Flat Hunting

I was flipping through my old diary and realized that we started our flat hunting as early as July last year.

Our first appointment with Johnny the housing agent was on 29 July 2006 and we actually went to HDB a week earlier to make enquiries. The decision of where to live was not difficult. It was unanimous that we were to pick Clementi, to be near to my parents. After that we viewed houses in Clementi, Sunset Way, Queenstown, Strathmore.. went to see new flats in Jurong West and even Sembawang.

We exhausted almost all possibilities but still could not find an ideal unit. We even tried balloting for a Redhill unit but failed.

Then finally in November, we came across the HDB walk-in selection for Sengkang. We brought my parents to see the Sengkang flats on 18 Nov, then decided to go ahead with it. On 20 Nov, we had a nerve-wrecking experience at HDB trying to select our flats. Before that my mum was monitoring the teletext for us everyday. We had wanted the #14-24 unit, but just before we were to select our unit, it was taken up. So we settled for #13-24. G was hesitant because of the number 13, but because I like it, he gave in to me.

But that was not the end. We went through quite abit of trouble getting our salary certification documents to them. The first batch of documents got lost in the mail and G had to personally deliver the second set of documents to HDB to play safe.

Finally finally we are pronounced the proud owners of the executive flat end December and would be collecting our keys on 10 January!