23 December 2009

This is the DATE where we finally officially own our flat. Feel so like an adult now. Prior to knowing when we'll be collecting the keys, the feeling was anxiety to the max. HDB had actually sent us a few letters, one to ask us to send in our latest income slips to make sure we are still working, then second one to let us know that we can still take the HDB loan and the third one to ask us if wanna ballot to attend the key collection ceremony with MM Lee on 14 Dec 2009. Of course we opt for it. It would be such an honour to be there (and to be one of the earliest to collect keys).

We had been a silent follower of The Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore and MyHomeTown; and had read that there were residents being selected for the ceremony, made us even more anxious. We still had not received any letters. I had been whining in office so much that Yen and Wang offered me their keys. -_- In the end I called up my CSO and begged her to let us have it earlier. She is kind enough let us have it earlier than the scheduled date though it's not on 14 Dec. We are still very grateful.

Although we got the date, I'm still very anxious and excited. Eventually the anxiety gotten over us. We drove to Pinnacle even though we had not collected the keys. My heart was pounding so fast that I thought it was going to jump out when Sam was driving into the carpark. We even went up to our unit, outside. The feeling was so near yet so far. LOL.

Finally 23 Dec 2009 came. Our appointment was 11.10am, but I read from the reliable sources, we can reach there earlier. If we were lucky enough, we may be able to collect it earlier. So we dropped Ariel off at the usual time, ate breakfast at my office then off we went to HDB Hub. After we settled the fire insurance, it was not 9am yet. We got our queue number, it was 2180, which is like 120 away from the serving number. Sam started to complain that we came too early and started playing with my iPhone. I was looking around and spotted one officer surfing net. When his colleague walked past, he quickly switched screen. A very familiar scene. Anyway while we were busy fiddling with my iPhone, something prompted Sam to check the TV screen above us. We saw our number flashing! We waited for less than 20 min!

The officer who served us was quite nice, except a bit naggy. She kept congratulating us. LOL. After doing lots of autographing on the forms, she handed us the KEYS!! Time check, 10 min to 11am (I think...)

After lunch and grabbing some packet drinks from NTUC, we went straight to our HOME. Our appointment with Wincy is 2 pm, 2 hours for us to recce the place. We wanted to go to the sky bridges, but they are not opened yet.

Then Wincy called us, we went back to our HOME. She helped us checked if our design still feasible. Then wiring guy came and followed by the air-con man. By the end of the day, we were dead tired, but HAPPY!!