Wah, my house got famous people come and shoot.
I was sleeping, there was yelling, I looked out the window. I snapped.
Going to the bank
It’s been many moons since I’ve been to the bank.
Internet Banking has made it possible to do most tasks without ever lining up at a branch.
Funds transfers to my parents, payments for my AIA insurance, payment for my Amex credit card, my Robinsons card – I do all of these online.
Thankfully. Because what I saw today at the OCBC Ang Mo Kio branch really irritated me.
Someone has been through your stuff
Today, I was visiting RangeFinderForum and read about this guy in Hong Kong whose flat had been broken into.
The robbers made off with his Bessa L, a couple of lenses, his MacBook, Panasonic Lumix, watches and other stuff.
In one of the comments, a user posted “Sorry that you were violated and your property stolen…”
That word “violated” jumped at me and took me back to a time in Thailand.
I was about 13 years old or so. My family and I had joined one of these AA organised driving tours from Singapore to Thailand.
There are a few things that stay stuck in my memory on that trip.
They will bite
Every time I go for a walk with the dog at the reservoir, it’s a trip made in fear.
Will the monkeys be out? Will they leave me alone if I walk past them?
My New Toy
😉
I’ve been struggling with this decision for the last 4 months. My friend insisted I get a Leica, then later tried to push the Zeiss Ikon, but the Voigtlander Bessa R4A is what I finally got.
That En Bloc Thing Again
After going through two en bloc sales within the last three years, I feel I can make some observations of the games people play in this business of buying and selling property because of an en bloc sale.
We all know that there’ll be three parties in any en bloc sale – those who want to sell, those who don’t want to sell and those who think the potential value of the property is much higher – which is probably true, since developers are able to make a profit from redeveloping the land.
We all know that as a result squabbles, counseling, mediation and even a visit to the court to fatten the wallets of lawyers, sometimes follows.
What is not usually discussed is the level of secrecy and distrust that continues amongst members of the community from the time the en bloc sales committee gets the 80% vote to go ahead till when the last of us leaves the current property.