The Intercontinental Move Thread

[tanman_sg]

Andy here.

I moved over to Singapore at then end of 2000, and it has been a good run. I was excited to come over, and will kind of miss the place when I am gone.

Now, at the end of 2004, I have found who I am in the past four years, - What I would like to do when I'm a little older (15 at moment.) I have gone to a great school, full of the greatest teachers, and heaps pf opportunities. I get to borrow toys like video, still or film cameras from Bob at the libreary, gotta love that bloke. My english teacher has the greatest sense of humor. I have been deisgning advertising within the school, as well as designed a variety of pages - and the cover - for our yearbook. Have won awards for both. It'e been neat.

It's good to listen to the acoustic version of 'High', The Lighthouse Family while you write.

So in Singapore, you have to take taxis wherever you go because cars are too expensive, I am in an apartment because land is not cheap either. The country is small. Sometimes the water tastes funny. The TV can be crap at times. An air-conditioner graces my bedroom at night. You can begin to sweat just standing around. The kitchen is hot and there are ants which really bug me.

On the contrary, there is Sim Lim Sqquare and I can go get parts to build me a computer. Funan has a good range of toys too. Film processing is not too expensive and the shop puts your film on CD for you too. You can take a bus right up to Malaysia for $38. You can fly to Bangkok. Music is not as expensive as it is in New Zealand. I like the place in general and it will kind of hurt to leave. I have just grown so used to this country.

However, there are things I like about New Zealand too. Cars are not too expensive and you can go on road trips. We have a house, it's nice and big with two storeys and two living areas, there is a beautiful garden outside, maintained by my Grandad, and it will be great to be around him again. An electric blanket will keep my bed warm at night. YV has good DIY-type shows about blokes around New Zealand who'se self-jobs are in desperate need of repair. The cool air outside is refreshing. The Kitchen is a great place to cook in, and hopefully I can get back into that again.

But I will miss broadband, the school, friends, the ability to take the bus up and see Dad's side of the family in Malaysia.

Sometimes you can't win 10-0. It might be 6-4.


Anyway, I just need a place to write every now and then.


Andrew.

[tanman_sg]

There are more aspects to moving than that.

Shipping will be $4600, gonna be sharing a 20-foot container with some other people going back to the same part of NZ. I'm gonna dump this monitor and buy another one. My computer will be in a container for 5 weeks.

I'm going to need surgery on my hip when I move back too, doctors here are too incompetent here in some areas, and I will ahve the holidays to slowly recover back in NZ.

My sister will get a cat and I a budgie.

Shops in NZ close at 5:00!!! That's gonna bug me. They are usually open to around 9:00 over here. Oh well.

Gonna have to chuck a whole lot of stuff out. Most of the stuff was cheap anyway.

I will be flying out on the night of the 16th of December. Dad will be staying back here, but he'll be in Japan on business at the time. We're gonna be so bored for about 6 days before we go as all our stuff will be gone. Not that I do much anyway, besides sit here in front of my computer.

I can't think of anything more to say at the moment, so that's it from me, for a while.

:)

[Maro]

Good luck from One Intercontinental mover!

:luxhello

[egarrard]

Good luck in your move! Have a small digital camera? Don't forget to record your trip.

Just don't forget about us over those 5 weeks...

Enjoy this change in your life!

[tanman_sg]

Yep should be fun..

Got mum's laptop to use (Aaaah dialup)

And digital camera is a must before we go.. lookin at the Olymous C-7000.

:)

[Raedwulf]

Brings to mind when I moved down to the States to be with my wife
1week after I move down, the whole reason to stay is eliminated, moved wife and all her stuff, and the bits that I brought down with me a month later
Got to look forward to all the paperwork to get LadyC her Landed status

I got to drive through the the US Midwest, from Detroit to Chicago, then straight across from there to South Dakota.
We took a side trip into Wyoming to see Devils Tower, then back into S Dakota, went North and slipped into Montana through the Badlands, eventually crossing border at Sweetwater/Coutts
End run from the border North to Cgy :thumb
It was a great road trip, the drive through Iowa and the Dakotas would have been worse if not for Lady C as the Navigator

[wazman]

Shipping will be $4600, gonna be sharing a 20-foot container with some other people going back to the same part of NZ.

Sharing a 20' container with a bunch of people? Sounds cramped.

I'd save up and go first class. It's more roomy and you get all the perks.

[tanman_sg]

Sharing a 20' container with a bunch of people? Sounds cramped.

I'd save up and go first class. It's more roomy and you get all the perks.


:lmao

Okay let me rephrase that.

We're going to pay $4600 to use half of a 20 foot container, in which we're gonna put our stuff'.

The economy ticket is around $950, not bad for this time of year (summer) and the seats on Air New Zealand arne't bad. Got to love those 10-hour flights back home.

[WazLady73]

So your moving back to NZ from Singapore???

You really do have a life long experience!

I have lived nowhere expect in Illinois the Midwest of the USA. Where we live it isn't bad. We are 90mins west of Chicago. You can go to a Ball game, visit some great musems, great shopping(The Mag Mile), culture you don't get out here in cornfield country.

Yet, we are away from all of that.

We don't have public transportation. Barring a few family owned taxi companies out here. You NEED a car to get anywhere. Even if you wanted to take the train into Chicago, you would have to drive to Joliet to get the Metra. Some folks are trying to the the Metra out here...but $$$$$$ get in the way. Use of CSX tracks and all that.

I would love to see New Zeland. You are proud and you should be. You livied in Singapore a place I only read about and seen in movies and the Amazing Race...and going back to a beautiful country.

Let us know how it all goes!

[neutralz]

yo andrew

all the best in ya move back to new zealand. if i could i would prefer getting out of singapore too.. not that it isnt really a nice place.. but i would definitely prefer nz/australia/usa than in SG

sg's pretty different from many places. shopping malls close at abt 10. there are midnight sales sometimes. carrefourre (a supermarket) closes quite late as well, with late evening sales. crowded country and every where you go you see people and civilisation.

wazlady~.. its nice to read abt singapore..but it would definitely be a v good experience to visit here if ya get the chance to =P


So your moving back to NZ from Singapore???

You really do have a life long experience!

I have lived nowhere expect in Illinois the Midwest of the USA. Where we live it isn't bad. We are 90mins west of Chicago. You can go to a Ball game, visit some great musems, great shopping(The Mag Mile), culture you don't get out here in cornfield country.

Yet, we are away from all of that.

We don't have public transportation. Barring a few family owned taxi companies out here. You NEED a car to get anywhere. Even if you wanted to take the train into Chicago, you would have to drive to Joliet to get the Metra. Some folks are trying to the the Metra out here...but $$$$$$ get in the way. Use of CSX tracks and all that.

I would love to see New Zeland. You are proud and you should be. You livied in Singapore a place I only read about and seen in movies and the Amazing Race...and going back to a beautiful country.

Let us know how it all goes!

[tanman_sg]

Good luck in your move! Have a small digital camera? Don't forget to record your trip.


Pusing DAD to get one today.... :thumb

Hope he DOES

[tanman_sg]

I'm not too good at this type of thread am I?!

Okay here's the story.

School ends on Thursady next week. That's the 9th of December. People are going to be coming in to pack up all our stuff and send it away on wednesday, the 8th.

This weekend there is going to be some packin!

And some chuckin....Ah well it means I get a new monitor.

The stuff that will be in the apartment on thursday is the Dining table, lounge suite, old 400MHZ computer, beds, and I'll have my toys like Jukebox/Cameras/Phone and all that stuff.

Hard to believe that I'll be leaving. A few people here hadin't known and thought it was a bit of a bummer. Ah well, I guess that I'll be saying goodbyes on a party on the 10th.

I have packed things like my stereo, the 5.1 Speakers for my PC, Some other electronics...

Packed the XBox and then unpacked it to play Halo.

Not really much else to say.

My room is a bit of a mess, i'll post a picture later so that you can all see.

[WazLady73]

Hey there Tanman!

So the move is coming! You are going into summer weather! How weird would that be having Christmas in the summer.......here I am praying for snow and a blizzard and your moving to were you can wear a swimsuit outside...

Here our stores seem to be closing later and later....our grocery store here in town is open 24/7. But does close early on Thanksgiving and closed Christmas day. Our malls usually open till 9pm and Wal Mart open till 11 and soon may be open 24 hours with Christmas around the cornor....

Good luck with your move! And yes...send pictures! :camera

[tanman_sg]

Not really very interesting, here's some boxes of Dad's stuff. Mainly composed of business reports. :noway

[tanman_sg]

This is just junk. Nothing of any particular interest.

Got a rubbish chute here so chucking stuff out is not as fun as elsewhere.

[tanman_sg]

Things have happened!

Lots of things!

Stuff is gone, don't have a pic but there will be one some other time.

Dad has been working at home and tying up the internet connection..
Anyway -

This is BEFORE the MOVERS came and took all of our stuff;

[tanman_sg]

Well I came home from school one day and found this mess!

Everything was in boxes thanks toi those four guys from Crown..

[tanman_sg]

Shipping by air is like $10 per Kilo,

Which means $400 for the TV alone and $210 for my $89 desk...

So the SHIP should have our stuff over around the beginning of Fedrurary,

Which is a bummer.

[egarrard]

A new adventure! The camera seems to have taken some pretty good pics. :thumb