Expense gone down by 75%!

okay i have a habit of jotting down my expenses and i have an excel file where i store all the things i bought and how much my expense is for the whole month and I am glad to announce that for the month of February 2009 i have succesfully achieved my lowest monthly expense ever!! I spent a grand total of  Rp. 895,790!! (S$120). Can’t believe it. I know i spend little in Jakarta, but i didn’t know it would be so little. When i was in Singapore, my expense was consistently around $400/month, so it’s gone down 75%! And I could have easily saved another Rp.200,000 i think. Let’s see this month, i try to go on a fast and don’t buy any useless stuff. But it’s not looking good, i already spent Rp.200,000 in 5 days! Partly cos my mom is away so she isn’t cooking dinner and i have to buy food myself. But really i get to keep my expense low because my mom cooks breakfast and dinner, so i don’t have to spend much on food. Also my dad pays for petrol.

Random Amusing Stuff

Saw a toy store at Block-M called – Toysaurus  -.-

Someone at Service Centre couldn’t spell my name and wrote it as “Robbin Hai Yan To”. On the letter i was addressed as Mr Hai LOL He must have thought it was a chinese name Hai Yan To. Sounds kinda canto.. or viet?

Was on this road around kelapa gading. sticker advertisement caught my eye. It wrote ‘GURL KE RUMAH. 08XXXXXXX” so i was like O.O wait a minute… that’s quite wrong lol didn’t know people stick these kind of advertisements… only when i got near it that i realised it actually says  guru ke rumah! LOL the right side of the U has come off so it looks like L. Also, if you think of it no one would spell Girl as Gurl. anyway can’t believe i saw it as that, is it my ehm dirty brain, or i wonder if anyone else also sees it as GURL KE RUMAH. And imagine if someone called the number and asked for a GURL instead of a GURU lol, if the GURU happens to be a gurl guru, then some misunderstanding could occur lol reminds me of the time in school when we saw an advertisement which wrote EX-TEACHER TUITION and we went to write an S in front of that.. go figure.. lol

PEMILU

Ok i have wrote quite a lot of pointless stuff.. that’s what happens when i’m home and i decide to blog i get carried away. Pemilu is around the corner, soon, and i am eligible to vote! Should i vote?? i just see who looks the best in their picture and vote for him/her JK… i read an article in Globe Asia about this candidate Rizal Ramli, i get the impression he is pretty good, he is minister of something something and seems to be a really educated guy, i like this type lol i’m so gonna waste my vote.. but i’m pretty interested in politics to be honest, not to look cool or educated, but really i enjoy listening to the american election debates and speeches quite entertaining. you have all these very accomplished important people and they give strong opinions on the things that matter!

POKER

amazing this blog was all about poker now i haven’t played a single poker hand in a month. So quickly my priorities change.. i wonder if i will ever have a lasting passion for something. but…. i have been watching a bit of poker on youtube, i saw the new season 5 high stakes poker clips, it’s really exciting with the young stars on! Tom Dwan, Ziigmund, Eastgate, Minieri. It’s can’t get any better than that. It’s like seeing Cristiano Ronaldo vs Pele or something haha It’s impossible in sports, but in poker, age is not a limit, you can play till you’re 60 70 how old is doyle anyway? Poker is pretty good played for fun, it’s like soccer you play it with friends and follow the pros on tv, but i don’t think it will be a good career choice, unless you’re really talented. Income can be good like a few thousand a month but the thing is it doesn’t increase by much from then on?? like you’re stuck at that level. also the irregularity, one month you can be up, next month down, there is nothing stable about the income. Also results mean nothing at times, you can play so well yet be losing loads of money to bad beats, and you can play badly get lucky and still win loads of money and think you’re really good.. which is really dangerous. Compare it to like tennis, if you are federer you can expect to get into semi-finals or finals of every tennis tournament, your skill correlates with your results, therefore your results are pretty predictable. But with poker, no player no matter how good can say for sure he’ll get into the final table of all tournaments, like say federer could in tennis. It’s quite crazy if you think.. you can be the best player, and yet go out of a tournament with no fault on your part. It’s really something to get used to lol. You cannot equate your results with your performance like we have been conditioned to in life o.o

That’s it, i think i’ll blog again sometime, it actually feels quite good to write out these things, although they may be of no value to anyone lol