Some Planning

Did some planning before the renovation starts. Here's a preview. Layout more or less done.

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Keys Collection!

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Preparing for our place we call Home

Today, we went to Ikea, Courts, Giant. Went around to look for some renovation ideas and furniture price survey. Wanted to start buying furnitures but we still have not gotten our house! HDB is slow in processing our AHG. Hopefully they don't let us wait for more than 3 months for a $0 grant.
I dreamt about us gotten the AHG and Ting Ting told me that dreams are always opposite :/ No!!!
We got 2 memory pillows cos it was on sale. Well, there's a few sale in a year, but we do not know when, so might as well get it since we were there.

While looking for mattress, we both love the King Koil Serenity. However it exceed out budget by quite a bit. Priced at close to $2.5k is way too much. Tried 4Stars but it doesn't feel any close to King Koil. Then there came Spring Air. Not bad actually! We had decided to put this as our 1st choice. Priced at less than 1.8k is still within our budget for comfort back support.

We headed to our new place hoping to see if there are any units doing renovation. Sunday, of course there aren't any. So we walked around the area and found that there is a good running path just behind. 

Our unit at Strathmore Green. We are very lucky to get the unit of our first choice. Feeling excited but tired from waiting for HDB to release the keys. I guess we are not the only ones. There are still many units yet to be renovated.

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Flat selection

We selected our flat! Estimating to collect our keys in late Feb / early March if nothing goes wrong. Happy!

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Love Nest

So exciting! We finally got our queue number that does not exceed the quota! The last BTO exercise was bad. Not only we did not get out queue number within the quota, our queue number exceeded by only approx 56 numbers. When the high floors were mostly taken up, and by the time it was inching near to our scheduled selection date, only 2nd and 3rd floors were left. We gave up in the end when HDB called us if we are going down to select our flat.

Good thing we gave up! I think our prayers were heard when we visited Guan Yin Temple and the Big Buddha at Phuket together. Can't wait for the selection! We have went to site and roughly know what we wanted, and I have done some research on the room types.

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