May 2006

Hiccups do happen :-(

We have lesser activity in May but there are several headache issues to settle.

What happened was we have ordered our wedding favor from overseas and the items was not to Debbie specification and design. Hence, Debbie has to chase after the sales person to correct it and ensure that they know what should be done. After several round of amendment on the design, the sales person left the company silently!!! Debbie was shocked & prayed for help! God answered her prayers & someone from that company replied Debbie email that she is taking over but very unfortunate thing is she know nothing of the agreement between Debbie & the previous sales person. Hence, Debbie has to talk to the boss and he is aware of the arrangement. Thus, Debbie has to patiently wait for the redo.

The next thing that we did was to start to look for flat. Our initial intention is to wait for WIS(Walk-in-Selection) from HDB & we waited for 2 months with no news from HDB. However, on one occassion, Debbie was checking out HDB website & found there are new flats next to Kallang MRT. That night, both of us went to check out the new flats there & fall in love with the look & design of the flats! However, it was still under construction but close to 95% completion. So we thought it may has WIS opportunity. Debbie contacted HDB and found out that it is reserved for the enbloc people. Thus, the only mode of getting these flats is to buy an enbloc unit. Then we started to look out at newspaper for those enbloc flats in Sims Drive and started to view the units.

Just a quick summary of what is enbloc flats - it is typically very old flats that was build in the 1970's and the condition are pretty old without any upgrade by HDB. We went to view a few units and nearly fainted at some of the condition of the flat. Some units are having wooden windows, some of the kitchen cupboard are about to fall off from the wall and some of the owner setup their house like a mini temple. We were shocked to see such old flats & can't imagine living inside there for 1+ year. But we still continue to look out for other units in that area cause we want to get our dream unit in Kallang. :-)