Who will win in the end? Let's see in one week!

My brain is basically stuck and unsorted and disordered now, you can't imagine how many phone calls i made home today, how many hours i talked on the phone with the current landlord, old and new agents, moving company, even on msn with Mickael to report the proceed of our trouble a$$hole landlord.

There's nothing messed up more than our house contract and landlord issues. I really don't wanna recall the bad news i got from the old agent this morning about the current landlord changing his mind again, blah blah blah blah

All in all, he just wants to get some reibursement back as we informed him about our moving too late, nonsense, i double checked the contract and confirmed with the agency, we're right, just because this landlord can't accept this truth.

Good news is that our new agent has done a great job to find a "client" who claimed to move into on Nov 15, suddently the landlord called my cell phone which i wasn't expected all the time, it looked he had a good mood and told me that we need to move out before Nov 15. So we should postone our moving plan tomorrow, instead of visiting Seattle Residence, then go sign the new house contract with the new landlord and new agency.

Bad news is that i'm really not sure if when the old landlord will change his mind again on this issue, it looks like we can trust him this time without any paper, this is not fair for us. God, please, Mishi finds "that client" asap. If not, we should renew our contract with him for one more year which we need to face with, meanwhile we'll lose 4,550RMB as we'll sign the new contract with another person and tomorrow we'll only pay one month's rental as the deposit.

This is a good lesson for any of us, when we deal with the money stuff or the contract stuff, we should double read and think about every single details. Try to pay less as the deposit, even if we're in trouble, the deposit doesn't hurt our heart a lot.

My wishes now are:
1.Hope our current landlord doesn't change his mind anymore and keep his word.
2.Hope we can move out next weekend.
3.Hope our current landlord gives lefted deposit back.

French consulate today, we'll be get married 2 weeks later.

We had an appointment with Mr. Jean-Claude Mortier at 11am in French Consulate today, honestly speaking, i wasn't nervous at all before we arrived there.

We got there on time and we were waiting in the room a little bit, fine, i was still cool. Nah, actually the temperature was around 29 degrees, other people also complained it was to hot, or someting wrong with their air-con, whatever.

Voila, here we are, Mr.Jean-Claude Mortier called Mickael, so we followed him and went to his office, we were asked to present our passports and copy documents, plus he gave 3 pieces of paper to fill out which it was in french. I don't have any clue, i asked Mickael for help, suddently i realized that my hands were sweating, a lot, lol. What a serious and important moment for us!

After Mr. Jean-Claude Mortier got all documents he required, the INTERVIEW started, as follow conversation:

1. Jean-Claude: When did you meet each other? Where? Why?
Joyce: We met each other in March 17,2007.
Mickael: In Shanghai. That was a french party, a house party.

2. Jean-Claude:Have we seen each other's parents already? When?
Mickael: We met Joyce's parents last Mother's day.
Joyce: That was May 17, i guess.
Jean-Claude: So have you ever seen Mickael's parents? Or his parents visited Shanghai?
Joyce: Nope, not yet, we chatted on MSN and saw them.

3. Jean-Claude:How do parents feel like of Mickael? What was the first impression?
Mickael: Her parents like me .
Jean-Claude: They like you or more that like?
Mickael:Yes, more than like, the first impression was great, they're good people.

4. Jean-Claude:Do we live together? Sure?
Mickael: Yes.
Joyce: Errr, yes, i used to live with my parents, but now i live with Mickael most of the time.
Jean-Claude: Are you sure? Now you live with him?
Joyce: Yes, i'm pretty sure about this.

5. Jean-Claude:Do we have a plan to make a baby? When?
Mickael: We want to have a baby next year.
Joyce: Errr, nope, i want to have a baby after our wedding, so that'll be next summer.

6. Jean-Claude:Do we have a plan to buy an real estate in China?
Joyce: Yes, we used to have that plan, and now the real estate market in China is so weak and uncontrollable, we will wait a little bit.
Jean-Claude: Yeah, all markets, everywhere.

7. Jean-Claude:Has Joyce ever been to Schengen countries? Has Joyce ever visited France?
Joyce: Not yet, never, but i have a plan to visit them during the Christmas this year.

8. Jean-Claude:Do you have any plans for the future? Are you ready for your Chinese work contract?
Mickael: Yes, we will work and live in Shanghai for next few years. The Chinese work contract will be not a problem for me.

Voila, the interview is finished, simple and sharp, everyone needs to be honest. They will smell it if you cheat. Mr. Jean-Claude wrote down everything on that red paper as the proof, haha, and now we're told that we need to wait for 10 days as they will make a public notice about our marriage for us. I guess we need to visit him 10 days later to get French booklet.

12 sharp, our appointment was done.

Landlord issue,we're in trouble.

We got a larger new apartment last Sunday finally, then i called our current landlord who were so gentle and nice, suddently he turned into a bad rude man through our phone converstaion this Monday.

He said it was too late to inform him, so he asked us to find another new client to rent his apartment immediately. He accused that i should have told him 2 months earlier. What a nonsense! I double checked our rental contract, it's written we should inform the landlord if we want to renew our rental contract, if not, we just need to move out in 3 days before the contract ends. Obviously this landlord does misunderstood overly and overly!!! Even he asked me to read the contract carefully, this is so ridiculous.

The second day, i called him again and he shouted and screamed through the phone again, he didn't give me any chance to explain which he was compeletely WRONG on this issue. Damn, what kinda human being it is?! He brings us to a wrose situation, he asked us to stay one more months, then we can leave whatever he finds a new client or not, this is so unacceptable. He also said that he didn't wanna give us back 9000RMB deposit, gosh, this is a robbery. I asked him to calm down and let the agency to talk to him, he was so angry for nothing and crazy.

I called the agency and explained every single detail to them , they fully understand us and will try to talk to the landlord, still, no news from the agency so far, i'd better call again.

To be continued...