It was a tip from my cousin, that there was a pre-sale that was going to happen Monday morning, even before the public knew. He’s a real estate agent, you see. What was going to happen was that morning at 11am, they were going to pass out numbers. In the evening you would go back and they would call out the numbers for you to make your pick, sort of like what happens when you go get your passport.

Well on Saturday afternoon, he tells me that there are people lining up already. This was the line to get in line!!! By the time I get down there I’m the 34th guy. There were basically that many people that were camping out to get a unit. What’s funny is that they were pretty much all Chinese. What’s up with Chinese people and condos? If you rent one, you are more than likely paying some Chinese person’s mortgage off. I thought to myself, “I’m Chinese, I need to get in on this!”, so I did. It was pretty fun, hanging out with a couple of my cousins and meeting some interesting people over 3 days, including the Raptor. I lined up till Monday morning, got my number and went in to work late. They were going to start calling out numbers at 7pm in the evening. I zipped back down there after work. The whole time I was worrying about how I was gonna pay for all this.

When 7pm rolled around, they started calling out numbers. One by one, all the coveted units were pretty much all gone. Each number entitles you to buy 2 units, so I’d get the 68th pick out of what turned out to be about 75 units. Luckily my uncle somehow managed to amass a few extra numbers, and gave me #21. My number got called at about 11pm. I managed to get a decent unit, not my first pick but it was a still a 2 bedroom corner unit. Also luckily, one of my cousins in New York was willing to split the condo with me at the last minute. Everything falls in place, as long as you give it a chance to.

I got home at 12:30am that night. Right now I’m happy, broke and exhausted.