freedom in sepia

it's funny that the first word i thought of as soon as i stepped into our new "home" is liberating.  because it is.

when pia and i were waiting for the owner to finish checking the unit and our room, and also waiting for ross, mac, jason and kuya to return to the unit, i felt like something was prolonging my agony to finally leave that place.  probably that was also the reason i snapped when they spoke/discussed in chinese in front of my face again.  sobrang bastusan na to a.  i wanted so much to get it over with that when they talked in chinese and i felt like some problem was going to arise again, my mind said no.  no.  this isn't going to happen again.

good thing the people around me were somewhat cool-headed and they sorted the matter out.  my smile only came back after i boarded the bus.  i thought, "finally, i'm out of that hell."

unpacking, for me, is more tedious as it entails organization and moving of things and what have you.  but unpacking here in our new room, while it was very very tiring, was more fulfilling in a way.  i actually like our new room more.  it is smaller, but cozier.  the curtain provided by the owner is light brownish in color that when the sun reflects on it (as it is doing now), everything in the room is in sepia.  our bed is back on the floor (it has always been on the floor because we don't have a bed frame; it just felt different in queenstown because we had another queen-size mattress to use as a makeshift bed frame).  but it feels more comfortable now.  haha.  i guess it's because of our new pillows.  (i love ikea!).  we also have a makeshift dresser now!  the owner has this three-drawer low cabinet of sorts with a table top, and i just placed our mirror on top of it.  then all of our daily toiletries on the side, voila!  (i think this would have been much better if there were pictures, but i don't have a camera.)  i also got the owner's  two-layer shelves and made it something like our bedside table/headboard.  ang galing!

this actually looks more of a real bedroom in a real house, compared to the one and queenstown and choa chu kang.  now, i believe we didn't make a mistake taking this room.