Friday Five Double 18-March-2022

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1. What does the outside of your house look like?
Well. I live in an apartment building. It's white overall, and the design is like 2 separate towers, but then by the 4th floor the towers connect. The apartments on the 6th, and 9th floors are slightly smaller because some space was taken for public access corridors. So, say for example, the elevator of Tower A is down, then tough luck for the people living on 1st-4th floors, they gotta walk. People on the upper floors can then choose, say 5th floor can go to Tower B, take the elevator to the 6th, then cross the public access corridor to go back to Tower A, and walk down a floor to the 5th. The roof is joined together as well, but the doors are usually locked from the inside, so you can't really cross over.

2. Which room do you spend the least time in?
I'd say my Sis' room. She is a very... disorganized person. She doesn't clean up her stuff. So her room is usually like a pandemonium, and I... can't stand that. Well, I'm not perfect and I have my pile of crap as well, but I usually clean it up when it's the weekend. But she doesn't... So I avoid her room mostly.

3. Which room do you spend the most time in?
That would be my own room :-)

4. Is your home in a convenient location?
I'd say yes. It's away from the city center enough that it's nice and quiet, but it's near enough that it's just a 15 minute walk. However, it is a bit far from the "new" hotspots in the city, like, if I want to go to the new Donki then it's a half hour bus ride or a 45 minute walk. But anyway, Macau is small by default, even if I say "it's so far away!" by foreign country standards, it's peanuts lol.

5. What is the color of your front door?
It's a gate, mainly black, with metallic grey accents. Then the actual door itself is a boring brown.

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1. When did you most recently swing on a swing?
Wow. I have no memory of it. But it wasn't kid's era. I think a couple years back we were looking for new hiking trails to walk the dogs, and on one of the trails there was a weird empty playground with a swing, and I went on and swung twice to see if the dog would be interested to sit on my lap, but she wasn't LOL.

2. On what issue have you teeter-tottered?
I had no idea that is another name for, or something similar to, a see-saw!
But I don't have any issue that I'm unsure and am fluctuating my decisions on...

3. How close is your residence to a park, and when did you last visit?
There's actually 2 mini parks near my place, but I assume what I consider a "park" may not be what you consider a "park". Both these "parks" near my place have some bushes, one of them have trees surrounding. There's some open space in the middle for kids to play. There's also some outdoor cardio-like not-machines (?) for people to exercise on. I don't visit them much. I walk past them a lot, but I don't go in there. They don't allow dogs, you can't eat and drink in there, those exercise tools are either in use, or you don't know if the other people have cleaned them after use, so I don't really have a reason to use them.

4. How capable are you with a charcoal grill?
Alright. If this is a reference to some playground games, I have no idea what it is. I’ll just take it as a barbecue!
Barbecue is not a thing here. Well, I'm wrong. Barbecue is something that needs quite a bit of commitment here. You need to buy and transport the charcoal and food to a barbecue park in Coloane island (45 minutes drive away). So people usually plan ahead for big group parties. Some people who have a large balcony and verandah may do so at home, and we have done it before, but it was still too much work.

I do agree charcoal grilled food taste better!

5. With what are you playing hide-and-seek?
I've kind of stuck to the "every thing has its own place" rule and don't seem to need to hunt for stuff nowadays. My keys are always hanging on the holder I have right by my light switch. My EarPods have a place to sit at. There was once, last year I think, when I just couldn't find my EarPods and I was in such a snit. My phone kept pinging "EarPods are left behind!" But I couldn't ping the EarPods because they had to be "on" to be traceable. In the end, I found them; I was cleaning up my bedside table and the EarPods were placed behind a flower pot, so I didn't see it... for days......