Kinda wondering what a month can do to Casa Idaman Condominium. My last visit was almost a month ago. Quite a promising progress I have to say.

And this is Block A, where I will be staying.

And I also just happened to notice that Casa Idaman Condominium is actually viewable from the apartment that I’m currently living at.

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Decided to visit the site of my future condo today. It’s looking good now. I guess the progress now is 75%/80%?

But lots of people kinda disappointed with the color, which is totally different from what’s shown in the brochure.

But again, that’s what we call artist impression, and they surely impress something good that is not usually translated to reality. Doh!

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Wow. I’ve done it again, not writing any entry for quite a long time. For the first time, I feel so blank that I just didn’t know what to blog. Got nothing to do really today, and just decided to visit the site where my new house will be, just checking on the progress. Well, I’m kinda glad to see that it progressing well despite the slow world economy.

And this is the 2 blocks from the opposite angle. 9 floors up, and 9 more to go. Just hoping that it finished as expected, on October 2010. That’s a year and 2 months to go. Gosh! I can’t wait.

I photoshop the photo a bit, just to give a view on how it looks like when all the 18 stories are up.

I guess all the units are sold. The showroom is no longer here and has been dismantled already.

After that, what a coincidence that my friend who just bought a new house recently to gather at his house for a small friends get together. Owning a construction and interior design company, that translate very well at the layout of his house. Well, let’s walk around shall we, and this will be a good opportunity too to get idea on what to do to my new house later.

I always love the city view. The hustling and bustling of the city looks quite peaceful from afar.

And having water pond / fountain at balcony has always been my dream also.

Another thing, the use of mirror is good to make the space to appear larger. This is another must have thing later in my new house.

Living room – the heart of the house. My Sony LCD TV will go on the wall too ;)

Well, I have so many things of what to to make my new house later a dream house. I just hope that I have enough money for all of that. LOL

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It’s official now that I will be owning my own house. I have paid the remaining of the 10% down payment, and have signed the Sales & Purchase Agreement (SPA). Will be receiving the signed copy of the agreement in 2 weeks time according to the lawyer.

I guess just to attract people to look for a loan and pay the 10% down payment quickly, the developer is setting up this lucky draw for those who signed the SPA and pay the 10% down payment already. Well, I was there today. The price started with table fan, standing fan, and gets bigger to vacuum cleaner, fridge and air conditioner. And the grand prize is 32-inch LCD TV.

But I always not that lucky to win any of the lucky draw. And it’s so lucky for that “kakak” to walk home with a brand new LCD TV. Gosh. I want that badly. Well, during the lucky draw, the host say something like “does anyone of you having itchy hand today?”. Well, I told my friend I had an itchy feet. There’s a little skin infection (ulat air) between one of my toe, and it’s been like that for 2 weeks already. My friend suggested that I should immerse my feet in hot water.

You guess what? We went to Kolam Air Panas Hulu Tamu at Batang Kali straight after that. This is naturally peoduced hot water anyway, and people said that it has healing capability.

This is where it begins, the water that is heated by geothermal heat in non-volcanic areas. I’m on 50mm lens, and couldn’t get better view of this pool.

Anyway, it really hot. But I don’t know how hot it is. Wish I have the thermometer with me. But it does give a soothing feeling having my toes in the water. But I can only have my toes inside the water for 5 seconds only. And I kinda wondering there’s one uncle there who immerse his whole body in the pool for 5 minutes. I guess I will be cooked if I do that.

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I’m a step closer in owning my own house. Late yesterday, I got a from the banker that’s handling my housing loan that my loan is already approved. Was suppose to meet her last night, but due to the massive traffic jam caused by the 40% increase in the fuel price (thanks Pak Lah!), I don’t think it’s a good idea to go out that time, so we plan to meet up at Mid Valley today because she needs to explain about the offer letter.

It turned out that I’m not feeling well today, and call office for sick leave. SMS the banker that I can’t meet today. But she told me maybe we can meet at my house. Well why not. So here is it, the offer letter that I got for the housing loan from OCBC bank.

I have a few other loan application that I made at other banks, but looking at what OCBC has to offer, I think this should be a good choice. Been reading from forum as well about OCBC Housing Loan, and didn’t find any bad stories about it. Furthermore agent that handle my loan is very nice and very responsive. So I put my signature on the offer letter.

So next, I just need to wait for the lawyer to call for appoitment to sign the agreement.

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