Back Again !!

Yes, I am back in the blogging world after having disappeared in Sep 2006.  If any of you are wondering what I was doing in the meantime, I can only summarize it as having an extended honeymoon with my wife, who arrived in Australia in the first week of Sep 2006.  So, I cannot be entirely blamed for disappearing !!

This past week saw me and my wife huffing and puffing while moving into a new home.  I never knew that I had accumulated so much stuff in the 3 years or so at the old place, the books alone came to three cardboard boxes.  I used a movers service, who charged one arm and half a limb for the three hour work that they did.  Of course, I should appreciate the laddies who easily picked up my writing table and carried it to the new first floor home.  I remember the day when that table was brought it to the old home, it is heavy.  This was also the first time that I saw a chap carry a washing machine all by himself up the stairs.   So it was worth paying the arm and half limb to them.

Life is never devoid of surprises – I was asked to move out of the old home during Nov third week as the landlord was wanting to sell the property.  Now I have walked miles around Melbourne looking for new homes as soon as I got married and in all places, got declined for no apparent reason.  I had a 9 month rental history, savings in the bank, my credit rating was good (I have my credit card providers hounding me providing me more credit every 3 months or so) and still did not get approved.  Whilst talking amongst friends about these problems, lots of answers came up, how agents check the rental history and so on and so forth.  When I was asked to move out, I was naturally quite pessimistic about getting another home, given the previous experiences, but the saving grace was that my current land agent was willing to find another home ASAP.  There are business reasons behind it, but I don’t care, as long as I have a roof over my head (with two bedrooms) I am happy.  And surprisingly, we found a home right in our current suburd of Glen Huntly near to the Railway station.

I will write more about the moving in process and the various hassles we faced when we moved in.  But for now, I am back in full flow, I guess..!!