::Nigelrene Loft:: KITCHENWARE!!

Shopping now has a new meaning.... :p

We are now proud owners of 24 pieces of cutleries and 6 knives! :p

I wonder if we can find a use for all six knives in the knife set though...but we DO have big ambitions to become little chefs in the house yo!

Beautiful cracks

The only time chemical bonds appeal to me is when they appear like that!

::Nigelrene Loft:: COLORS

Wanted to have something green in the house and my green sofa proposal was rejected. 

we ve brought the green onto the walls instead! :D

::Nigelrene Loft:: KITCHEN CABINETS-I.P

LOOK MA! My kitchen! :D

We were there on Sat to "check on" the progress of our woodworks ;p

Everything is going according to plan :)

::Nigelrene Loft:: LIFE BEFORE THE GOOGLE SKETCHUP

Ploughing through my pictures folder on the renovations journey. Here s how our first few drafts of the home building project look like. Totally re-lived my childhood memories when we had to draw "My Living Room" for Art & Craft lesson, although it has upgraded to a 3D format now..

I dug out my collection of color pencils; Some of them followed me through from my Primary school days and which meant they were the underutilised colors during their glorious stint in the mega biggest 36-colors color box/or was it 48? Some of them were later collections when my baby-est sis last attended art&craft lessons, and that was about 8 years ago. Old but still usable. Limited choices but still can find the nearest looking color. The biggest problem I had was finding a decent piece of paper to draw "My Home" on. All I could find was an A3 sketchbook, and that meant I had to join up several piecessss to create the look for the whole house :S

Thank God I found you, Google Sketchup! You made our lives neater now! All I need is a laptop and wifi! :)

This is what the living room will look like. I have made it as close to reality as technology could possibly allow. See? That's my ball of cane right there in the balcony!

::Nigelrene Loft:: DULUX COLORS

We had some "GOTTA HAVE IT"-sized (read: large) comfort food while ploughing through the color book.

Sometimes being spoilt for choices is not a good thing. :x

::Nigelrene Loft:: WARDROBES

We had a closet issue with the given wardrobe space - not enough for two!

After exploring ALL options of building a bigger wardrobe, IKEA/closet specialists/built-to-orders, we have decided to combine 2 units of our existing wardrobe to save some moohlahs and the trees.

The carpenters came in yesterday to fix up our wardrobes! 

And it was in the symmetrical facing that we wanted! He had to shift ALL THREE units in the house just to get this exact layout that we want. The shortcut method will require him to shift only two wardrobes, but the layout of the modules would have been different/not symmetrical = cry

YAY to a good carpenter! :)

Catch up III - with the babies

Baby Eva 

Tiny little bub I visited you when you were ONE month old and promised to carry you when you become bigger! You must have remembered cos you let me carry you for as long as I wished that day ;) Still too tiny for the baby chair and required a lot of stuffings to stabilise you in that chair. OH! And toys now have names. Everybody meet Emily the doll! Mummy #2 told us she has the storybook - Emily's story. And yes, she was referring to the same Emily. 

You can guess there was a big table divide that night. ;p

Baby Beth

OMG soooooooooo cute and huggable and your dad told me you love to fly in the air, BUT aunty doesnt have as strong arms as your dad so you didnt fly very high nor for very long in my arms. Nevermind the aunties dont look pretty in the picture cos u look beautiful in it! :)

And a big baby's birthday 

One by one we grow up and surprises unfold before us :)

Nevermind the lemons cos there s always sugar to make it better!

::Nigelrene Loft:: CEILING and etcetra

PROGRESS REPORT!

I was there over the weekend to install the eyelet lock for the main gate.

And surprise surprise!

N&I decided that we couldnt leave with an unaligned structure in the ceiling. So we got Allan to rebuild it again. It looks more pleasing to the eye now! S.T.R.A.I.G.H.T lines can become a fetish that even the lights are specifically chosen to be straight and dreams like a round downlight can freak me out of bed. :p 

Chengal decking is up too! 

Granite tops are in partially and we just realised how bad the existing laminates would fit in. SO we've also decided to make more changes to the existing kitchen.

(>.<)

Carpenter's back from holidays and is coming in this week to do up the wardrobes!

Doggle's Survival Tip: Puppy face

101 tricks on doggle's suvival, you only need to learn one - pull off a puppy face!

Location: Home

Occassion: Minutes before we went to the Dog Farm

Stunt: Lie low with puppy face

Success rate: 9.5/10!

Mummy: Dadddddddy, Mur mur looks very sad right now.. He's all dressed since 12pm and has been waiting for very long (in doggle's world, even a 5 minutes' wait = long = pull off above stunt). No, we cant make any more changes to our plans. I already told him we ll bring him out. We cant go attend to our errands then come back to bring him to Aunty Gen's house at 4pm. He already looks very sad, he needs to go out now.

Scores: Murphy - Humans (1-0)

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Do you categorise your friends into their respective activities?

I do. So does N. We associate a a different type of activity to each friend we have.

When we wanna do buffets, we think of the eat-a-lot-like-us friends.

When we wanna do MJ, we think of the people-with-itchy-fingers friends.

When we wanna rollerblade, we think of the blading friends.

When we wanna cycle, we think of the cycling friends.

When we wanna KTV, we think of the singing friends.

It seems we have a social circle that can keep us entertained from the indoors to the outdoors! And recently, I have a new-found category - One who is beyond the social network of the indoors. This friend has an OCD with toilet cleanliness!! And my numerous woeful cries over the disastrous condition of Nigelrene Loft's toilet bowl has earned me a good recommendation of a fab stain remover, but which could not solve our problem...  

With more cries over the failed attempts to achieve a sparkling clean and white toilet bowl and several more failed attempts to snap a pic to show and tell, I have since earned ourselves a personal house-call to check on the condition of the toilets to see what solutions to be recommended for our case (oh the pun!). It comes with complimentary cleaning too! *here's when true friendship comes to test HAHA*

So next time you come visit Our Toilet, be sure to check out the credits I leave on the toilet roll ;) I have a keep-my-toilet-in-check friend!

Doggle's Day Out

4 September 2011 (Sunny then rainy)

Hello!! Here's me on a Sunday afternoon! Mummy promised to bring me out today! But she took forever to bring me out after taking out my gaigai bag and putting on my singlet. So I looked like that. :o}

Daddy finallly arrived to pick us up and thought I looked cute with that :o} face, so I waited a while more while he took snapshots of me looking like THAT. 

Can we go out already please?? 

This face works wonders for me, for we were out the next instant! YAY!!

Where are we heading to?

*Sniffs air around me*

I smell other doggles! OH! Dog farm!!

And I found my breed! Mario is only 7 months old and is very naughty - He barked at me and got pinned down by his mummy. His mummy watches The Dog Whisperer too! Daddy used to pin me down whenever I misbehaved as a little boy, now I am a good boy!

We check out each other's smell in the private areas ;p It's not hanky panky humans, that's how we doggles learn about each other.

Oooh hey!! Something familiar! Here's the slope that Mummy taught me to cross! 

Daddy daddy! Take out your camera! I perform for u! 

Then I got a bit scared of the heights... and mummy came to help me...:S 

Treacherous...Slowly and steadily so I do not roll down and become a furball..

Lucky mummy cut my paw pads earlier so I got some braking system in place while climbing down.. looking uber cute and cool right??? 

But daddy and mummy had to take a snapshot of The Big Picture of unglam position I was in! Hey!! I was in DANGER of becoming a furball *woof*! But they always find joy at my expense! :(

*pant pant*

take a breather first! Shit, how to I get to the floor?!?!

I did manage to scramble down with Mummy's help and didnt become a furball ;)

And here's my reward for the day! :) DONKEY!

"No animals were harmed or injured in the process of photography" ;p

August's Blessings :)

"May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."

The activities lined up in the month of August has been insane, given that we are only 4 months away from The Big Party and with ongoing renovations in progress under our belt ;p A lot of catch ups, people who matter - must find time no matter how busy life gets! We even threw in a diving trip over a weekend! ;p

SPRUCE with the girls! Finallllllly!

Pork Chop is good - look at the fats it came with :) 

Our nation's Birthday!! We had fireworks consecutively over 3 weekends!! And this saw the last of N's 550D, which had served us for a good 1 year and a 1000+ photos.

Dayang Island 12-14 August

Training grounds. We actually vowed never to go back after we started doing the more luxurious dives. But both times we were back because we had friends who wanna join our dive school. Sightings were pretty amazing this time round and we did our last dive on our own, sans divemaster! The only series of pic I have looks like we were on a rock climbing trip ;)

15 August

With Dear O and P - that makes up the MNOP in my life!! :) Boooooooze and curries overload on a Monday night! We had a cuppa at Harry's right before this bottle. *buuuurp*

18 August

A verrrrry last-minute home dinner invitation. N&I were inspired to do one of our own! Keyword is WERE *heh*

20-21 August

Miyashitas came back to Singapore for forever and ONE day to have dinner with us! N hasnt been back to Chomp Chomp since they left in 2009! Slotted in a Ubin biking trip after sending them off to the airport.

21 August

Baby Justin arrived! The 2nd baby in the JC gang. We didnt take any picture in the hospital but I stole this off his mummy's FB.  

27 August

SG has a new president! After doing our part for the country, the honeybunch did a catchup over thai food, coffee and a 5-month-old belly :) The last time we met was at Shum's wedding earlier this year. How time flies!

31 August

More catchup for the JC mates! Sean's back for holiday! But a lot of last minute back outs due to work commitment :( though also had a last minute turn up :S

August has been fab! Welcome September!

"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon