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New Home: I'm Lovin' It


So it's been more than two weeks since I moved in, and I am lovin' it! I believe my family has been really curious about my new English house as it is so different from my previous flats. This is a proper house with a proper chimney! Also the interior is very country house themed which is beautiful. My housemates (not flatmates now) are as mentioned before, an Irish girl Marcia and an Aussie girl named Rebecca. And the biggest whew I have is that they love clean houses like me! I have a bit of an OCD if you may describe (just a little!) and when I found out they are similar plus they love colour co-ordinating the house, I was going a loud "Hallelujah" within me haha

It has been a big step for me this time, to choose to stay with people I don't know. There were some options for me, but this was a big open door which God opened for me and difficult to say no. Firstly it's in such a quaint little street, almost like a village like what Marcia says. Once you turn into our street, you feel like you've just been transported to the countryside. And oh I love my huge room with lots of storage space (yay), and the rent is almost unimagineable in this area. This is close to the Olympic area (not by Singapore standards) and so rentals are extremely expensive at the moment. I debated over who to flatshare with, and I figured that I would probably not get another chance to stay in a quaint English house with two other girls from other countries. Before I lived with Marketa, I was a lil worried even though she was my friend before I moved in. With my narrow mindset, I wondered if it would be okay staying with a Czech girl. Silly me, because I am so glad I agreed. I learnt so much about her culture, food, way of living (very similar to us Asians actually), and now I guess it's time for a change and so I look forward to hanging out with my new housemates, and we plan to have a night in once or twice a month where we take turns to cook and just hang out. Good times ahead! :)

Enough of talking, some pics to show you guys now!

Our fireplace; our huge sofa with lots of cushions; the little space at our front door, and our huge back garden which is not quite put to good use. Our neighbour has done theirs so nicely transforming into a lovely summer al fresco area.
Kitchen- We cleared out lots of stuff to make some space for a little kitchen counter to have food; Rebecca loves baking and has invested in lots of equipment which matches the kitchen really well.
My comfy bedroom which I drag myself out of bed every morning. Now you understand..

Love our kitchen. And our common bathroom- spot my good ol' Darlie toothpaste! The bathtub is really interesting.

And the last pic for this post. Early Saturday morning I saw this beautiful sunrise from my ahem, toilet. My friend Z commented "wah do morning admin still got such nice view.." hahaha made me wonder for a while what he meant.



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