wonderment

Eunice was meeting me at 9am on Little Lonsdale. I managed to shower, check my mail, put on makeup and do QT before tumbling out of the house. Mr Oswald Chambers challenged us to think about what God is saying to us today. I prayed, “Lord please help me hear you.”

Some people say it’s easy to hear God in the quietness of the Australian Outback but I say, it’s not THAT easy.

Honestly, today started out awful. Like outright awful. I’ve really got to get used to taking things easy, but this whole housing thing was driving me up the wall. I nearly cried when none of the properties we looked at were decent at all, I called so many property agents and I couldn’t get anybody and those who called back were rude.

If things couldn’t get worse, I even travelled 30 minutes out of the city to get keys to visit a property in the city and which meant I had to travel back out to return the keys to get my $50 deposit back. I didn’t even bother taking the keys once I realised that flat was totally unfurnished - and for that rate ($170pw) too! Travel out to some quiet suburb twice in a day for nothing? No way!

By noon, hungry, pissed with the entire world, and tired … I get a call from D telling me that WM’s friend’s mother has locked herself in the house and can’t get out. I had no idea how someone can lock herself in the house but since they just got here, there was that possiblity. Too tired to get into a silly argument about who was nearer home to get them out, I trammed home. As I walked back to my house, I saw D’s friend and the auntie walking down the street! It was actually D’s friend who didn’t have the keys to lock the house when he left and the auntie let him out! I hopped around quite angry actually, but D’s friend is this super PR guy who offered to buy me drinks for coming back all the way to get him out. Haha, how to angry with such a guy?

I was quite miserable when I got back to town. Sihan had introed me to her accomodation owner and we were going to see his property at 1pm. No matter what, I was determined to get it.

And I did!

It’s a place behind Queen Vic Market called Swinnerton House. A student accomodation, very much like UniLodge but on a smaller, cosier, less claustrophobic scale. The rooms are actually big. Communal everything, rent’s $165pw, utilities included except the phone and internet. The bad thing is you only have one window facing the corridor and a rather dim white light but that all can be fixed with a little mindset change. (After all the crap I’ve seen, the corridor window and communal living is nothing compared to it.)

So I’m moving on Thursday!! YAY!!

I visited Sihan’s place which is similar, just at another location and got to talk to her other housies ( a guy from Msia and a gal from NZ) over dinner.

It’s going to be interesting meeting people from all over the world … I’m like the only Singaporean there … Yayness!