Home

What's your ideal home like?
Home = The flat or apartment itself or how those ? square-metres of space + the inhabitants may mean to you at the beginning of the day, during the day and at the end of the day, and much of your lifetime while you reside within?

Ff & I have set ourselves the following criteria in our search for THE flat:
- The "hardware" = situated at a high level, centre of the island, corner unit, not facing the sun directly, windy, brightly-lit, situated near the MRT station / town centre
- The "software" = Makes one feel good; clutter-free; the seller needs to be free from complaints from the neighbour(s)...etc etc

We've seen about 12 flats thus far - oh my...seemed like such an unbelieveable feat after all?!?? Let me have a little recapt...
Exhibit 1: Eeeeerieeee.....the flat's already vacant (save for the altar and a big bed) - well,the owner's passed on..
Exhibit 2: Great view and okay renovation, located on the 17th floor!...but not near any MRT stations + very expensive
Exhibit 3:Big and breezy, unblocked but no-no from the "oldies" 'cos of the *potential* of being blocked + it's too expensive and not very accessible
Exhibit 4: Mediocre location, mediocre renovation and pricing...
Exhibit 5: Dodgy dodgy! It seemed so "dark" the moment i stepped in! Only gals would feel that way?
Exhibit 6: Corner unit, on a high level, brightly-lit, BUT the living room's shaped like a hexagon = funny wall edges here and there - soooo "un-smooth"!?
Exhibit 7: Big kitchen, big bathrooms, okay renovation BUT blocked view from the living room - by 40-storeys high flats!
Exhibit 8: Located on a high floor, windy, brightly-lit, unblocked, seller = simple old folks BUT it's a corridor unit!
Exhibit 9: Situated on a high floor, near the town centre, unblocked, view of macritchie reservoir from afar, okay renovation BUT well....that big figurine against the bright-red wall? The high price wasn't the main push factor after all!
Exhibit 10: Great 30th-floor flat in a great location, unblocked, but feels like an oven - all the rooms get their dose of the sun and it cost a bomb!
Exhibit 11: Okay location, one of the best in renovation, feel and pricing BUT located on the 5th floor with just ONE push factor - a blocked view from the living room = yeah, i'll be able to see my little blue car at almost eye level if i choose to park there!
Exhibit 12: Okay location and renovation BUT i may end up sleeping in a sun-baked room and having prying eyes from passers-by!

Sigh.......when will we ever find THE flat?? We're getting kinda weary and blurry-eyed after these past few months of house-hunting...I can't even recall the many other private apartments and showflats we had seen before these 12 exhibits. It's become almost 2nd nature for me to comment "oh, this is unblocked" whenever i step into someone's flat - be it my own relative's or friend's!?!?? I'm going bonkers man!

Thank God for coming to our rescue - we're reminded of this - HOME - yessss....HOME is not equivalent to the flat / apartment itself. It's more of trusting and coming back to Him, and keeping in mind the times and days ahead FF & I will share with each other that should really matter, not just to suffice the this-and-that of our criteria for our "dream" flat.

Well, as long as the flat's in one piece and not some make-shift or ageing flat...we can make it as HOMEly as we want it to be and we can live happily ever after - knowing He is with us. Be it a car park at the front, prying eyes at the back, HE is with us.