My life as a tenant I arrived in Singapore alone in 1998. I started renting on my own but ended up moving three times in just 13 months. First, it was a common room in an HDB flat for three months. Next, I stayed in the whole 4-room HDB flat (with one room locked up) for ten months. Then I moved to a private apartment sharing with two flatmates. Being new to Singapore, I didn’t know much about the property laws. So I experienced renting without a tenancy agreement and eviction by the landlord (despite paying the full rent on time). In my five years of being a tenant, I dared not buy any unnecessary things. All the carton boxes that came with me to Singapore were flattened and stacked up in the storeroom. Every now and then I would visualize in my mind what things to put inside each ......