Primary School for Hannah
Registering one’s child at any reputable primary school in Singapore has been a much talked about topic year after year. The Ministry of Education (MOE) has come up with a system of phases...
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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...
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Million Dollar Present
It’s Ling’s birthday today, and she got a $1.31 million dollar present. It was this: Our journey to find a new home to move to for Hannah’s primary one registration came to a conclusion when we made...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 1
We’d been meaning to go by to take a look at the ongoing construction of our new home but kept putting it off. Our friend Ann had also purchased an apartment at The Minton too. She showed over our...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 2
It’s the Holiday Weekend! Though a good part of it was spent back at a camp on Saturday morning completing what should be – absolutely – the last of my Individual Physical Proficiency Tests for what...
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Sticker Books and Work-in-Progress – Part 3
While our girl on the whole is still quite well-behaved e.g. never goes into public tantrums, she still hasn’t outgrown the habit of talking to herself, and also in third-person. We’re pretty certain...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 4
We went by the building site for The Minton to check out its progress. Our vantage point this time was back to Blk 142. Just to give us a perspective – this is what the progress looked like 4 months...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 5
Our fifth pilgrimage to visit the ongoing construction of our new home. We last visited just over a month ago, and from the Blk 158 11th floor vantage point again. Here’s a look at what The Minton...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 6
It’s been more than two months since our last entry of our new home. We’d actually visited the construction site as recently as a month ago with Matt (the next time he visits us we’d probably would...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 7
It’s the Hari Raya Puasa, or breaking of the Ramadan fast public holiday today. Ling has been feeling quite under the weather with a week long coughing spell, but nonetheless was still well enough for...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 8
Another monthly check-up on The Minton, and this time the 10th and 11th floor of Block 158. The place is now about 15 months away from estimated completion. The Sigma 18-250mm lens came along for the...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 9
Another visit to the ongoing construction of our new home @ The Minton. We headed out earlier than usual this Saturday morning, and fitted enough time to visit the site from three different locations:...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 10
Another update on our new place that’s still in construction. There might not be much immediately obvious developments to the project, but when we look harder, we see numerous changes and progress to...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 11
Another month, another visit to see the ongoing construction of our new home. The site’s Facebook page is quite lively with at least a couple other photographers (besides myself) making regular trips...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 12
Our post-CNY February visit to the construction site of our new home @ The Minton. Development’s still ongoing though it’s also hard to spot the many little new changes since our last visit. The E-M5 +...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 13
Another month and our thirteen visit to the site of the on-going construction of our new home. From the looks of progress, it seems now extremely unlikely that the place will be ready for residents to...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 14
Our April-month visit to the construction site of our new upcoming home, and also an opportunity to bring out the recently acquired Olympus 75-300mm II for a spin. This is a pretty low-price consumer...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 15
There’s been lots of excited discussion in our new home’s FB group about when the project will complete. A couple of residents are confident it’d be done by June, though every time we go by for a...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 16
Yeah it’s been just 2 weeks from our last visit, but with many residents keeping their fingers cross (or hopes high) that completion is just a month away now, I decided to really pick up the pace of...
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Work-in-Progress – Part 17
Our once a month visit to the nearing completed Minton apartment has changed to fortnightly and now weekly visits. We normally visit in the mid-mornings and where possible only when I’m certain of...
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