Unhappy experience at Supercuts!

I have never try Supercuts before (and I WILL NEVER WILL!!!) so after knowing that they have non-ammonia hair colour products (INOA), I thought of giving it a try. But who knows, it ended up an unhappy experience for me. It will definitely be my FIRST and the LAST time I VISIT SUPERCUTS! Why? Let me share with you....

Maybe I went there on the wrong day or maybe I'm just a nobody. I'm very unhappy with the PRC girl who applied the colour on my hair. She was so rough and I was ouching all the way. When she applied the Goldwell ampoule, the liquid went into my eyes. I was already very pissed off with her roughness and now, her carelessness.

The hairstylist who is supposed to attend to me, her name is Yvonne, only come over once a while to see what's going on. I really feel neglected, she's not attending to me, until one of the hair stylist walk pass and saw that the colour on my root area are not what it's suppose to be!!! She went to Yvonne and whispered at her ears then Yvonne quickly come and take a look at my hair. Her facial experssion changed!

Damn, the PRC did something wrong to my hair. Yvonne then asked the PRC gal to follow her. Guess she told her off. When they return, Yvonne offered me a cup of Almond with Logan. Tsk! Tsk! I knew something is wrong. She said, "Sorry, I have to reapply to colour to your roots and she went saying on Ammonia-free products are like that take very long to be absorbed!" Excuses!!! Arghhhh.

Then I quickly ask her, "Then the protection soloution (which she advised me to apply to my scalp before applying the colour onto my roots to prevent allergy as I'm allergic. Everytime after colouring my hair, my scalp will be super itchy.) will go to waste????" And at this moment when she told me that she have to redo my roots, I have already completed the Goldwell 2 in 1 hair treatment which costs me $130!!! If she will to re-apply the colour on my hair it simply means that the ampoule (for hair protection which cost $15) and the hair treatment is of WASTE!!!! and her reply was, "Don't worry, I will apply them again."

But after re-applying the colour to my roots, she only spray some solution to my scalp that's it, and she called that RE-APPLY????

After she reapply the colour on my hair, she went to eat, I saw it from the mirror. Maybe the application was too long and it was and RE-APPLICATION, so after washing, the colour on my root (top of my head) is much more brighter than the rest, from my ear to the ends. I felt like an IDIOT! There are 2 tone!!! Then everytime other hair stylist walk pass me, they will look at my hair. So bloody obvious that it's ugly!!! And she claimed that it's not. My FOOT! Even Hubby commented that my hair look like SHIT! The colour of stools!!!

Then, it's time for hair cut, which I have to pay $42 for it (see the receipt). But she did not even CUT! She only trim. Initially, I wanted to change my current hairstyle, long hair into long bob but she claimed that my face will look very LONG and told me not to go for long bob then she asked me when did I do my rebonding, I told her in August this year and she said need not trim my hair too much otherwise, it will flare up and become frizzy! (Then don't charge me $42 when you did not even CUT my hair!!!). Even for my fringe, I told her I want to trim it slanted, but she only trim the higher part of it, the remaining of my fringe she didn't. How does she qualify to be in Supercuts? In the end, my fringe is long and short.

Then later on, she insist on using the iron to perm my hair. I showed her a reluctant face but she insisted that it will be gone after I wash my hair who doesn't know? DuH! I ended up looking like an Auntie when I leave the salon!!! *((*(*&#&&^$&

Although, she offered me a cup of almond longan and gave me a loreal gift pack, but all these do not ease the dissatisfaction I had at the salon. Thank God for letting me vent my frustrations here! I'm so unlucky. Sighzz... Like what Hubby said when he comforted me, you never try you won't know their standard! I felt so guilty towards Hubby and Junior whenever I saw the amount I spent at Supercuts. I could have just spend those money on them with toys and lots goodies than waste it just like that. Never ever step into Supercuts at Compass Point.

Another point I want to add, when I was reading up the forums of people sharing their unhappy experience at Supercuts, I totally agree with them but when they said about the manager/director who is good, I had my reserves because during my entire stay at the salon, she did not even smile at me. Being a manager, showing this kind of ethics of unfriendliness already tell you whether you should let them earn your hard earned money or not.

Seriously, I thought INOA is already ammonia-free, why do I still have to top up $28 for the colour to become ammonia free??? And this is my very first time, paying GST at hair salon! Gosh...

But, I do admit the ammonia-free really works. I didn't feel as itchy as before after colouring my hair.

The complimentary gift from Yvonne (to compensate)...

A "Ride" on Molly Bus - NLB's Mobile Library!

Junior who loves buses, cars, trucks, monster trucks, tractors... basically anything that has wheels! He has always been watching videos on Youtube. After his experience of taking the SBS Bus, he always requested me to search videos of Buses on Youtube.

Without knowing what kind of buses to search, I actually typed SBS Bus on Youtube and one of the videos that surfaced from the search was the "Making of Molly Bus", NLB's Mobile Library. After Junior watched the video, he kept asking me to bring him to take the Molly Bus. Haha! But the true fact is Molly doesn't travels.

It's a bus filled with books and yes, you can board the bus and borrow/read books. Most of the books are meant for kids. It's a good invention from NLB because we need not go all the way to the library. We can board the Molly bus when we are at the shopping centres.

From what I know, Molly bus stations at several shopping centres on certain dates. For me, we usually goes to AMK Hub and thankfully, Molly bus goes there too. If you want to find out whether Molly library bus goes to a certain shopping centre, you may check the website of the shopping centre. Usually, the website of the shopping centre will state.

 Junior looks a bit reluctant when I asked him to take a pic with the bus! 

Guess it's due to the hot weather and the hot piping engine he standing near to!

 Junior's first "Ride" on Molly!

 Books borrowed from the Molly Library Bus!

(All the books got to do with trains, tractors, etc)

We even got a Molly Friends Card!

Every 6 books borrowed from Molly bus, you get a chop and upon accumulating all chops (i forgot how many chops in total), you get some goodies/freebies!

A great experience on Molly the Library Bus!

Getting Paid for Reading SMS

Sounds good and interesting. Isn't it?

Came across SMADS (Forgotten when!) and was amazed of this business. They are paying people for reading smses!If you are cash-strapped or just want to earn some extra cash, you may want to give this a try, a paid business founded by 4 NTU students. Support your fellow local entrepreneurs.

Here's a short description of what they do:

"SMads, pronounced as S-M-Ads, is a simple system we have created, where you can earn money for almost no effort!

We pay you for receiving the SMS advertisements that we send to you. Do visit the page on How it works to find out more!"

and how it works:

Easy way to quick money!

How about an address plaque?

When Hubby and I got the keys to our love nest, I have always think of making an unique address plaque that belongs to us. An address plaque that signifies our love nest. After much Google-ing and seeking forums for comments, I came across an online market place for address plaques.

To my surprise, they have quite a number of designs and layouts to choose from. Pricing wise is quite reasonable and they provide free shipping! From the online catalogue, you can even refine your search based on height, width, nighttime visibility, material, shape, colour and price range. It's really convenient and hassle-free and definitely user-friendly to purchase an address plaque as compared to those offline plaque makers, we have to bring our design down to their shop to place an order.

With Just Address Plaques, we save time, transport and money. Besides residential address plaques, they even have Specialty Plaques. Under Residential Address Plaques, they have the wall plaques, hanging plaques and lawn plaques. Personally, I prefer and like the hanging plaque.

I love the "2 Sided 4 Inch Numbers Standard Ladder Rest Sign-1 Line" design because in Singapore, most of the HDB apartment's unit number is 5digits. For e.g: #10-05 or maybe without the '#', will be e.g 10-105. They even have a super detailed product description with customers review.

 So mummies out there, if you would like to custom made an address plaque, you might want to consider Just Address Plaques.

Earn extra cash! Become a Mystery Shopper!

Sometime back, I remembered I have wrote a post about my experience being a mystery shopper for AQ services.

Last Saturday, when I was reading the Straits Times Classified (I love to buy Saturday's Straits Times because its soooo thick. Worth buying! And normally, they have recruit and many job advertisements,more than those advertised on Weekdays' Straits Times.), I came across this job ad looking for Mystery Shoppers.

I'm not sure if they are looking for someone who can work on flexi timing for 3 months or they have to commit to a fixed working hourse, e.g normal working hours, 9am to 6pm?

Another thing that I don't qualify is, I DON'T have A2 for English. Haha. As compared to AQ services, I don't think they have such strict requirement.

Anyway, if you meet their requirement can give it a try. Am not sure if its,suitable for Stay Home Mums, can call and check out, Beacon Consulting Pte Ltd.

Educational Game for Junior

Junior loves cars, trucks, trains, buses. When we saw this at the Kiddy Palace, Vance and I immediately love it.

At first, I thought it was a puzzle but later on I realised, it was more than a game, an educational game. A game which requires thinking skills.

So I thought why not, without any second thoughts, I decided to buy it for Junior. Red Lorry,Yellow Lorry. Create traffic and chaos as you race to match the vehicles and their colours.

This game is suitable for young learners from age 4 and above. It requires 2 to 4 kids to play the game.

They have other interesting games besides this. But Hubby didn't allow me to buy rest. Haha... Kiasu Mummy just love to invest on Junior with educational stuffs.

This game cost me around $15+. (Cannot remember the exact price.) If you have the Kiddy Palace card, you get to enjoy 10% discount.

 

Our very first Flea Market!

 

Our RC (Resident's Committee) actually held an event called the Clean and Green Week. Part of the event of a range of Flea Markets Stalled rented by the residents who would like to sell stuffs at the event at the rental fee of $5 for a square table. 

Initially, when we saw the notice on the notice board, Hubby and I were so excited and we immediately dash to the RC when it opened at 7.30pm on the day itself. Haha! Kiasu Mummy and Daddy. Even the Auntie who worked at the RC said we were the 1st and she told us to come back later as the event still has a month to go and the person in charge of this is not around. LOL! They don't even have the form ready for us to fill in our particulars. We were so afraid that the stalls are fully taken up, we went down every single night until Junior knows the Auntie and wants to go into the RC center whenever we walk past it.

After we got the table, we began to pack all the THINGS we want to sell. We were sooooo excited that we almost turn all the things in the store room for SALE! Look at the things we had in the store room.

Although we didn't earn much from the flea market due to the rain and the place our stall were at and the competition of other stalls selling the same thing and very much cheaper than us, we still gained experience from it. We felt we were like "Mini Bosses" running a mini business.

Clear your junk for a good start

We sold our very first digital camera, Casio Exilim Ex-Z30 3.2mp which we bought it 7 years ago (2003) at $699 to the Cash Converters at $15!!!

 photo taken from here

The condition of the camera is good just there the battery doesn't last. After a full charge, it would only last for maybe 2 hours?

We decided to invest on a new camera, Sony Cybershot T99 14.2 mp at $399!

So no point keeping the old camera, we decided to convert it to cash. It was my first time converting stuff at the Cash Converters. The experience was funny and excited?! Haha.. The funny thing was the Staff who attended to us told us to keep the camera for Junior to practice his photo-taking skill! It was a good idea but not for this old camera of ours as it needs to be charged frequently.

When I was at the Cash Converters, I saw lots of items, such as, kids bicycle, photo frames, baby stroller, etc. When we were waiting for the man to "check" on our camera, I saw a list pasted on the wall stating the buying price they offer for USED VCDS and DVDs. They buy used vcds at $0.10 to $0.50. I can't really remember the price but it's good to check it out especially for those who own lots of old movies and dramas and you are desperate looking for space to store them! It's a good idea to convert them into cash!

Anyway, I would like to share with you an article I came across which I found it very useful.

Clear your junk for a good start