Last weekend - 13th of November 2010 (Saturday), finally after nearly five months of renovation work, we shifted into our new house.
This is a totally new environment for both my mom and me in which for the last 33 years (as I remembered for me) and 40 years (for my mom) we never shifted before. We have been staying in the same place all these while.
This place which we shifted into is nearly double the size of our old place. Besides that, this new place is gated and guarded in which safety will not be a major concern. We can happily leave the gate wide open, and not be too worried about passerby / strangers walking into the house as to enter to our area, those who are not staying there need to register themselves with the guard giving their ID card and their car number plate taken down.
Shifting house is a major task. With the help from my family + relatives and a few good friends, the major shifting process took place on Sunday (14th November 2010) morning. I have got a 30ft lorry from my office colleague which this lorry have a lifting platform mounted behind the back to ease the loading into the lorry and unloading it again at the new house.
I was on leave on since Friday (12th Nov 2010) until Wednesday (17th Nov 2010) happens to be a public holiday here. So have a 6 days straight of days off at home to unpack and re-arrange the new place.
Now, have been comfortably settled into the new place and my mom seems happy with the setup although everything is still very new to us. Need to adjust to our daily routine and new location of the things we use to put.
Today is the first day of me in the office and took a new drive route to work. The drive was smooth as many people took leave to continue straight for the weekend since its already Thursday today and weekend is the day after.
The renovation took lots of effort and coordination, inputs and discussion with lots of people inclusive of my fiancée, my mom, my brother & sister in-law, uncle and cousins inclusive of the contractors and suppliers.
One of the best design item in the house that almost everyone that came will say its beautiful is my prayers' cabinet which was designed by my fiancée dad. He really put in a lot of effort into make the design looks really great. Also he had design my kitchen cabinet setup which was really beautiful. Thanks Uncle!!
