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Okay, the week so far has been pretty hectic for me. I’ve been either out after work everyday, or staying back late at work. It makes all the difference when u have a car - u cannot anticipate how tiring it is to drag yourself home via public transportation everyday after a hard day’s work. We’ve been talking about getting a car, maybe a weekend car - where the COE/road tax is lower and we can drive between 7pm - 7am. Even if u need to drive beyond the hours, you just need to purchase some kinda coupon for about $20 a day. So it’s not a bad deal.

Having said that, it will still depend very much on whether we’re planning to settle down here long term. And then there’s the issue of my Malaysian car which i’m still paying for!!! And its not cheap, mind u. Dammit. Shoulda just bought a MyVi lastime.

Frequent blog haunters will note that i have been complaining about not having found our wedding bands yet. We continued our search into Wednesday nite, and thankfully came up with some potential results : )) Contrary to popular belief, rings dont come much cheaper in Singapore… i was insistent on getting platinum rings due to their durability, but durability doesnt come cheap!!! Prices of platinum rings are at least 3x that of their white gold counterparts. Ahem. So even with the GSS, you’re looking at a minimum of $1,500 per ring. And dont let those jewellery store names fool you like they fooled me - with names like Lee Hwa, Soo Kee and Tian Po - a non-Singapore native would be left thinking that these are chee-na cheapo stores. Try visit a store to look for wedding bands and you’ll know why even Tiffany’s is still within everyone’s budget.

After doing some verifying with friends across the border, i discovered that wedding bands (platinum ones at that) are much much cheaper in Malaysia. But i was advised that the designs may not be as extensive or as updated as the ones here. Moreover, as a friend said, the most important thing is that you find something u like - not its price. Well said. Anyhoo, i will be in KL/Selangor this weekend so we will definitely do some surveying. I really like designs from OE though. But they are as pricey as the ones here (if not pricier so…)

We didn’t manage to custom make our rings as i thought we would, no thanks to the fact that custom made rings take at least 2 months to be, well, made. But for the benefit of friends who DO want to custom their wedding bands in the future, u could check out Fairy’s Inc, a store at Delfi Orchard, #03-03 Tel: 6235 5570. I called the store up before we went and apparently visits are appointment based. Also, customised platinum rings start at $1,600 per ring. The current exchange rate is something like 2.22 so you do the math and see if its worth it : )

Life doesnt get better and no thanks to work stress and forced public transportation usage, i desperately wanted a spa and massage. So last nite, after office hours, i went downstairs (we have this little balinese massage place in our office building) to get a massage & back scrub. It. Felt. So. Good. So guess what happened? I friggin’ signed up for a 12 times package LOL. Now, this is what happens when i stop converting. But it still is rather cheap, at $580 (although this is only coz we have corporate rates). So it amounts to less than $50 per session. Which is cheap by Singapore standards.

However, it kinda adds on the stress when i allow my mind to convert that sum into RM. I was meant to get the aroma ginger massage which i did last nite, but that package was a little more expensive at $780. Add on the scrub and its $1,300. Mind u, these are all discounted rates ; P So i simply got the traditional massage where the only difference was the type of oil they used, which in this case, was lavender. And i have nothing against lavender so in the name of saving some $$$…

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