Million Dollar Present

It’s Ling’s birthday today, and she got a $1.31 million dollar present. It was this:

Our journey to find a new home to move to for Hannah’s primary one registration came to a conclusion when we made the booking for an apartment unit @ The Minton. We started searching in January this year, and blogged about our thought process here too (e.g. here), and visited a few projects here and there. Not too many though; because we had our hearts set on the primary school we wanted to send our girl to, and as these things go, once that’s decided, you sort of just zero in on exactly the projects that are within the location requirements of that school.

Because of where and when funds were available, timing of our purchase was real tricky. The project had been in development for a year now, and we’d seen prices steadily going up. The trigger point finally came yesterday when a particular unit we had our eye on saw a 5% increase in price within just 3 months. We decided to just bite the bullet and go for it, culminating with us confirming a booking and paying the first 5% this afternoon. A purchase at this point and also the price of the unit means that in the next 2 years or so before we sell our home here at The Rivervale, our wallets are going to be really tight.

But on the bright side; Ling gave a collective sigh of relief when we were back at home later. She had been really stressed out thinking and figuring out plans for Hannah’s first school, and this sort of casts our plans in stone now. I’ll be blogging about other matters with our new home as we go along too, probably starting off with the specific unit we chose in a bit.

Oh, Ling got a few other presents too. A new handhag that’ll replace a utility one that she carries whenever we’re out with Hannah, another item that’s on the way in mail, and a yummy tiramisu cake. =)