Can an Elmark Ceiling Fan Drop and Kill? Elmark just got instructed to do a fan recall for 17 models of their ceiling fans. Everyone probably has had some nightmare of ceiling fans and blades dropping down and killing the person sleeping – unfortunately this could be a reality if you’re using a faulty Elmark…
For those who are interested in conspiracy theories that actually are true, check out this podcast episode on Planet Money – the Postal Illuminati. The Premise The premise: When you order stuff online, could it cost less to ship it across the world than across the street? The example was this Mighty Mug that cost…
We break with our usual housing-related routine to review good hawker food, without all the “English” that some food bloggers use. As huge hawker food fans, we love a good bowl of pork noodle (bak chor mee). We got the “privilege” to queue for one of the best pork noodle in town, the legendary Hill…
Many people have been furiously commenting online and saying that HDB home owners are not owners, they’re tenants because HDB flats are sold under the HDB leasehold arrangement. Such arguments apparently have been gaining traction since National Development Minister Lawrence Wong (who used to be our MP!) said HDB will not renew the leases of…
Since we booked our current BTO, we have been in a HDB Whatsapp chat, Telegram group, and Facebook group. These are for the sake of connecting with the community here. It’s been quite weird so far It has been a strange experience, connecting with people who we would never have gotten to know. Not that…
Was browsing HWZ EDMW today and saw a video that got us thinking about why we shouldn’t overpay for an HDB flat. We must caveat that there’s probably nothing ground breaking in this video. The insights are just a compilation of advice floating around. Most of it is quite ‘duh’, very intuitive. The video concludes…
What did we do? We started searching for an ID or contractor online roughly in October last year, before the estimated completion date, which was in Q1 2018. There really were many IDs and contractors, some advertising on Facebook, many on sites like Renotalk, Hometrust, etc. Before the search, we were leaning towards going for…