Some of our close friends know that we\u2019ve 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 \u201cP1 Registration\u201d, and is as much a rite of passage for young parents as National Service is for male Singaporeans.<\/p>\n
One thing I\u2019m at least glad for though is that the both of us are contended to try our best but we\u2019re not going to do crazy stunts like some local parents are more disposed towards doing just to get their kids into so-called \u2018Elite\u2019 schools. Ling\u2019s requirement are merely that it should be a school that\u2019s reasonably near our place, it\u2019s a mission school, and an all girls school, hopefully.<\/p>\n
This \u201cHannah to P1\u201d project of ours has got a couple of precursor activities. One of it is that we\u2019ve been scouting around for nearby places that is within our financial means, and the other is a series of alternative plans if we can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019d been procrastinating on our decision to clear the outstanding home loan for a few years now (blogged here<\/a>!), but upon discovering recently that we can\u2019t practically service two home loans \u2013 our current place and a possible new place \u2013 simultaneously under newly instituted property laws here, we finally got round to making a trip down to our old solicitors\u2019 agency to start proceedings for a full discharge of our outstanding loan. So, I\u2019m glad to report that come June, we will no longer be working for DBS, finally.:)<\/p>\n Thankfully, we\u2019d 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\u2019ve also become even more sensitive to expenditure, which means that our June holiday break with Hannah needs to be likely scaled down a little.<\/p>\n More to follow later.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of our close friends know that we\u2019ve 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<\/p>\n