After months of searching, viewing, computing and whinning, we finally settled to our new rented home two saturdays ago. This is my 2nd time to move house since i arrived and jof’s 4th. Singapore flat rentals are so expensive that moving to a new home financially bled us dry. If my memory serves me right, our 1 month rental here on a 2 bedroom flat can very well afford us a big place with lawn and garage in an exclusive village back home. And i miss how much more convenient renting in the Philippines is. You just find a house for rent that suits you, talk to the owner, agree, and you can move in. In some instances there are simple contracts. Here in Singapore it is not as easy. From finding the right agent to finding the right landlord and flat that suits your budget, the whole process is just so disappointingly tedious at some point you just want to pack your bags and go back home. But which you know very well you cannot do, and you remind yourself that you chose to be here and it is part and parcel of living in a first world city.
Anyway, this one we found is conveniently located right smack in the middle of everything. Groceries, shops, bus stops, schools…. We like its cozy feel inside and jof, being the more "interior designer" between the two of us cannot keep still, wanting to get and get home stuff. I, on the otherhand want to discourage and discourage. Having experienced the difficulty of packing and transporting our things to two different locations before leaving the Philippines, i no longer want to collect things that are not functional and which serve only one purpose - display. But i guess it is inevitable, having a husband who loves to arrange the home. I just have to keep my fingers crossed that we stay in this flat for long. Now we have one big project to complete. The aquarium. It is big, no, huge, that i think it will need more things and money than i have calculated. And it is something we cannot "not" complete, because it is permanently sitting between the living and the dining rooms. Unless we want it to look like a glass case for bugs and crickets in science museums, we can do away with the fishes. But since we don’t want that, and Jof has long been dreaming of having an aquarium, fishes it will have to be. Right now, we are testing if everything functions properly before we dump in any living creatures. Meantime, my kids will have to be contented with seeing only water in it and make believe that their turtle and "actapuss" (as Carl prefers to pronounce it) bedtime buddies are inside.
The placemats were bought for a song.
Wait mommy i have to sit there!
Love the kitchen!
Green is not exactly my favorite color, but this aint bad.
Where else can you see a blue octopus and an orange turtle inside an acquarium?
