A Glimpse of Me

Our neighbour’s husband is into real estate. So he knows which house is available for rent or for sale. While walking to our new house yesterday, we bumped into him. Then we found out that the house 3 houses away from us is for sale. But he said it’s hard to find people to buy that house because it is located in front of the TENAGA power house (tenaga is the electricity company in Malaysia). It is Chinese belief that it’s not good to be living in front of any electricity centers – Feng Shui wise. I didn’t know there’s such beliefs. But of course anybody can just believe whatever they want to believe. Real estate agents, of all people, should know all these so they know how to deal with people about selling or renting out a house. I wonder if the Wilmington NC real estate are aware of such beliefs. There are not a lot of Chinese there but there are a lot of people that considers Feng Shui before buying any properties.

I don’t believe in those because I know that “Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.”

We found some good and pretty curtains at Macy’s in Taipan. We are trying (read my lips – trying) to set up an English living room. So I chose one that’s flowery with shades of limelight, peach and summer heat. That’s our theme color by the way. It looks so sweet. I got it with 50% discount. It was so timely coz it was their last day of sale.

Hubby kept saying it was really God’s favor for us to find the curtain store at just the right time. The 2-panel window curtain was on display. It’s supposed to be on 30% only. But I wanted to get it even if it was only on display and there was no other stock. So I jokingly said, I will buy if you give me more discount. LOL. She actually gave me 50% discoun instead of just 30%. Me and my jokes work well, sometimes.

Our new house is smaller. So it;s quite easy to make it cozy. It’s a good thing that we repainted it. The house we are staying now is all-white. So it’s hard to decorate it. And we didn’t want to do a lot because it is not our own house.

But with our new house, we decided to take charge and went ahead with repainting. The owners didn’t mind. So yes, I am excited to move in to our new house with an English living room. But of course, one can’t expect too much as we have limited budget. So it won’t be that Georgian, or Victorian, or even Edwardian interior design. Just basic English design – full of flowers.

We just came back from a friend’s house. They’re giving away some furnitures. They are going back to Finland and they don’t want to take all their stuff. So they decided to just give them away. We saw what we liked and they’re reserving it for us. It is good to have some furnitures for free. No need to go to Ikea to buy new ones. I’m sure if we buy new ones, we’re going to use our credit card again. I’m scared that we will go into deep debt again… like what happened the first time we moved to a new house. Although of course there is a concept of debt consolidation to help us manage our credits, finances, etc… but still it would be nice to live a debt-free life.