Back homey and yeah it's so init!

It's now officially five days since i got back from singapore after staying there for couple of months and yeah i missed the comforts of home big time. Leaving singapore for a while has been bitter sweet. It has turned to be my second home. My welcome home present? my sister and i were greeted by tip monger cab drivers in NAIA asking for tip (in 'dollars') just for merely loading our luggages. Welcome back to the Philippines.

I love my homeland, but, i couldn't help but compare philippines from singapore. In sg, they don't have cabbie drivers asking for tips as it's illegal and they could get penalized for doing so. There's just one instance we came across a lady cab driver who was kinda rude for blaming us that we did not get to the right location but it was solely due to language barrier. She barely speaks english and we couldn't understand her neither as she spells the word 'brighton drive' as if converting it to chinese characters. Geesh. If we wish to complain 'untie' (this is what they call elderlies there) she will definitely be laid off and we don't want to do that because we're compassionate people despite her 'attitude.' But then, having an attitude is not always worth forgiving lol. Going back, we need to impose harsher punishments to offenders so they will learn to obey and respect the law. 

So, what did i miss?

Oh yeah, the snarling traffic jams. I missed halo-halo because singapore's iced kachang won't be a match neither. Our halo-halo is truly the best and siopao as well. I missed mcdo (cuz it's quite costly in sg and i'd rather spend money in hawkers which is absolutely tasteful and cheap). Last but not least, our sweet cakes, hello Red Ribbon Cakes and Goldilocks. 

Changes.

Since we got home, my sister and I started rummaging through our old stuff and decided to throw those things we won't be needing anymore like sorting out re-usable papers and cleaning up our closet. Our flat has turned smaller because houses in sg are have with huge rooms and shifting from spacious HDB units back to our studio size unit again became a challenge. So, to address the 'space concern' we decided to discard those boxes on top of our cupboards, concealed the eye sore electrical wires then moved some fixtures. Our flat definitely looked bigger than it used to. We'll enjoy our space for now and our new Belkin router. And yeah if there's one important thing I learned in sg that's the seamless unlimited wifi in each household which we decided to adapt here in our flat. My sister spearheaded that we should've done this long before it's just that I never thought how convenient it was back then.

Moving on, the heat wave isn't over yet although it's a little more tolerable compared last week. Where to next? We're off to the city of pines in hours time to chill and to see the new puppies! I'm excited. It's been years since we had pups to snuggle e? As an end note, it's always good to be back!