A Hectic Day!

It's XP's birthday today but it seems like he is busy with our house's reno instead of spending time celebrating his birthday! So, early in the morning, he went to purchase switches for our new house. Not that there are no switches but because of the colour of our wall, he went to get new ones to match the colour. Wow, indeed a particular man!

*XP making payment for the switches. Cost $300+ wor!* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

Thereafter, we sent Little Arielle to my mama's house cos we are meeting some contractors at our new house. The person is here to take measurements of the wall cos we are thinking of putting wallpaper instead of painting it. So while he is taking the measurement, I remembered XP saying that the developer re-do the tiles for our washing machine's base. The correct way is the one as shown in the pic:

*Newly done up* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

The developer initially did it in this manner which XP found it to be very ugly. He mentioned to the developer and I was surprised that they did the change for him. It would be a lot of efforts cos it meant hacking out the existing tiles and replacing it with the new pieces. I was thinking since the washing machine would ultimately be placed on top of the tiles, it doesn't really matter which direction the tiles would face. Well, XP just doesn't buy that. Hmm, another sigh of being particular.

Next group of people that would be coming by would be the glass specialist. This is something very complicated cos we need to cut a rectangle in the glass and our designer forgot that the glass people might not be able to do it cos the rectanlge is relatively slim. The designer then proposed to cut the glass so that we can still proceed with the design as planned. XP is very insistent not to have it cut as he wants the glass to come in 1 piece. In the end, he went to source for the glass specialist himself and tried to see if they are singing the same tune as our designer's glass contractor.
*Displaying my living room's feature wall* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*4 men in discussion of our requirement* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

The glass specialist managed to fine-tune the situation without compromising drastically on the design. Hmm, at least XP is happier. So they will go back to do up the quotation and let us know the status.

Next item on the agenda - Birthday lunch! Finally, an item to celebrate XP's birthday. Initially he wanted to eat fish head curry at Ocean but he recalled that it is not children friendly, he decided to change to Mouth Kitchen @ Safra Toa Payoh.

*Little Arielle with the birthday boy* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*Mama with this naughty girl* - Uploaded n 18 Feb 2009

*Yummy claypot seafood tofu* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*Ordered their main course + tim sum* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*Popiah that din taste very nice and the sotong* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*Enjoying the feast* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*Looking for more food?* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*A fake obedient look* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

*I just love her smile* - Uploaded on 18 Feb 2009

After lunch, we rushed off to get the shower curtain pole for my auntie, went over to her house to get it fixed, sent mama and Little Arielle back to her house and finally, went back home. As I need to attend an award ceremony in Marriott, I am unable to continue with the celebration with him. I kinda of regretted agreeing to attend cos I just felt the sense of guilt of not being able to celebrate with him. So to make up for it, I tried to get a birthday cake and thank god, I was able to get it at Marriott. Check out the next post for details!