Local filmmaker Daniel Yun’s five-room flat will have You see HDBS in a whole new light.
After decades of living in landed homes and private condos with sleek designs, Singaporean filmmaker Daniel Yun has returned to the heartlands. “I got to the point where I grew tired of the zen style of my corner terrace home in Thomson Hill,” he says. “I wanted to come home to something calm. Lesson learnt: when you put a human in a zen room, the zen flies out the window.”
Now, four years on, Daniel, who’s in his 50s, can’t be happier in his “classic and contemporary” abode – a five-room flat atop the iconic clover-shaped HDB block in Ang Mo Kio which commands sweeping views of the Upper and Lower Peirce Reservoirs.
“Many of my friends thought I had downgraded to an HDB. But I didn’t. I’m just so intrigued by the circular space, the large windows, and the way the light streams in at sunrise and sunset. To me, this is a poor man’s equivalent of an Orchard Road apartment,” he reveals. “Besides, where else can you have a private garden like Bishan Park? I just walk out there and I can enjoy a good run whenever I want.”
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