My home for a year

We woke up in the morning feeling so excited & happy that we have a proper place to stay from today onwards. A place to call our home.



Grace came to pick us up from our hostel in the morning & once again, we had to lug our tonnes of luggage. I bet our muscle mass grew drastically within these few days. Oh! And just as an aside, I think I’ll really have nice, strong and tough calf muscles by the end of the yr. We have been walking so much ever since we came to Oz. Till now, we have yet to take public transport. It takes 30 mins to walk from my sch to Lidcombe town and another 45 mins to walk from Lidcombe to Auburn. And these few days, we keep coming back and forth these 3 places and in these 3 places. So you can imagine the amount that we walked. I refuse to calculate the distance. (Cos if I calculate, I’ll start to feel my legs aching once again. ;p) And from now on, I’ll have to walk about 40 mins to sch & another 40 mins back from sch everyday. So there! I’m v confident that I’ll have nice, slim and slender legs when I go back to spore. So look out for it, pple!



Actions speak louder than words. Our landladies demonstrated from their actions that they are really helpful pple. After we have shifted our luggage up to the apartment (which happens to be on the 2nd floor, 3 storey up from the garage), and finally managed to catch a breath, Grace once again offered to drive us to Ikea so that we can buy our furniture. So nice of her rite? She even told us that if we start sch at 9am, we can ask Joanne to drive us to sch cos Joanne starts work at 9 too. And if we are in sch till late at night, we can give them a call and ask to pick us up as the way back home from the sch is v long and dark. (For those who are unaware of it, my sch directly faces the biggest & oldest cemetery in New South Wales. So everyday, I see the cemetery as I walk to and fro from school.)



After fixing up the furniture we bought from Ikea and after our mattress is delivered, TA-DA!! Our rooms are nicely and comfortably decorated already. Hmm… let me describe my room. It has carpeted floor. One piece of wall is painted dark blue (BLUE! My fav colour. Haha…) I have my mattress to sleep on, a bedside table which has a blue lamp that I bought from Ikea, a big black study table with a black study lamp and a black chair in my room. My wardrobe spans across the length of my whole room and the exterior is all mirror. (So I can see myself no matter which corner of the room I’m in.)



So glad to have a nice, indoor room to sleep tonight. So happy to be able to find a place to settle in so fast. So thankful for everything.

Finding a place to call home down-under

Hmm... i realised that i have not updated my blog for a super duper long time. Well, tink i shd try to do it regularly again.



Shall start by updating about what’s happening at my side (down under) now. Jeannie & I found a place to stay already!! Super fast & efficient rite?? Haha…. Actually, we were just v v lucky. The 1st day we reached, when we went to all the real estate agents, none of them have anything v attractive to offer us & we were really afraid we had to pitch tents & sleep on the streets (cos our hostel stay is only up till Sat morn). The 1st day was really super demoralizing & depressing (cold, tired, hungry & facing the prospect of landing on the streets). The 2nd day morn, we decided to try one of the real estate agents again which told us yest that they might have something available for us. However, when we reached there, we were told that the hse we wanted was no longer available. Imagine our disappointment & sianz feeling. Being v desperate, we pleaded with the agent to help us look for something. At this point in time, we noticed that one of the staff in the office keep sneaking looks over at us. When the agent that was attending to us walked away with nothing to offer, this staff came over. She told us that she herself has a 3 room apartment & that she wants to rent out 1 room. When we told her that we wanted 2 rooms, she called her flat mate to discuss n the conclusion was that they only want to rent out 1 room as they want another room as the study room.



Disappointed once again, we left the shop to sit on some cold metal bench that freezed our butts while we ate our breakfast (hot chips!). Halfway thru the chips, we received a call from the lady at the real estate place (Joanne) to inform us that after discussing with her flat mate, they decided to rent us 2 rooms! WOW!!! That was really the best news we heard since we came to Oz. After we finished stuffing chips into our mouths, we went over n she immediately brought us over to view her apartment. BIG SURPRISE !!! Her apartment is really v nice! Very homely, new (only 4 months old), clean, modern & the wonderful part is, Jeannie & my room faces each other at one part of the hse & between us there’s a toilet with bathtub & everything. So it’s like we live in a secluded part of the hse with our own private attached bathroom. The best part is that, the whole place is fully furnished (except for beds). So that saves us the hassle & money of having to go get all the furniture, washing machine, fridge, kettle, rice cooker etc ourselves. Plus, both Joanne & Grace (her flat mate & our soon to be flat mate) are v nice & warm pple. Jeannie & I both fell in love with the 2 of them as well as the apartment once we stepped into the place.



However, being rational girls who refuse to make rash decisions, we decided to try looking for our places b4 we make a decision. So we spent the rest of the day going to many many real estate agents to enquire & we went to 2 hses for viewing. However, both houses didn’t appeal to us much. The 1st one was pretty old n very dirty. The 2nd one is quite quiet and far from sch & shops. Tired of going for any more disappointing hse viewings, we made up our minds to go back to Joanne. At the same time, we went to purchase our mattresses and arranged to have it delivered to our new place the next day.



That night, we signed the landlord-tenant agreement and TA-DA! We have a permanent place to stay for the next 1 yr, with all the comforts of home immediately available to us.


I think both of us are really really lucky to meet Joanne and Grace and to be able to settle down so soon. Thank you to all my family & friends for your blessings and well wishes. I really think it worked wonders.



Ha.. a super long blog rite? to make up for lost time that i didn't blog mah. :P