I keep telling people that my home is a hut in the sky. It is a tongue in cheek way of saying I live in a high floor shoebox apartment. Yup, it is one of those apartments smaller than 50 sq m (538 sq ft) in size described by the ex CEO of CapitaLand as "inhuman". Of course, he was not the only one who had something negative to say about shoebox apartments. To be quite honest, I was a sceptic too. My old place was almost 1,000 sq ft in size, had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big kitchen, a big living area and a balcony. Almost everyone who visited told me then that it was a perfect size bachelor pad. At the time, I already had friends staying in shoebox apartments and I knew what a 463 sq ft apartment looked like. The first word that to ......