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What price some quiet time at home?
The writer ponders how she can live with unexpected noise as she moves into a new home located just 20m from a sports complex.
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Wherever you live in densely-populated Singapore, it is hard to escape noise.
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I woke up to a beautiful morning on Monday, so peaceful and quiet I could hear birds chirping.
How strange, I thought to myself as I rose to find not a single soul on the usually noisy football field belonging to an international school near my home. There were no high-pitched shouts, thunderous cheers or shrill whistles reverberating from the swimming pool near the field either.
