(Source: Nguyen Thu Hoai/Unsplash) Readers who subscribe to my mailing list would have known that my parents finally received their Singapore Citizenship (‘SC’) status this year. Having lived in our tiny island for over 40 years, they are already Singaporeans at heart a long time ago. However, I can assure you that getting SC is not simply a label tag because it comes with a host of benefits that we might have taken for granted. One of the benefits of a SC is the eligibility to apply and purchase a flat directly from the Housing & Development Board (‘HDB’). As the children have already fled the coop and with the lease of their current HDB running low, I thought that it was worthwhile for them to try to ballot for a new flat. As such, I helped my parents to apply for a HDB flat at the recently concluded Sale of Balance Flats (‘SBF’) Exercise in...