{"id":152,"date":"2006-10-08T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-10-08T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T01:20:20","slug":"a-view-to-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/10\/08\/a-view-to-thrill\/","title":{"rendered":"A View to Thrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those things that the two of us had been unsure of at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetdirectory.com\/asia_travel\/travel\/travel.php?travel_id=7317&amp;travel_site=90537\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetdirectory.com\/asia_travel\/travel\/travel.php?travel_id=7317&amp;travel_site=90537\" target=\"_blank\">The Rivervale<\/a> was about the comparatively low floor of our apartment. The asking price for this unit was about what we could afford, so while we liked the view of Punggol Park and that the road our living hall faces is reasonably quiet, we\u2019ve always been just a little worried if our place would still feel right and get a nice view.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve spent the weekend cleaning and furnishing up our place, our fears seem to be (mostly) unfounded. The place can be pretty windy, and even if we don\u2019t get to see most of the park, we do still get a great view of tall trees.:)<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019re two pictures of our living room, and the aquarium tank that we\u2019ve just setup yesterday. The tank water is still rather cloudy, but it\u2019ll clear up in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image211\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/blog-rivervale-1.jpg\" alt=\"blog-rivervale-1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image212\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/blog-rivervale-2.jpg\" alt=\"blog-rivervale-2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"postmetadata\">Posted at Monday, October 9th, 2006 at 12:45 am in <a title=\"View all posts in General\" rel=\"category tag\" href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/category\/general\/\">General<\/a>,  <a title=\"View all posts in Rivervale\" rel=\"category tag\" href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/category\/rivervale\/\">Rivervale<\/a> by CY.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Comment on A view to thrill\" href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/10\/a-view-to-thrill\/#respond\">No Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those things that the two of us had been unsure of at The Rivervale was about the comparatively low floor of our apartment. The asking price for this unit was about what we could afford, so while we<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/10\/08\/a-view-to-thrill\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  A View to Thrill<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","tag-renovation","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}