SINGAPORE - The surest way to lose touch with sanity, I have found, is to undertake home renovations of any kind.
I did that at the end of last year. There was a tortuous three-month wait that stretched well into the new year. On the date I was supposed to begin the process of moving back in, workers were still fixing this and that.
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