It’s been a while since I’ve last updated about our home although I’m consumed with renovations now. Good news, my washrooms are complete and I’m only left with a few touches for our kitchen. We pay our home a visit at least once a week to do some cleaning and light shifting so it won’t … Continue reading
I take long showers, I take them regularly and I’m not ashamed to say that. I love my showers, there’s just nothing like coming home from a long, hot, sweaty day of work, standing under the shower and just let it wash away all that grime and stress. In fact, I told Shine that one … Continue reading
Surprise, we got our keys! We collected them way back in January actually. Sorry we took so long to update but I really did not want to rush through this particular post because it’s a big milestone in our lives and marriage and there really is a lot that I would like to share from … Continue reading
Finally, after 4 years of waiting we can collect our keys! Here are some tips I’d like to share with neighbours who probably have some of these questions like I did.Address: HDB Hub, 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310480 Tel: +65 6490 1111 (Weekdays 0800 – 1700) Important Notice: I suggest you arrive at … Continue reading
Since we’re antipating the collection of the keys to our home soon, I was blesses to get an invitation to Purion Wall’s official launch recently to learn more about Singapore’s first natural paint. And let me tell you, I’m so impressed, I’m considering to have Purion for our home. Purion Wall serves to not only … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve written any updates on our BTO and I figured this would be the right time because… EVERYONE IS ASKING. Dear Neighbours, if any of these questions are familiar to you… “When you getting keys?“, “When your house ready?“, “Why so long?“, “Why Ahmad / Raju / Ah Tan get … Continue reading
*Blows off dust. Wow, it seems like a long while since I’ve updated about our BTO project. We’ve been so busy with our planning for our Wedding, it almost feels like a second job! Well, now that our Wedding is over, we can now go back to lamenting on our home. Despite having our hands … Continue reading
Its been a while since I’ve last updated about our BTO. Whenever I take the MRT headed towards Jurong, I’ll always look out for our projects to see how far it has progressed. This is the latest update from last week… Here is Eastlink 1 where we’ll be taking the MRT/buses, having our breakfast/lunch/dinner at … Continue reading
Omg!!! 😱😱😱 This picture was posted by our neighbour on our neighbourhood Facebook Group chat. The last I updated on our BTO building progress, it was in February and was just a flat land then. Now, I can see our block!!! It’s the one on the bottom right hand corner that has the ground floor already … Continue reading
I’ve heard from our future neighbours in the Eastlink Facebook group that the machines are finally coming into the bare empty lots! So as I was in the train to Shine’s place, I was eager to see them for myself. Our neighbourhood will be located in between Sembawang and Yishun MRT Station so we are … Continue reading
After a four month wait, HDB informed us to come down to Toa Payoh Hub to sign the agreement of lease! Never been so happy to see 5% of our CPF deplete, anything for our beloved home! There were lots of papers to sign. One in particular was quite scary; we were required to make a decision … Continue reading
Getting increasingly excited about our new home although we’d only be receiving our keys in approximately 4 to 5 years’ time. It’s a long wait but looking at things on the bright side, at least we’d have more than enough time to have our wedding, design our house and save for renovations/furniture. Who knows, we … Continue reading
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We are really blessed and for once in my life, I feel extremely lucky, like I’ve strike the lottery. We have successfully ballot for a Build-to-Order (BTO) project on our first try and will be selecting our unit. Obviously, I hid the numbers so as not to jinx it. So upon receiving our ballot number, … Continue reading
If you were wondering why I haven’t been updating much recently, its mostly because I’ve been spending much of the last two weeks researching on housing. If you’ve been reading my blog or if you’ve known me for a long time, you’d know how important this it to me.As you know from Part I of … Continue reading
This is the story of a Singaporean couple’s journey is acquiring a home for their future. The said couple are none other than Shine and I. Yes, we are planning to apply for a BTO (Build-to-Order) flat together. We are both thirty this year and my severe case of endometriosis will require me to conceive … Continue reading
