♥ Sunday, May 08, 2011 ' 11:05 PM ♥
The KEY to our LOVE NEST.It wasn't an easy path for us to get together till this day.
Neither was it a smooth one for us to plan for the "Big Event" & "Big Project" of our life.
Whenever we met coordinators up for wedding discussions, they tends to ask us, "
Woah, you both are really something. To prepare wedding and home together at the same time is not easy."
Yes, it never will.
But it's not like as if we wanted it
lor..
Firstly, Ryan didn't have a room of his own.
If we were to get married, we need a room!
As much as we know
BTO take years to complete, we opted for it like
erm, 3 yrs ago?
And we balloted for the 6
th time before we got this unit.
I'm more than happy to be selected for Sales of Balanced Flat than to waiting foolishly for the
BTO to be completed; or throwing my money into the ridiculously expensive
COV for a second-hand flat. I was telling Ryan last year that I would rather get a
SOBF or a resale, than to continue waiting for my chance which is so difficult to pass by even when I'm qualified for the priority first-timer scheme.
Be it my luck or whatever, it's always the case that my queue number is way behind the proposed units, or that it only left with 2
nd or 3rd floor. Like
wth? I pay so much for the stupid flat and this is what I deserved? Not to mention the long waiting time before the flat will be ready?
So, finally one day, Ryan and I were very
desperated already.
We decided to approach assistance from the MP in my town council when the
SOBF launched. We told her that we were very much wanted to get married, but didn't have a room to do so. In addition of my parents' old age and Ryan is also working in
Jurong Island, we very much wanted to get a unit in
Jurong area.
And TA-
DAH!
She was kind enough to write in to
HDB for us as the very first priority couples and here we got a very nice queue number and we got our 5-room flat!!
You know, choosing a desired unit was a very tough process.
Ryan and I went to almost all the available units in
Jurong.
Some are more than 30 years old unit, some are chased after by loan shark, some
Fengshui is not good according to my
Geomancer, which will caused us to fight and eventually get divorce (which was exactly what happened to the previous owners according to their neighbours), some are "dirty".
And this unit that we chose was my "love at first sight", again.
Once I had a nice feeling at the first sight of something, it often ended up to be "The One".
It just so happened that the main door wasn't lock when we went to check it out the unit that day. And once I opened the main door and saw the view, I knew this is the one that I'm looking for. Bright sunlight shinning into the living room, with green scenery, and the park that I used to jog every weekend in the past.
Ryan wasn't quite agree with me then. Cos he was pretty much fascinated by getting an executive unit than a 5 room flat. But luckily, I asked my
Geomancer to choose one out of the two units, he said that my choice was a super "
huat" one. Hence, my love decided that earning big bucks is more important than living in a big flat, he gradually fell in love with my choice too!
LOLs!
See, my guts feelings is always very accurate one.
Furthermore, my new flat is just one street away from my mum's place!
Super convenient
lah!
It was a long wait to booking the flat, then to get all the housing grants and loans, then finally, the key collection.
Can't describe our feeling.
Finally a love nest of our own, which we are very happy with after so many years of anticipating.
And he is my
Geomancer who I'm talking about.
He's actually my eldest brother
lah!! Too young to be true? *
LOLs*
People pay him hundreds to thousands to see their house's
Fengshui, mine is obviously
FOC, plus free consultations on everything!
Don't know how to thank him though. Didn't know that his chants can be THAT powerful.
When we decided on that particular unit, I told him that I'm afraid it might be chosen before my turn cos my queue number was only 65 and there's 120 units available for selection. So he went to "do something"
in front of the gate and on the day of my selection, all the units in that block were taken except for this particular one, which is the highest among all, still left available. And mind you, my appointment was in day 11 at 4.30pm!!!
The moment after I signed the documents, I called him and he said, "I know you got it, Congrats. I used many power for you, you know?" And my replied was, "WOW, you're fucking amazing
lah!!!!"
Sound crazy I know.
Even I can't imagine I was into all these myself.
Believe it or not is up to you all to decide.
I only can say that I won't be believing it until I saw this myself, scare the hell out of me man.
Anyway, decided on my interior designer and started the discussion and planning been 2 months. Finally all renovation works gonna start from next week onwards.
To my surprise again, my designer who is the boss of this interior design company, became my
bro's customer and I got super good discount from him.
WTH, am I lucky or what? *
Hahahahahaha!
At the designer's place for quoting.
Will blog about his service again once THE BIG PROJECT starts.
Expected completion date will be 4 months from now cos I'm whacking the whole flat, including the two toilets and kitchen. To be exact, nothing will be left untouched other than the toilet bowls and water pipes.
Seriously, I'm super broke now.
I've been roaming around
Balestier Road instead of Orchard every weekend now for home shopping. Whenever I starts complaining, hubby will say, "For the sake of our future home, please....."
*melting my heart*After all, I hope it super worth it.
Nothing gonna be as
satisfying as having a nest of our own. =)
