Like a rolling stone

The deed is done. Yesterday Alphabet upped sticks and shifted six years of collective baggage to 12 Prince Edward Road. Thanks to an excellently marshalled moving committee consisting of Kelly, Chris, Katrina and Patrick (and ably assisted by Alex), there were remarkably few tears as we said 'goodbye to all that'.

Parting is such sweet sorrow ... unless you've a heart of stone like Sam(antha) in which case, c'est la vie. But I'm more emotional about these things, and so my enthusiasm for moving to our new office at Bestway Building next to Shenton Way in Singapore's CBD was tempered by nostalgia.

Almost all that Alphabet has achieved, for good and ill, sprang from the poky, poorly ventilated, oddly shaped, largely gloomy premises that have been our home since August 2004. I'm going to miss Aunty Katherine the hapless cleaning lady (though probably not as much as she's going to miss us), Pauline the dipsomaniac landlady of our local pub, the pastel parallel lines painted on the wall a lifetime ago, and the archaic central airconditioning unit that has struck fear into several generations of female Alphabetters. I won't, however, miss the toilets.

Goodbye Evershine & Century Complex, and farewell.