The new apartment

We went to have a look at the new apartment yesterday. It was quite impressive actually. There are 3 main buildings, 1 office block and 2 residential blocks plus 1 multi purpose hall. When we arrived, we could see that block A was definitely not ready to receive dwellers. The missing windows, scaffolding everywhere and we could see from afar that airconditioned units were not even installed yet.

My husband called one of the project team members and we were asked to go to their unit in block B instead. The area looked like a construction site with debris and dust everywhere. All the apartments would look the same by the way. When I entered the apartment for the first time, my first impression was "oh, it's a modern apartment".

It was definitely smaller than our current abode. The kitchen was very narrow but with modern equipments. The furniture was all black, with black leather sofa and black cabinets. The TV was a 32 or 40 inch flat screen and the most important thing, the internet connection was ready. Each apartment would have 3 rooms with attached bathrooms and another bathroom outside. The room was roughly about 2/3 of our current room space. I think we'll have 1 parent's room, 1 girl's room and 1 boy's room...hehehe...if Hadi is willing to sleep on his own. Aliah is definitely looking forward to have her own room.

It's just nice for our family but I'm worried about the storage of all our stuff. There's a small and very narrow space outside (it looked like a broom closet actually) where we could put our dry stuff (soaps and detergents etc.). Looking at the space, finding a place to put the freezer could be a problem...sigh...so many things to think about. Plus the packing and unpacking that has to be done soon. I've loosely packed about 15 boxes already but there's so many things not touched yet.

Overall impression, it was not that bad but I'm worried about block A, would it be ready in 3 weeks? I don't think so... Another worry is that since by hook or by crook we have to leave the current building by the end of August, the job done will be slipshod and it could be dangerous if the all the safety precautions are not taken seriously...sigh...Luckily out apartment is one the first floor so it's not that bad if the lift is not working.

Anyway, we met Adik's friend there (one of the IT people). He's going back to Malaysia in 2 weeks time and he told us that all the internet connections were ready to be used. Small world, huh...Anyway, that's all I can say about a 20 minutes visit...except that Hadi was so taken with the apartment, he cried when it was time to go home (he said the place was 'shiny')..hehehe