February 11th, 2005
Ok, so here are some pix of our condo, after we've moved in and cleaned it up a bit. We are sharing the apt with Ling (she's getting her phD at NUS and also came with Davis's lab)


Living Room with lovely entertainment center and new TV.


Fabulous Red Pleathah furniture! Can you say, peel me from the sofa!


Dining room, yep, we've already broken one of the chairs! Ling's Bedroom door is the closed one.


Now, let's talk about a small kitchen! You can't get away from the ants even if you wanted to as you're on top of each other in this kitchen!


No Oven!

No oven, only a gas range. Just fine, it's too hot to cook. We bought ourselves a traditional wok! The place came with the microwave! The silver door on the wall is our garbage chute! Can you say All inclusive Ant Condominium! (Not anymore!)


Kelly & Jeremy's room.

I've been eaten alive by mosquitos at night, so now we close the windows and use a fan. The bed while we got it with the condo, is totally smushy, and the firmest portion is along the furthest side away from you. I think the bed will end up killing me in the end.


A REAL toilet!

A view to the master bathroom. Which has a US style toilet and a full tub/shower. That's what I'm talkin' about! If you want hot water, you need to switch on the hot water heater. This helps to save elecricity and the tanks can then be alot smaller per unit. We actually don't turn it on that much. Cooler showers are way more refreshing here!


The master bath sink. Now, see isn't that a good idea for the bar of soap!


Here is our laundry facility. No dryer, all hang dry at this place. This is connected to the kitchen.


Too small for a human being!

And to the left of that stool in the last pix, this is what they call "the store". In our case, it's an extra room only slightly bigger than if two people made a circle with both of their arms. If we had a maid, or "domestic helper" she would live in this room, and do our cleaning and laundry. Most of the condos have rooms like this and they are really tiny. I can't believe that someone would live in something that small, to pick up after you, watch your kids, and cook for you, do your laundry, all for about $80/mo. It's just cruel! My one suitcase and one of Ling's suitcases wouldn't fit in our closets in our rooms, so our two suitcases are pretty much taking up the space of "the store".


This is Ling's bathroom which is also called the 'common' bathroom. The one that guests use.


Our porch

This is our rather small porch that overlooks a school and West Coast Road. By leaving the sliding glass doors open, and our front door, and the laundry room door, we have a pretty kickin' breeze that rocks through our place. Plus, it give the neighbors baby another whole world to explore when she enters our apt.

Now for some of the ammenities:


Here Kelly is teaching our new friend Nat how to swim. We now have an open invitation to visit India! We swam with Nat for several nights while he was here. He has now left and gone back to India. He worked in the IT field.


Here is the "hot" tub. The hot tub has bubbles and jets, and sitting areas, just as you would imagine, however, it is the same temp as the pool.


Its a fine country!

And true to Singaporean form, there are lots of rules at to what you cannot do! The craziest of the rules here, is that on most major highways, I mean, 8 lanes N, S, and 8 lanes E and W, they tell you that's where you should do your U-turn! It's the wackiest traffic thing we've seen. You see U-turns EVERYWHERE. Even the busiest intersections!


My Office!

This is the BBQ area, and my new 'office'. This is where I get the best and most connections of wireless reliably during the day! This is next to the pool, and you can sign up to use this space if you are having guests over to visit.


And this is the bar.

You can also reserve this space if you want to throw a party! It's also next to the pool and offers several tables of seating, and is covered by flowering plants over an arbor offering shade and protection from rain, of which has been very scant of late!


We also have a gym! We haven't used it yet but if we ever get the urge, it's also near the pool. We were actually surprised to see such nice equipment for our use.


And of course, no condo would be complete without Tennis Courts. Sherry, bring your racket! We can also reserve the courts, they have lights so you can play at night and there are two! I don't think they supply balls though??

...and we have also learned that we have a small store down in the carpark area for those late night munchies musthaves...this is what helped me in the chocolate department until we found THE MUSTFA CENTRE in Little India, and they also have newspapers, ice cream and lots of condoms to choose from!

As well, there is also a billiard room we can sign up for use but we just haven't planned that far ahead in a day to do that. Hmm, maybe tonight since we need to keep it low keyed before we leave for Bintan tomorrow morning!

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