With kiddos.

All girls!! I didn’t bring E with me during this meet up.

With my god-daughter T, this one was at the chinese resto we had dinner at on our way home. The pose was her idea, such a sweetie!

And the other one, which was not really planned at Cafe Breton in Tomas Morato just a couple days before we were scheduled to leave.

E with A, who doesn’t know her ninang mich

See the gallery for more pics.

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.

Went to watch the movie last Wednesday with my mom and aunt. It’s a fun fun fun movie, I really enjoyed it a lot. My mom super enjoyed it that she is adding the Abba songs to her repertoire on their karaoke nights. Meryl Streep is such a good actress, you can really throw any role at her and she’ll just shine. And I so love Pierce Brosnan here. 

Me: E, time to take a bath
E: mommy. 5 minutes.

Me: brush your teeth
E: 5 minutes

Me: playtime is finished. put away your toys.
E: mommy, 5 minutes.

It’s becoming his standard answer. If only he really knew how long a minute is.

We finished late into the night cleaning (uhm, remind me next time to just hire cleaners ok!) what we anticipated to be a smooth handover to the landlord didn’t happen. Pagkatapos magikot-ikot sa unit ng ilang beses para siguraduhin na maayos lahat, umupo na kami kasama ng kasero para pagusapan na ang pagalis at pagsoli ng deposito. Akala namin ay wala ng magiging problema dahil simula’t sapol ay maayos namang kausap ang aming kasero, walang palya naman ang aming pagbayad ng buwanang renta pero syempre sa huli din nakikita ang tunay na kulay. Naghanap talaga siya ng paraan para hindi maibalik ang deposit namin dahil hindi namin tinapos ang kontrata kahit na dalawang buwan na lang yun at aalis pa kami ng di pa tapos ang buwan ng mayo na bayad na ang renta. Iginiit niya na ayon sa kasulatan ay kailangan daw na pinadalhan namin siya ng sulat para abisuhan siya na aalis na kami hindi daw pwede na sinabi lang namin sa kanya at dahil wala nga daw kaming pinadalang sulat ay ang gagamitin niyang basehan para sa dalawang buwang pasabi para sa diplomatic clause (kung saan maari naming makuha ang aming deposito kahit na hindi tinapos ang kontrata, kailangan lang ay dalawang buwang pasabi at kailangan din ay aalis ng bansa) ay ang text ni Ichi sa kanya (mga isang linggo pagkatapos namin siyang makausap) upang ipaalala nga na aalis kami. Sana naman ay binanggit yung pagpapadala ng sulat at hindi puro oo lang ang sagot, eh kahit na yung deposito na yung paksa oo pa din yung sagot. Ang nakakainis talaga sobra ay kung paano ginawa yung hindi pagbalik ng deposito sobrang underhanded, eh wala namang hindi nadadaan sa maayos na paguusap. Hindi na nga niya naisip na pasalamat nga siya na aalis kami at maari na niyang paupa yung unit sa mas mataas na renta. Nanghihinayang kasi siya sa kung magkanong halaga at hindi na tiningnan yung bigger picture. Laking pasalamat na lang namin at nandun yung aming ahente para tumulong sa handover. Siya yung nakipagusap sa kasero para maibalik naman ang karamihan sa aming deposito at para na din hindi umabot sa away ang usapan. In the end, we just decided not to let that incident overshadow the good memories of the place that we called home for almost two years. It is what E knows as his first home. We feel blessed with how everything unfolded and how everything was taken cared of.  

*zài jiàn = goodbye

Disclaimer: No child was harmed in the making of this blog entry.

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!

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