Saturday

Saturday 26 September was a busy day for us - we were running around till we were really tired.  We started in the morning by decided that we should go for our annual vehicle inspection.  We also had to fill up with our bio diesel as our low fuel indicator had come on.  Then HH decided to he wanted to see a house and we also had a wedding to attend in the evening.

We headed off to do the vehicle inspection and I am pleased to say that Goo passed the whole test with a rating of 29 for the carbon emission test.  Last year, we had 13.5 but that low number was because the Goo had gone for its' regular 10,000 mark servicing and the wonderful people at Renault has cleaned out the engine.  This year, we just merrily drove up and they started the test, stressing our already low fuel by gunning the engine to test the carbon emission - SIGH!

We passed the test with no problems - so whoever out there tells us that Renault vehicles are not road worthy or reliable, please keep your comments to yourself.  Our Goo is agent maintained (engine, servicing and washing/cleaning), serviced on a regular basis (every 10,000km as required) and are owner drivers who take care not to stress the vehicle unnecessarily.  I believe that our Goo will drive in excess of 500,000 km before we have to retire it.

Then we went off to pump our bio diesel before the centre closed.  Those people at the test centre really stressed our fuel by revving the engine till we topped up 50 litres of bio diesel.  Our tank has a capacity of 52 litres so it was cutting it a little fine.

We then headed off to our usual Saturday haunt for laksa yong tau fu - if you ever visit us in Singapore, we will take you there to eat.  It's a lovely corner coffee shop that has not changed in the last 30 years or so.  There are those old fashioned stone tables - now topped to stainless steel covers - with beer umbrellas providing shelter from the heat.  Alas the stone chairs or stools are all gone - most probably from use.  We have been eating there for the past 10 years and it hasn't changed - except for a couple of replacement beer umbrellas.

HH then said we had an appointment to look at a house in Seletar Hills, so we headed off in that area to look at this intermediate single storey terraced house.  We signed the lease and that is another posting for another day. 

We then headed off to Toa Payoh to visit the cobbler - to collect my stuff and to repair a couple of pairs of shoes.  It was a long wait at Toa Payoh - I re-heeled and re-soled 2 pairs of shoes,  and collected 1 handbag sent for cleaning, 1 pair of shoes sent for cleaning, 1 handbag sent for dyeing and another pair of white shoes dyed to navy blue - I spent $250 of all that but I was really happy with the money spent.

We went home to rest for all of 30 minutes before we had to start getting dressed to attend a wedding.  We were  truly tired after that hectic day of running around in the blistering heat.  We got home from the wedding around midnight totally exhausted!

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