We’ve settled in around half a year. We took some pictures of our final 4 room BTO design and outcome. Our home probably isn’t impressive enough to be featured! So we had to DIY with a Pixel camera, although on the plus side it’s not a staged photoshoot. All things considered, it’s quite similar to…
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…
This is a post to tell ourselves to stop shipping from Taobao, because it’s not worth it. You lose more money than you save. TL;DR version – We got Sfinex to ship our Taobao stuff, which subcontracted to Last Mile Delivery Pte Ltd, which subcontracted to Infinity Freight Solutions Pte Ltd. Infinity lost our stuff,…
Here’s our Taobao bomb shelter racks review. The bomb shelter is probably good for hiding when it’s war time and there’s shrapnel flying all over the place. But if you’ve a bomb shelter, you’d know the bomb shelter is good for everything but being a bomb shelter. In peace time, it’s useful for very mundane…
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…
We bought a couple of our ceiling fans from Taobao, so here’s our Taobao ceiling fan review. If you missed our post, get up to speed here with why we chose to buy the fans from Taobao. The first reaction most people have after hearing this is – “Like that also can ar? Will the…
We’ve been meaning to write our Floor Xpert LURF review for some time now. There weren’t that many reviews back when we were doing our research so hopefully this review helps those who’re still undecided. We went with Floor Xpert’s LURF vinyl for our HDB BTO home, throughout the flat. It’s the Belgian-made one that’s…
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…
We got a lot of stuff from Taobao for our HDB BTO home – well, at least those that arrived safely anyway. (If you’re thinking of starting out, then you should check out our guides!) Many of you probably are thinking of buying a cabinet from Taobao. It’s so cheap there. We won’t discourage you,…
Baton Sleep is an online retailer of beds in Singapore. It adopts a similar online strategy like US online retailers (e.g. Casper) and competes against others like Noa Sleep, Haylee, and Wonderbed. You know everyone’s copying everyone when each retailer uses the same website design, pricing strategy, and “review” page. Check their websites out yourself….