Singaporean actor Desmond Tan has fulfilled his dream of owning a landed home.
He enthused about his purchase on social media on Aug 19, the day he turned 39.
“This birthday, my heart is too full to hold it all,” he wrote, posting a photo of himself making a wish in front of a small cake with a lit candle. “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine owning a piece of Singapore, a landed home for my family.”
The Mediacorp artiste uploaded a photo of himself in front of his new two-storey house with lush green grass in front of it.
“There’s a lot of work ahead for this new place,” he wrote. “I’m excited to transform this space into something truly special.”
Tan then recalled an episode during his childhood.
“The child who once pressed his face against car windows, staring at houses he thought were only for ‘others’, now holds the keys to his own,” he said. “This isn’t just brick and mortar... it’s every ‘I can’t’ turned into ‘I will’.”
Tan said he was carried by his dream job as an actor and anchored by the love of his family throughout the journey.
He kick-started his acting career after joining acting competition Star Search 2007 and tied the knot in late 2021 with his university sweetheart, whose identity has never been disclosed. They have a one-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child, a boy.
Tan won his ninth Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award at the Star Awards in July.
“To my village – you held me up when my steps wavered,” Tan wrote. “This home is our testimony. Dreams don’t expire. Keep going.”
The star also posted photos of his birthday celebration, with two images of him and his daughter at the newly opened Singapore Oceanarium at Resorts World Sentosa and another of him in a room surrounded by several bouquets of flowers and gifts. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
