Baby Steps into Debthood
Today, we confirmed the biggest purchase of our lives.
If all goes well, we will be home owners by mid January 2007.
Compared to other first time home owners, our process took longer than most.
First, was paperwork.
Due to my special circumstances, our first appointment was delayed one week while I tried to gather all the required documents that HDB required.
When we finally went to our first appointment today, we were told by the HDB officer, who happens to be a very nice guy, that our sellers took a bank loan previously.
In the end, our process will take longer than 6 weeks because more parties (in other words, lawyers) are involved.
We wanted to get our hands as quickly as possible on our new house because of the GST increase.
Our renovation and furniture is going to cost more now.
Damn it.
At least the HDB officer looked optimistic on our chances for HDB grant.
$40K is not a small amount.
I really really hope that it can be approved....
And I also saw for myself organisations' love for paperwork.
I signed so many forms.
I even signed a form that said I was taking some copies back.
That is rather excessive.
Pinky Mania
See my newest aquisition from Sim Lim.
 Pink, Minnie Mouse, super sweet keyboard.
The Chosen One was shaking his head all the while when he was queuing to pay for it. It seems that this is my early Christmas present. But I believe that when Christmas is really here, I will have more presents. Yipee!
The cat's out of the bag
Strange things has been happening in the office.
My papers dislodged, my speakers moved, my ornaments scattered.
Colleagues' tables disturbed. Papers strewn on the floor, a missing fluffy pen.
We were pondering about it for weeks.
There were suspects.
First, we thought it's someone in the office using our tables.
Later, we thought it may be a cat.
But we weren't sure.
A couple of mornings ago, we had definite proof on the perpetrator.
As usual, when I walked into the office, I discovered my Eeyore speaker moved from it's original position, again.
When I walked to say good morning to my colleague, she mentioned that my hair band, which I had left on the table the last evening, was on the floor, and the speaker on my desk phone was on.
Puzzled, she placed my hair band on the table again and switched off the speaker, which was going Tut! Tut! Tut! non stop.
I took a closer look at another colleague's desk and her cloth, which she used to cover her keyboard, was moved also.
My manager appeared and I mentioned about my items being moved again.
She said she knew what is it.
"It's a cat."
"It left it's footprints on my table."
Being the curious person that I was, I immediately popped over to her table and looked at the footprints.
The cat had stepped into left over coffee and left it's little paw marks all over my manager's table.
Not only that, it walked over papers and left coffee paw prints all over them as well.
When did we start keeping cats in the office?
Yummmm
My latest indulgence.
Sweet. Caramel. Chocolate.
The Adventures of a PDL
1. Driving along east coast road the very first time I'm on the road. And discovering later, a lot later, that PDLs are not allowed on that stretch.
2. Following instructions to step on the fuel pedal while releasing the clutch to biting point. But added too much fuel so when the car moved, it jerked. Really hard.
3. Doing an U-turn and forgetting to turn back the steering wheel. Cue frantic turning of the steering wheel while the car threatened to go right into the divider.
4. Car stalling. Three times. At the same junction. Consecutively. And this happened more than once.
5. Right turns into the oncoming traffic lane.
6. Eyeing the speedometer and secretly wishing that the speed limit is higher than 50km per hour.
7. The ability, or rather, non ability to judge the car width and resulting in the car slowly moving into the next lane.
8. Getting over taken by buses. And trucks. And everything else.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006