~sigh~ money money

tis blog is an interesting for me to hide and not to face the world and to shout to the whole world my needs!!! n of course tis blog is new so alot of efforts to come to maintain it. The novety of writting in cyberspace.. hahahahahahaha

I'm in tat kind of mood where every single moment of my life revolves around money! money!! and mre money!!! Our lovenest needs money & our wedding needs money 2.

Renovation is costing us $10K. Yet we have no choice to not do it. With the new additions of a bed room set and also painting... the costs hv increase another 2K. Bring the total renovation to $12K++ n i am super sure that this costs is only gng to go up mre coz we still have mre things to add.

Mayb 1 suggestion is to not hv a bed room set. Meaning i just ask David to build in my cabinet and we buy the bed frame n side tables outside. We calculated and the costs is not much of a difference, really.
David charges $1100 for the bed frame + headboard + side table. If I get it from outside the cost is $1070 for the same 3 items and the colour + material will definately not match so closely and the difference is only $30!!! Well, i think for $30 to have a bed room SET is worth it. Thank God, hubby feels the same!

The next item.. painting... hm.. to save costs i can ask my Dad, my BIL and oso friends to do it... But hm.... are they professional??? My Dad i think it's ok coz he oso painted our current flat himself... but hm... friend and BIL?? Then if there's anything that is not to our liking, cannot 'give it to them' leh.. coz need to talk nicely n if anything happens will strain friendship and relationship...
The paint will costs me close to $400. David quoted me $1100... that's quite a big difference ($700 - can get me a good TV or a HUGE washing machine!) for us to do it ourselves or to get David to do it. Yet, on the other hand, if David does it, I can be sure of professionalism. Is $700 too much to pay fior professionalism, convenience and the lack to coordinate logistics?? N of course, painting done within 3 days? Hm.... really need to think about tis carefully.

N the best part is... just over a short Sat afternoon, we signed away $1040 worth of household items! *WHEW*
David brought us shopping on Sat and we bought the following items:
1 sink, $210
1 tap, $45
2 ceiling fans, $380
1 water heater, $140
1 cooker hop with 2 burners, $265
hm.. looking at the list again, $1040 is not a big figure coz my hm will really b move in condition. Just that in the short time of 2 hours, $1040 gone is abit the heart wrenching!

Not to mention, just last week, we paid $4500 to the contractor. $1500 is for the air con (which we all can't live w/o now) hm.. speaking of which, must remember to pay another $480 for air con, which amounts to a total of $1980 for the installation and system. And of course $3000 is for David.

Been to our lovenest ov the week end. Woah! Almost can't recongnise it, all the old things are gone, my flat is just an empty shell. Nv seen it in tis empty state. But it's good coz it allows us to c the hse condition. Of course there are cracks n stuff, but i think cement should do the trick nicely and a good, hard chemical wash will bring the tiles back to it's old glory (glup.... hopefully!)

$ is tight.. v tight.. but i think i got to relax lar. Don't have means don't have.. we will find a way.. ~we will find a way, when there seems to be no way~