We moved! To another ulu part of Singapore - BP. The reason is another story for another day. We would be here for at least 2 years and then we'll see what happens.
The shift was scheduled for yday but for the past 2 weeks, we had been collecting parcel, fitting furniture, receiving new furniture and shifting bags and boxes, hoping to ease the actual shift.
We bought the latest xiaomi too bcos we needed "somebody" to help us moving on. Xiaomi started work days before we moved bcos the floor was feeling sticky and yucky.
Even before the actual move, Daddy Lim and I were exhausted. We had been packing, loading to the car, driving to BP, unloading and unpacking, every single evening for the past week, add on 2x during the weekend.
Mochi didn't like the new place. We brought him to explore and he spent his whole time hiding behind the fridge.
It took me a long time to coax and grab him out.
Then, he went to find another corner to hide.
Finally, it was D Day. The kids were in youth camp, so it was Daddy Lim and I single-handedly. Popo helped so much with the packing, particularly the kitchen and the bed-related stuff.
I had originally signed up the SCM 10km run with my company colleagues but figured out that I wouldn't be back from the move, which was scheduled for 9am to 10am. I decdied to do my own 10km instead. I started at 6am and achieved! Yay! My 2nd 10km of my life.
Probably a last run in JLG for a long time.
We engaged Cube Movers and realised how much more expensive moving now is. I keep thinking that our LV home is minimal and there is nothing much to move but I am so wrong. We had a lot more furniture this time and while not many boxes, we ended up requiring 3 loads of 15ft, meaning 3 trips. Why don't they have bigger lorries. As expected, they were late but at least the move wasn't stopped by management, like how they refused to let us move in the last time bcos the mover came in after 1pm, the cut off time for Saturday shifting.
We could have tried moving some of the smaller stuff ourselves and do many more car trips but gave up and decided to just pay and solve the problem. Again,Mochi wasn't pleased with the shift.
He got to move to BP 1st. We placed him in the playpen that we brought him when we 1st got him.
He was very stressed, anxious, scared and hid in the litter box. Zzzzzz.
Finally, the 1st load came. I was stationed in BP while Daddy Lim at LV for the unfinished work. The movers had to coordinate other moves in between too. For a long time in the afternoon, they disappeared. When I went downstairs, I saw our wrapped stuff lining up the corridor from the carpark. I can only say that Singapore is very safe.
I started shifting some of the stuff up and unpacking. I think I am more efficient than the movers. Maybe bcos I have already believed in my heart that there are no good movers, so long as they do a reasonable job, we live with it. As such, I wasn't upset even when the move stretched into the evening. We also took pity on the poor guy lah, the others went for other jobs, leaving 1 guy huffing and puffing, moving the big furniture and then fixing up the complicated dismantled beds.
The kids came home and were very excited to find their old toys and started playing them. What?
These were shifted from Centris to LV and were hiding under Zaky's bed in LV for the past 3 years. Nobody touched them. I had intended to pass them on during the upcoming Christmas gathering.
We didn't finish until almost 8pm. Nana exclaimed that we can see the sunset!
We have 1 big shelf left and required assembling and drilling. The mover promised that they would come back to complete the job today but I don't see sight (not even sound) of them. Haiz.
Mummy Lim
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