Feels like (a new) Home!

I'm going back in time a bit (not yet having wifi at home certainly validates the need for a flux capacitor on my shelf to catch up on everything going on on The Interwebs these days...thanks Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o for putting me way behind the times) 

So, a week after getting back to Sing, I moved to a new HDB (When in Rome, right?) in the 3rd most expensive city in Asia with 2 flatmates I had never met but instantly loved. YC is from Malaysia and Tiffany grew up here in Singapore, and we now share a 3-bedroom flat in Bishan.

YC (left) and Tiffany (right) after our day of
shopping at Ikea and  our hot pot date!

Want to see my neighborhood? click here (I'm the building behind the community club to the right)

It's right across from the MRT and a bit closer to work from where I was living before but it of course has big shoes to fill! When my cousins so lovingly helped me pack up their car and move my stuff to B-Shack, I of course shed some tears to leave a home that has loved me so well (Anne, the apple doesn't fall far, huh?) so Kathryn and I went to Din Tai Fung (our favorite restaurant now located across from my new place btw) topped off with a Snickers bar and then onto my new home on Bishan Street 13. 

Some small adjustments living in Asian real estate for this American girl:

No AC in the living room BUT big beautiful windows that catch more of a breeze than I ever thought!

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Combined shower/toilet. The bonus: when washing your face, you can get crazy- no need to keep it to the confines of the sink. I have waited for this all my life. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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No dryers for laundry/no ovens. Well, that I am still adjusting to but we do have a pretty big kitchen for Sing!

No such thing as closets really but instead these Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobes. I dig them, except you have to put these dehumidifiers in each side so your clothes won't sweat in your closet...truly (note a few jackets in the left side, just to ease the separation anxiety)                         <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nothing will stick to the walls because it gets pretty humid during the day/concrete walls so the lean-to is new avant-garde in our place!

So here's a little peek into the rest of my digs:

↑ The view out of my windows, right above my bed :) ↓

What I have dubbed Taylor Swift bridge. Most mornings, there are kids playing in this courtyard to the tune of "EENY MEENY MINY MO" at the top of their lungs.

The montage of the places I have
 lived and loved (Singapore flag
has since been added)

   ↑ My carefully assembled desk (David Comer, I sure was missing you!)

  

 So all in all, the 12th time I have moved since moving to college has been a good one! I have this awesome Chinese grocery across the street and some local hawkers but also a full-fledged mall and movie theatre! There is also the Bishan Community Club next door which is my next stop in martial arts training. Bishan, I believe this is the start to a beautiful relationship. 

 Home sweet different home. 

I'm singing: "House You're Building" -Audrey Assad