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Hello Silvery souls, it's been a while :) I hope everyone's doing great. Days are dragging fast!

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The husband and I had been meaning to take a drive to the city and that has been long overdue as our last city visit was pre-pandemic. Although we had been to the neighboring places, we've never gone within the city walls in the last two years (well except for the husband who went a couple of times for some errands).

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A view of the city from a mall's terrace

It's funny how easy it is for us to become so engrossed with other things that at times we forget to have a wee break from all the "busyness" in the mundane things we intentionally put ourselves into. Looking at old photos of places we've been to made me realize we've been missing a lot of adventure especially this year.

Speaking of photos, I found some which reminded me of a place near the city where we once dreamt to have our house built. It was meant to be developed into a subdivision and after looking into the plans for it and considering that a government agency was ready to help fund the project's development, we (including my siblings) decided to make downpayments and processed stuff.

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Unfortunately, things turned ugly due to politics between the project developers and the contractors until the project's organization fell apart. It dragged on for a few years until we lost hope that the project will go on, let alone our monies going to be returned. So we just moved on...

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Both the above landscapes were supposed to be our views had the project went through. But such is life, certain disappointments happen. For us, it's been a blessing in disguise because it made us consider looking at other options which thankfully got us where we now live, where we get not only many a view, but a lot more peaceful and a larger slice of extraordinary nature too.

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