The Apple's Diary!

I didn't expect we would actually make this move. Instead of moving to a new place, we decided to renovate current place. 2 factors propelled us to make this decision. Primary school and unable to find a better place to move. So we decided to bite the bullet, vacate current place and do a major overhaul for current home. And this is no fun at all. We got Kass Design to assist us in our Project Reno II. The objective is simple. Refresh the look so we can easily stay for another 5 years. Project Reno II consists of re-doing the 3 bedrooms flooring, whole house painting and carpentry work. To allow the renovation to take place, we rented Extra Space (a 66sqm storage container) at IMM. Then we have engaged mover to help us move most of the furniture and our stuff to IMM. For our temporary holding place, we are migrating west-ward, back to my parents' place. This project is crazy and tedious. We are back to the pre-reno days which we have to make many decisions within a sho...

2017 P1 registration has entered the final phase 2C. So after we had registered via 2A1 under Alumni priority, we were still monitoring our "stock market". Not surprisingly at alma mater, it entered balloting at 2A2 phase with 23 applicants vying for 19 places. So 4 parents were balloted out at this phase. But at 2B which is meant for clan, church association, parental volunteers and grassroots, it was relatively quiet and peaceful with 5 places left over from this phase. We got to know Jon's classmate who was successfully enrolled into the same school via 2B and it must be a huge relief for the parents. But for us, phase 2B turned out to be the biggest upset. As most would have known, our preference is with another school. So at the end of Day 1 of 2B, a check at MOE website showed a total of 22 applicants for 28 places. With only 6 places left, the school also did not reveal the number of parental volunteers they have, it was anyone's guess whether the...

The day has finally come so close to registering firstborn in the family for Primary One. If you are parent with young children, you would probably realise by now, the P1 registration is quite an unnerving event which needs to be strategised well especially if you have a baby in a popular year eg. the Dragon year or SG50 which reported a surge in live birth rate. So my firstborn was born in the bunny year and there are 2 schools which we have in mind. The most coveted choice had us originally in Phase 2B with Church affiliation. But alas, we change Church last year and we lost the privilege of Phase 2B. Should we go ahead, we would be competing in the Phase 2C and the tricky part is that we are out of 2km, according to onemap.  It doesn't help when almost half of the vacancies got taken up by siblings. Coveted Choice Plan B was my alma mater. Somehow when we were looking for our own nest, we ended up buying this unit that is of walking distance to the school. Coinci...