One step closer...

Our loan approved! *throws confetti and jumps like crazy*

 

YAYYYY!!!

The only good news we've gotten since 10/06/2010. -_-" Basketballs.

 

Punggol here we come!

The One with the Building Progress

Blk 264-A View from the road opposite



Blk 264-A Currently 14th floor

Blk 265-A The block we originally wanted

Blk 265-A Had we chosen this blk, our flat would have been built

Future Punggol Hawker Centre within walking distance

This is uber exciting! I can't wait!

Disclaimer: Pictures courtesy of the Punggol Emeraldians on Facebook. Pls click on photos to enlarge them.

The One with the Condominium Next Door

Looks like we'll be getting upper class neighbours soon!



On the empty plot of land right smack on Matilda Hse. Wooo....




Treasure Trove U/C onemap.sg

  So eggciting for Blk 265A. They may potentially get 'poolview'. Or if you wish to see it as glass half-empty, they may be potentially staring at their neighbours frolicking in the pool while drooling from their windows.




Blk 264A *Our Block!*

 
Baby and I were deciding on Blk 265A. It was our first choice until the Feng Shui master stepped in and told us to go literally in the opposite direction. So we did a tor-balik and landed on Blk 264A unit 314. 



Sand!



And sand...

"Poolview" facing block has a floor!



and a lot more sand



The construction of Punggol Emerald is totally underway and I was so surprised to see such huge progress in a short span of time. Looks like our saving plan needs to double-up to keep up with the pace of HDB lego building in Singapore.

加油! ^.^

The One with the Top 5 BTOs of 2010

Was quite excited to chance upon this article in http://www.h88.com.sg/

Here are the Top 5 BTOs of 2010. Ready?

Number 5: Punggol Crest


This BTO is next to the expressway and nowhere as close to the MRT as the other BTOs but yet they were heavily oversubscribed, with an average of  9 applicants vying for a 4-bedroom unit.

Number 4: Punggol Emerald and Punggol Waves

These two BTOs were launched at the same time in April, with a total yield of 1,429 units. They were both 6 1/2 times oversubscribed, especially for the 4-room ones. Only 1 out of 7 got a chance to own a flat there

Number 3: Treegrove@ Woodlands

Launched at the same time as Punggol Crest, Treegrove@Woodlands, was also oversubscribed. The 372 4-room units received some 2,523 applications!

Number 2: Limbang Green

This quiet little Choa Chu Kang BTO hit a record 13 times oversubscribed for its 4-rm HDB flats. It's proximity to Yew Tee MRT and low price made Limbang Green a hit with first-time buyers.

Number 1: Punggol Waterway Terraces

Surprised? Not at all! Waterway Terraces set the record for the priciest BTO in Punggol, with prices of some units hitting $500,000. Plus, it also had the most number of applicants. A total of 1,072 units were available, for the poor 14,279 applicants who tried their luck. But eventually only 1 in 17 got a chance to successfully get the 5-bedroom units applied for. I personally feel the layout is too congested. And a rooftop playground for children? *Shivers*



Huge pats on our backs for E and I! Top 5 babeh, so proud of us! :)





The One with Our Future Home

After many months of waiting, we finally went down to sign the lease of our new flat. Since we haven't been working long, the payment nearly wiped out our CPF. :(  But purchasing a house is a good investment and I'm certain we will build an extremely comfy home for the two of us and our children. The CSO expects the delivery date to be set around 2Q2014. But through the experience of many others, building HDBs in Singapore is equivalent to building a lego set and that we can assume key collection to be brought forward by a year. Which means less time to save to our desired sum! *horrors*

There goes short trips and weekend binge-ing out the window.
But nonetheless, she got us really excited! Wifey's thinking of turning our home into a showflat and I seem to need to increase budget every week. Here's keeping our fingers crossed that everything will turn out perfect!

The One with the Awesome Queue Number

Our amazing queue number "54" granted us with an excellent array of choice flats in which we got first dips.

Finally... all the selection of housing unit and the fengshui fla-di-dahs are over.
Here's our selected unit.

5-room layout

Do click on the picture to enlarge :)

This unit was selected in conjuction with the general fengshui beliefs of luck, romance, success, education, money and whathaveyous. This, according to Master Koh of House of Feng Shui (HOFS for short), whom incidentally is our good friend Jay's dad, said is the BEST unit of all there is.

Hence our choice.

Not exactly our dream unit since it has a tad of afternoon sun but as I said to Eugene, "Ok lor, now I can sun my clothes and we don't have to worry about bats."
And looking on the very bright side, we got the second highest floor. It has been a while since I stayed anywhere higher than 2nd storey but I suppose there's plenty of wind yes?

So there! One down, a thousand more tasks to go.