Of smog....and Angels...
The moving house saga continues....was all ready to hand over vast quantities of money (the payment in advance here is like nothing I have ever seen before...apparently I am lucky - only two months deposit and six months in advance!) and move into the apartment - yesterday was my day off and all was planned and organised....except for one factor - the agent had decided to 'go out of town for the day' and had forgotten to tell me..anyway will now have to move over after work in the evenings. I have to be vaguely settled before the travelling zoo arrives on Friday, experience tells me they don't like the packing or unpacking procedure!
Moving yesterday would have proved challenging as I had the migraine from hell and being released from my moving duties consequently spent the day holed up in a very dark and very cold room!
Having read the SCMP on Sunday I see that HKG's air quality over the last few days has been pretty diabolical....Manila isn't any great shakes either on that front...below two photographs - same view,same time - 24 hours apart!
Wandering around the shops on Sunday evening (buying the important stuff - toilet brushes, shower curtains, bug killer!!) I went through the Christmas decoration department - which seems to be growing each week, at this rate by December there will be nothing to buy except Christmas decorations!
Moving yesterday would have proved challenging as I had the migraine from hell and being released from my moving duties consequently spent the day holed up in a very dark and very cold room!
Having read the SCMP on Sunday I see that HKG's air quality over the last few days has been pretty diabolical....Manila isn't any great shakes either on that front...below two photographs - same view,same time - 24 hours apart!
Wandering around the shops on Sunday evening (buying the important stuff - toilet brushes, shower curtains, bug killer!!) I went through the Christmas decoration department - which seems to be growing each week, at this rate by December there will be nothing to buy except Christmas decorations!
posted by Madame Chiang at 7:16 am
5 Comments:
Wow, your tribulations seem endless. Maybe you are questioning your decision to move there now.....actually, I'm now starting to question my decision to move there!
actually, any move anywhere is stressful and there are always problems....it's just that these problems seem to have dragged out for ever....in most places moving is a fairly swift experience so the problems are condensed!
It's difficult to think of being settled, to think you hvae a home, and while you know it will be sorted in a few months it's the slowness and the inefficency that grates the most...and thats living in Singapore.
Hope you have a home soon.
-Platypus.
You ARE lucky - we're paying a full 12 months in advance! And a surety on top of that!!
I forgot to add...and six months back dated cheques....
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