My Birthday

Friday 25th Feb was my birthday, *sigh* so sad this year no presents...My mum gave me $12 ang pow and my dad gave me $20, my bro brought a slice of cake for me and my dd bought me a muffin to celebrate..that's about all. Mabbe will buy myself a small present to remember the day I turned 25...Happy Birthday to Me

DD's car car

Haha everything has been confirmed, dd's car car will be arriving mabbe in April or May when the next shipment of kia picanto arrives in singapore...before the booking of the car, honestly I feel very excited and very enthusiatic abt the whole thing but now after everything's been confirmed, strangely the feeling sort of died down. Before the car booking, I did a very deep analysis of the whole situation, whether the buying of car would be beneficial to us, our marriage arrangements etc... To many people, i guess the better way would be to save up the $$, purchase a hse then buy a car, that's wat i feel in the 1st place... to many people I think that would be a wiser choice also..Well I knew that buying a car would deprive us of much needed cash for our hse and marriage and mabbe set us back for a couple of years cos we have to save up $$ for everything, hse, bills etc...Marriage in Singapore isn't cheap. Anyway I think for our case it doesn't make much difference whether we buy house or car 1st..cos I guess most of the $$ for marriage would be my own burden.My dd dosen't really save much and i guess she would be happier if I let her buy her car car so that we 2 can go whizzing away during weekends...Many people around her have also given her advice to save the $$ to buy a hse 1st before buying a car and I guess these advices does have a effect on her but I've already told her b4 if she thinks it's ok then just go ahead...My worries is actually if she dun buy now when car prices are rock bottom then mabbe car prices will increase and she will not be able to afford...*sigh* I guess everything would have to leave it to our own fate...and in the meantime i will try to save $$, as much as possible so that we can get married as soon as possible...Now looking forward to "decorating" the car hehe

carcar

Well my dd(and I) have decided to book a "off peak" Kia Picanto well if u are wondering wat is a "picanto" it's a CAR! haha you readers out there must be wondering why suddenly I got a 360 degrees about turn if u've been reading my earlier blogs..I've been stanchly oppose to buying a car and rather save the $$ for marriage wif my baobei dd.. Well i've not given up the idea of marrying as yet..I will continue to strive to save enough for marriage hopefully we can complete tat dream of mine at 28++ haha..really wish to take my dd's hand and walk down the aistle together...hmmm Ok i am digressing abit here...Ok we've decided to book a car so that the car would be our 2nd thing we have together actually it's her idea to buy , I have no driving license by the way haha but nvm I guess it would be a better for her to get the thing she wanted badly cos anyway she've been out of her PT studies for about 6 months now, but still her savings is not moving dunno what she spent her $$ on anyway so I guess it would be really difficult for her to save and much easier for her to spend..Well to spend on something that we can see and touch and use is much better than spending stuffs which she can't even see..like from july last year till now her savings still haven't gone out despite the fact that she's thrown away her study burden...and I dun see her buying any stuffs either...so i guess let her buy her carcar and at least she can get something she wanted badly...Anyway if she's happy I'm happy also haha...Well hope that we will be successful in getting the car at the price we wan and hopefull the COE dosen't shoot up too much until we have to drop the whole plan...Pray pray...Let the carcar be another milestone in DD's tale..! hurray!

Ubi Car Showroom Trip

Today my dd(dd=gf) and I went to Ubi, you must be wondering what on earth are we doing there, Ubi is a ulu industrial estate in the east side of the island...and somemore we were there on a sat. haha we actually went to visit the car showrooms there for perodua (m'sia car maker), well my dd was thinking of getting a OPC just to drive around during and to ferry her dog around after work and during the weekends. Well I think you would agree with me that most couples who went to car showrooms are mainly husband and wife , I think we are behaving more like husband and wife now even though we are still officially classified as "single" in the government's register.. Haha We went to look at the perodua Kelisa and the Kia picanto(encouraged by the kelisa salesman). Basically both are small cars low fuel consumption and good for budget conscious ppl like my dd lor. After all we still need to save $$ for our marriage in the future mah so no point getting a too expensive car... Ok to compare kelisa is a smaller car, less room, less "cc" but the insurance is cheaper. The Kia Picanto is slightly bigger,(looks better also),the interior is more spacious, but the insurance is more expensive (and have more colors also). I think my dd like the picanto better although the kelisa is stronger recommended by her uncles. However since the pricing for both cars are about the same(say for the insurance) I think she might as well buy the car she feels more comfortable with, the one she likes better rather than she buy the kelisa already then lament on whether she would be better off is she bought the picanto right? afterall she does like the picanto better and I think it's better lor cos it's roomier and I think I'm more comfortable with it.Cos although it's a small cc car it doesn't look as pint-size as that kelisa + that kelisa with all the "freebies(sports rim, chrome look dashboard)" thrown in made it look like a ah beng car...Think we don't look like ah bengs hor? But ultimately the decision lies with her if she picks kelisa in the end then ok lor it's not too bad also..but i feel that when we buy things it's better to buy something that we like more right? somemore the pricing is roughly about the same...

picanto

kelisa

well mabbe many of u upon reading this will think that she is very extravagant and she should save the $$ for marriage 1st rather than buy a car at this time. I think many people would think this way, in fact I also feel this way too. But I must stress ed that this is only my personal view, I cannot expect everyone to think and feel like me right? I understand my dd (after 5 years of bf-gf relationship), she is the sort who always like to proof that she's better than others it's just her nature . I think that after 5 years of working, all she wans is a "trophy" to show that all her 5 years of slogging have bore a "fruit", that's her carcar. so I can understand why she wants to own a car so badly. wat's more, she has been used to being ferried around when she's young9by her dad) now that she's to take her own transport, naturally there will be a voidness in her all the more she will yearn for a car. I think we can afford a OPC for the time being lah...Actually I tried to dissuade her from buying a car and save for marriage 1st but now upon pondering I kinda changed my stand cos I noe that even if she dun buy car, she won't be able to save much also cos of her spending habits, she likes to buy jewelleries, stuffs for her dogs, etc...and when she don't buy anything, her family would ocasionally borrow(but no return) $$ from her and to fund her brother's high end electronic gadgets. I was hoping that she can used the car ownership to start learning how to save $$. Cos she has to plan for the car and her own living expenses so that at least she can learn how to save $$ and correct her extravangant way of life. Wat's more when she got little money in her hand she can't lend any to her family right? so in a way this will also help curb her family's extravagant spending habits as well. So at least if she buys her carcar which is something she wan rather than she spends her $$ on other things that she can't even see at all. Hopefully she can achieve her goal of owning a car, I must help her to save to make her dream a reality...


Think only then can she concentrate on saving for marriage although she won't be able to save much but as long as she tries I am more than contented..

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=dd's happy family!