Domicile

In August, I moved into a new apartment.

After trudging for hours up and down every soi (small roads off the main roads) and sub-soi (even smaller roads off the sois) in the neighborhoods of the Ari & Saphan Kwai BTS stops, I was almost ready to give up my apartment hunt. But then I turned down a busy market soi, and as I passed baskets of headless fish reeking in the afternoon sun, bins full of fiery chillis, arrangements of eggplants in every size and color (yellow, white, green, purple), and a couple spotty kittens, I immediately fell in love. A couple meters down the soi, I stumbled upon the oasis that is Mansion Sarasinee.

The building itself is designed to look like a boat because, according to the brochure, it is "the symbol of wealthy and prosperity for the residents." But that questionable theory and the door numbers are the only evidence of the nautical theme, thank god.

Here's my actual apartment...

My balcony/make-shift kitchen/flower-cutting station...

My view from the 8th floor...

unless there's a torrential downpour...