JUST How Big is BIG!

ok... lately we've been having some 'activities', looking for houses (bigger condo, or, link-house)
though... i've called it quit...

however, i'm just wondering,
what's the most ideal place for us, for all of us,
i've to say i'm very - i'm serious, i'm really very contented with where i stay now,
food - convenient, especially cheap, and affordable tasty food,

school - kindy, primary, secondary, a couple of them near our area, having kids, this is very very important to me!

traffic - ooh, this one's amazing, from the area that we stay, there's a short cut, immediately bring us to the LDP highway, though, the LDP toll's unavoidable, but we skip the puchong road (gosh, i pity those who stays in bdr puteri)

location - i can go to KL, via kesas, or sg. besi easily (putting aside the crazy traffic, let's say, a beautiful sunday morning), and i can go to damansara, PJ easily, or i can go to shah alam, klang easily, in chinese, it's called 四通八達, ie. all four directions, what else can i ask for??

my condo - big not big, small not small, good enough for 3 of us, if not 4 of us (potentially) why? there's a 4th room, as stoeroom, to put all my "rubbish" - ie. BIG, and i can kinda do a speedy cleanup/mop/vacuum within 15 min, with baby watching me, getting more and more impatient - small enough,

security - after a few breakin in other units, the committee has stricten the security measurement and so far so good, the guards are pretty friendly too, but have done their job pretty well, and we've kind of a double layer security, as the housing area SURROUNDING us, has their own security - which after midnight, they'll narrow down the entry road, so far, i think the housing area around our condo is pretty safe, as most of the time, i can see their gates are wide opened in the evening, and there're people jogging in the morning and in the evening around the park in front of our condo,

facility wise - well maintained, not too limited, not too much (too much, higher maintenance fees, and not that i use them very often)
there's a little lovely common park in front fo the condo, reminds me of the lovely park in front of the punthill serviced apartment when we stayed in melbourne, putting the super duper hot weather aside, if m'sian can get slightly cooler, this place is just 100% perfect for me, an evening stroll after the dinner, what else can you ask for? ya, that's what we did in melbourne...

neighbourhood - this is really LUCK i've to say, irregardless what price you can pay/afford, to buy any property, you can't buy your neighbour (arguable though), luckily our direct neighbour, is just like us, YOUNG couple, non-KL-born, with 2 kids now, and other neighbours, are all pretty similar background as us, similar jobs, and mixture of races, that's why, our management committee is quite efficient in enforcing and improving certain standard in and around, though i won't call it "top notch" like what you can expect in those million dollar condo, but i'm happy, as i don't intend to go into that 'tai tai' territory, not now, not in the near future...
i like to have my own little world, nice, cosy, and sufficient...
in fact, if you ask me the ideal place - just like my PC, i need huge storage place, and a small cozy apartment, that's ideal for me... (in terms of PC, i just want a normal perfomance PC, but loads of HDD space)

what else can i ask for, serious!!!

we went to see the IOI's skyview residence, it scares it... (serious, it scares me, you won't know how scary it is in me!)
top down - they've 1 living area on the 2nd floor, big enough to put tables, couch, a pool table, and also a bathroom,
then, they've 3 rooms in the 1st floor, let's talk about the master bedroom, 1 walk-in wardrobe, i've to say it's gorgeous, you can simply chuck everything in there, but let me tell you, in the reality world, your wardobe will never look THAT neat, and 'uniform', so, forget it, and they've 1 small living area, to put couch, TV INSIDE THE MASTER BEDROOM, not to say big nice cosy bathroom with bathtub and showers, outdoor shower...
ground floor - standard, kitchen, living area, dining area, a guest room which is big and again, en-suite, then, SADLY, a detached so-called 'maidroom' ie. you've to go out of the house to get into that MAID ROOM...

yes, scary isn't it?
looking at this house, you know how sad our society is, and how sad it'll become!!
(call me pessimistic)
3 living areas - putting aside the fact that there's only 1 kitchen, ie. you can easily house 3 small families, who don't need to mix up with each other on frequent basis, most is, 'hi' and 'bye' when we bump into each other at the main entrance,
and imagine the master bedroom, if i live in there, i probably can survive not even come out of MY ROOM for the entire week, except the weekend, (cos i've the living area, i've the study area, i probably can put a mini bar there, order pizza, and eat for the entire week)
isn't that very SAD and scary??

and imagine, there're just so many rooms, living areas in the house, how big a family will i want?? if i were to ensure some 'closeness' among my children (imagine) ie. they'll interact, fight, discuss, argue, play with each other on a regular basis, and be close, be 'bonded', just like any brothers sisters of our generation...
i've to have at least a dozen of them, and i'm not kidding...

i don't grow up in a family who owns big houses, and i've never thought my house is small,
i grew up in those split unit (upper floor, vs. lower flr, 2 families) and i use to put up my my uncle's house, sharing the same 'floor' with my cousins,
i never think they're small...
serious, i may tell you, 'small', but that's because it's what you want to listen!!
but deep in me, i never think they're small... maybe big house, small house is never something in my measurement about people!! (I'M A SPIRITUAL PERSON, OK?? ^_^)

that's why places like skyview residences are just far too scary to me, maybe you think i'm just not there to enjoy good life, maybe i really am not, but serious, i don't intend to be one...
my good life, may not be your good life, but i'm just happy and contented at the moment...
maybe this is a symptom of 有女萬事足 (having a daughter means a million already)
but i do appreciate where i stay now...
nice view (i like to stay in high places, to look at the roads - since i was a teenager, maybe that gives me a feeling that, i can see 'everything') - our unit, happens to be able to see the road going out to the main road...
at night - at this time of the year, it's pretty breezy, though i complain it to be hot most of the time (who doesn't, we stay in m'sia) but it really gets chilly at night, and for a split second, you think you're out of m'sia...

oh, last but not least...
daily shopping wise, we've 2 hypermarts nearby, 1 mall nearby...
as i've always pro'ed the idea to have 'decentralized' things... for eg. decentralized bus station, decentralized shopping malls, decentralized whatever... i thought, this area that i stay is very much sufficient enough, IF decentralized, and the property developers (lucky enough to have 2 big developers, who do bother about their image in the market) have been working pretty hard to uplift the image of our area... again, not top notch, but i've to say, they've done a pretty good job...

all in all...
i've to say... i'm happy...
and before i end...
let me share with you, of something i've read since i was very very very small... small until i can't remember when, but i remember what i read...
虛榮心就像是蒲公英，風往哪裡吹，它往哪裡走，沒有踏實，沒有目的地，沒有根。
in english: vanity is just like dandelion, it goes wherever the wind blows/goes, no fixed destination, no root...
interpretation?
do it yourself ~_~