Almost there

When "cleaning" the house :

1. In a clean pail (preferably red), mix 5-colour beans. These beans consist of red beans, green beans, rice, tea leaves, and salt.
2. At the appointed time, step into the house and throw a huge handful at the first wall you see. Throw it high and hard.
3. Then proceed inwards from the halls to the rooms from front to back, throwing to every corner high and low. Visualize the beans "cleaning" the house.
4. Once you've finished throwing at the rear portion of the house, walk straight out and lock up.
5. Come back again at the appointed time to sweep the beans up. Sweep from the back of the house to the front. Bag the beans and throw them away. Your "cleaning" process is complete :)

This morning, while "moving in" :
1. We filled a heat-resistant glass with red-coloured water and some oil. Topped it with a candle wick and lighted it.
2. At the apppointed time, walked in through the gate and the main door into the house.
3. Walked in and brought light to every part of the house, while calling out lucky Chinese phrases. Visualized "lighting" up the house. Switched on the lights as we went.
4. We then put the light glass at a part of the house, and began moving stuff in i.e. a box of clothes and a chair.
5. Had a mini-breakfast in the house. Then by 7.45am, we went off to work.

December 21 = technically our move-in date. Because it's good to move into a new house on the new year. New year because today is "guo tong", the Chinese solstice festival day.

The kitchen cabinets and curtain tracks will only be installed this weekend. All furniture will be moved in over the week. And we've to do some cleaning before we get to move in properly next weekend. Luckily next weekend is a long one :)

The next time I post, it'll be with pictures :)