Transplanted

The renovations are all done and the office looks fantastic. There’s some furniture and our nifty plasma TV and other items that’re still due, so the new office is not yet officially open. But… The Wedding Paparazzi has moved to the new office!

On Sunday and Monday we transported all the stuff we needed for our day-to-day operations, so if you called the office and got the voice mail, it was because we were all busy packing and lugging huge boxes out of the office.

It was very tiring – we carried stuff down 4 flights of stairs, loaded them into cabs and, when we got to Purvis Street, hauled them up again a really long flight of stairs! Still, it’s so satisfying to finally be able to operate out of the new place. It feels so big!

Despite the happiness and excitement of moving, there’s a tinge of sadness that we’re leaving the old place, my parents’ house in Jurong West. The Wedding Paparazzi operated out of a home office since its conception in 2003. It was unusual, sometimes impractical, especially when more people started working out of what used to be a bedroom. Blossom even had to contend with a lot of my personal effects around the office for a time before I got round to clearing them out! But it was a good, homely place (with lots of cats), and my mother really enjoyed our presence there even though I’m sure we encroached on her privacy.

There are things that we will no longer be able to enjoy at the new place. No more impromptu cat-petting sessions when one of them wanders in (we had 7 cats!), no more home-cooked meals, and no more playing ‘bumper cars’ when we roll about in our office chairs trying to reach something at the other end of the table. OK, maybe we won’t miss the last one.

It feels like the end of an era, but it also like the beginning of another very exciting one. I just wish I had more pictures of our old place so we will never forget where we came from.

~ Ami