my Goddess! The Great Cookout!

The Horny Devil kept complaining that my Goddess never fulfilled her duty as a wife and ever cooked once for him since she became Mrs Koo. And so on Sunday morning, my Goddess woke up bright and early, so unlike her usual sleep-until-the-sun-shines-on-her-butt time, and bought a whole truckload of groceries.

One year as Mrs Koo in the Making

It's going to my Goddess and the Horny Devil's first wedding anniversary soon!! How time flies! This also means that my Goddess has had short hair for a year - time for a change!

My Goddess can never stay in one hair style for long, she will either change her colour or the texture (straight or perm) or her hair length in one point of her life or another.

So to mark her one year as Mrs Koo, my Goddess has decided to change her look, first beginning with a different hair colour!

Instead of the usual havoc brown after so many years since uni, she went for the traditional black-brown, which is almost black if you see her indoors. 

Anyway, this was done at Exchange Hair Plus at Plaza Singapura. She bought the voucher from GroupOn since the location is near her office and it's cheap, $45 for colour + cut + blow. Luckily the hairstylist didn't take a close look at her voucher and swapped her cut for treatment. I'm sure the cut will turn out disastrous given the 'treatment' she was given.

First, upon reaching the place, she was asked to do a Lucky Dip. She picked up some $400 off hair treatment.