Author: Nick Pan

Some might know that we have bought a new car. We confirmed the order just after the whole $2 COE period where car showrooms were slashing prices like mad. I initially wanted the Touran Sport 1.4 TSI due to its technology and also its space, but my wife preferred the Jetta as it was an elegant sporty sedan and had almost the same specs as the Touran Sport which i wanted.

We got confirmation from Catherine from Volkswagen that we can collect our car on saturday 10 Jan 09 and trust me, the WHOLE family was excited, even the kids. Once we got there, we were brought to the delivery room to inspect our new car and to be briefed of all the nice technology that came with the car. Other then the TSI engine which we simple loved, we were pleasantly surprised to find out that it did not just come with DSG, but with 7 speed DSG. woot!

Catherine was the one who serviced us from the start when we walked into the showroom to try out the Touran Sport many months ago. She gave me a ring just 1 day after the $2 COE happened and her reminder made us have another look. That one visit made us finally own our very first Volkswagen.

The touch screen console, the on-board computer, the very well built interior. Its like falling in love. We were very pleased in the professional way Catherine walked us thru things we should take note of.

While waiting for the paper work to get processed, Cleo and Clié entertained themselves at the kids corner with drawing and colouring activities. They look so cute.

After driving our Jetta for one day, we are indeed very happy with its performance. The technology is simply wonderful. The way the TSI engine provides power and also the smooth gear transitions of the 7 speed DSG. Our car also recently won Oneshift’s Compact Sedan of the year for 2008 and we are very happy we made a good choice.

More photos. Enjoy.

Of cause i had to blank out my number plate lah.

We have thought of moving several months back, but looking at the market, kids are starting school in the area adn the fact that we do love where we stay currently. We decided not to move and decided to spend abit to upgrade the house.

We got a huge Ikea wardrobe for the kids room today and that set off a chain event. The kids old wardrobe had to go into the study, the table thats in the old wardrobe’s new location had to come out, the whole study room had to be reshuffled since i did it up in 2004.

The main thing that is different now is that we are no longer gonna have desktop PCs (in the forseeable future) and also Pearl does not use the study table at all, so not much table space is required.

The MacBook is hooked up to the HI-FI and playing mesmerising trance on the very first night while i worked away on my office Dell.

The huge drawers on the left was also from the kids room, so out goes clothes and in comes my misc gadgets and all.

I retained my customised drawer under the desk which held all the cables and switches. I made a circular hole at the back long time ago to allow cables to run thru it. So basically the idea was not to have any cables on the floor to trap dust.

Top drawer was where the camera batt chargers are, second drawer for all the temporary switches like laptops and visiting items. Bottom drawer is where the fixed electric cables are which will hardly be touched.

At the end of the day, we threw so much stuff out… its quite unbelivable. To me its not the sheer quantity, but its some of the nostalgic stuff that i held on for years which i finally decided to throw away. There were old letters, cards, invitations, brochures from oversea trips, magazines, catalogues, interesting scraps, etc. Each item had a story, each item had a memory, it was really painful throwing them away.

More house tidying activity coming along in the following days and weeks till CNY 2009.

If you blog and you’re Singaporean and proud to be one, i think you stand a good chance to win an iPod touch.

I also want to win, so must create a killer blog entry to submit. Wish me luck ok. :)

This is my first picture from the Canon 450D. Pearl took it while i was in the queue of Terminal 2’s Swenson.

As you can see i’m very focused here in this picture as i’m always like that when i’m concentrating… Working a skateboarding game in my daughter’s pink NDSL. woot! DS rocks!