It has been close to a month since I last updated my blog.. Work is as usual for me but quite alot of things happened in my office.. Went out for a outing with my colleagues @ this Argentina restaurant called Salta @ the Icon Village.. OMG, the steak is fantastic.. The sides & sausages are superb too!! It is really a must try for meatlovers.. :P The most impt thing, the food is really affordable.. Will definitely be going there again.. :P
As for me & benny, we are back to normal.. Going out on weekend & once on weekday, enjoying each others company.. We went to La Maison on Fri together with Micho, Seb, Helene, Veron, Amy & one of their frenz.. First time there & I think it will be my last also.. The place is really inaccessible without a car and for me, I think it is too secluded.. But I mus said, it is really different from the usual club I went to..
Apart from going to club in such a long time, we also went to take a look at the new ECs at Buangkok called Esparina.. Well, it is the 1st ECs after 5 years.. Very nice concepts & very nice location.. We were really tempted to get it but.......... NO MONEY!! Looking at the average 3 bedroom, it will cost around 800k, meaning we will have to pay 160k in the next 6 weeks if we were to get the place.. Minus all the grants, cpf etc, we will need to fork out at least 100k in cash... I really wonder how ppl can fork out so much money!!
I was quite depressed.. Looking at the hdb, we are about to hit our income cap of 8k in the near future.. Meaning we wont be able to get a hdb from the govt cause even if now, our combined income is less den 8k, but as long as it exceed during TOP, you will be forfeited the chance.. So next best options, ECs & DBSS which is having a 10k income.. But look at those recent DBSS & ECs, with a selling price of between 600-1.1m, how are we able to fork out that amount of cash at this age, with our combined income of 10k MAX..
Some ppl might say, how about resale.. Yeah.. Look at the crazy COVs of resale flat these days.. Easily coming up to 70k.. We will still have to fork out 70k cash other than the valuation amount of the flat.. What is the difference of getting a EC and a resale since we need to fork out a sum which is almost equivalent to one another.. We are really the SCREWED generation.. With no chance of us to make it big & neither chance to be beggar.. The sandwiched class.........
Inflations is hitting us with prices escalating exponentially.. Looking at my bank book, I wonder where has all my money gone to during the 2 years of my work.. Seems like I din save much over the past 2 years.. Ever since I started my new job, I had been monitoring what am I spending on & keeping track of that.. Every month, the spending will come to almost 1k plus & that is excluding those bills that are fixed.. I am jus spending as per normal, on food, sometimes on clothes.. JUST WHERE HAS MY MONEY GONE TO!!
Another issues that happened was, I was supposed to go Krabi with Chris, Ida, Pat & Curt.. But our flight got pushed backwards, meaning we have to stay there for 1 week, instead of the original 5 days.. We cancelled the flight and hotel in the end.. I am still awaiting for the refund of my flight & hotel..
In the end, I decide to go Phuket with my mum instead.. Will be going there for 4 days with my sis, my bro & my mum.. The air ticket is really cheap, $98 per pax & hotel for 3 night only costs us $300 max for a family room.. Probably because its still the non-peak season when we go there.. For those who want to go there in Jan, the ticket is only $58 for return but pls be prepared to pay 3x more for the hotel due to the peak season.. :P
Looking forward to the Phuket trip with my family, the KL trip with my ex-colleage ( if it materialise ) & the BBK trip with benny in Feb.. OK, that seems really long.. haha.. Well, was thinking of having a philippines trip with Micho to visit my colleagues in Manila but I think we have to shelf this plan cause we are really short-handed at the moment.. :P
Meanwhile, I am having this dilemma, should I get a camera for this upcoming trip.. Had been wanting to get a new camera, one with better image quality & sophisticated functions than the one I had for quite some time.. Went to check out the cameras with Carlos last Fri @ Funan.. Was really tempted to get the s95 on the spot man.. But mus work out my finance first, really quite tight for this month.. :(
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