Musings

Yeah it’s been just 2 weeks from our last visit, but with many residents keeping their fingers cross (or hopes high) that completion is just a month away now, I decided to really pick up the pace of our visits. It’ll be real fun in the years to come later to look at these old pictures of our new home while it was still in construction!

The weather here has been quite humid and unpleasantly hot, but at least the bright sunny blue skies did make for nicely contrasting colors in the pictures. Most of the changes since the last visit were in the many tree and plant saplings that have sprouted up, removal of work fences in several areas giving us the first good solid look of the place from the front and at ground level, and also internal furnishings.

The 50m lap pool, one of three pools in the project.

The 20m heated pool. Not sure how useful that’s going to be in this kind of tropic weather.

Newly planted tree saplings near the Contemporary Bridge.

Straight lines against a blue morning sky.

Blocks 2 and 6 from Hougang Street 11.

Blocks 2 and 6 as seen along the pedestrian pavement at Lorong Ah Soo.

Where we’re at; Block 10. Tranquil World, the large landscape portion in front of the block still seems very much in-progress.

Several residents are already starting to talk to Interior Designers to propose plans for their dream home.

I wonder what the residents think of our monthly visits and going all photo-paparazzi at our home from their block!

Any one knows any good interior designers? =)

There’s been lots of excited discussion in our new home’s FB group about when the project will complete. A couple of residents are confident it’d be done by June, though every time we go by for a photo-visit, the project still seems at least several more months before it’d be ready for us to begin interior renovation work. Either way, it’s highly likely we’ll be moving by the end of the year, so we’ll be increasing just slightly our frequency of visits.

There are lots of condominium apartment projects everywhere we look right now, with at least 4-5 in the immediate vicinity of our home already. Funnily, it seems from our casual observations that the building pace of those projects are a lot quicker than The Minton. Then again, while our forthcoming new home is solidly a ‘mass-market’ project, there are benefits to the sheer number of resident units and size of the project. What one loses in exclusivity, one gets lots of nice amenities that aren’t typical of projects with this level of cost per square feet: an air-conditioned badminton dome, several swimming pools, a sizable landscape garden, spa facilities – not that we’d likely ever going to use a lot of these facilities anyway though.

Our usual selection of pictures below, with the E-M5 + Olympus 75-300mm and LX7 pulling photographic duties.

Condo tree saplings starting to bloom flowers.

A worker aligning the plastic sheets covering the badminton dome.

A fellow resident remarked that the workers are testing the air conditioning unit’s compressor for gas pressure,

Workers at the Tiger Orchid Pavilion @ Tranquil World.

The plastic tiling half done for the Badminton Dome at this point.

Crates of cobblestone ready to line the driveway.

Block 14 and 14A. The sidelining plants and bushes are growing along nicely now.

Blocks 8, 6 and 2.

Blocks 14 and 12.

Blocks 10, 10A and 10B from mid-floor.

Tranquil World as seen from about the top-floor from an opposite block. Had to stick my hand with the LX7 out of a small slit to take this pictue.

The Contemporary Bridge.

The Grand Clubhouse.

Hannah having the run of the sidewalk adjacent to the project.

Honestly, it really doesn’t look like it’ll be done in June. We’re keeping an eye for September.