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It’s hard to find a house that’s perfect for you.

It’s even harder to find a house that’s perfect for you and your partner

My dream is a single-storey bungalow with sprawling grounds. (kalau duduk kt mana2 hulu kampung dapat la). In Klang Valley, mimpi aje la. This might cost million.

He’s ok with anything that is close to my parents and his siblings, around area Kajang or Bandar Baru Bangi. Why my parents? Ha~ it’s easier if you’re close with your family, back up support just in case you need them. We are really lucky to be working really close to where my family is originally from. So senang la.

We bumped into this house, when we were engaged I think. A two-storey semi-detached. Can’t afford it at that time (actually, we can’t afford this house if it’s not for the existence of join loan and that can happen only if we were married). So we moved on and didn’t think about it.

Then, we get hitched.

We were married for about 6 months when we bumped into this house again. It was sold out. The developer guy was promoting another new development, but we were really not interested in anything else. He left his business card with the developer, so that they’ll give us a heads up just in case something came up that we happen to like. We were not hoping.

Then we get a call. We get lucky upon someone else’s unfortunate event. To sum it up, somebody’s loan was not approved, yada2, blah2…would you like to buy this house?? Put a booking fee of RM 5000, but hurry up, other people might be interested.

After work that same day, we went home and get ayah to write a cheque for us (kami masih muda, takde keperluan for cheque lagi) and directly after that, pay a visit to the developer and make a booking. Sign here and there and tarraaa!!! A place to call our own!!! Yeay-yeay!!

Hah! Little did I know (I think my husband were aware of the complete procedure of buying a home), that the booking was a really miniature step in the whole buying-a-house big picture. Terima kasih, sayang because, really, I was like, not bothered, in the rest of the process. I know there were some contracts to be signed (because I have to sign them), loan application, S&P, yada2 and everything else.

Now, almost a year down the road from the day we take that miniature step and booked the house, our little place is almost 100% complete (according to the milestone payment in our contract, it should be at about 80%), but from the last time we visited, to me our baby is almost 100% complete.

We are expecting to move in sometime between end of 2010 or early 2011. Right now, we are really excited (and arguing a lot) on how to make the place our own.

It’s hard to find a house that you both fell in love with. We overcome that and now I realized it’s even harder (HARDER!!!) to turn a house into a place that reflects both of you, without sacrificing what we both like - which is almost impossible to happen because both of us feel so strongly about our ideas and what we want for the house, and sometimes have ideas that are so different it’s like I want the sun and he wants the moon, or something like that. Obviously, we’ll have to settle for something in the middle - or even better, if we settle for something I like :D

This is our journey. To make this house, a place to call our own, a comfy hideout from the world, a home.