We're Back in Singapore

After a full year of being away, we're finally back in Singapore. Yes, home sweet home! It has been along year, yet it felt like only yesterday that we were frantically packing to leave for Denver and DD was only 8 weeks old. She's now almost 14 months old.

We arrived back in the evening of 8th Oct and haven't stopped doing stuff. There's so much to do and so little time! The day after we got back, we spent most of the day shopping for a washing machine and stocking up our kitchen with bare essentials from NTUC. Yes, our 5 year old lemon of a washing machine (never, ever, buy a Thomson washing machine!!!), which has been repaired 4 times in 5 years finally died while we were away. We finally settled on a Fisher and Paykel top loader which we got for a good deal at $560. In the evening, we made a trip to the airport to fetch our domestic helper, who had a one year "holiday" back in the Philippines while we were away. :P Actually, we are grateful that our helper agreed to come back to work for us and was willing to wait a year for us to return from overseas. I am terribly relieved that I need not train a new domestic helper from scratch.

Today, we spent the morning at the Honda and Toyota showroom looking for the right car to buy. Looks like it'll be a long process since we have not even decided yet whether to get a sedan or a MPV. Or a hybrid car or a conventional car. So, this is going to take us a long time.

Alright, off to do more unpacking while the kids are asleep. It's going to be another long day tomorrow. We'll be going to Mazda and Nissan next.