We did not get our favourite unit. It was not even our top 10 choices. Being in the room, sitting in the small cubicle in front of the HDB officer was one of the most emotional experience we both will ever face. Maybe it’s because we had drawn ourselves a picture of our perfect home so clear that the choices left for us were a huge disappointment. It was such a let down that Sel was on the brink of tears.
Don’t get us wrong. We know it’s difficult to get a queue number for BTO flats. We know of many couples who had tried and tried again, only to have wasted their money and precious time. After wasting a few years of hoping, they finally resort to buying resale flats. So we are thankful and grateful to get a queue number. But it was a difficult choice to make (to forego the choices we have at hand and wait for an opening of better choices OR to make best of the choices we have at hand). After much discussion, we decided as a family to go with the latter.
Looking back now, without a doubt, we know we made the right choice. We even felt silly and foolish over how we reacted to the situation then.
Vin seems to have come into terms with reality fast. Shortly after the selection, he sent an invitation to his colleagues.
Note the date sent and the actual house warming date.
Don’t get us wrong. We know it’s difficult to get a queue number for BTO flats. We know of many couples who had tried and tried again, only to have wasted their money and precious time. After wasting a few years of hoping, they finally resort to buying resale flats. So we are thankful and grateful to get a queue number. But it was a difficult choice to make (to forego the choices we have at hand and wait for an opening of better choices OR to make best of the choices we have at hand). After much discussion, we decided as a family to go with the latter.
Looking back now, without a doubt, we know we made the right choice. We even felt silly and foolish over how we reacted to the situation then.
Vin seems to have come into terms with reality fast. Shortly after the selection, he sent an invitation to his colleagues.
Note the date sent and the actual house warming date.
The attachment.
Only Vin will get so excited over something due in 2012 to send an invite in 2008! Only Sel will find that silly and adorable at the same time and love him to bits!
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