Moving.

It’s been quite a busy week! As I wrote earlier, my housemates — Jenny and Mayu — and I decided to move out of our lovely house. Mayu and I started cleaning the furniture and moving our stuffs to the new unit, which is located exactly 2 levels above our old unit. We did it 2 days before Jenny arrived from her country, Taiwan. The whole scenario of moving out was very tiring. There’s no elevator; which is actually a good thing coz we can exercise, but I’m telling youuuu it’s freakin tiring!!! OK, stop complaining, Mel. Thank God my stuffs are not as much as Jenny’s and Mayu’s. Most of these stuffs are my precious books which are quite heavy. Anyway, one thing that makes me smile is the view (I made this using photomerge from Photoshop. It was my first attempt to make a panorama… I had to fix lots of things… Not too bad, though there are some obvious colour differences). Everytime I feel like my energy is running out, I sit on the balcony and stare at everything that my eyes could catch. It feels so good. Life suddenly becomes so beautiful hehe. I never sat on my old unit’s balcony before. I don’t think I’d enjoy it. People in the cars and on the street would see us very clearly. I’d feel so uncomfortable and awkward.

OK, honestly, I was not excited of moving out, so was Mayu. We loved this unit so much, that we were once thinking about changing the plan! Hehehe. But we knew it wouldn’t be fair to Jenny. Sometimes I feel, I regret that I agreed to move. But… imagine! What if something happens? What if our valuables are stollen again? What if somebody breaks into our unit? I WILL most probably be blamed. Even if I wouldn’t be blamed, I would be so regret that I didn’t do such and such. I’d feel bad to Jenny. Sometimes I ask myself, am I too selfish? Or am I thinking too much? I do feel like I haven’t done much for Jenny. Perhaps by moving out, I’d feel a little better. Anyway it’s my 3rd night sleeping in this unit. So far there’s no problem. It feels weird that everything stays the same. I moved to another place, but everything looks exactly the same. Except the fridge. Yes, the fridge does not close “automatically” when I leave it opens. I have to push its door to close it — I never did that in my old unit. After few seconds (or even minutes!), I always end up discovering that the fridge has its door unshut. It’s a simple thing, but it always happens to me :D. I’m too forgetful.

Mayu’s mom is coming to Brisbane at the end of January. I met her before, she was very nice. She and Mayu were planning to go to New Zealand for vacation, but changed the plan. They’ll go to Sunshine Coast instead. I haven’t been to Sunshine Coast (near Australia Zoo.. remember Steve Irwin?) before, but then I decided to go with them since I wouldn’t be living here next year. Hopefully it’ll be fun!! I’m looking forward walking through the national parks instead of going to the beach hehehe.

I went to the cinema with Yui, Maria, and Bertie yesterday to watch The Pursuit of Happyness. The movie was just released here in Brissy. It was a great movie, starring actor Will Smith and his cute son Jaden Smith. When the movie concluded, all the people in the cinema were clapping :). What I really like about this movie is that it’s based on a true story of Christopher Gardner, a homeless man struggling with his painful life while raising his only son. He participated in an unpaid broker training program which lead him to becoming a multi-millionaire. The story is inspiring and incredible. He wrote an autobiography with the same title and I really want to buy that book!