Since I never got around to writing about this place, my impressions and experiences of it, I have decided to finally start writing about Singapore, my life here and my favourite places here.

This photo pretty much summarizes what Singapore is all about – the city-country island with its high-rise buildings dominated by HDB (Housing Development Board) apartments everywhere followed by condominiums (private apartments), greenery – lush and wild in a few places, neat and trimmed at others, some construction activity or the other going on all the time everywhere with bulldozers, cranes and cement mixers being a common sight on the road, as common as buses and cars.

More to follow in the upcoming posts…

The only thing that I hated the most during the time in Singapore.

In the HDB (Housing Development Board) apartments in Singapore, the method of disposing the garbage from your house was to open a door beneath the sink in the kitchen and throw the bag of waste into it. There is a vertical passage that runs through all the floors and every house will have a door to that passage. The garbage from all the houses gets collected in that area and the ground floor has a door to it. The waste is then collected from it by the workers from SembCorp (remember our good old Onyx?).
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