Last New Year @ 16 Cantonment Close...

and i feel such a strong sense of nostalgia and sudden reluctance to move...

We just saw the most spectacular display of fireworks from our flat, and every year since the Esplanade was launched, we never fail to celebrate new year and CNY with the wonderful festive fireworks.. This year is no difference, except we kinda lack the usual gang of kakis who will stop our mahjong session halfway and scramble to assemble drinks to toast the coming of the new year in line with the fireworks..

But it also seem appropriate for us hubby, me and of course an amused Ling Jie to watch the fireworks in awe.. I will miss the fireworks.. and I so LOVE fireworks lor... esp. in Singapore where there are only so few occasions where there will be fireworks displays..

Like i said, i believe in fate and things falling in place.. whenever hubby (back then boyfriend) drove along AYE headed towards ECP, and when we spot our current blocks of HDB flats, we will always lament how lucky and nice it will be to stay in those flats.. and we always wondered if the flats are for sale..

And as fate will have it, when we are sourcing for our home, the round of balloting include Cantonment Close.. not that we knew it then.. and so we dropped our names for the balloting and indeed got a Q n. of 97.. Hubby even lamented that he had never really won anything and getting the ballot seemed so lucky.. to me, now on hindsight, it seem so fated.

I love everything about this flat.. and it embodied our love and things we like, as manifested in the furnishing and finishings.. Then there is the fireworks.. I love fireworks, both literally and metaphorically.. Hubby scored loads of brownie points for driving me to view the National Day fireworks some 10 yrs ago when we were dating, and from then on, it is like a ritual to go chasing for fireworks on National Day.. and lucky us, our flat offers us view of fireworks from the esplanade!!

So now, I am feeling this sense of loss, that I am surrendering this flat, and all it had brought us, and represented to us, to someone else.. it is as if I am cutting off something.. we really feel so at ease in this place and with perks such as fireworks, what more can we ask for?

So here I am, 10 mins after viewing the fireworks, and spent the first few minutes of 2007 feeling this awful sense of loss...

In any case, welcome to 2007, and may this year only bring us all bliss and peace!! and lots of love and laughter...