Friendly Neighbourhood + Home Introduction

8th March 2007

CHAPTER NEIGHBOURHOOD

just now we went to our friendly neighbourhood gelato shop to get ourselves an ice-cream. this is the second ice-cream i have here at Milan and they are terrific! i got myself a hazelnut+chocolate and vanilla sugar with chocolate strip one. the other time was zuppa inglese and limone. shiok man. go home dun appreciate the NTUC ice-cream liao. Look at our 幸福 faces :) esp meihua. so contented. haha.

look at our attire. neighbourhood walk calls for neighbourhood attire. cool~

and this, is our friendly neighbourhood. it's lined with many shophouses.

as we were walking back, we were attracted by the aroma of bread. neh, this is the shop. it makes you salivate just smelling the food! then, even more when you LOOK at the food. see for yourself. wa-ah. so many varieties and all look delicious.

this is the street which we live on: via repubblica (read as vi-ah re-pu-bbl-i-ca) check out the stop sign. modified and improved leh.

CHAPTER HOME

this is our home. Yian is opening the door and gan is walking towards it. then evil evil Yian locks meihua and I out. hmphf!

we live in one of the many flats inside: Begonia.

there are two layers of door and inside is our cosy home. it's really small and once you step in, you can see the kitchen cum living room cum bedroom for Yian and Meihua. see Meihua there? Gan and my room is right in front of the main door, on the right of the photo. you can't see much from the photo cuz it's blocked. opposite the kitchen is the toilet. 麻雀虽小, 五脏具全. we've got everything we need in our little home.

Living room cum kitchen cum bedroom:

this is the place where we will have our dinner and watch 金枝欲孽 together, our favourite entertainment at night. those women are really cunning and everyone likes everyone else. haha. italian tv ain't too bad either. can watch MTV channel.

view out of the window.

Plenty of food:

in the land of pasta, of course have to stock up on the variety of pasta. how can go italy and never eat pasta??! ha-ah.

then this is the biscuit that all four of us enjoy. is quite cheap at only 1+euros. has olive old extract and rosemary in it. so it tastes super fragrant.

Garbage disposal:

here in europe, you have to separate the garbage into paper, plastic, glass, food stuff and others. so we obediently 入乡随俗.

next, toilet:

really really really small. esp the W.C area. just enough to sit in. oh, and they have bidet here but we don't use it. i think yian use it to wash her leg though. not sure. it's really cold when you take off all your clothes to shower. so usually all of us will steam up the place first. the shower heater is a bit coo-coo one. suddenly very hot, suddenly ver cold. space inside is quite small also. i find it difficult to squat or bend down inside. only can stand straight.

and this is Gan and my room:

see my bed with my socks etc. gan's beside mine. i packed up a bit liao lah. utilised the drawer. see gan on the bed? yah, usually i'll sit on the bed to use my laptop too.

view out of window in room:

garbage truck usually come at around 6am to collect the rubbish i think. i saw once, lights flashing and noisy but normally i sleep through that.

this is gan trying to take a photo of her levis jeans. she wants to see what difference will there be after 6months when she go home. hmmm. haha.

yep. and that is all for today's tour. look out for the next episode on the more fun and glamourous part of milan city! ciao~

(hmm, very troublesome to load one by one. i shall have to think of a better way to show you the photos... how how?)