House-Warming Party

We threw a house-warming party for my youngest brother yesterday. His newly bought apartment is located in Taichung City. If you look through the windows of the living room, the High Speed Rail (HSR) immediately comes into view. The apartment is on the 5th floor, not high but with quite a nice view.

The area measures around 27 pings ('ping' is romanized from a Japanese unit '坪(Tsubo),' which is equivalent to 3.306 square meters or equivalent to 2 tatami matts.) So, 27 pings measure around 90 square meters. If one is going to buy an apartment of the same area in Taipei, that will cost him/her at least 4 times the money. Alas, it's like a Sisyphus' rock for us people--rolling up the rock (putting away adequate down payment) and then see the rock falling to where it is (using up most of your savings to pay the installments). This is what life's like. Miserable? I don't know.