EAT ITALY, PRAY INDIA, LOVE INDONESIA

wHY do we make LIFE so COMPLICATED when all we need to DO is EAT PRAY LOVE ?

NEW HOUSE ... NEW BEGINNING

I have been quick reading the book of Elizabeth Gilbert - EAT, LOVE and PRAY !!! And with this new aura, I have been really rallying on good vibrations this week. This morning we are informed that our offer for the house that we want has been accepted by the owners. We have been waiting for this to happen for two weeks now !!! We were already giving up. Finally, this marks for me (us) a big change - that is, location wise and outlook in life :)

Re: Julia Roberts photo - i just like her beautiful smile :) infectious!

MARIA VENUS RAJ ... SHE'S GOT IT!

A GIRL ON A MISSION

Hi, my name is Salamander, a math genius and a professional internet hacker! I am hired by Jayse to find his next home .... honestly, this mission is very challenging as this bitch has so many conditions to be be met! There is a current dearth of supply for high quality and character based houses in Melbourne at the moment. So I am working 24.6.7 !!!

I was discovered in a book that the bitch picked up for a week's read from the public library ... she first met the Girl who played with fire and now she wants to meet the Girl with the dragon tattoo.... I am the girl with a mission, so at the moment she is working with me!

Anyway, just a quick one... see yah soon.. and good luck to me in my mission!

Vavuhhhhhhska !!!

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME ....

Last Thursday's episode of Glee - intensified my personal struggle for the past months - finding our next house and making it our next home .... saying goodbye to Richmond house that have been perfect for us for the past ten years ... always make me cry! I am already attached and in love with it ... and more now that we have sold it!

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So we have been frantically searching for our new house and home for the past two months now... we have even spent a week in Brisbane and lodged a contract that did not materialize (after all the efforts, energy, agonizing and dreaming ...) in there.... as we have changed directions and plans for the next ten years!!!!

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Not that we could not really afford one. The fact that we have sold our Victorian house in the city allows us to buy a better house (perhaps) - but maybe not in the city or inner city or city fringe, again without a big mortgage hanging in our asses ...

. We also have to consider a lot of important factors ... and one very important thing is that we have to have a place for our beloved children puppies ... and three of them at that. So apartments and ultra modern slick city dwellings with body corporates and pet restrictions are out of the choices. Another factor is that I don't drive so it has to be walking distance to train stations - a must !!! And then, we have accumulated over the years stuff and furnitures that need a lot of space ... so we need a bigger house too. And should be at near the city since that is where I work ...

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The probs is that there is a shortage of supply of houses in Melbourne at the moment. (Read this ... ) And the prices have gone over the roofs and the mountain tops with increasing interest rates for the mortgages , can't believe it !!! Houses in our area that were bought for 250k ten years ago are now sold for a million !!! Can you imagine ??? What is happening? With people from overseas buying houses in Australia as their investments, the prices of property has tremendously increased for the past months. I thought selling our house was a big mistake, in the first place. But there is nothing we can do about it.

. I think it is also timing and luck - that plays a lot in buying and selling your house.... so I have been praying and lighting my candles everynight .... and wishing and praying for the universe to open up the doors for our next BEAUTIFUL, GRACIOUS AND LUCKY HOME ... . I am a Taurus and a homemaker. I love to have a house that I can be proud of aside from being comfortable in there... We also entertain and invite our friends in for tea and dinner once in a while.... . I was advised to envision my dream house - to be very specific about it and its location. To attract this house is to envision it your mind and meditate on it .... So that means I have to choose a particular house in the market!!! Print a photo of it and post it in the toilet so I can see it everyday.... That is a bit hard because the one that I would be dreaming is millions beyond our budget, ha,ha,ha!!! I think I have to make a checklist of my requirements and that would constitute my dream or reality house. . So I pray and wish for whatever is best out there for us within our budget and capacity ... . Settlement of our current house is by end of August and we have to find and purchase a place to move in by June or July - the latest. So stress, stress, stress for the past days.... We have seen and inspected at least a hundred of houses out there ... I have not been thinking and doing anything else, even blogging about it now ... (to clear my mind) and to express my intentions .... . I wish, I wish and I wish for my reality/dream house to come!

WISHING FOR THE BEST .... FOR MY DREAM HOUSE!

May all the goodness of this universe

conspire in my search for my next

abode !!!

DREAMS : DEAD OR ALIVE ?

There are so many songs, books, poems and thoughts about dreams ....

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It is part of life that is real and yet unreal at the same time ... Dreams. Mystical. Whimsical. Economical (in the sense that they are free!)... Yes, as with everyone I know, I dream a lot. Dreams that make you feel depressed, homesick, happy or excited. Some are really funny and out of this world - combining reality and your innermost wishes and fears and fantasies ...

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The other night I dreamed about close relatives - Lolos and Lolas, aunties and uncles, and other people that are already gone. My memories of them are when they were still alive since I have not seen them dead or was there when they were gone. So in my mind, they are still alive. And sometimes, when I asked my mama about them - I am told that they already passed away ... a year or so ago, and yet i can't remember.

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In my dream, me and my sisters were preparing a big party in our home - and these relatives arrived together in a big bus or hilux .... I realized in my dream that they were all now dead! and then I woke up ....

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The following day, I was informed that one of our aunties passed away - at the same time when I was dreaming ....

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Anyway, talking about dreams that are constant wishes ... this is one I specially prepared for you and to the world out there ....

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

(a.k.a Susan Boyle)

When hope was high

(very high indeed ... I thought I could be Ms Universe :))

And life worth living

I dreamed that love would never die

( but it always dies its natural death anyway ...)

I dreamed that God would be forgiving

(for all my sins, transgressions, pride, envy, etc.)

Then I was young and unafraid

(and thought that I would be forever..)

And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung, no wine untasted

(change the wine to men ...) ...

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But the TIGERS come at nightwith their voices soft as thunder

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. As they turn your hopes apart

As they turn your dreams to SHAME...

(hu,hu,hu.... i lost my wallet kasih)

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I have a dream that life would be so different from the hell I'm livin...

( oh yeahhh... !)

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So different from what it seemed

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed ..

(charottzz!!!)

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(what's your dreams.... ???)