A depressing sight of what used to be our former home.

Athough the family had sold our old Kajang house, I and my wife occasionally still think about our former home of 30 years.

Never mind about its small size of 14 feet x 55 feet only. The 2-storey terrace house was the home that we had successfully raised our son and daughter from babies to adults. Before moving out to our new house on Christmas day 2012, this humble abode, that we called home was the only house that we had ever known and lived in.

When the chance came to visit Kajang this morning for some banking transactions, we couldn't resist the idea of visiting our former home, just for old times sake. So after completing our business we detoured to the taman where our former house is located.

What we saw of our former house was quite depressing.

The house looks abandoned, unkempt, with magazines and mail strewn on the driveway. The post box is stuffed with unopened mail and flyers, all addressed to my family members. I sometimes wonder why our mail is still delivered to the old house. Haven't we not informed all the banks and government institutions of the change of address months ago? The space in front of the main gate has become a convenient parking lot. A neighbour has parked her MyVi in front of the main gate. The pad lock on the front gate looks exactly the same as the last time we had locked the gate which was about two months ago. The TNB and the water meter that had been disconnected upon termination of our electricity and water service accounts have not been reconnected by the new owners.

I wanted to enter the house to clean up the driveway, but then I do not have the house keys anymore. There was no way that we could enter the compound other than to scale the main fencing and the entrance door. I have already surrendered all the house keys to the solicitor of the new owners a few days before they they took house possession.

Since the house title has been transferred to the new owners' bank and the house keys surrendered, then legally the house does not belong to us any more.

I wonder why the new owners who are servicing their bank loans now are not anxious to move into their newly bought property, or at least changed the locks and reinstate the TNB and water meters.