Surprise surprise

yesterday was a great day for me... hehe
Tot that i would only get $500++ AWS but in the end i got $1200++ hehe about 1/2 a month pay lor...
but after "distributing" it, not much left but it certainly help lor... cos i repaid all my credit card bills, use $300 for China trip and gave $100 extra to my parents... hehe and another $500 i saved it liao...
Think this $$ kind of "saved" me, cos there are still alot of unpaid bills ahead.. like SP services lah, the remaining sum owed to bridal elegance, and the lunch expenses after ROM(this one is a real headache)...
oh some "upgrades" have been done to "monkdees manor" liao hehe

Wow time really flies, I've been in SiemensVDO for 6 months already.. to be exact it's 6 months and 2 days haha...
still no confirmation letter yet, but according to my fren, it's becos the HR manager is not in office so no1 to sign the letter haiz
Actually my workload is still considered 'light' cos most of the time i am still surfing the net and toking to dd...hehE
Recently just got "drafted" into a project... just implemented a change in the modules, and solve some bugs all well within the planned schedule hehe so i can still relax now haha
but dunno why these few days suffered a minor pimple attack...too stressed over work? unlikely mah mabbe stress over housie and $$ thingy more likely or stressed cos need to find new ways to kill time in office? haha got a few pimple-lets underneath my ears and around my chin... ouch... just bought a tube of OXY10 yesterday hope can kill them all...

Been raining heavily here in Singapore ...wet wet

Rainy Sunday

today rain the whole day...
Morning went Bedok FC to have breakfast, dd wanted to eat wanton mee but uncle say no have liao so i bought prawn mee, but then dd say she dun eat big fat yellow noodles... haiz didn't know leh... but in the end she still ate abit lah...cos most of it in my plate ... hehe

dd yucky noodles


later watched "Eragon" at Marina Sq then started dd's shoe hunt, combed suntec, peninsula plaza and peninsular Shopping center, finally found a suitable 1 at Queensway shopping but quite ex, $150...(mine only $100 also columbia brand) hope can last long long...the rest of the shops either dun have dd's size or dun have the model dd like. one at peninsular Plaza lagi best, got 2 shoes of different sizes in same box... so dd cannot buy that cheaper one...

Had lunch at Funan center before setting off for Queensway...

food at funan
dunno wat's it's called liao

always in the middle

dunno why but i/we feel i am always "in the middle"...

studies: average only (so in the middle)
Work : pay is not too high and not too low
dd's car: not very cheap but not the most expensive
flat price: not the cheapest, but not the most ex also
flat location and design: always average...
flat condition: bought a RP flat in the end, renovation is not that fantastic but neither is it tat bad yet, RP flat meaning it's the middle between a new and a resale flat also...

anymore middle?

reformatted my computer

Reformatted my computer, downgraded my graphics card...
everything is gone...starting afresh... hehe

Is it possible?

Heard that my fren and gf managed to save $2000 every month... is it possible?
Here is the breakdown of his expenditures:

Fren:
take home pay : $2380

food during office hrs: $60
Transport : $100
Give Parents : $400
Personal expenses : $320
Saved : $1500

Fren's gf:
take home pay : $1680

food during office hrs: $??
Transport : $??
Give Parents : $300
Personal expenses : $??
Saved : $500

total $2000 every month... Wahhh i am so envious... try as hard as i can can only squeeze out $1200.. $1200 sometimes also difficult cos dunno why every mth sure got things to make me spend a few hundered dollars extra one... hard to budget...
I am trying to save as much as i can liao but cannot leh still cannot match him still so far behind... dd and i can only manage to save $1400 at most monthly... haiz
i feel so sad, worthless... sobz sobz

New Budget for 07

Haiz GST gg to increase again, MRT fares also increase, but my salary no increase...
next year is gg to be tough with extra expenditures coming in... here is my new monthly budget...

Total take home: $2159
Give parents: $300
Transport: $100
SCC : $80.5
Handphone: $50
dd's fund: $1200

Left: $428.5

if CPF comes asking me to repay study loan, even with min payment will be around $200... so will only be left with $228.5... meaning only can spend $50 evey week (dunno can make it or not)...
sorry dd i think resturant trips will be very rare in the near future...

no UNI$

haiz didn't read the T&C of UOB credit card properly tot i can get UNI$ by charging to my UOB-Singtel VISA..turns out cannot grrrh.. wasted...

weekend updates...

Tiring weekend,This weekend did just a few things, but left me very tired... aches everywhere...

Main activity for the weekend revolves around house cleaning... The others 1st....

Sat: Afternoon, went to fetch dd back frm her rebonding session at orchard then went to Pasir Ris to look for Ronnie's kibbles but there too ex so didn't buy... happened to pass by ikea Tampines...wah there real packed man also never go in. Went back to
take ronnie walk walk...wanted to catch "Happy Feet" but cannot find a suitable time...

Sun:went for stanchart 10km run in the morn... gotta wake up at 5am to take the 1st train to CityHall...after run went to look for dd, Had Roti Prata at the coffeeshop in Ghim Moh, tot can eat wif dd but she said she eaten liao, then brought her to expo to work, told her if too sick then dun go but she insist on going, after that went home to had a quick Maggie Mee lunch, after that to my market area saw that the hardware store is still open to buy scrub and broom (those for water one) from the hardware store...
then went to finsh some unfinished biz at housie, went home to bathe and eat dinner then again went to Expo to pick dd back home, had 10 sticks of pork satay (org plan was 5 for dd, 5 for me but dd said she sore throat so i finished all 10), after that went home and then to work again today ... ...

tried to blog at home, but computer throwing tantrums keep shutting down after 10mins...Grrrr

House cleaning:

sat: started house cleaning activities, brought alot of barang barangs there but then didn't buy pails, brooms etc... cos intend to buy at JW, bought broom, and 3 pails (Small, medium, Big) at Pioneer Mall then carried a big pail of water up from the carpark to begin cleaning activies, then walked to NTUC fairprice at JP to buy cleaning solution (cos it's a little bit cheaper than at Giant cos of the offer),wanted to buy "ajax fabuluso" but ended up buying kiwi kleen cos it's cheaper but found that the fragrance is not lasting compared wif fabuluso (mum using it at home), also bought a scrub, sofix parquet care, and UIC softscrub... Also bought a camel active t shirt while at JP, $5 only... hehe

all this walking to and fro take up alot of time started cleaning at 1230, using only a rag+water wif kiwi kleen...clean until 2pm... then gotta walk back to MRT to fetch dd...only managed to clean a portion of the ceramic tiles at living room...

Sunday:
went housie again at 1:30... cleaned the floors of the following areas:
1)living room
2)all 3 bedrooms and study room...+ a layer of sofix parquet care
3)kitchen
4)balcony (worst!)

Took 3 big pails of water (so gotta go down 3x and carry 3 big pailful of water up)

yet to clean (floors):
1)2x toilets
2)service balcony
3)shelter (i call it storeroom) hehe

also fixed the window grilles in bedroom 3...
took me 3hrs to do all these...130-530..

stil got those small small things haben clean like window grills, doors etc...but those shouldn't be as hard to clean as the floors...5yrs of stains on the floors...

After nearly 5hrs (1.5+3) of cleaning later, housie is finally clean... not very clean but clean haha some areas.. arms and neck aching now but i think it's worth it ... the whole place do seems 'big' to clean for 1 person but i think it will be degrade into the same state previously (before sunday)... need to clean so throughly...

have some pics but gg to post later hehe (still incomplete)...

after the tough work, went to 'reward' myself wif some 'ice'(fruit cocktail dessert) at koufu pioneer mall...yum yum...