Mich’s Journeys

G’day from Sydney! Here for about 3 weeks now and slowly getting familiar with the place. Almost done with the unpacking of our shipped items from SG, just need to figure out where it will all go. Mum is also here helping us ease in to our routines, she’ll be flying back to Manila next month. One drawback to our place now is that there are no malls nearby, the nearest mall is three stations away by train but we do get most of our food and supplies in the neighborhood stores.

Some of the stuff in out things to do list:

• buy a dresser, tv stand, altar stand, book case, shoe racks
• finalise preschool for E, check into the other preschool which is a bit further away
• research car options

Some of our pics:

Braving the cold while waiting for the train. Di naman halatang nilalamig na kami di ba?!	market day
Still a train station shot, this one on our way home from Ikea. Parang naglalayas si E.	@ North Sydney, waiting for Ichi to finish work
Posing muna kahit hirap na sa maraming dala!
Train station pa din, this time with mumsy.

We’re down to our last few days here in Manila and we’ll finally be able to join Ichi in Sydney. It’s been more than a month since Ichi left. I know it hasn’t been easy for him to take care of all the stuff there from looking for a place for us to furnishing the place and unpacking our stuff from Sg. Our stuff was finally delivered to our place last Thursday. He will be off to Perth tomorrow but will be back in time for our arrival. New chapter here we come.

Yesterday while browsing through the latest issue of the local tv guide, 8 days, I came across their horoscope page and as I often do when I come across these pages, I read them. Here were mine and Ichi’s horoscopes.

Capricorn : You will be extremely busy, and probably twice as nervous. There is so much to do and so little time to do it, although you may try to evade your responsibilities. Perhaps you can try to put off some of your more burdensome commitments until next month.

Virgo : Woe betide the foolish person who takes you for a ride or gets in your way this week. Yet, with such power comes the need for wisdom and compassion.

Now, although I read them I’ve never put too much into what they say but yesterday it was like a soft nudge for me. You see, we are moving again. The reason why I had to immediately renew my passport a month ago was because we were processing for our visas then. I’m happy to say that we got them after a little more than 2 weeks from submission and now we are in the midst of preparing for our move. Where are we moving to? To the land down under - Sydney, Australia.

So why the soft nudge? because I think I’m starting to get overwhelmed and my reaction to it is to delay doing stuff even though I know that I would end up getting harassed or panicking to do things at the last minute.  And in Ichi’s case, they’ve been pretty stressed at work with the short time frame for the project so when some people point fingers it’s either you just take it or in Ichi’s case give them a reality check. hehe. (dito na din nakikita na tumatanda na talaga at kun dati daw nangyari yun sa kanya eh malamang na di siya kikibo)

Ooohh, on another topic remember my wicked post? I wasn’t optimistic in getting the chance to watch that before because initially we were going to be based in Perth but now that we are going to be based in Sydney, there’s a glimmer of hope!

I wanna watch — only it’s in melbourne.

Wicked The Musical - Australia