A place to call home

As I mentioned in a previous entry, we were thrilled to find out that we've been shortlisted to select a unit at Bedok and on Friday, we went down to the HDB Hub to do the actual selection. It was a nerve-wrecking week as we monitored the online updates and watched our Top 10 units disappear one by one.

The night before our appointment, we sat down and reviewed the remaining units from our Top 50 list and came up with the streamlined Top 15 list. It wasn't easy as we considered everything from the direction of the sunlight, the social environment, noise level and height.

On the fateful day, we went down to Bedok to visit our soon-to-be home in the morning first. Once we were at HDB, we went to check how many of our shortlisted units had been taken up. I wasn't confident that our first choice would still be there but I was sooo wrong. Only 1 out of our 15 units had been taken and it was one of the last few choices. Our precious first choice was there and we couldn't believe our luck. We checked the updates repeatedly to make sure that neither of us saw wrongly.

So in the end, we secured our 1st choice, which coincidentally was choice number 11 on our original Top 50. I really believed that we were blessed throughout this ballot exercise. We had been trying to get a flat for over a year and kept getting really crappy queue numbers. So when I saw our queue number for this exercise, I was bowled over. I was on the verge of tears when I called E up to tell him the news. And now we're getting our home in a really great location. Now I'm really getting the feeling that we're getting married. *beams*