October 20, 2009
Our Home Sweet Home
This time I’m going to share my experience about finding and building our “nest” in Singapore.. 
We bought our sweet HDB home last year around August 2008.. After gone thru house viewing for a number of times already, I think since mid of last year and been dealing with 2 different housing agents.. Finally we set our heart to this home..
We purposely chose to find a house in the middle area between my hubby’s working place and mine, for the first time we decided to focus on Serangoon area, considering that there will be an interchange MRT station built there.. After few times viewing with the first agent, we almost dealt and set our heart to one of the HDB flat there.. The place is not bad, only walking distance to MRT, got eating places, and the neighbourhood seems not bad.. We’ve put our first deposit with the agent.. but for some reasons, the owner couldn’t sign and make a deal on that day.. so we need to wait for the next day as the owner’s wife not around to sign..
I didn’t know why, my feeling was so-so only, but it seemed that there was something that was not right. Looked like I was not satisfied enough hehe.. somemore it was an old HDB building, around 20+ yrs.. So I discussed with my hubby about my feeling, then after few times thinking I felt like the house a bit dark.. maybe coz the place was in corridor area so the owner only opened half of the window the other half was shielded.. so hurriedly we decided to cancel the deal.. a bit paiseh with the agent, but somehow it should be a nice place for us to live mah, how to live there if we didnt feel comfortable at the first place..
Thankfully the agent still managed to help us to cancel the deal with the owner.. fiuhh.. hehe 
so I guessed it’s not our destiny with that place hehe 
After that one, we looked around more areas as Serangoon area not really much new HDB flats.. By then we tried to look around Hougang area with the same agent.. but still couldnt find the suitable one till the agent didn’t feel to follow up more I think hehe.. there was one nice HDB flat but we couldnt manage to get the deal as there was another buyer dealt earlier..
There’s a friend who intro us to another housing agent, from this agent we quite like with the houses that he brought us.. There was a couple of nice houses, some it was too exp for us and some I didn’t really like the location as it was just in front of the main street.. so I thought that might be a bit noisy and can get dirty easily.. hmm looks like I was a bit choosy hehe..
Luckily this agent is patient enough to deal with us hehe.. after going through 2-3 houses, finally we found our dream house hehe
The place is without afternoon sun coz it’s facing north east and it’s located a bit inside from the main road, just beside the small shopping mall.. so just nice I think hehe.. even a bit far from MRT, but there is a nearby bus stop hehe..
When we first came in to view the house, we were greeted with the nice Malay owner.. I like the open space and it’s quite windy in the living room, as the main centre of the house.. the owner was not fussy at all, same like us hehe.. they said we were the first buyer to view the house.. they were going to sell the house coz their family is growing so they’re going to move in to a bigger place.. which is a 2-storey mansionatte… wow.. >,<
I think I have fallen my heart with this place.. so told my hubby and he negotiated with our agent to deal with the owner’s agent.. then finally we got our own place to live hehe..
I will continue my story regarding the minor renovation we’ve done for the house in my next post..
PS: here’s some sneak preview of my living room, taken with my new camera Canon IXUS 200IS hihihi 
Did u see my hubby there?
