Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Lunch today was with the whole unit at Grand Court Vegetarian Restaurant @ Somerset. It was supposed to be CNY unit lunch but today is already the 18th day of the Lunar New Year, and, in Jasmine's own words, "after 15th already, where got meaning?"
It was the same old vegetarian stuff, we went here once about 2 years ago when Nor, Michelle and me got promoted and gave the unit a lunch treat. The Abalone yusheng was ok, Jas and Lily were apprehensive about tossing it outside of the 15-days zone for fear of good luck turning to bad instead.
The New Paper's Dr Money column ran a very interesting article today - "Car - your worst investment." It compares the cost of owning a car, a van, a motorbike and taking public transport. And guess what, owning a motorbike is the cheapest. And a $70k car actually will set you back $140k, about twice of the cost, because of the interest, petrol, insurance, maintenance etc. Goodness. Imagine that. Paying an additional $70k for.... well I dont know why I am writing this anyway, I sold my first Toyota for the exact same reason, yet within 8 months I bought the Mitsubishi. I guess its the convenience, and the luxury of bringing my parents around anywhere they want to. But I think owning a motorbike will be cool too. Super cool. I'm still relatively young and I've always wanted to bike around, so I should do it now. Yes. NOW. I will go to BBDC on Friday to sign up for a Class 2B course. :)
The gift for my saYang is ready! Went to Orchard to pick it up, its small actually, different from what I saw the first time. A bit disappointed, the font is all wrong and the pic is not clear. Oh well. Met Sofian after that, he wanted to go for an audition for a talent company at NUS guild house. But we ended up at LJS and started chatting and the conversation somehow went into the 'dysfunctional family' zone. All I can say that, in respect of his privacy (and mine too!), its not cheap to live, its expensive to die, its costly to even go mad. Beam us up.
It was the same old vegetarian stuff, we went here once about 2 years ago when Nor, Michelle and me got promoted and gave the unit a lunch treat. The Abalone yusheng was ok, Jas and Lily were apprehensive about tossing it outside of the 15-days zone for fear of good luck turning to bad instead.
The New Paper's Dr Money column ran a very interesting article today - "Car - your worst investment." It compares the cost of owning a car, a van, a motorbike and taking public transport. And guess what, owning a motorbike is the cheapest. And a $70k car actually will set you back $140k, about twice of the cost, because of the interest, petrol, insurance, maintenance etc. Goodness. Imagine that. Paying an additional $70k for.... well I dont know why I am writing this anyway, I sold my first Toyota for the exact same reason, yet within 8 months I bought the Mitsubishi. I guess its the convenience, and the luxury of bringing my parents around anywhere they want to. But I think owning a motorbike will be cool too. Super cool. I'm still relatively young and I've always wanted to bike around, so I should do it now. Yes. NOW. I will go to BBDC on Friday to sign up for a Class 2B course. :)
The gift for my saYang is ready! Went to Orchard to pick it up, its small actually, different from what I saw the first time. A bit disappointed, the font is all wrong and the pic is not clear. Oh well. Met Sofian after that, he wanted to go for an audition for a talent company at NUS guild house. But we ended up at LJS and started chatting and the conversation somehow went into the 'dysfunctional family' zone. All I can say that, in respect of his privacy (and mine too!), its not cheap to live, its expensive to die, its costly to even go mad. Beam us up.
