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Six months after our first visit to this unit during the house hunting back then, we have officially moved into where we now proudly called our first home together. :') Time is always relative, it always seems so slow while we are living in it day by day, but looking back everything has changed and nothing is the same ever again. I remember the three months of anticipation and anxiety waiting for our keys handover in June, I remember taking strolls to the cluster of our then future home way before it become ours, I remember working on Kujiale with bobo to plan our home layout together, as well as all the hesitations from taking items in and out of the Taobao shopping cart every other day. And here I am, sitting right in our new study room, recollecting all the pieces of memories from the past six months.  To my great relief and pleasure, the living room turned out almost exactly like the 3D render we did below, if not better. Except that we painted the wall grey on the TV...

(nest in a mess with wet works in progress) Opps! It's been four months since my last update on our home! And again I am astonished at how all these seemingly long wait actually went by. Oh wells, so we had our two appointments with HDB in late April and June, while sourcing for a suitable contractor concurrently. We met up 2 main contractors (One of which recommended by my pole friend, and the other which my mum engaged for our Sengkang unit), as well as a number of sub contractors to come down and quote. It was a tough call between the two Alan ( what are the odds that they have the same name ), but we eventually went with my pole friend's main con because the other quotation came back as $6k higher (Even though we have to agree that he seemed more meticulous and precise when it comes to measurement). But Moolah is eventually what made the cut so Alan Tan it was! ( Who we often referred to as 小陈 later, even though he should really be a 老陈 instead and every time I see h...

AND MY LONG WAITED 3D RENDERED NEST IS FINALLY OUT! :'D  Proudly drafted from scratch by designer Guo & Seah over a time span of the last three weeks. Not that bad considering we only manage to work on it during the weekends. Toodoos to myself for discovering the brilliant and FREE  3D interior design website on Taobao (http://www.kujiale.com/ ), albeit it's in Chinese but easy piezy man :D Wootz! Welcome to the Virtual tour of our future nest~    Here's the layout of our 92sqm that can be easily traced on property guru. As mentioned previously everything bout this house is perfect except that it's curved due to design of building, previous owner had straighten the edges by a low platform in the living room. Not that it mattered much to me cause me is no Fengshui person.  Lnr started working on the 3D design after I have more or less confirmed the Tb items for our furnishing (to ensure accuracy in dimensions) and I took over form where...

Stepped into Nus today feeling a little nostalgia, and absurd that I am three weeks away from my last day of school. Here goes by four (great) years. It's been four years since I first come to the Central Forum for Arts Camp and now here I am, bidding my last few goodbyes.  Oh well, let's leave this piece of university reflection to some other time before I digress too much. Gonna continue with our sweet 92 sqm today by gathering some general art directions for our nest from Pinterest. :) Excited much.  Renovation mantra : Scanidavian, Minimalist Palatte: White, Grey, Wood, Greenery,  Living room Basic idea behind this is to have a bright, cozy living area with a touch of greenery. Shouldn't be too difficult to achieve this in general because there is minimum renovation required. It's gonna be mostly furnishing based ( nice soft tone sofa, wood Tv console, coffee table, shelves and pretty photos frames, bean bags, carpet track lights and a solid wood ...

It's about time that I should update about my new found social identity as a wife. :') And here is probably the biggest news of the year, that we are buying a resale flat  near Buangkok! It's 4 bustops away from Lnr's place and 5 more stops to le mum. Very soon we will have a cosy lil nest of our own, albeit at the same time it is going to be a significant life commitment, becoming house slaves for the next 25 years maybe? Although of cause who knows maybe we will 飞黄腾达  as well Heheh. Life's full of surprises. Just like how I never expected to get hitched at my sweet and youthful twenty third woohooo~   As everything in life accumulates, we have come a long way too before reaching our final decision of purchasing the resale flat. Prior to this, we have been outbid twice last year for the Sales of Balance Flats ( SBF, Not widely known, simply put they are unsold units / gave up by bidders during Build to order exercises and got bundled up by HDB for sale agai...