Moving into a new Home!

It's been almost 2 years my new piece of property has been ready for occupation and it has certainly taken me a while to decide what I wanna do with it! This is a four-bedroom apartment (better known as condominium in this part of the world) with decent club facilities and pool. Originally my plan was to renovate and move into this apartment in 2006 but the plan was thrown into disarray as out of a sudden (it happened last year), my mum whom was then staying with me, suddenly called it a day and decided to leave us and spend time with God instead! It was a freak accident and my mind (to renovate the place) was simply not there for several months thereafter. When I have finally got over it, my wife and I was contemplating whether to rent out the property or live in, given that I now have a smaller family of three. We felt that we needed to make a decision quickly as we needed to maintain the overheads of both properties. Finally we jointly decided that moving into a larger space is what we should do, given that our child will grow and probably needs more space to play. Perhaps, we may have a second child and of course, we get to enjoy it as well.

Well, we started shopping for new home furnishing and took us a while too to find the right people to help us to renovate our new home. I expected a fairly quick piece of renovation as we do not plan to do any structural amendment. Though simple it may seem, the renovation actually took more than 3 months to complete! The bizarre thing was, my contractor cum designer, actually told me previously that the renovation work would complete in 2 weeks!! I admit there was some variation order but in mind, these are not significant...so how he turned 2 weeks to 3 months is really beyond my wildest imagination!

Anyhow, the good thing is the renovation is finally over, and we could now witness the beauty of a new home. However, before we could pack our bags and move into our new home, we need to pack up from our old home and this has turned out to be much tougher than i thought! Never could I imagine the number of things that were hidden under our "radar", swept "under the carpet", hidden underneath our bed or kept inside untouched boxes! No doubt there are lots of "rubbish" which I should get rid of, but on the other hand, there are also hidden "treasures" which I told my wife that we could perhaps turn them into cash by auctioning them in eBay! I told my wife that this will be her little internet project to embark on but look quite puzzled on how to do it... I told her that do not worry too much as I have a few buddies who are learning the trade of selling in eBay and I can get them to show us how. Besides the saleable items, we decided that there are items such as clothings that are in good condition should be given away as charity. Our way to express our small contribution to the society....

So, finally, we have picked 31st August to be the day we move over to the new home. This day also happens to be my country's 50th year of independence (National Day)! So, perhaps I should sing national anthem at my new home to jointly celebrate the occasion!

In the meantime, my "packing" order is still undone.....so I believe I really need to speed up in order to catch the "moving truck"(my appointed Mover who will transport all my stuff from the old home to new!). Oh by the way, it was my Mover who picked this date, so it wasn't me who forced him to work on a public holiday!

My next key task is to refurbish my old home so that it could turn into a rental property. I shall talk more about this in my next post.