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DIY

A cosy green outdoor corner

Ever thought of having some plants outside your new flat that doesn't cause too much obstructions? Here's an suggestion especially if you are expecting your air con to be delivered soon! Before the air con packages are thrown, remember to grab the wooden blocks found in it. After which, collect some empty canned foods (please remember to drill holes at the bottom of...

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Bank Intertest

Happy 2017! An Excel to calculate the interest earned from OCBC 360 in 2016

Happy new year to all the readers! If you had been using OCBC 360 for the past one year, here's an excel table which you can use to calculate the interest earns. Do note that the bank pay interest daily (according to the website on this date), therefore there will be a slight difference in the amount. But the good thing is that...

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Air Conditioner

Air Con Accessories

Yes it's time to get an air con soon and I believe everyone are concern with electrical bills when it comes to getting air con (as many ticks as possible). Although savings on electrical bills are important, do also try to make sure that you are getting the right piping etc to minimise the problems that may come after using it for the...

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BTO

Paying Your HDB Housing Loan using CPF

Just done our papers and collected our keys for our BTO flat this week. Here's our findings: 1. CPF will be wiped out 2 weeks later after key collection 2. Loan period starts on your key collection date 3. But your first CPF deduction will only commence 2 months later (means more interest to pay since principle amount remains undeducted for 2 months)....

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finance

Another Saving Account with higher interest is here!

If you are still thinking that banks are giving very low interest (less than 0.05 to 0.1% pa). it's really time to relook into a new saving account to make the best out of your savings. There are already a few "savings account" out there that gives much higher interest as long as you hit some of their criteria such as depositing your salary into...

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Bed Frame

Slatted Base not Ideal for Pocketed Spring Mattress?

Chance upon this FJELLSE bed frame that is below $100 from Ikea Singapore. The price is really attractive (comes with Slant Base somemore) and it looks quite nice and probably will appeal to minimalists or landlords who are getting double bed frame for their tenants! However, I had heard from a local mattress manufacturer that Slatted Base may not be ideal for pocketed...

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Lifestyle

Setting up Whatsapp Chat backup (Daily)

Guess what, after receiving my repaired LG G4 yesterday, one of the very first thing to do was to start setting up the whatsapp back up (since one can't be sure if a boot loop will start again since the handphone still get really hot when I start downloading and installing all the rest of the lost apps into the phone from Google...

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