My Nostalgic Apartment...

Most of my friends know that I've some preference in staying in high-rise, ie. condominium, or apartment…

Besides the security reason, not that it's 100% secured, however, I do have a peace of mind, somehow… especially those days, when he's traveling, and I was working in KL, alone…

It's really freaky, if I've to deal with a big house, solely by myself…

Well… that's past…

Just the other day…

While I was lying in bed… in the middle of the night, trying to fall asleep…

I heard a motorbike passed by… on the road, far away, up on the hillside opposite our condo…

Then… I realized, what I've missed in my statement about my preference in staying in condo…

With that sound…

My memory flashed back all the way, to nearly 20 years ago… (gosh, yes, I'm disclosed my age, but it's not a big deal, I've never intended to hide)

When I used to go to my uncle's house in pekeliling, yep… the "17-floor" area… where there's this pekeliling bus hub for travelers from some other states in malaysia… (some of the buses are from here, some of the other buses were from pudu)

My uncle's unit was on the 16, I may have remembered wrongly though…

There, I used to stand next to the balcony, at night, after dinner…

Looking up onto the roads downstairs, look kinda small… where vehicales "flew" by…

I kinda enjoy the sound if it…

So near, yet so far… you just stood there, watching…

AND that perhaps also explains, why of all heroes, I love Batman!! (of course, the major part of it, was because of Christian Bale!) I love the way, The Dark Knight stands up high, on top of the building, watching the city he loves, yet disappointed… a nostalgic city for him…

That… again… brought me back to an even earlier, much earlier years of me…

While I was indulging on all the chinese language fiction, mainly city love stories… (oh… if  I was younger, then, I may enjoy SITC series…, which I simply don't, anymore! That's for SITC, for the story books' stories, yes, I still do, I believe…)

And most of them, were composed by HK female young writers… in fact, I said, "most of them", that's just trying to show that I READ a lot, which I actually don't…

It's just this writer, amy cheung… amy cheung siu han…

I know some people may think that her stories are shallow, just about love and love and love between men and women, and heart-breaking and so on… but then, I did enjoy them, and I did cry over some of the sad stories that she wrote…

Though, as of today, I'll of course, try to make myself sounds a little bit more with depth, and that, I proclaim, I like zhang man juan, a taiwanese female writer, whose story-telling, or short articles definitely, have more substance… and yes, I truly love her… she's different from anybody and she's a lecturer in the university… unlike amy cheung…

And now, probably you get it…

HK's the key word, where most of the people there…

Stay high up in the highrise…

1 huge blocks, many stories… many lives, many sad and happy souls…

And probably the handsome bloke you bumped into, at the lobby, will be staring at the sky at his balcony, or watching the cars and motorbikes "flying" by…

Whenever I hear this night-riders "flying" by…

I'll be wondering…

Hm… where's he going to?

Who's he meeting??

Is he a happy person?

A lost person? Or a sad soul?

….

Ps: and that's why~~~ I'm into apartmenttherapy.com now…

(haha, how I wish, I'm advertising for this website now… the fact is, I don’t!)

And just let me side-track…

After sharing with him about my "finding" regarding my preference on highrise, or apartment…

We explored further into our preferences…

And a few places in the past popped up…

Like the fisher hall that I stayed in london,

Or, this lodge that I stayed in gatwick,

Those houses with cozy basement's living lounge…

Those english houses along cromwell road, or simply, a few blocks away from fisher hall, or bernard sunley house…

Hm…

So, the fact is, I'm not that against 2-storey, or 3-storey…

The point is that, it's to be cozy..

And my terms of coziness's to be a little bit colourful, homey, and maybe even crowded with stuff…

For eg. Bookshelves full of books… different sizes…

A bench with some colourful cushions,

A console with some photos, some books, or everything on top.. Just like the one we've now, which we bought from ikea… I simply love this piece of furniture, it makes my dining area more homey and cozy now… kekeke…

If you still do not get what I'm saying… just go see the apartmenttherapy.com pictures…

Small, colourful, homey and cozy…

Just by looking at those pictures, I can imagine spending time with my loved ones in these area… doing nothing… maybe just sit around, chat all night… drink all night… and whatever…

Ya… that's my~ apartment~~

Ps: if I've money, if I'm rich, I won't by more houses in this crap country, this crap city which is full of crime, a country's that marching its way to hell… I'll probably spend my money, buying small apartments in cities that I like… ^_^ sounds like a good and sweet deal huh?? That's ONLY, IF!!!