Baking Through My Journey As a Doctor to Be

Guess who was here?

wooo~~~ i haven blogged for a while.

reasons/ excuses/ rationale

1. i am busy
2. AMS = advanced man slavery
3. someone important and special were here
4. no internet connection at home

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anyway~

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Guess who was here?

and the reason she came?

have i told you that we are moving!

i think i have.

because i told almost everyone that i bumped into about my move

because i am so excited!

and i *LOVE* my new place

because it has a space i call KITCHEN

i can foresee myself spending a lot of time here

shredding carrots and zesting lemon

chopping onion and dicing tomatoes

blending strawberry milkshakes and shifting flour

i am going to be in my own element

and i am going to be a very happy person ;)

(i will keep you posted with my progress =p)

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back to moving.

where else could one get reasonable furniture that doesn't cost a fortune besides IKEA? it's definitely the cheapest furniture retailer around. (please don't quote me on that though) but of course, the cheapness comes with a price. you need to choose ur own furniture (of course you have to, DUH), get those neatly packed wooden planks from the many aisles in the warehouse, push 4 trolleys with 24 pieces worth of furniture to the check out counter, then go to the delivery service counter, then wait for the delivery the next day at 7 am, and lastly, assemble your own furniture.

are you still with me?

it was a very tedious process

tedious and laborious and energy draining process.

BUT

i enjoyed it though, because i know by the end of the day, i can proudly say that we furnished and assembled our own place, and we did it in the most cost efficient way.

let's rock it shall we?

but before i go any further, let me tell u this.

we were good

we were really good

i mean we were REALLY REALLY good.

*bite me*

we had a timeline, mum wished/hoped/wanted/insisted of staying at our new place before she went back to Malaysia so we had a deadline to meet. she arrived on a wednesday morning, we went to IKEA in the afternoon. furnitures arrived on Thursday morning. we assembled EVERYTHING in a day. Friday we cleant our apartment, looked for matresses, re-assembled the sofa bed that we put together incorrectly (okay i was fully responsible for that =.=) i screwed up 1 in 25, i was still 96% right, so i am still brilliant :p *gosh sth is wrong with me today* anyway, saturday our bed arrived, me and mum went back to IKEA again because we freaking didn't know we need wooden planks to hold out matresses up o.O and TADAH -> our apartment turned into a home *tears*

and mum brought over a drill - and that drill saved our lifes.
mum rocks!

after 2 hrs of hammering and diagram deciphering, we decided that lunch was more appealing that cardboxes

so we went to a nearby japanese restaurant for some carbs and proteins

we definitely needed that because fixing furniture is not only physically demanding but also mentally challenging.

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u need to decipher the diagrams

there are no WORDS in the instruction booklets

somehow IKEA prefers non verbal communication

and thank god i went to med school. we were taught non verbal communication in semester 1. but it's a shame that those diagrams were not very medical student friendly or interactive.

meh~ i still managed to figure it out anyway. it just took a while

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it took a while until sis was so bored she whipped out mum's (now ours) camera

and took pictures of us slaving away

and being the genius i am, i trapped myself at the corner of the bed

the thing is i am so not very flexible at all. it took me a fair while to get myself out of the mess. *and thank god sis didn't have pics of me doing that*
next up - coffee table

it was one of the no-brainer-furniture

and i was grateful for that

i was ETERNALY grateful for that
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and then it was our bookcase

it's one of our favourite piece of furniture

and i dun even know why

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and this is the sofa bed that i mentioned earlier

we fixed the cushions inside out

it actually looked pretty cool

but we just couldn't pull the sofa out if we left it like this

so we have no choice but to reassembled it.

and we actually got someone else to do it

because we just simply can't be bothered anymore :)

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and i feel bad for not mentioning my brother at all.

let's talked about him shall we?

yea he was pretty helpful that day.
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so in short

the girls rock!

daddy are you proud of us?

i know you do!

and last but not least

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

U KNOW WE HEART YOU!

and i have thought of the best b'dat present for you.

i will stay at home and study really REALLY hard tomorrow.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH?

okay i will make sure sis does the same.

how about that?

Labels: b'day, family n love, new home

posted by Phey Yee @ 10:58 PM