Singapore House

I remember on 2007 when I first got a job in Singapore, I needed to find a place to stay. I hate so much living in HDB as in Jakarta we commonly live in landed house with abundant space. The windows are like prison with trellis. The cables house are protruding out from the wall. They just look alien to me. After going through my first 6 months, I can adapt to the local living style. I think I finally knew why they are designed like that and for which purposes. After all living in HDB is not bad at all. I used to think living in private property will be far way better than living in HDB. Finally I had a chance to try private property. We actually paid more expensive for electricity, gas, and water because there's no subsidy from government. In fact the built quality of the architecture is better in terms of wall thickness, floor to floor height, and floor thickness. Apart from physical condition, there's almost no unwanted disturbance from house agents, sales persons, volunteers seeking for donation, etc. Overall, my expectation of how well my life would be because of living in private property vs the amount of extra money forked out for that is not balance.

View from my HDB unit.

View from my room, looking down to play ground.

Hog' s Breath @ CHIJMES

Long time never been to this place... This is the place when we first had proper dinner. We will always be back to this place at least once a year to celebrate our anniversary. :) As usual, the rib eye is tasty, juicy, and tender. We also ordered avocado salad to balance our vegetable intake.

I think the avocado salad was too much vinegar. It was to sour and it really doesn't blend well with the avocado.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (1987) - If The Shoe Fits

This story tells about a twin brothers who live totally different life. The elder brother, Garret, is a vice president of advertising company who just lost his father. His father was a president of the company and he educated Garret to handle his company. The little brother who was born 1 minute later, Jason, is jobless, self proclaimed an professional actor. Comes to Garret's huge house and kills Garret to take his place in life. Since they are identical twins, no body would knows. Jason is happy now with Garret's pretty wife and good career. He just needs to struggle a bit at office to be as smart as Garret. He last minute can do good in front of the big client and gets promotion to be president of the company. Eventually, the ending is not what he wants. Garret actually killed the father to get the president position. The detective arrests him at his office after his promotion. The message of this movie is we only see good things from successful people as if they have the most ideal life. But they actually hide some unpleasant things inside. If Jason still lived with his life, may be he would be free. But he took over Garret's life. He will be in jail for years.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (1987) - Deathmate

The story is about a wife who has an affair with a younger man. She wants to leave her old rich husband and runs away with the young man. But the man has another thought. He wants to be with her because of the money. In fact the man has lover already. So if she runs away with him without inheriting her husband wealth, his effort will be useless. Eventually the young man kills her husband and makes it as if the man drowns during his bath. Suddenly she appears and thanks to him by pointing a gun at him. She said "I better be a rich widow than a runaway wife" :D

Alfred Hitchcock Presents S06E19 The Landlady

This episode tells about the 22 years old young man is looking for accommodation (some thing like bed and breakfast). He later found out something weird about the land lady. The land lady is actually a taxidermist. She asks him to drink couple cup of tea while she slowly reveals her expertise by experimenting with her pets. It eventually makes him preserved after drinking tea.