It was just minutes before lunch time. I was getting ready to walk out of the room to prepare my lunch and suddenly a email appeared on my mailbox. It was from the real estate agent.
“I thought I told you to checkout before 11am! They called me saying that all your belongings are still there. Please checkout NOW, otherwise you’ll need to pay the bill for today, yourself.”
And she attached a email from 3 weeks ago asking me to checkout before 11am, cc-ed it to my secretary.
Before I even get to pickup the phone to call her back, the secretary came in rushing into my room and asked me to go checkout the apartment right away. They won’t be paying the bills if I am charged for today’s stay. My initial plan was to checkout the apartment after work as the landlady of my new apartment is only available after 6pm.
I totally forgot that I need to be out by 11am.
There I went. I had only 1 hour. A bus ride from office to the apartment would take 20 minutes, that’s if the bus comes straight away! I was lucky that I only had to wait for 5 minutes for the bus to come.
So, in 1 hour I had to go back to my apartment, pack all my things up, checkout, then take a taxi to the new apartment, some 2km away. When I’ve finished packing, I realized that there are quite a lot to carry. A luggage bag, 2 backpacks and 5 bags of foods in all. Some of the foods were mine, some were passed to me when my colleagues left.
The heavy rain this afternoon just made things worse. Within minutes of calling them, the taxi arrived but it was parked some 100m away. And I had to carry everything to the taxi under the rain.
The new apartment was very near to the main train station, less than 200m away. There was no elevator. Again I had to carry all these bags 3 floors up. I was staying at the roof unit.
After all the packing, carrying things around while getting wet under the rain, I was greeted with my new apartment for the next 4 months.
My New Apartment!
This is How A Fully Equipped Kitchen Looks Like
Welcome to The Bedroom!
It was definitely much better than the old one.
Everything in this new unit is from IKEA. I thought to myself, “Back in Malaysia, we all want to fill our homes with IKEA furnitures, and here I have a studio apartment 100% furnished by IKEA!”
I can even see the phrase For IKEA From Whirpool on the microwave cum oven.
I definitely feel much better here. At least now I feel more at home. The previous apartment (was it even an apartment?) had the bed, toilet, kitchen and living room everything in 1 room.
Not ideal for a long stay.
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