a week earlier!
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called up kelly today and managed to get the collection date for the car brought forward a week to the 22nd afternoon. Yayyyy!! initially we were supposed to collect it on the 29th. although it is a week earlier than before, we still will not be able to use Max as much as we would like as we will be flying off to bangkok the next day and will only be back on sunday. but still it is a thrill.
I also arranged with Kelly to soundproof the car, rust-proof it and glaze it. it is a bit of a luxury, but i am sure it will enhance the driving experience. the sound-proofing will cut out almost all the external sound. bet my dear will now be sleeping even more soundly than now, if that were at all possible. the rust-proofing is also good if we want the car to be in good condition a few years down the road. lastly, the glazing, which will give Max a shiny sheen for a long time to come. so i will not have to polish or wash him as much to maintain his good looks.

Bangkok
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will be booking the tickets pretty soon.

wedding stuff
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- gonna have to send in the wedding invites soon for printing
- also need to select some nice pictures for our wedding montage
- on sunday, going to see how our wedding photo album turned out.
- we need to figure out when and where we gonna have our honeymoon.
- and also plan for the dinner in Ipoh

table grill this weekend
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we plan to try out the new table grill this weekend. so we will need to shop for food and the soup base. hope it turn out well. there is always a first time for everything.

green light city
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After much discussion and indecision we are still going ahead with the Bangkok trip as planned unless some new developments put another spanner in the works.
Agnes had this idea to go to Hong Kong, with Mummy in tow. But there are no direct flights from Singapore to Hong Kong via airasia. to go to HK we would need to transit at either Bangkok or Kl. the entire process would take more than half a day. it would require us to take a morning flight out to Kl, and then take an afternoon flight to HK, after which we would reach HK in the evening! which does not make much sense. and then there is the small matter of Agnes's dad, who needs dialysis a few times a week, so someone has to be around to look after him.

Cornell table grill
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we collected Agnes's hotplate thingamajig. it is pretty big for a family sized dinner. Agnes and myself love going for malan steamboat at beach Road, so with this we can try to recreate the experience at home soon. just buy some seafood and food items (luncheon meat, sausages etc) and we are set. i am sure we can also get tom yam paste or soup stock for the soup base. yayyyy!!


water (un)heater
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Agnes's water heater at home is spoilt. it even caused a blackout the other night. so she will either have to get it repaired soon or buy a new one. until then agnes may have to use the water heater at our flat until the situation is resolved. so agnes will probably be staying over at the new flat for the next few days, or at least bathing over there. and i will join her over there if i can.

Max the Mazda 3
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The car is ready for collection. initially we were offered a collection slot on Wednesday. but Agnes was uncontactable and only replied me in the evening. by then the available slots were all filled up so we had to try to book other slots. the slot we got was on 29th October, which is like more than 2 weeks away. sian sian. from 3 days to 17 days!!
on the bright side, we will get more time with Sunny. be sad to let him go but a necessary stage I guess. Sunny has served me faithfully for all these years and the years are beginning to show.
I cleared Sunny the other day and 2 big boxes of stuff were cleared out. and that was only the 'extra' stuff. There is still probably a box full of stuff to come out of Sunny.
and i may probably have to clean out the car. some vacuuming and to clean out the outside. would not be nice to hand over a car as dusty and dirty as Sunny is now.

shoes
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bought a new pair of shoes yesterday. a pair of Nike shoes from BIRD no less. believe it or not they are my first pair of Nike shoes. been wanting to buy a pair for years but never quite got around to it due to reasons of cost or simply not being able to find a design I liked for the prices they charge. but did buy a pair of shoes yesterday for some reason although I had no intention to shop for shoes.

now to actually do some running or something to justify buying a more-expensive-than-usual set of running shoes.