{"id":18703,"date":"2013-05-19T18:53:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18703"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:42:53","slug":"work-in-progress-part-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/05\/19\/work-in-progress-part-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-in-Progress \u2013 Part 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah it’s been just 2 weeks from our last visit to The Minton condo, 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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"The
The 50m lap pool, one of three pools in the project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The 20m heated pool. Not sure how useful that’s going to be in this kind of tropic weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Newly
Newly planted tree saplings near the Contemporary Bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Straight
Straight lines against a blue morning sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Blocks
Blocks 2 and 6 from Hougang Street 11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Blocks
Blocks 2 and 6 as seen along the pedestrian pavement at Lorong Ah Soo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Where
Where we’re at; Block 10. Tranquil World, the large landscape portion in front of the block still seems very much in-progress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Several
Several residents are already starting to talk to Interior Designers to propose plans for their dream home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I
I wonder what the residents think of our monthly visits and going all photo-paparazzi at our home from their block!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Any one knows any good interior designers? =)<\/p>\n

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Yeah it’s been just 2 weeks from our last visit to The Minton condo, 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<\/p>\n

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