Category: Home & Garden
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Eastlink Building Progress (Part II)
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…
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Eastlink Building Progress (Part I)
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…
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We are Home Owners: Secured Our Flat
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…
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Neighbourhood Master Plan
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…
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BTO Unit Selection
We’ve chosen our unit and we’re really excited to share this big news with all our readers! This Post Will Cover: Our Experience Our Unit Reasons for Selection Upon reaching the Toa Payoh HDB Hub, we noticed that level one was closed due to upgrading works. There was a very clear signage to proceed to…
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Canberra Eastlink Brochure
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,…
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A Singaporean Couple’s Housing Tales (Part II)
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…
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A Singaporean Couple’s Housing Tales (Part I)
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…
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