New Washer

Our Whirlpool Frontload washer suddenly died-ed on us yesterday afternoon. It could not be resuscitated even after our many attempts, switching the power on and off.

So, we had little choice but to send our laundry (yesterday's load) to the laundromat for washing last evening. Luckily, the queue wasn't long when we arrived. I tossed the clothes into the machine and after slotting in the $6 worth of tokens, the washing began.

R and I were, by then, quite fed-up with the Whirlpool. It was just our luck that the extended warranty which we had bought when we first got the machine, expired in December 2008. Just 3 months after the extended warranty expired, the machine acted up and unilaterally retired itself. We figured that it will probably not be cost-effective to get a technician to look into repairing the machine. Anyway, the machine had been rather uncooperative for some time now.

And so, whilst the laundry was being washed, we trod downstairs at Parkway Parade to shop for a new washer. Eventually, we decided on a Samsung washer. The sales person from Best Denki did a wonderful job explaining to us its features and even demonstrated the various functions (Silver Wash etc). But because they didn't have available stock of the model we were interested in, we bought the washer from the neighbouring Harvey Norman instead.

We are awaiting the delivery of the Samsung this evening. Hopefully, we won't need to go do our laundry at the laundromat anytime again soon.