The major traumatic event of this year has been our move from our "home" in Oei Tiong Ham Park to a much less atmospheric and more expensive flat on the East Coast. So much of what has happened to us happened in Oei Tiong. It is so hard to see it now as a shell which no one will ever live in again. The place is going to be torn down and probably used for one of these mass density private apartment blocks which now due to the downturn will either never be built and will probably lose money if it ever does.
Ho hum. Our new place is nice enough as can be seen by the balcony shot below but not quite home - no matter what magic Hazel weaves with her home-making skills. It is however on the East Coast of Singapore so it means that we are quite close to the beach and can walk along in the evening watching the sun set behind the thousands of ships waiting to offload or upload from the Singapore Port - although this has also been hit by the global crisis.
We also sold up the house we had purchased in the Borders (before the whole housing market stalled) so now we have to put our thinking caps on again, in terms of where we want to end up.
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