Our ceiling has now been fixed, thanks to some very speedy repairmen.
We also received a call from our insurance that we have to pick out a new tv and dvd player that were damaged in the living room, so yesterday my step-dad and I went to Harvey Norman (electrical goods department store) and we were informed that we had a set amount that we could spend any where in-store. So for example if we were allowed $1000 to spend and only spent $500 on the tv, we could use $500 on something else in-store. Cool huh?
The tv that they recommended to replace the old one was a LG which apparently is the more updated model than our old one, and has 1000 HZ or something... whatever that means. It comes with a free DVD/VCR Recorder and Player combo; but the machine looks super old!
Mum is waiting for our home theatre speakers to be replaced. The only problem is that you can't get those speakers any where in Australia. She specially bought those speakers from Asia as those are the ones that are best for karaoke. So I'm not sure how that's going to pan out... ie whether they'll give us the money for it, or we'll have to choose some second-rate home theatre speaker system. | 
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I think it also helped that we were on a high insurance level... and my step-dad insisted that the Insurance Assessor's team complete the ceiling before Chinese New Year otherwise it would be bad for us.