omg! i know! its about time right! well, blogger is not really photo uploading friendly and to edit the posts one by one is such a pain in the ass! i've uploaded tonnes of pictures onto Facebook and Instagram but not here.. maybe i'll try to post more pictures kay!
As you know i live in Singapore. its a tiny City/State island with a land area of less that 600 km square. this frigging island has a population of 6.5 million (last counted July 2010) to boot! so you can imagine the land scarcity! that's why almost everyone here lives in apartments! only the rich can afford to buy a home with their own pool and backyard.
This is the view from my apartment in Ang Mo Kio (its a mid class estate). Okay the apartment is actually rather puny. it comes with two bedrooms, a small storage room, a kitchen, a living area and two bathrooms. And a unit like mine will stecha back a good S$400,000.00. That's equavalent to US$330,000.00 or GBP$203,080.00!! and its heavily subsidised government housing too you know!
So imagine, a home with a decent yard and pool, in an upper class estate can actually score a grand S$20,000,000.00. which works out to like US$16,549,400!
You may think, woah! that's a load of cash, but i'm sure Singaporeans earn quite a fair bit then.. well WE DO NOT!
a banker can bring home as low as S$3,000.00 in salary monthly. a lawyer makes around S$8,000.00 monthly. a commercial pilot can sweep S$20,000.00 monthly. an administrator can take back as low as S$ 1,300.00 monthly. its not all rosy!
okay sorry... guess i digressed quite a bit, anyway here's another shot from my kitchen window! you can see the play are below!
The shot below is taken from my office unit in Novena (an upper class estate). the are here is really posh and expensive. quite a share of condominiums here. The buildings you see below are all of private nature. That means they are not public housing.
And this below is a shot of some government housing in an upper middle class estate named Bishan! i like this shot! looks really nice and calm. but i tell you on the day i took the shot it was a hot as hell day!
i like the shot of the park in the foreground. i think it'll be a nice place to live in. its near everything! 10 minutes to town by train, 15 minutes to city by train and schools and amneties nearby everywhere. i really love this area..
well i guess that's it for the basic crash course on the vicinity i hang!
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