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These are the reasons I'm really liking my new home:
The boy gets picked up by his school bus half an hour later than where we stayed previously.
My workplace is only 4 train stops away and the entire journey takes 20 minutes door-to-door.
There's a supermarket just 100 steps away that sells just about everything you see at Jasons. (was thinking Cold Storage but this beats that with their wide selection of cheese and cold cuts)
There's a huge park with a pond that has fishes and a couple of black swans swimming in it about 10-15 minutes away by foot.
....and hundreds of small eateries and big restaurants around to choose from within a 10 minute radius.

And oh, some other points to make:

I've seen more seats on the trains being given up for the eldery, pregnant and young than I've ever seen in Singapore.

Have you seen automatic/self-service/ token-less lockers before? You punch a button and the door to an empty locker swings open. You put your stuff in, retrieve a docket and close the door. When you go back, you put the docket against the infrared scanner and ta-dah! The correct door pops open automatically and you get back your stuff. Oohhh.. the 'villager' from Singapore couldn't resist punching the button for a second go at this marvellous machine. the small 'villager' wanted to try it AGAIN too but we were attracting too much unwanted attention. NEXT TIME OK?

Walkie Talkies carried by train workers here have COLORED LED displays!

Other than these discoveries

These 2 months have gone by very quickly. I've been busy enough to fly into Shanghai 4 times in these 2 months. If not for the long China National Day holidays which meant I didn't have to work all the time (still had to take some calls, meet a couple of deadlines, hold an event), wake up before 7am to wake the boy up, or rush to work or back from work, I would have simply collasped from exhaustion.

There's still a lot going on at work and this is usually the peak season for me. Am looking forward to the year-end, maybe a short break in between Christmas and New Year and then a much longer one over the Chinese New Year period - we've already booked our tickets back to Singapore! YAY!