Some of our close friends know that we’ve started looking closely at possibly moving to a new place in the next couple of years, on account of trying to do what we can to put Hannah through a reasonably good primary school when the time comes. This exercise is known as the “P1 Registration”, and is as much a rite of passage for young parents as National Service is for male Singaporeans.
One thing I’m at least glad for though is that the both of us are contended to try our best but we’re not going to do crazy stunts like some local parents are more disposed towards doing just to get their kids into so-called ‘Elite’ schools. Ling’s requirement are merely that it should be a school that’s reasonably near our place, it’s a mission school, and an all girls school, hopefully.
This “Hannah to P1” project of ours has got a couple of precursor activities. One of it is that we’ve been scouting around for nearby places that is within our financial means, and the other is a series of alternative plans if we can’t find a suitable place. And that accommodation hunt is in turn also based on our being able to clear our current debt, whoops home loan, to DBS.
What we got on our side is that we got our home at The Rivervale at a really low price, especially seeing how much home prices have gone north since our purchase of our Rivervale place in 2006. We’d been procrastinating on our decision to clear the outstanding home loan for a few years now (blogged here!), but upon discovering recently that we can’t practically service two home loans – our current place and a possible new place – simultaneously under newly instituted property laws here, we finally got round to making a trip down to our old solicitors’ agency to start proceedings for a full discharge of our outstanding loan. So, I’m glad to report that come June, we will no longer be working for DBS, finally.:)
Thankfully, we’d also been somewhat prudent enough in the last several years to have chalked up sufficient savings to clear out the entire outstanding amount now, and still have a good part of our savings left. On the other hand, I’ve also become even more sensitive to expenditure, which means that our June holiday break with Hannah needs to be likely scaled down a little.
More to follow later.:)
Looking forward to see a new neighbour in town
I wonder which school Hannah is planning to go to??? From the sounds of all the hints so far, it is possible that Gabrielle and hannah might be school mates, heehee!
@Lisa: Really! Say, which phase does your girl come under? Are you an old girl? :)
Hello! Yes I am an old girl! :) If it’s the same school we’re talking about in BT? I’m looking forward to carrying on the tradition with Gabrielle! My mom used to go to the one in Penang, so she sent me to the one here, I guess carrying on the tradition as well…
Ah, no same no same. :P
No same? Ah sigh… ok the guessing game continues…!! :P
Ha ha :) Hey, I hope that you have already applied to be an alumnus of your primary school. Think you have to do so in order to qualify for the old girl’s privilege for P1 admission.
Hee… thanks for the reminder Ling!! Am in the process of doing it now!
You’re welcomed, Lisa :) Sigh, wish it could be as easy for us.