{"id":18781,"date":"2013-06-08T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:40:21","slug":"work-in-progress-part-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/06\/08\/work-in-progress-part-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-in-Progress \u2013 Part 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekly update on the ongoing construction of The Minton condo. This might be one of our last visits before the project reaches technical completion next month or so &#8211; on account that our baby boy is due very soon. And when that happens, it&#8217;s very unlikely we&#8217;d be able to find time to go by to check this out. Still, the most visible signs of development since the last week lie again in the project&#8217;s signature recreational areas, and less so in the apartment blocks themselves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18782\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5950-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Winding pathway at Tranquil World.\" width=\"330\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5950-flickr.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5950-flickr-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winding pathway at Tranquil World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18783\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5965-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"The cobblestone paving along Tranquil World is about half-done, with more crates of stones waiting placement.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5965-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5965-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cobblestone paving along Tranquil World is about half-done, with more crates of stones waiting placement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18784\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5970-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"The outdoor dining pavilion taking shape, with stone floor tiles placed.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5970-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5970-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outdoor dining pavilion taking shape, with stone floor tiles placed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18785\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5972-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"According to the project layout map, the Dining Cabana - I think - whatever that is!\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5972-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5972-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to the project layout map, the Dining Cabana &#8211; I think &#8211; whatever that is!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18786\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5980-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Water playground @ Fun World.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5980-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-OMDA5980-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water playground @ Fun World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18787\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010771-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Significantly more planted greenery @ Tranquil World.\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010771-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010771-flickr-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Significantly more planted greenery @ Tranquil World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18788\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010774-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Blocks 10.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010774-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010774-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blocks 10.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18789\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010793-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Fun World.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010793-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010793-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18790\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010808-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Many clusters of potted plants line the compound and getting ready for replanting into the many lawns.\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010808-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010808-flickr-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many clusters of potted plants line the compound and getting ready for replanting into the many lawns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18791\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010812-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"The Treehouse playground has the foundational guard railing now too.\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010812-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010812-flickr-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Treehouse playground has the foundational guard railing now too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18792\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010825-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"If you look hard enough, you'd see a new activity not originally specified in the brochure - rope swing between top floors of Block 14 and 12C. Not for the faint-of-heart LOL.\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010825-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010825-flickr-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you look hard enough, you&#8217;d see a new activity not originally specified in the brochure &#8211; rope swing between top floors of Block 14 and 12C. Not for the faint-of-heart LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18793\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010834-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"From this perspective, the place looks almost ready for moving in!\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010834-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010834-flickr-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From this perspective, the place looks almost ready for moving in!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekly update on the ongoing construction of The Minton condo. This might be one of our last visits before the project reaches technical completion next month or so &#8211; on account that our baby boy is due very soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/06\/08\/work-in-progress-part-19\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Work-in-Progress \u2013 Part 19<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,526],"tags":[515,544,531],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-blues","category-new-home","tag-minton","tag-olympus-75-300","tag-e-m5","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-526-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-minton-P1010771-flickr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}