The Official HDB Tai-tai!

6 Feb was the official and auspicious move-in date for my Goddess and the Horny Devil!

According to the Fengshui master, they need to '安床' (set the bed) on the auspicious hour of moving in.    In order to ensure that the bed is there during the auspicious 2 hour, they decided to shift in the bed before the official move-in day.

And did I tell you Fengshui also states that they are not supposed to step into the house 3 days before the official move-in.

So on Sat, they had their bed shifted. For 4 nights, they were sleeping on the floor with a single bed mattress. Reminds me of the nights before my Goddess got married - she can't sleep on the new bed by herself first. But this time it was worse as the two of them had to share this single mattress.

On the day of the shift, it was also my Goddess' Chinese birthday. So her mom made her red eggs and there was also an angbao for them to give them blessings on their shift in.

After breakfast, it was the moving in.

These were just half the items shifted on that day, which were less than half her total 'assets'

The mom-in-law was super nice, helping them prepare the shift in stuffs including the charcoal and setting up the fire

According to old traditions, you need to burn charcoal during shift in. Typically, the fire should be lighted at the old place and kept burning until you reach your new place.

Once the fire was lighted, it was time to open the door!

Huat ah

Then there was the display of the pineapple, again signifying a prosperous future.

And there's giant mandarin oranges and steam sponge cake. Orange in mandarin is called 吉子. So this gigantic mandarin orange is 大吉.It has the same words in 大吉大利 (great luck, great profit). Steam sponge cake is 发糕. 发 is to prosper in Chinese.

In addition, all windows and lights were supposed to be on during the auspicious hour to let the air flow (风), while you are supposed to boil water too, so it will become 风生水起, again meaning the rise of prosperity and wealth. The lights should be on for the entire night (similar to Chinese New Year eve). Some people choose to cook dessert (糖水) so that the life in the new place will be sweet.

After all the traditional staff, it was time to unpack. The past few days the contractors were fixing the faulty engineered wood floor in the master bedroom, so in order to prevent dust from getting in her stuff, my Goddess didn't bring anything over until today.

This is just 3/4 of her clothes!

2 boxes of her makeup and skincare/hair care items

And 2/3 of her shoes in 2 bags!

And so the next few days of the Chinese New Year holidays were spent unpacking all her barang barangs. Shall share more with you her house decor and my experience staying there in the next post.