Our Love Nest

I shall begin with how we got our flat... Last yr B showed mi the HDB website and the Sep 08 Balloting Exercise was open for application. We saw the jurong west units and quite like the location cos it's near to lakeside mrt and taman jurong food centre (good food there! haha) so we jus 'tik-kum' see will dio anot loh.. anyway, it costs jus $10 to apply.. haha.. Then, we received a letter from HDB telling us we hav a total of x4 chances in the balloting exercise.. we hav the first-timer priority and staying near parents priority cos it's near B's home..

But, in the end, our queue no. is 0272 (4D no open) which actually exceeds the quota for our ethnic group.. we thought that means no chance already cos there's only 100 plus units in total.. After that we applied for the Woodlands BTO flats.. that was feb 09 liao.. A few days later, we received a big pack of letter from HDB again.. Initially, we thought it has something to do wif the Woodlands BTO flats.. To our surprise, it was an invitation letter for us to select the lakeside units cos there were leftovers.. we were scheduled on the sixth day of the selection exercise which means mus see 1st 5 days got any units left for us anot.. so we were observing the numbers on the HDB website everyday, so exciting.. haha..

During tat period, we were watching 'she diao ying xiong zhuan' den rong er and guo jing will make a wish wif their eyelash and blow away.. so we oso did the same.. everytime i will say to myself "Leave a unit for us" den blow.. haha.. Truely, only one unit was left for us.. no need to select at all.. maybe i shd amend my wish to "Let us hav a higher floor unit".. haha.. we dun mind the low level issue cos weighing the pros n cons, we felt tat the location n price is gd! and it's a new flat, yeah!

So, on 24 Mar 09 we went to HDB to 'select' our unit and pay the option fee.. After sometime, we receive letter agn to inform us tat we got the additional housing grant of $25K, happy... like GSS got 10% discount, haha.. Then, we received another letter (so many letters and admin stuffs to settle) to inform us our appointment to go down HDB agn to sign the papers for the downpayment.. tat was on 14 May 09.. yup, tat's it for now.. no need to keep signing liao.. we went down twice and each time always sign till our signatures become distorted cos really need to sign many many times! haha..

Next will be key collection which will be sometime in 2011..