Thinking back to the financial decisions that I had made over a span of 20 years, I wonder if I had made the right financial choices? My very first home was a 5-room flat bought off the resale market. House hunting was quite an effort of visiting house after house. It's a pretty exhausting exercise. And by the seventh attempt, we pretty much reached a point of fatigue. It was at what would be deemed a ulu (out of the way) area known at Yishun. Whenever I mentioned that I lived in Yishun, the look from friends was one of "kampong" in a far far away land. There were actually goats along the roadside then! And to add to the kick, you get lots of helicopters flying around for novelty. The novelty wore off soon enough, and gets rejuvenated each year before National Day when the chopper with the National ......