progress

A picture of the constuction site that's been next to my condo since I've moved in. It's getting close to being finished and it's starting to look a lot better than the pit in the ground that was there when I moved in.

Taken Jan 2007

so crowded

Singapore is a crowded city. It's getting so crowded now that I can look out my window and see people straight across from me... and I live on the 7th floor. Of course these people are the construction workers building the new condo adjacent to my building which has little by little been increasingly blocking my view each and every day over the last 5 months though. The progress has now reached a new height equal to my floor giving me the unique opportunity, at least for a few weeks, to look out my window and look at them looking back at me looking at them.

To compare, or contrast depending on your inclination, here is the view I used to have out the same window in the fist picture above. The new view is not as nice in my opinon... but soon it will be worse- a wall only I think.

Meet the New Neighbors

Walking home from work tonight I noticed a new sign up in the empty lot next door to my building. Construction has now officially begun on a new 7 story condo unit scheduled to open in 2012! ...and JUST when all the noise across the street was starting to die out at the new mall/condo high rise construction site. I'm hoping that since this new place isn't going to open until 2012 it means they won't be working on nights or weekends.

The signboard

Wilkie Regency (my place)in the background. That room with the light on is my living room so I'll have quite a good view of the construction process.

...and here's the view from my balcony. That building in the background is called Sophia Flats (it's in some of the other pictures I've posted from my place before as well)...and it IS haunted. I have a friend who used to live there in the top floor and he swears it's haunted. There used to be a HUGE tree with a canopy covering almost the whole empty lot. One day when he was still living there the owner cut it down in preparation of developing this site. Ever since that day my friend, James, said things got very strange and that's when he started noticing ghosts. He had a cat and it would sometimes freak out and start hissing at things in the corner, he's have people over and they'd often claim they felt some presence in one of the bedrooms, and he said once he saw a ladder he had leaning on the wall fall backwards just like some one pushed it...not like it just slid down the wall. It seems throughout Singapore there are a lot of ghost stories and a lot of people really believe them. A year later the developer died of cancer and the lot sat empty until now. That was more than 10 years ago.