I’m ecstatic. We found an HDB flat at the most ideal spot – just a stone’s throw away from two malls, the Hougang MRT station and a bus stop! Nevermind that it’s on the third floor of a building that has no elevators (the exercise will do us good) and that it’s furnished with everything except beds so we have to buy mattresses and sleep on those on the floor for a while till we get our first paychecks. We have aircon and hot showers and a refrigerator and a washing machine. And we’re living next to the MRT! And a mall! Can you beat that?
Of course my office is also inside a mall, and not just any mall, but one of the larger and more popular ones in Singapore. So I’ll always be in close proximity to a mall from morning till night. Good luck to me on pay day, then. Good thing my bank has a “forced savings” plan!