Farewell, Team

About 10 months ago, I posted about securing my first job ever in the land down under.

Today, I bade goodbye to that job and to the people that had the pleasure of working with me (hehe). I plan to stop for 2 months or so until I find something new to learn. I have been excited knowing that December is generally a happy month where everyone is in festive-mood and I've been looking forward to this time.

However, it was weird today as I actually felt a little sad. I realized I've earned some friends along the journey and saying goodbye was a bit heavy for me (as always is). I was so flattered by the well-wishes everyone gave me but was most touched by the people who told me I'd be truly missed, my Business contacts included.

My team and my extended team prepared a little afternoon tea carrot-cake to send me off and handed me their token. Too bad I didn't bring my camera but this is a recent picture of the team.



I will forever remember the fun I had with this team, treasure the friendships I have earned and bring the lessons I have learned wherever God leads me. Bye guys, our paths may cross again but until then good luck and take care!

We have moved!

We have finally moved to a new apartment!

This move had been occupying a lot of our weekends since we had to search apartments in the local real estate websites, short list them then schedule for inspections. The Saturdays during the month of October had been mostly spent inspecting apartments. It's not easy specially if you have 15-minute open houses scheduled one after another and at different streets - or worse at different suburbs in which case you just have to prioritize and pick one. Finally, before the month ended, we agreed on getting one that is still close to where we used to live -- about 500meters.

And the BIG MOVE was completed over the weekend, with a spill-over on Monday. I thought the apartment search was the difficult part, I was so wrong! We had to pack our stuff (kitchen was the most time consuming) and sort out a lot of papers and trinkets - and for someone who just loves to keep everything thinking I might find use for that sometime in the future - that was chaos!

But the good news is, all of that is now in the past. And now we're on to the next phase - UNPACKING. Our living, dining, kitchen, master's bedroom, toilets and baths are all doing good -- BUT our extra bedroom is still full of boxes, some of them still in their original packing from Manila. I promised myself to unpack at least one box a day. Hopefully by the end of the month they're all done so I can finally tell our friends and relatives, you are now very much welcome to visit and sleep over! HAHA

PS. If you haven't received our new address, please do not hesitate to let me know and I'd make sure you get it. We certainly need that Christmas present you are planning to send us :)