2015-09-24

3M Hot, Cold and Room Temperature Filtered Water Dispenser Review

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Our human body is 60% made up of water.

We should drink 8 big glasses of water everyday to replenish our fluids, and drinking enough water makes us healthier, more beautiful, and even less likely to fall sick!



So it is pretty obvious that water is important to us... But water is just water, isn't it? Unlike teas or sweetened drinks, there aren't much choices when it comes to water. The water we drink at home is just... plain water.


I'll be honest. I know most people don't do this, but all my life I've drank my water directly from the tap! I know it's safe-ish because I never fell ill from drinking tap water, but I never did any research on whether it's good to do that or not.

When I was told 3M was giving me a water dispenser, I wasn't very impressed. I thought it was just a filter I had to attach to my tap or some troublesome jug I had to keep refilling.

The day of installation came:


I led the installation guy into my kitchen...


Here he is, taking apart my drawers. I was actually quite surprised because well... it isn't just a filter on my tap, or a jug! The drawers had to be taken apart because a tube had to run directly from my water supply to my 3M Table Top Dispenser.

The tube was running under the cabinets so it won't be ugly and visible.

It looks very messy because my kitchen top has so many items... Of all the things there the one I hate the most is the stupid kettle which you can see is silver and black.

I had refused to buy a kettle. I don't like drinking hot drinks so I don't often use hot water. But if I needed to, I either put water into a pot to boil or put a mug into the microwave. The principle of buying an external appliance for making hot water just offended me because seems so medieval that there shouldn't be an extra apparatus occupying my kitchen top space for it. Nor should I be spending any money buying a KETTLE!

However, having a kid meant making milk and hot water is needed. Frustrated with my obstinate refusal to invest in a kettle, my mom brought one from her house, and it is semi broken with scorchtape on the wire. A bit hazardous. And it's so ugly and takes up so much space and it's so scary like anytime can scald people who touch it accidentally.

ANYWAY I WANTED TO SAY MY KETTLE STORY BECAUSE I CAN NOW FINALLY GET RID OF IT!!!!!!!

I AM SO HAPPY!



My 3M Hot, Cold and Room Temperature Filtered Water Dispenser is neatly installed!!

Although this is an advertorial, I just want to say, 100% truthfully, that it is probably one of the most used items in my house, by everyone in the family... and we all LOVE IT TO BITS!!!!


True, this is not the sexiest sponsored item I've received. But it is indeed very very useful and practical. It has truly won me and the family over.


Here's why:

1) Clean, filtered water

Remember just now when I said water is just plain water... Well, that's not correct. There are many different grades of water.

I have said just now that I always drink water directly from the tap. I may have no qualms about risking my health, but I most certainly refuse to subject my toddler to the same.

That meant that if I needed to fill up Dash's water bottle for the day, I had to first boil water then put the water somewhere for it to cool. It wastes both time and space.

Now, I can let him have safe and clean water directly from the 3M Table Top Dispenser because it dispenses room temperature water! I can make his milk and fill his cup during meal times with water I know is safe for him!

Using 3M miniaturization technology in the 3M AP2-G filter,

- chlorine taste and odour,
- lead and volatile organic compounds which are believed to lead to health risks
- sediments as fine as 0.5 mircons
- 99.95% of Protozoan cysts (not quite sure what this is but it sounds bad)

all of the above are gone from the tap water I would otherwise be drinking.

The 3M Table Top Dispenser is the ONLY dispenser in the market that is BPA free! 

Most parents won't let their babies drink out of milk bottles that aren't BPA-free, so if you are intending to buy a dispenser for child-use, take note of this!

Additionally, the 3M Table Top Dispenser comes with an ultra violet light system that sterilises the filtered water by 99.99%, removing pathogenic bacteria.

It is also very easy to change the filter, there is no need to service the machine.

You may be surprised to learn this because 3M is known for stationary... But they do have 75 years of filtration experience!!!



2) Cold water, immediately whenever I want it


The 3M Table Top Dispenser dispensing cold water. It is immediate and very cold!!

The husband and I are both fans of ice cold water. Before the 3M Table Top Dispensercame into my life, Mike used to get his cold water from a filtered jug.

He doesn't like drinking tap water straight from the tap, so he fills up this big jug with a filter on it, then he puts it in the fridge.

I USED TO HATE THAT JUG.

It takes up so much valuable fridge space. It is also too heavy for me to carry properly, so when I try to pour water out of it I always spill. It also makes Mike mad if he finds his jug empty, which meant that out of courtesy I should refill the stupid jug if I drink out of it. Seriously, it's way too heavy and cumbersome for me to do that, so I rather just leave him to his jug. If I'm not utilizing it, all the more it makes me irritated that it is taking up my fridge space.

As a result, I often resort to using ice cubes (also troublesome to refill), or just drinking room temperature water which I don't like as much. This also made me drink less water because when it's not cold it's not as tasty.

BUT CONFETTI BECAUSE NOW MY COLD WATER PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED!!

Now, whenever I want, I can fill my cup with crisp, cold, clean filtered water, and drink to my heart's content.

We have thrown away that irritating jug. The husband cannot stop praising the 3M Table Top Dispenser, and every guest that comes to my house loves it. Some have even remarked that the cold water is just the right amount of cold and wanted to get their own.

I use the cold function every single day.

See the blue button there with the water droplet? Simply press it and out comes filtered room temperature water instead if cold is not your thing.


3) Hot water


Want to make a cup of coffee?


First press this button, and wait just 1 or 2 mins for the water to boil.


And voila! You have boiling hot water! To be extra safe, you have to first press the hot button then press the black rectangle that's behind the cup for hot water to come out. This is to prevent children from any mishaps.

The hot water function is also very useful for my family as Mike, my mom and my helper all drink coffee. A bit of hot water is needed for Dash's milk as well.

I really really wish I had the 3M Table Top Dispenser earlier! All those times I had to warm water in the microwave to make a water bath to warm up breast milk... This would have made my life so much easier!

Oh and I finally threw away the hazardous kettle. YAY!!!


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In short, I would like to give the 3M Hot, Cold and Room Temperature Filtered Water Dispenser 5 stars out of 5.

It is easily one of the most useful appliance I have at home, and everybody in the family LOVES it.

In Singapore's hot weather, I always feel so grateful whenever I get home from bringing Dash out to the sweltering park and I can immediately get myself a glass of ice cold water... FUSS FREE.


Everyone who comes to my house always tells me they want the 3M Table Top Dispenser, and asks me how much it cost.

The usual price is $1,888.


But now there is a special promotional price of $1,388!

Additionally, you get 3 FREE filter replacement cartridges worth $155 each!

AND you can get and extra $50 off, specially for my readers only!!


All you have to do is register now HERE and use blogger code “XIAXUEHCD2”.  It only takes 30 seconds!


Friendly consultants from Jestac, the 3M Authorized Distributor will contact you to inform how you can collect the $50 voucher.

If you want to see the actual 3M Table Top Dispenser or try a cup of 3M Filtered Water, you can visit 3M’s Authorized Distributor at:

JESTAC PTE LTD
No.2 Kim Chuan Drive CSI Distribution Centre #02-06 Singapore 547080
Mon - Fri 8.30am – 5.30pm, Sat 8.30am to 2.30pm
Tel: 6288 8290
Email: sales@jestac.com.sg

The 3M Table Top Dispenser is also available at most Selffix stores.

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2015-09-22

UOB One account for the best interest rates!


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I admit that when it comes to matters of finance, I am a complete idiot.

It is a very dry subject to me and I always just doze off when I hear people rambling about banks, interest rates or loans. My mother on the other hand is pretty good with these things (she used to be a bank teller in the 1980s) and she would always handle all my finances for me.

Till today, I am still using the same bank account that I had since I was a child. 

The bank when my mom opened for me to put my angpow money inside... I am still using that at age 31!!



 
One of my old Nuffnang cheques... Just anyhow deposit into my childhood bank account


The bank gave me an atm card so I used it. One day it broke and I went to the bank to replace it, then they said "here, we will give you a debit card instead". I said "Oh ok" and I've been using that same card till now. 

The card works, the account works, so I just never bothered to change it.

Birthed a pretty cute dependent


I used to be so cavalier about my money because I only needed to care about myself. Now, I have a dependent. It sounds so disgustingly uncool to say this, but I really need to plan my finances better. And maybe it doesn't seem sexy to do so, but there is nothing sexy about being broke when you are old either!


Back to my bank choice... It is only when I was preparing for this blog entry that I realised I have been missing out on a lot of extra money I could have had... all these years!

Why?

I know finance is a very boring topic so I'll try to keep it a bit less technical. Everybody knows what interest rates are, right?

I found out that the interest rates for my account is only (I need client to let me know how much my POSB Savings account interest rate is)

To put it very simply, if I have $50,000 in my current bank account for a year, I earn an interest of $xxx.


Erm, that's like one of the lowest interest rates in Singapore. Or perhaps actually the lowest.

After I found out about the newly launched UOB One Account, I did some research on it and found this very comprehensive article which breaks down all the financial jargon into bite sized pieces! http://blog.moneysmart.sg/saving/why-the-uob-one-account-easiest-earn-interest-singapore/

With the newly launched UOB One Account, I would have gotten an interest of $1216 on savings of $50,000!!


Yes, the UOB One Account actually offers the highest interest rates in Singapore for fixed deposit accounts - a whooping 3.33%.

Of course, before you think you can simply set up your bank account with UOB and get 3.33% interest, there are some criteria to consider before you can get the best interest rate out of your bank.

At first glance I thought these criteria are very difficult to fulfil since I am not technically employed, but they are actually quite easy.

Here are the criteria:


First, you have to spend at least $500 on your One Account, every month. 

That's really quite easy.. It takes me only 3 grocery trips to spend $500. :( #milkpowdersoexpensive

Who doesn't spend at least $500 a month right? If you don't please teach me how wtf.

Then, you have to fulfill either one of these criteria:

- Credit your monthly salary of at least $2,000 every month into the account,

- Or use the One Account to pay for at least 3 bills every month with GIRO.


Now the monthly salary thing won't work for me because I tend to only request my cheques from Nuffnang when I run out of money (told you my finance handling is very medieval), but the GIRO thing I can do!

GIRO my phone bill, my insurance payment and my helper's levy. Done!

For many working Singaporeans, a $2,000 salary isn't very hard to achieve. If you don't have that, 3 bill payments are still pretty easy to do.

(Of course, the bank uses some complicated method to calculate your interest rates, so it doesn't mean that if you have $10,000 in your account you will automatically get $333 for free. To understand more about how the calculations work, you can refer to this blog or go to UOB One Account's website!)


Paired with the UOB One Account is the UOB One credit card!


Dubbed "Singapore's Most Generous Rebate Card", it promises you:


Up to 5% rebate on all spend, up to 3.33% rebate on spend below $2,000


Car owners will LOVE this: Up to 22.9% at Caltex and 24% at SPC!! 



ME ME ME I NEED!!



And the card is so cute!!! Check it out:




This is how it will look like if your name is Jaime Wang.


It is a special limited edition SG50 card!! Got five stars!! #simisaialsosg50 #butthisoneiscutelah

To find out more about the privileges and amazing rebates of the UOB One Card, you can click here!

You can get the UOB One account and the UOB One card independently of one another but to get the best interest rates and rebates, it is good to use them both together.



Interested? (lol coz this post is about interest rates ok so that's punny)

It only takes 10 mins to open an UOB One account and to apply for your cute Limited Edition SG50 UOB One card!


I told my mom about the UOB One account and asked her if she thinks I should apply. She immediately said yes!

To put my money where my mouth is (not literally because the UOB One account isn't in my mouth har har har), I have just applied for my UOB One account and UOB One card!!

Yes! I personally believed in it so much that I applied for the 1st bank account I ever opened in my life. (1st one is opened by my mother) LOL I guess my blog post is so convincing it convinced me too. Hahaha!


And yes it only took me 10 mins, super easy wtf!!

I'm looking forward to not being a sucker for shitty interest rates anymore and for a much nicer looking card to use! And all the rebates I have been missing out on!



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