Melancholy in November

Harinie perasaan bercampur gaur, happy, sedih, panic, risau.Besok hari terakhir serah kunci, besok juga la kontrak menyewa kami tamat. Baru aje balik dari mengemas, last minute clean up sebentar tadi. Besok pagi-pagi, carpet cleaning service akan datang untuk cuci carpet, salah satu syarat exit condition yg perlu dipatuhi dekat sini. Katanya ambil masa lebih kurang 2 jam juga la untuk membersihkan rumah opppsss... unit sewaan kami tu. I wonder how the cleaning process will take place. It would be interesting to see how they clean the whole unit, but it starts at 8 in the morning, am sure the kids are not ready to go out at that hour.

Today, I had the last meeting with my sifo, before working on the correction. Still need some clarification on what to concentrate, and what to disregard, the comments/feedbacks given by the panel. Adoiii....fenin jugak kepala nie nak response semua komen yg diberi. Fenin sebab tak cukup masa yng berkualiti untuk fokus. Plus nak bawak yaya n adik sight seeing sekitar Brisbane sebelum balik. Adoiii sifo, naper la tak bagi den sikit masa lagi.....issshhh tu la dia, orang dah bagi keje mudah, dok tangguh-tangguh lagi....

Before I went home today, I cleared up my desk, shredding papers, threw out unwanted things, adeh sodih pulak rasa bila tengok desk tu, perlahan-lahan kosong dan lapang. Tak sompek den nak ambil gambar, sodih sangat....


yours truly,
 

Dari Warren ke Brisbane Street

Lame betul tak update blog nih. Sibuk dengan packing, shipping, selling off our pre-loved items, moving luggages to a temporary accommodation, cleaning our apartment, terminate phone line, power supply, internet line, need to settle any outstanding bills, etc. Adoiiii.... so many things to do, but so little time we have. Tapi skrang nie tinggal nak cuci bilik mandi n toilet aje. Kami pun dah satu malam bermalam kat rumah kawan, tumpang kejap sampai hari berlepas. Lagipun untuk memudahkan kerja-kerja mengemas dan mencuci rumah, nak kena serah kunci hari Rabu ini.

Oh ya... nak ucapkan terima kasih pada kengkawan yang bawak macam2 juadah sempena jamuan farewell Sabtu lepas. Thanks Maryam for organising the feast, and thank you for inviting us. We had fun that day, especially the kids.

Ok laaa...short entry, have very limited time. Besok ada meeting dengan sifoo...ada hutang kerja dengan dia...aiyoh... camno nak buek... baru harinie dapat tengok2 kerja. Tak kasi chance langsung la sifoo nih...

yours truly,
 

Got over it, and one more to go...

Fuhhhh fuhhh... berabuk betul rumah nie....habuk tebalnya seinci. Been away to prepare for another milestones in this journey. Alhamdullillah...all went well, I need to make some minor changes though, but as expected. But have yet to get a full report from the panel members. I don't want to put my hope up very high, sekali dapat report kena buat perubahan selambak ko..haaa... mau terduduk. But I am very hopeful that what ever it is, I can complete it in 2 months, because it is the targeted submission date.

Now I can really concentrate on the packing. Still have about 40% more to go. And I have other things to look after too... adeh...tetiba banyak benda nak kena settle nih...

yours truly,

Messy

It's packing day again today. My duty is to pack clothes, atang is doing his audio stuff and kakak was incharged of some cleaning. Adik is tailing atang n me around, hoping that we will ask for her help. Poor adik, she has a flu, frequently wiping her nose on her tshirt. Yikes!

the NEW Crib..

WELCOME to our new crib. A bit smaller, but cosy. Windy, shady, cheaper (a lot cheaper). With some defect, but tolerable. And we LOVE the new place.

Rumah nie sejuk sikit, nyaman je rasa...terutama masa summer nie. Remember the movers that I wrote about in previous entries, the man said, "you have a good apartment here, because the old tenant was a good person, and now you move in here, so it has a good vibe". By coincidence, the movers also helped the old tenant to move out to a new place. Atang knew the tenant, a muslim indian or bangladesh family. Muslims, maybe that was what the mover refer to as a good vibe.

And, remember in some of my old entries, I did mentioned about a malaysian couple who live one level below us. At the new apartment, there is also a malaysian family living nearby, on the same level with us. Another good vibe ya...

more pictures in our fotopages

we have to say Goodbye...

It is so hard to say goodbye to our old apartment. So many memories, sweet and sad. We have hosted so many event. My parents, my brother and his family, came and stayed. It has been 21 months. But, nothing last forever in this world right. Kalau tak kerana sewanya yang ridiculous, we would definately will stay on until I complete my study......




So long, farewell, old apartment....may the new tenant take good care of you....


p.s. In the bus, on the way to my office, I will pass by this apartment. Masih lagi sayu bila nengoknye...

it's Cleaning time

On Sunday we came back to the old apartment for clean up. We were given a list by the rental agent of things that we need to do before vacating the property. Banyak benda nak kena buat, tapi kena buat, because it is one of the requirement to claim back your bond. Lagipun tak nak ada bad record, mana tau lepas nie kena pindah rumah lagi.


We completed all the tasks; scrubbing, mopping, vacuuming, wiping, reinstore or changing, etc. We started at 9.30am, ended at around 3pm. Actually, the initial plan was not to immediately vacate the old apartment. Our contract ends on 17 of January. When our application on the new apartment was approved, we don't mind paying the rent for both apartments, bleh la kalau nak cover for a few weeks. Sebenarnya boleh kalau nak break lease, but we want to keep everything simple, yela kalau nak break lease nak kena carik orang for replacement. End up if you couldn't find any, still you have to continue paying the rent. So we have plan our budget, and we can afford for a couple of weeks, jadi takpe la kalau pay for both apartments. Maybe we could make the old one as a transit accommodation for the newly arrival.


However, there was a last minute change. Our agent called us up one day and asked us whether we could vacate the property as soon as we want too, so that he can move in a tenant. Our new apartment is also under the same agent (we assumed this was one of the reason our application was approved immediately). Apparently, the agent need to remove the tenant from the place he was currently renting due to some renovation work. We agreed to that. Tu yang terus bersih segala tu, except for 1 thing. We couldn't hire a carpet cleaning service because they were already booked up until new year. Carpet cleaning by professional cleaner is one of the requirement for vacating, it applys to all rental agency. Kalau ada pet, kena hire professional fumigation lagi. Since, there were non carpet cleaning professional available, and because the new tenant need to move in before Xmas eve, jadinya, carpet tak dapat dicuci laaa... The agent will arrange for carpet cleaning service later.

So, when all the cleaning activity was done, sedih pulak nak meninggalkan this old apartment. Banyak kenangan weh....

(It's Cleaned and Empty......)


sobs.....

the busiest weekend

....it was busy and tiring weekend, but the payoff overcomes the fatigueness we had. On that Saturday, I woke up early, made scramble eggs, just eggs no toast no sausages, for breakfast. We have stop stocking up food to make the moving more easier. Itupun dah berbakul-bakul of food we kept in our neighbour's refrigerator (tumpang sat, nak pindah fridge kene tutup kan). After breakfast, we went to Kmart to get some new light bulbs. We need to change some of the burn out light bulbs before vacating the unit. We came home, and continue packing while waiting for the movers.

Exactly at 10am we heard someone calling at the door. I opened the door and saw a couple, a man and a woman, beaming at me. The man gave salam, but I didn't hear it, so he repeated the salam, and then I asked him, "Sorry, are you a muslim?". Oh, at that time I didn't realise I was harsh. Tengah kalut-kalut nak pindah, my brain can't process faster. And with that kalutness, I forgot to reply his salam correctly. So I just ignore it, but luckily no offense taken by the other party, but instead he continued by saying, "I read the Quran". Semoga terbuka la hatinya iya, InsyaAllah. Sib baik la atang layan dia ngan soal jawab pasal Islam sikit2.

Anyway, this couple worked, I tell you, damned quick. They came inside the house, looked around, and figure out how to fit our things inside their van. Yes, they transported our things by using just one van. Our bulky items include washing machine, dryer, fridge, a sofa bed, a queen size bed, mattresses, bookshelf, 4 tables, 1 coffee table, a few side tables and some chairs. Plus, we have tens of boxes. Both of them were talking to each other, planning what will go first and what will go last. Took them 3 trips to have everything moved. The lady is so exhausted after the second trip, mind you we lived at 2nd floor, luckily our new unit is only located on the first floor, and has direct access from the road. Penat seh!!.. Me and atang also made a number of trips to move small things like plates, clothes, food stuff etc. Dengan panas terik lagi, it is summer, we drank glasses and glasses of cold water.

(furnitures yang berteraburan..... during this time the movers were on their way to our new apartment...the first trip)

Even when the couple finished removing all the bulky items plus all the boxes, we still have some unpacked items. So atang called up a friend for help. It was ended at 4pm. Ohhh masa tu dah tak larat dah. Sengal, semput, denyut-denyut semua ada. But I can't see things unpacked, especially clothings and kitchen stuff and food. So I continue unpacking, and finally I called it a day at around 10pm...... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....tido mati malam tu.....

(nie kat apartment baru....)

Prologue: The moving

Alhamdullillah, we have settle down in our new place. Phewww... what a day we had, opppsss 3 days actually, moving, unpacking, cleaning, rearranging, shopping, discarding, yadayadayada .

Am still feeling tired and sleepy while typing this... got to have some coffee..... planning to spend the day writing some stories for next week....bilo la nak abis tulis report nie oiii!!.... well can't do that right, my brain refuse to work today ahaks.... Anyway, will be in the office even on Xmas day (dah bukan hari kita kan, buat ape nak cuti) only.... but not on boxing day, yeah!!

I need some caffein right now (mana kupi aik cheong ku?!!)......

BRB

(update @ 11.28am : alamak baru perasan, tinggal sorang2 kat ofis, pagi tadi ada sorang minah, la nie dah ilang.... ofis nie aku yang punya...yah yah!!)

We are moving...

...to a new apartment this weekend. Yup, we have found a new place, 2 bedroom apartment or known as a unit, a bit smaller than the current one, but a lot cheaper. We could save about AD100 p/w with the new apartment.

So we are now busy packing. We have packed almost 60% of our stuff, sold and gave away some of the unnecessary furniture.

This is Yaya's room, there used to be a queen size bed in this room. We bought it last year for mak and abah when they came to take care of us during my confinement.

We have already made arrangement with the movers. Oh am a bit emotional of leaving this apartment, our first home in Brisbane.

Will be very busy this weekend and probably a few days after that. May have problem with the internet connection due to the moving. Regardless, I have created some entries for next week. Have a great weekend kengkawan. Jaga diri, jaga kesihatan.