Part I:

https://www.facebook.com/joan.li.165/videos/10155637773263819/

(Video starts at 2:11)

Part II:

https://www.facebook.com/joan.li.165/videos/10155637855048819/

(Video starts at 4:14)

For our telematic stroll, we decided to embark on our journey home in the evening, while exploring our neighborhood estate. As Hannah stayed in Pasir Ris (east) and I stayed in Queenstown (west), we wanted to look for similarities and difference between estates that are far apart, and some of the daily activities we do at home. We chose to broadcast in the evening as we wanted to (hopefully) catch the sunset from two different points of view. Unfortunately, there was no clear sunset in the past week. (It was either greyish blue or too cloudy or thunderstorms)

Our plan:
Start broadcasting – 6:50
Walk around neighboring parks/garden
Compare sunset
Compare features around the neighborhood
Go home by climbing the stairs (approx. 8 floors)
Prepare a snack and eat together
Watch TV together – end at 7:20

We started off the stroll by exploring spaces that were near our homes – Hannah at the ground level of her HDB, and I was at a roof garden on the 14th floor. The reason for our choice of locations was that we wanted to climb the number of flights of stairs up to our homes (10th and 22nd storey) after exploring.

 Interestingly, the sky was much bluer in the east even though the sun sets in the west. HDBs look so similar and generic – those in the east and those in the west blend seamlessly well together even though they are far apart.

After exploring our surroundings for a bit, we climbed up the stairs together to get home. We didn’t want to take the elevator because we would lose connection, and we felt that stairs was a better representation of a journey home.

Aerial view of our neighborhood – parks, roads, construction sites and other HDB buildings

We also planned to eat together, so we prepared food beforehand. However, Hannah disconnected so here’s me eating alone.

We ate together again during the second part of the broadcast, and we happened to find the same drink in our refrigerators.

Entertainment at home – watching programs on the TV and videos on a laptop