Jenz Photography: We touch down on the 16th Sept 2009 @ Melbourne, Australia.

We just touched down on the 16th Sept 09 leaving Ethan behind in M'sia. Its a hardest thing to do but we have to be here to get a long term staying place and make sure all the neccessary things are prepared in that house before Ethan is here. So at the mean time we stayed in the Backpackers Hotel which cost us AUS$55/night. Thats the best we can do..and consider the cheapest stay....we stayed there for almost 2 weeks till we get a rented property.

Is not easy tho, in Msia we choose the place we want to stay and pay to get the house we prefered but here in Melbourne the agent choose the us. We must at least have monthly salary to get the house we applied. But Msian here telling us we are lucky to get that fast. Some of them send in 30 application they only get 1 call from the agent.

When we touch down we really don't know where and how to start to search for a house. We take tram along the St kilda road hoping there will be open inspection so that we can walk in and view the house, but too bad we aren't that lucky that day. So the second thing we do is visit the real estate agents in the city to get the rental list printed out in their office. When we saw some of the property which we're interested in we will ask for the key and inspect that house. We are given only 15min to return that key. We took tram with a Melway-Melbourne Map and when we reach there its already 15min passed. Gosh not even step on the door step we got a call from agent telling us to return the key coz there are somebody else who wish to inspect the house already.

We took almost 2-3 days trying to walk as fast as we can to reach the property but still we can;t make it on time...then we decided to rent a car...AUS$65/day altho it cost quite alot but at least it will speed us up then we will save for the hotel rent and also our time walking around the town getting nothing. I rented the car for 3 days. Kent went to work as usual and I'm with the Melway driving around the city visiting agents for rental list and get the keys and YES I drove to the house and back within 15min. Thanks to the Melway and clear road sign. I got to visit 4-5 housed in a day with a car and Melway and manage to submit few application on the houses I preferred. I did the same thing for 2 days...and same goes on the 3rd day...

On the 3rd day I almost dunno which agents to visit already...Kent's bank rushing us for a permanent address...Kent's company need Kent to have a fix mobile number to print out his name card and to get a fix line here he need to have a permanent address at least else he won't get to apply ANYTHING here. While I was driving around the city on the 3rd day..I remember it was just 2pm...I'm telling myself i must try to visit more of the agents today...then I got a call.."Hey there its Kerri from Buxton. You have been approved to own the property in Brighton Road, Elwood. Are you still interested?" I was like ???? huh?? really??? Can you please repeat the address again...coz I have submitted few of them just wanted to make sure I got which one. and really God bless that's the one I preferred the most...it is spacious...Kent only need to take one tram to his working place which will save him lots of time..coz changing tram will take him quite some time to reach office on time.

Really God bless...we actually got this house on the 3rd day coz I will be returning the rental car the next day and I really don't know how to go around after that. Hehe here we go...after i found a house I take my time walking around the city and took some photos....as shown below...hehe enjoy ^-^

The Back of Chapel Backpacker Hotel