yeah! i am a home owner

Yeah very happy, got my own house, gg to start to turn it into a home soon... hehe how i wish i can transform it into a nice cosy home immediately and live in it wif dd...

but cannot do this, no $$... also need careful planning... cannot gan cheong.. hehe

happy... happy...

Updates...

some updates since my last entry...

1) my fren dun wan to tok to me and another other fren, why? cos he suspects us of sabo-ing him and his "target" gal (conclusion after discussing wif my 'other' fren)... I can swear i never do anything other than tease him...
after all, these are all part and parcel of guy's talk mah... dunno what he is angry abt.. the alleged sabo incident happened last weekend, last weekend i was damn busy where to find time to sabo him...?? siao one.. dunno when he will b angry up to...anyway heck care him... my brother dun wan to tok to me i also like that... i only scare dd dun tok to me.. other ppl heck care lah..

2) got the keys to my new flat at JW st 65 on saturday liao hehe...

3) Finished the "open door" session on sunday...

dd's mum dosen't seems happen dd say the reason are:
1) The flat not good
2) Location too far from city
3) Too big for the 2 of us
4) To rush to buy
5) Alot of things need to be fixed

In conclusion, her recommedation is to buy a smaller resale flat near town...
I think her comments are not fair lor, mabbe we were wrong not to consult them (and my parents) before we go make the booking cos we are after all a chinese family mah parents also protective. My parents were at 1st also unhappy but later they also accepted it and in fact became quite happy cos my dad was scare that the housing price keep going up dunno whether we can afford our own hse or not... but it has been proven we could(HDB had approved)but it also left us wif little CPF $ lah...

ok now my pt of view:
of all the pts listen i can only agree wif (4)... size wise i feel it's ok, alot of things to be fixed? got meh? HDB will fix most of the things for us liao mah.. so in actual fact there's not much stuffs to be fixed. some we can do ourselves also...except mabbe the kitchen cabinet lor...tat one mabbe need to rebuilt the top portion and add a drawer to the bottom part.. dun think that will be more than $1k lor...

dd mum wans us to adopt her 'recommendation' then she will be happy but have she considered our views? not everyone like to live near city or small flat...
me for example, I DEFINITELY won't like to live near the city, i would happily scarifice the convienence of city living to a cheaper and bigger space further away.. what's so good abt city? get closer to noise, jams, pollution? sorry lor i dun like to go city only go there when i have to...
i think dd's dream is to have a bigger living space, wif our financial powers now, i think at most we can only buy a small small 4rm flat (which is near city) which is abt wat we paid for our present bigger flat... wat for right? she wan us to listen to her, but did she considered our views? if she cannot agree wif our decision at least must respect ours..like we respect hers..

Jurong west is not bad also... alot of amenties can be found nearby and there are shopping centers which sell most of our needed stuffs. No need to go down city often and join in the "big squeeze". somemore flats in city area are so cramped together there's no much "natural breeze" and space between apartments... Furthermore in future i think our family size will increase one so the present apartment will not be that "big" anymore...

I think my future MIL shld learn frm my mum, wat she say is "we(my parents) like no use, wat's most important is te 2(dd and me) of us like". Don't try to impose ur ideas on us...

anyway i am an easily satisfied person, i am very satisfied wif the flat (bright, windy, suitable size). now my only worry is dd dun like... tat's why i ask her many times before key collection if dun like can back off and lugi $2000. I dun wan us to quarrel in the future of of these... if she dun like te flat, no pt buying rite? both of us must like...

we could have opted to buy one in sembawang,seng kang or other places..,flats more beautiful,newer and of cos less things to fix but we didn't cos that would be too far for either our our parent's place.. now JW is ok, cos it's relatively near to either of our parents place.. 25mins bus ride frm boon lay MRT to my home, 15min MRT ride from boon lay to dd's home... if seng kang or sembawang i think need at least 1 hr...


watever the case, i've decided to build up my new house into a home asap... hopefully by the time it's done up, it'll b a simple, nice and cosy place...
see my midas touch...

Working = rich?

Have not been happy wif my family lately... dunno why my parents always associate working with being rich... since i started working, they are expecting me to contribute more and more to family expenses... I am already trying my best.. but to my dad(esp) it always dosen't seems enough...it dosen't help that my 2 younger brothers are simply "bo chap" and use electricity (play computer games all day) like nobody's biz...I guess it's because they are not paying for it that's why they dun feel the pinch...My elder brother lagi worse..earn more than me but still very stingy... always giving excuses and trying to "siam"(run away).

I have no qalms if i give my parents some money, because i am wat i am now because of their efforts... but my mum always expect me to give $$ to my younger brothers which i dun like... like my youngest brother is gg philipines for some ODAC activites and the $200 airfare is paid by my dad, which leave the daily expenses there yet to be paid... my mum wans us to give him $$ for his trip... though she is not asking alot but i feel this is not right... cos he still receives pocket $$ although it's now school holidays...cannot use that $$ meh?? how come still must give him pocket $$? somemore whenever he wans to buy things my mum would ask us all the elder brothers to "help" him... if we refuse she will give him the $$ herself...problem is very often the stuffs he bought is those that he can do without lor... mabbe use 1x then throw 1 side... or those very extravagant stuffs...
why can't he use his own $$ for a change? i feel my mum is pampering him too much, he is rebellious, vulgar, childish and ill mannered and a bit "ya ya"... why have it become this way? all because of my mum pamper-ism. Throw him outside i dun think he can last for a month...

My mum will always say "he no work, so have to give him $$"... but tot he is still receiving pocket $$? so when it was our time who give us pocket $$ other than our parents? not fair right?

mabbe my mum(and dad perharps) also dunno the "burden" i am carrying now, cos she is not paying it and dunno the fees we gotta pay... The preparationg costs for ROM and other costs for the house all amout to quite alot... Since working, i've been living a very frugal life ... most of my lunch are of the $2 type... i think my brothers spend more on lunch than me most of the time... I've not had fast food for very long already... dunno when they can understand working doesn't always mean rich... working doesn't mean u ought to be milked dry...

I think my 3rd brother is already begining to understand working does not mean rich since he started working temp... after deducting this and that he can take home only around $500 every month.. (he tot he can take home $1k)

Haiz haiz haiz

Hot, hot, hot

Wah these few days Singapore's weather is terrible, morning VERY HOT, then in the afternoons become cloudy and then in the late afternoons/evenings, it will rains...WAH!!!... almost the same pattern everyday...
People out there pls drink more water and take care of urself...these type of weather will get sick easily...

nice lyrics?

歌曲：两个人
歌手：陈慧琳 专辑：你不一样

你说你要存钱带我环游全世界
我叹口气问那还得再等几年
你亲亲我我推开你说著讨厌
手却乖乖在你手里面

你说别的女孩你都不敢看一眼
我问你是不是怪我管你好严
你拉拉我我背对你假装冬天
又不小心笑成了春天

两个人的世界像个玻璃小宇宙
管它外面刮风下雨爱里有晴空
不看不听不问不管周围的种种
我只看见我在你眼中

(music)
你说别的女孩你都不敢看一眼
我问你是不是怪我管你好严
你拉拉我我背对你假装冬天
又不小心笑成了春天
两个人的世界像个玻璃小宇宙
管它外面刮风下雨爱里有晴空
不看不听不问不管周围的种种
我只看见我在你眼中

两个人的世界像个玻璃小宇宙
管它外面刮风下雨爱里有晴空
不看不听不问不管周围的种种
我只看见我在你眼中

不看不听不问不管周围的种种
我只看见我在你眼中

Just some tots...

Received news that my elder brother is job hopping again.. this time to Shell... Quite happy for him cos whenever he hops, his pay will increase (somemore shell is such a big oil corporation), hope that he can contribute more to them family (so that my my parents will not ask more frm me hehe and i can have more for my future house)... but i think it's gg to be difficult lah... though my brother earns much more than me he is damn stingy... he is only generous to the 'gals' he is interested in... always kena 'chop' by them...

can't help but envy him for getting such a high pay ( shld be around $3.5k-$3.7k) after only 3 years of working... but i think i shouldn't harbour such tots at least for now cos i am still only a fresh graduate, should b more down-to-earth and learn as much as i can else i would be like one of my colleague(freshie also) keep complaining how low we are earning and how much his frens are earning outside blah blah blah...
now is the time to learn as much as i can... later on in my working life the skills will be useful...but i do can do wif a bit of cash injection now... hehe

but i think god is fair lah... for my bro, his luck is in his job as for his love life, it's not that good... all his 'love' are gone one after the other.. as for mine, we managed to survive 7+ years together liao hehe gg to get married (ROM considered?) somemore... so in this sense i put one over him yeah! hehe wat i lose out materialistic-ly, i got it psychological(in my love life) so can we say we are even? same same lucky?

FOr me my luck is just average lah think just like the lines on my palms, an almost str line... not many big waves and such... cannot buy things at their cheapest(but not at their more expensive ), so-so academically (still manage to get my degree, at least never fail), so-so rank in army (not an officer but still a non-com hehe), have a dd (though sometimes we quarrel but i think we are still lovey dovey). average starting pay in my job ...

listed down so much i think i am not that unlucky also.. hehe

2 more wks... home ideas?

so fast 2 more weeks to Nov 25... the day we are gg to HDB to collect the keys to our apartment...
looking forward to that day hope there will be no more surpises(bad ones, good ones ok haha) nor hiccups ...
Alot of things to be done and decided...pondered over the activation of utilities but then after much deliberation decided against it.. cos activating it, SP services will start to collect the sanitary and refuse collection fees frm me liao even though i am not using their service...the monthly $80.50 SC&C fees is enough to kill already... Arghhhhh...

Anyway have been browsing through blogs/forums/websites looking for people who had renovated their houses..trying to get some home ideas mah... some renovations are indeed very nice but the price?? ah hem... for me i would be looking at something simple and nice... easy to maintain and at the same time save some $$ for other things... we are really on very tight budget...Haiz quite admire those rich fellas who seems to have tons of $$ for marriage..
I mean given a choice, everyone would like their homes to look best right?
but i think there's no pt in making ur homes look like posh hotels/resorts lor... cos in the end u are gg to be the one cleaning and maintaining it... too elaborate and complicated wah i tell u cleaning is a headache...

been thinking of false ceiling also.. actually see no pt to make 1 but then think again, those false ceilings bordering the sides of the ceiling then with those lights looks quite nice... (hehe) esp wif the TV below... haha

Next is the kitchen cabinet... the prev owner abandoned it to us ... not very nice i would say but it's still in good condition so in quite a dilemma whether to change it or not.. mabbe if got spare cash then change lor.... tentatively decided like this...

AH boss assigned me to the SYMC radio project... actually they still in the requirements stage now dunno whether will be busy or not...but i think soon gotta start working OT liao... just afraid that it will affect my china trip in Dec... No! anything but that!..Pray Pray...wun burn my shutdown...

Luckless? u decide...

Was lamenting to dd abt my fren's appearant luck when he told me he got a q number for the Sembawang Green Ballot...
Thinking abt myself, i think i am not blessed wif much luck..., most of the things i've acomplished are mainly on my own effort,
1) No Rich parents to help wif wedding
2) Always cannot get Cheapest Deals (luckily not the most expensive either)
3) cannot get many As in my degree whereelse others just simply bleeze through (no luck or no brains?)
4) Failed in the JW 987/986 balloting?

not much help frm Mother Luck..sighz mabbe that explains why I am still so poor.. haha
mabbe the luckiest thing for me is to hav met and be wif dd..always very fun and happy when we are together

http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10201p.nsf/WPDis/Buying%20A%20Resale%20FlatStatistics-%20Average%20Valuation%20by%20Town%20&%20Flat%20Type?OpenDocument&SubMenu=Statistics

see here... JW flat is among the less valued in singapore, on average an executive flat is around 320k.. meaning 40k more ex than wat we paid... meaning that what we paid is not the 'best' deal... it's the same wif the car car thing .. haiz..
Nevermind, as wat dd said, luck is not infinite, it will run out one day... i think god is fair, u have it(luck) now, u will not have it later... I believe our time will come...
I think the reason we go buy the house(even if it's not the cheapest and the best design) is that we are both desperate to move out and be together... At least that's the case for me lah..always dreamt of owning my own hse and be wif my love ones... so that's why when dd told me to go apply house, i went... hehe

Anyway i dun mind working harder and pay more $$, not getting the best deal all all these craps, nevemind we cannot get a house with the full-length window also.. what's most important is that the one sleeping (and let me hug hug to bed) next to me is dd.. the one who accompany me to watch TV is her...accompany me for every trip and holding my hands till old is her... I am contented...I feel i am one lucky guy already

Credit Card Bills

Wah I think next mth's credit card bill is gg to be enomous for me...
Here's the breakdown:
1)$208 - Book ROM room
2)$26 - ROM Filing notice
3)$26 - NTUC income Travel Insurance
4)$113 - Winter Time

Future Expenditures
5)dd's P Ring - $800(??)
6)Wedding Bands - $1200 (??)

Total: $2373!!!

Still some more bills yet to pay
1)HP bills -$50(??)
2)SC&C Bills -$241.50
3)China Trip -$1700 (?? dd say she contribute another $500)
4)Cash to bring to china - $300 (??)
5)Dinner for Meet-the-parents session - $300(??)
6)rest of the $$ for ROM package - $288

KaoZ!!!!! *FAINT* how am i gg to get so much $$??????
hmmm...