One Month in Rio

It has been a month! Time flies! For a 1st, I am still loving our new home alot. Hoho. 

We have more or less gotten into our routine, be it household chores or commuting to work/ school/ tuition/ church. Daddy Lim and the kids’ lives are still very entrenched in the West. Daddy Lim had on many occasions, picked the kids from school/ tuition after work, which worked very well for the kids, particularly Zaky, who still whined about the traveling distance.

The food options near to our home are limited but plentiful a bus/ car/ bicycle ride away. I would usually tabao at the Geylang Bahru hawker center on my way home from work. Daddy Lim and I spent our weekend mornings, going to the different hawker centers for local bfast. This was Sunday’s bfast. 

It takes me about 40 mins to get to work now but my heart kept insisting that it only takes 30mins, that it is much nearer than Teck Whye. As such, I have been late at work for 10 to 15 mins on many occasions. Hoho. I have also put the foldie to good use and cycled to work on 2 Fridays. It is about 10km one way, and takes about 45 mins. Yes, almost the same amount of time as public transport. I opt to cycle on Friday, bcos there are less people in CBD and in the office and I wouldn’t get weird looks. What I also realised is that Marina Barrage on Friday evening (if I don’t leave on time) is super crowded, there are joggers, skaters, bikers, families, couples, friends…. basically human hazards everywhere. 

Oh yes, I still have my cat ears. 

We barely cooked in Rio. We either eat out or tabao. Last Tuesday, our neighbour gave us some delicious chili chicken. It had been a long time since we had home cooked food. 

I have to remember to 回礼 the next time. I cant cook, but we can always buy something nice as gift from overseas. Speaking of neighbours, we have the super nice and warm Mr and Mrs Tan on our right side, the chef of the delicious chili chicken, and the single lady on the left hand side, whom we try our very best to maintain a cordial relationship. 

Daddy Lim and the kids had been putting the music corner to good use. That is when I have to worry about damaging the relationship with the left side neighbour. Hoho.

Mochi had adapted somewhat to Rio too. He is starting to recover from his bald spots. Just on Saturday, we collected the just repaired Xiaomi, it refused to work after we shifted, and Mochi supervised Xiaomi as it finally did its work.

Mochi is the one who spent the most time in Rio. 

By the way, that is Nana’s cup. 

I feel that we are now very centrally located and many places are like less than 20 mins” drive away Maybe we weren’t very far away when we were in Teck Whye too. I am just happy with any reasons to make my love Rio more. We had been doing grocery shopping at the City Square Mall. It is a huge mall without crowd most times, with a huge NTUC and Donki. I like. 

The aunties have been planning our gatherings in my new neighbour hood. Just last Sunday, we met at Potong Pasir, how near is that?!

Pardon the photo that makes us look like 25. It is Auntie SL’s phone. Haha. 

Mummy Lim