Punggol, welcome me!

So I selected my flat yesterday.

GAN CHIONG DIE ME LAH!

On Monday, I was so nervous at work I couldn’t focus on anything. I was praying so hard the unit we wanted wouldn’t be taken up by applicants on that day. Kept checking back the HDB BTO page to see if the unit was highlighted in red. That night, I thought I would suffer from insomnia but luckily I slept pretty well.

Morning came and I woke to a text from Kaixin wishing me good luck. The first thing LA did was check the BTO page again to see if our unit was taken. Thank God it was still available.

Perhaps most would find 13 unlucky but hey, it’s actually a lucky number for the chinese. Right. My uncle lives on the 13th storey. My sis will be staying on the 13th floor too. Kaixin also chose a unit on the 13th floor. So how can that be unlucky? So now I was determined to get it on the 13th floor too that I kept worrying someone might have my exact thoughts – that 13th floor is lucky – so they would choose it too. Glad we got it instead.

Sis accompanied us for the selection and gave us some tips on where to choose and what to look out for (occupational hazard). Glad she helped us a bit if not we might end up choosing a unit we might regret. And LA’s parents went down too, to show support haha. Sis has met them. When I got home and updated Mum about it, she was like “So your jie met the in-laws liao lah!” LOL I think she’s secretly jealous of my sister. WAHAHAHAHA!

So yes, $2,000 poorer for LA and a zi-high me after finally realising that WE HAVE OUR OWN HOUSE! It took me awhile before the reality kicked in.

*deep breath*

Calm down. Luckily our CPF were enough to cover the downpayment. Phew.

Perhaps my excitement now is way too early since the house isn’t even built yet. The last we checked, the construction site had just started. So it would definitely take a while.

And the officer did mention “3 years” a few times during our selection despite the estimated completion date would be 5 years from now. But since she mentioned “3 years” meaning it would be delivered earlier than promised. I like. Under promise and over deliver. Like that I wouldn’t need to wait so long til we get our own house.

The fact that Punggol and my current place is on both ends of the country worries me. If quarrel with LA, want go back niang jia must pay expensive cab fare. Lol. I shall not quarrel as much then.

So anyway, our future home is the biggest monetary commitment ever made. I can never imagine how we came to this point in our relationship to finally settle on something we both want and need. Amazing.

House, checked.

What’s next? No pressure at all, really. Lol. I told LA I wanna collect more years of ang baos first before we start giving them out.