Of Moving In

Thanks for all the blessings. =)

First, a pc of good news: I’ve gotten a job offer!

Well, actually it didnt come as a huge surprise becoz I’ve had 2 interviews with regards to this job and after both interviews, the job agency did call up to inform me of their client’s interest in me. But I was asked to wait for them to settle some clearance b4 they cld confirm on the offer. Anyway, the workplc is considered near to my future house and the benefits more or less remain the same as my last job. Salary is higher than my previous job’s basic salary, but of coz, lesser than the basic + allowance.

Now that I’ve gotten a job in the west which is near to my future home, plus that fact that my house is under-going renovations now and I think it can be done pretty fast, J and I are thinking of moving in once everything is settled. But the problem is, I dun think my parents will approve as we hv yet to go thru the traditional wedding. To J and I, we r not so particular on this as we view our solemnisation to be the more impt ceremony and considered us to be married once we’ve had our solemnisation. But I guess to the older generation, they view a couple as "married" only after they’ve completed the customary wedding.

I think our reasons wanting to move in are valid. First, the house will be near to my new workplc. It’s like half an hour’s travel time compared to one and a half hours to my current house. Second, our reno r completed and we hv already started paying for our housing, power, conservancy charges every mth. So we dun see the point in leaving the house empty. And of course, we do long to live our lives together.

Hv heard that we do need to book the wedding dinner one year in advance if we r to get those auspicious dates. Which theorotically means we will only be able to throw our wedding dinner one year frm now and then move into our house.

Frankly speaking, we will not hv much savings left after clearing all our reno expenditure. So, we do need to save up again for the dinner and miscellanous spending like the wedding gowns, ang pows etc.

Let’s see…. for electrical applicances, we had reserved our fridge n washing machine. His dad said he has this extra new tv set and wld give it to us. We still need to buy the sofa, coffee and dining table and mattress. My mum said mattress shd be sponsored by the groom’s side. Anyway….

Well… this afternoon my mum was saying we can do our customary thing on separate day frm the wedding dinner. Once we’ve gone thru the customary thing, we can move in. But the two days shdnt be too far away. Guess it didnt really help a lot. Haha. Well, but at least, we hv some way to get around if the wedding venues r all booked on those auspicious dates i.e. if we cant get the venue on an auspicious date, then we can do our customary 1st on the date and then throw the dinner some other day.

Shall hv to re-do our finances.

Oh, I’m actually looking at wedding lunch. I find I prefer lunch as I like the sunny mood and I feel everybody has more time left after the lunch compared to dinner. And of course…. it is SLIGHTLY cheaper than dinner. Haha.

But then, I’m not totally ruling out wedding dinner.

Ok, shall stop here.

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