Being Uprooted

Mum dropped a whopper while we were having breakfast today: dad has gotten a permanent job transfer to New Zealand and the family's relocating.

Now, our family's not known for playing April Fool's jokes on each other, so we aren't suspecting a prank here. We're told by mum that they've both been discussing this for two weeks now and finally dad decided that they shall relocate. Good place to retire, we're told. Selling the house, we're told. You want to come along or stay, we're asked.

This reminds us really about the time when we graduated and the family came to Glasgow for the ceremony (and to tour Europe while at it). There we were, thinking, "Yes! Once we start working we'll be able to move out and stay in KL on our own!" and getting all happy about hopeful independance when sis comes up to us and asks, "Eh, pa and ma got tell you or not? They are thinking of selling the Klang house and moving to Taman Tun."

In retrospect, moving to TTDI was the better option, but well it gives you an idea of how 'fast' news gets told between us and the parents.

We're rather torn.

New Zealand's a rather lovely place, but our life is here! Honestly we're quite tied to here already...our friends are all here, things are swell with the Chief, the job's comfy. If asked to list down the pros and cons, we'd think we'd be able to list down more pros for staying (as we can't rightly say what pros there are to moving to NZ for good).

We've our friends all here. Well except for those who've gone overseas, like some Klangite and uni friends in the UK. We'll definitely have to ask FeR for information, 'cos she's the only one we knows who's in NZ now. It's not easy for us to leave everything our friends behind and start anew, it's probably easier if we were still in our college/uni years.

Jobwise, we don't think it's gonna be easy finding a job for a supervisor cleaner in NZ. And our degree is such that, we'll have to sit for extra papers and re-do our pharmacy housemanship again (gotta check with FeR) before we can work straightaway as a pharmacist. And we must say that we rather like our job now.

If we stay, we'll have to find a place of our own, but at least we'll have our independance! Free to stay on our own! Free to come and go as we like without disturbing the rest of the household! Free to hold parties at our place! Free to experiment with cooking! Free to wash our own clothes! Free to do our own ironing...um. But hey, the Chief would be able to move in with us then.

Well of course the Chief isn't happy with the news...both of us know that a long-distance relationship isn't going to work.

But, it isn't everyday that a chance to head off to, as we put it, an angmoh country.

So we're torn. Stay or go? Maybe it's a good thing we didn't rush to get an iPhone with Maxis too.