We spent yesterday looking around for some tables. NORMAL, SIMPLE tables that is a plank of wood with 4 legs are what we have in mind, but we can't seem to find anything remotely like that. All the tables come with drawers, CPU shelves and goodness knows what else other kind of shelving units that costs like a freaking $300!! Gosh... $300 is what we have in mind for a "L" shaped AND a normal table! Not JUST 1 table. Goodness!
Searched thru the web and realized that Ikea has these simple tables and best of all, it's very affordable. Even if we have to take cab back after our purchases, it's still very much affordable!
So after mass and lunch at the nearby coffee shop, we went to Ikea in search for the tables and chairs.
I was craving for their meatballs and chicken wings, hence din take lunch except for a drink (since we had zhui queh just before going for mass, we were pretty full) and I wanted to save my stomach for the meatballs and chicken wings as tea cum dinner.
Took a walk around and to our surprise, Eugene and Samantha came up to say hello. They were there to do furniture shopping for their new home too. Haha.. and great minds think alike, we all felt that the new branch in Tampinese will be too crowded hence we are all back to the Alexendra branch for our shopping.
Finally walked to the tables section and you know what?
The tables we wanted are all OUT OF STOCK! Argg...
Too disappointed so we went to pig out at the Swedish restaurant. To our surprise, there is a queue being formed outside the restaurant and what surprises us even more was that there were even service staff manning the queue and to find and clear tables! The times that we've been to Ikea, we had to clear our own tables and also to look for seats ourselves. So this came as a surprise.Emma had loan us her card, so we were able to have 2 complimentary drinks and purchase the meatballs at members' price which is about a dollar cheaper. Since, this is going to be tea AND dinner, 10 meatballs is not enough. We ordered 6 chicken wings to go with it as well. It's yummy!!! really wonder what they put in the wings and meatballs. It's soooo good! As I'm typing, I'm drooling again. I shall go and apply for the Ikea card and then we can go there for discounted food since we need to buy the items.
I know that the swedish food market sells frozen meatballs and even the sauce... should we buy and home? Then we can enjoy swedish meatballs at the comfort of our own home too! Do they have the wings as well???
We were prepared to go to the Tampinese branch to get the tables if we have to and clever hubby called up the Tampinese branch to check before we rush down. Yep. We are THIS desperate for tables. But even Tampinese branch is OUT OF STOCK! Gosh.. so no choice lor.. We just to back to the tables section and note down exactally what we want. The moment they have stock, think hubby and me will rush back. Well, the only good thing I can think of is that, at least there will be another opportunity for me to pig out on their meatballs and chicken wings.
After a few hours in Ikea, we have deceided that we need to get 3 such tables coz of the different dimensions, we will have 2 small ones and then the bigger one will be in the middle, kind of forming a letter "T" for hubby and me to work on our desks at the same time.
I like their black/brown shade but the smaller table does not have that colour. So, hubby and me decided to have 2 small tables in white with black legs and a big black/brown table with white legs for ourselves to match with the rest of the furniture in the hall.What I like best about Ikea besides their very affordable prices and so many things to choose from is that, they allow you to customised your furniture! You can really pick and choose what you want and how you want it. Good! Can you believe that on estimates, these 3 tables will costs us like LESS than $150?! Cheap lor.. As compared to V.hive or something, each table will costs like twice the amount!
I guess, it's also a good thing that the smaller tables, black/brown is not available else, our room and all will look very dark and gloomy. Especially, when we have bought 2 chairs for ourselves.Hubby said, all our furniture are in this kind of shade. Black and dark. But I prefer this kind of shade over beidge, white and some bright colours leh. So being the man that hubby is, I won lor. haha..
It took us soemtime to finally decide on this chair. Hubby wanted to get the foldable chair instead but I found that very flimsy and would prefer a more sturdy one. We placed both chairs side by side and began playing "musical chairs" there and then. But finally, hubby was once again convinced by me and we got 2 of these.
We carried the chairs and took the public bus home since there isn't any shuttle services provided and then while hubby was busy putting the chairs together,
I went to my mom's place coz my sis went to Sitex and I asked her to help me get a pair of dect phones as well as a USB hub for my tablet.
Really it's cheaper to get things from Sitex. The same phones we saw is courts was like $10 more! But then it could be coz it's the last day of Sitex and the stalls wanna clear stocks so it's cheaper? Anyway, I don't care as long as the set is in working condition. Now, all we need is to wait for starhub to activiate the voice over modem and our home phone will be working. Was asking hubby, who will the first call be from? His dad or my mom?? hahaha
Then my sis helped me buy the USB hub as well and this needs a power socket in order to work. She's saying it's good coz I can use it as my charger for my hp and MP3 player w/o the need of a PC. wooo.... I din even know that there's such things available in the market. Hahaha... I mean I know that there's such a thing call USB hub but I din know that it can be used as charger la.
Hubby dozing on the sofa, me still watching my "started with a kiss", blogging and msn-ing ALL at the sametime. Will call it a night soon, it's a working day later, lunch with Godma and Bro, and still have the last session of yoga in the evening.
Nite!
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