Thursday, May 25, 2006
Upset..

Just feel kinda upset, cuz I feel that I took unpaid leave to be with piggy, but it's about one month since I stopped working and yet, I have seen him for probably only about 2 weeks. Although I m happy to be back in Spore, I can't help feeling sad that he is not with me to enjoy the feeling of being in Spore and all the things we can do together here. I know he can't help it but I just feel angry that his sickening job gives him so little time and so few benefits...not even an air ticket for me to fly over. Ever since I stopped drawing a salary, I incurred even more expenses...have to pay for my own air tickets and it's not like it's my only expense...still have to pay for handphone bills, etc..Just feel that whatever his job can offer him just doesn't justify either of us giving up everything here. I guess, with a job, I feel more independent financially. And I also feel that at least, I didn't waste all the money studying.

Today, I was walking about with my cousin in orchard cuz she wanted to buy some stuff. Saw some nice stuff but didn't buy them cuz I felt that I shouldn't spend any money since I m not earning any now. It kinda makes me sad cuz if I were earning an income, I would be able to buy myself some things that I like, especially now that there are sales all around. But because I m drawing on my savings, I told myself I needed to be more prudent. Some of my friends think I m a 'tai tai' just because I m not working but I always tell them I m not. Tai Tais are people who, without working, can still afford the luxury of spending and travelling without even battling an eyelid. Whatever I m spending now is drawing on my savings and I was calculating the amount I wld have forgone just by not working for 6 mths -- about $20,000. And it's not like Piggy's salary can cover that, which is usually the reason why the wife stops working and lives on the husband's salary alone.

Yup, it was my choice. I chose to take no-pay leave for 6 mths. I could have chosen to just continue working. But if I did, what kind of life would we have? Imagine being able to see your husband only once every 5 or 6 weeks. E once told me that she really missed her bf when he went away for work for about a week and it was going to be increasingly frequent, like once every other month kind of thing. She already felt sian when her bf went away for a week every other month. Imagine how I felt for the past 9 months before my unpaid leave started. E sees her bf for 3 weeks and he is gone for 1 week. Then there is a 1 mth break in travelling. But it was like the opposite for me, I saw piggy for one week and he was gone for at least 3 weeks. And there was no extra break. At least for E's case, her bf's salary justify his frequent travelling...

So you can see why I really feel we are better off in Singapore. Doesn't matter even if we dun stay in a condo. However, I feel that if both of us hold normal, decent jobs; with our qualifications, we should be able to afford a condo after working for a few years. It may be difficult during the initial years, but it's fine staying in a HDB flat and then upgrading to a condo later on. Cuz that's what the government gives the grant to first-time flat buyers for. And that's what many people do too..

As many of my friends know, I really wish to have a place of my own. Not that staying with my inlaws is anything bad, on the contrary, my inlaws are very nice people and really treat me very nicely, of which I m really appreciative of. Just that, like many newly-wed couples, I m sure they would love to have their own little love nest. I dunno how to explain that kind of feeling, just like something the two of you have build and created together kind of thing, something you call your own. But at the same time, if we buy a place, I also hope that Piggy and I can enjoy it together, and not just me alone, with him travelling most of the time. It will get pretty lonely and I really hope that won't happen...i.e. I hope that both of us will be living and working in Singapore in the near future with minimal biz travelling..

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11:34 pm |

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Friday, May 19, 2006
The air is fresher, the grass is greener...

Yes, I am back in lovely Singapore! Feels nice to be back, the air is certainly fresher and everything around looks so much better!

Yesterday, I went with my in-laws to look at this place called Savannah in Simei. Wow, it's beautiful man! I have seen nothing like it before. The surroundings is entirely like a theme park, with animals cast in stone all over the place. There is also a smoking volcano near the swimming pool and a cave you can track through. The ground is also cast in long wooden planks, which kinda reminds me of universal studio..haha..Then the facilities are fantastic! Apart from the large swimming pool, a fun pool for kids and a jacuzzi, there are also 2 tennis courts, bowling alleys and a nice gym. There is also a 3-storey high club house with 2 multi-purpose halls, reading rooms and function rms. On the top floor, there is an open-air area, with tables and chairs for relaxing. Kind of reminds me of this place at Kallang Riverside, which Piggy once brought me to..quite amazed by the place. The interior of the rms are also impressive...spacious, with nice furnishings in the shade of wood which I like and best of all, there is a built-in walk-in wardrobe and a sunken bath in the toilet! Simply amazed by the place and facilities. Gng to take some pics later..

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
That's What Friends Are For..

A cross-stitch for Ms Poodie..

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Just My Rants..

Just learnt to cook fried rice from the maid. Seems quite simple, just throw in everything and cook. Was quite pissed off with Apple's attitude just now. I think she believes she is a queen!!!

Firstly, some background.. Apple doesn't like the maid here. She said the maid is stupid and you can always hear her scolding the maid. She also said that the maid is lazy and dirty. Infact, she said that the people here are all dirty-looking and looks like they haven't bathed for days. To me, yup, they dun look that clean but come on lah? This is not exactly a first-world country and most of these people are poor and some of them may not even be able to eat good food the way you eat. What do you expect? I think she probably thinks she is the cleanest person in this world. She even thinks my piggy is dirty! Damn pissed with her. She mentioned before that once she lent her nail clipper to Piggy and he used it to cut his toe nails. So she doesn't want the nail clipper anymore!! Then Piggy said, "So she doesn't use the nail clipper to cut her toe nails lah?"

Apple also said that Piggy always went around eating with his colleagues and was not afraid to eat all sorts of funny things everywhere...she seemed to be implying that Piggy was not very concerned with hygiene or cleanliness. Not that he is not particular, of course, he doesn't purposely go and eat food that will make him sick but he isn't a picky person so I know that he won't complain just because the place he is eating in isn't Sheraton or Omni Hotel. She thinks Piggy is queen like her, is it?

Anyway, back to the maid. To me, I think she is ok. Although you can't say she is the most efficient maid in the world but I feel that she is ok, does her work and best of all, she can speak Chinese. Somemore, when I ask her to bring me around or teach me how to cook, she also willingly did so and even bought the ingredients for me. Anyway, what happened just now was that I offered Apple some of the fried rice which the maid had cooked. Then she gave me that look and said something like "Eee, I don't want to eat her food. If you dun mind, you can eat. It's very dirty." Then I looked at her and said "Is it? I think it's ok leh." And began to eat. Cuz I was the one who washed the meat and vege and prawns and seasoned the stuff. The maid only taught me the order to put the things in. Like this also considered dirty? She thinks she is some queen man, can only eat food at high-class hotels is it?

Somemore, she is very wasteful. Everytime, buy things which she never cooks and put in the fridge and after a few days, she will ask the maid to throw them away. I m not saying you should keep spoilt food, but just that if you have no intention of using them, then dun buy them in the first place!Although she is leading a comfortable life, she shouldn't think that money drops from the sky! Then yesterday, she was telling me that she wanted to go and boast to her adopted sister that she is going to Australia. She also said that her adopted sis only earned $200 a month although she is working in a hospital, gynaelogical department and her tone was as if taunting her. She said that if she had chosen another path, she would probably have ended up the same as her adopted sis, working in the hospital. I really dun see her point. So you see people so poor thing, cannot afford to travel and you, being able to travel and spend money as you wish, wanna go rub salt on their wound by boasting to them? I think the first thing she needs to do is to start appreciating the things around her and quit complaining before she talks about boasting to other people.

Somemore, she everytime boast about her cooking skills and how much Piggy's bro likes her food. As if she cooks that often now. Eversince I m here, I can count with my fingers how many times she cooked and every single time that she did, she complained about cooking, about the kitchen, about the heat, about how troublesome it is and this and that and just about everything else. If she is so unhappy cooking, then dun cook and quit complaining lah! It's not as if the food she cooks is very nice. Somemore, say Piggy don't really eat her food as if implying he doesn't know how to appreciate her cooking. Looking at it simply, Piggy doesn't eat it cuz he doesn't like the food and why? Cuz it isn't all that nice..

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Learning to Cook

Have been trying to learn from the maid how to cook, since I have nothing very important to do here. Cooking is interesting, I really hope I can master it one day. Think I m still at the very beginner's stage. But I have learnt how to cook simple soup and fry vege. Hope to learn more as time passes. : )

Yesterday nite, Piggy's bro, Apple & I went for dinner at Legend's cuz Apple won alot of money two days ago so she wanted to give a treat. It was a delicious meal, with lots of good food. After the meal, Piggy's bro wanted to go home but Apple wanted to go to the Casino there. Think he was tired, cuz I heard from Apple that he only had like 3.5 hrs of sleep the previous day but anyway, that Apple insisted on going and started to show her unhappiness when he resisted. So in the end, they went. And I went home first. As mentioned previously, I hate to be inside casinos for long, cuz of all the smoke. Anyway, it was interesting how Apple debated on how she should go to the Casino cuz she will be away from Vietnam for a month and won't have a chance to go to the Casino. It's not like she wasn't there earlier in the day. In fact, she had been at the Casino for about 4 hours, when Piggy's bro & I met her for dinner at the hotel. But she reasoned that it was not enough..I wonder how she can survive in Singapore, which doesn't have a casino at the moment...and she always talks about going back to Singapore. Maybe when the new casino is up...haha..

Anyway, I had a most discomforting night. When I was watching TV, the channel switched by itself to another channel. Wonder why it happened. I hope it's because all the channels are linked and somebody in the next room switched channel. Then when I woke up, the aircon was off. Nope, it was not a power failure cuz the small lamp was on. I wonder if I could have accidentally switched off the air-con when I woke up to switch off another light in the night. I really can't remember the vivid details cuz when you wake up in the nite, you are always groggy and blur. But whatever it is, I really would prefer it if my cuddly little piggy was around..

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Singapore here I come!!

Piggy just left for Taiwan yesterday. I couldn't really get to sleep last nite. Think I sleep much better with Piggy around, somehow this place is still like alien's territory to me. Anyway, 2 more nights to go and I will be back in Singapore. Feel quite happy thinking about it. At least, Singaporeans speak intelligible language to me.

Anyway, I m hoping to figure out how to start a website. Hope that we can start our own website to feature all our photos. It's really troublesome having to upload pics to Yahoo photos, especially when there are alot of photos. The program always aborts halfway through and only a certain percentage of the photos get uploaded. So sickening.

Yesterday, Piggy & I went to this place called "Satay House" to eat before he left for Taiwan and we were pleasantly surprised by the food. The entire "house" sold local Singapore food, such as roti prata, nasi lemak, taohu goreng, mee siam, chicken curry, etc. Really glad to find that there are still some places selling Singapore food in Vietnam. Then there is also Amara Hotel, which sells many Singapore dishes and the menu is in English. Not every place is like this. There are places where the entire menu is in Vietnamese. Hope to discover more place like these. Haha.

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Saturday, May 13, 2006
My Taiwan Trip..

As some of my friends know, I was in Taiwan for a few days during early May. Interestingly, Piggy and I were also in Taiwan at about the same time last year. The only difference was that the previous year was purely pleasure and this time round, it was mainly business for Piggy.

It was just a short 3 days stay in Taipei but I enjoyed myself. Would have wanted to explore more but was restricted by the constraints of time. Furthermore, my flight to Khao Hsiung was delayed by about 9 hours. The plane had actually already taken off and flown in the air for about half an hour before they announced that the plane was experiencing technical problems and had to fly back. This is the first time I encountered something like this. But felt relieved that the airline company was responsible enough to abort the flight and head back immediately before further trouble arose. As a result of the flight delay, free accomodation was arranged for affected passengers at a nearby hotel, since the new flight was scheduled at 3 am in the morning!

Because of this, I met a Vietnamese lady who was married to a Taiwanese and ended up sharing room with her before the flight. She was quite nice and spoke relatively good Chinese cuz she had been married to a Taiwanese for the last 11 years. It was pretty interesting talking to her. Found out that she was only 34 years old but already had 2 kids, the elder of who is 10 years old, meaning that she gave birth at 24! And she was still so slim! She also told me that Vietnam is a bad place to bring up children cuz the facilities are not there. The pay here is also low so it's hard for families in Vietnam to sustain a family of more than 1 child. When I asked about the hospitals and medical facilities, she said it wasn't good, as can be expected. She said that in comparison to Khao Hsiung, where she was staying, the medical facilities were much much better. Guess she must be wondering why Singaporeans come over to a place like this to work when most of them can't wait to get out. But then the standard of living here is also very low. She told me her nicely manicured nails (with nail art) cost only S$1 in total and they were done at a normal hair salon! I almost couldn't believe it. When I did my nails together with Apple at the hotel, it was already considered cheap but this is even cheaper.

On that very same plane ride, I also met this other Vietnamese woman with a really cute and chubby baby and she happened to be sitting just next to me..haha..but the poor baby threw up during the flight..but then he was so young, only 6 months. The lady asked me to help her carry him for a while and it was so nice..I hope to have my own baby soon and I hope my baby will be as chubby..heehee..

When I reached KhaoHsiung, it was early in the morning at 7 am. Hence, basically just went to the hotel (Splendour) where Piggy was staying in to eat breakfast, catch some sleep and then we were headed for another internal flight to Taipei. So you can say I hardly got to see Khao Hsiung. According to Piggy, the urban planning of Khao Hsiung was much better than Taipei. A pity I didn't have a chance to explore it further..

In Taipei, we checked into this hotel, called "Waikoala Hotel", and we got the honeymoon suite cuz it only costs about $10 more than the normal room..heehee. It had a really huge bath tub, kinda reminded me of Racha..haha..




However, the hotel was nowhere near the popular "Ximending" or "Shihlin" areas. Nevertheless, we did go to these two night markets on 2 of the nights, mainly to eat. Had this really nice dessert at Ximending, which I m still thinking about. I definitely can't get this stuff in Vietnam.


On the first day in Taipei, it was raining so I stayed in the hotel during the early part of the day to watch TV. Wow, the channels there are almost exhaustless..more than 100 channels. They even have a channel dedicated to korean dramas 24 hours though...haha..I almost couldn't stop!

Then I followed Piggy to some of his vendors' sites and they brought us to this hot spring on Yang Ming Shan called "Huang Chi", which was quite interesting.

There are so many hot springs in that area, with different themes, and the air up there was cool and crisp, a refreshing change from the stale air in Vietnam. This was followed by a sumptuous dinner at the very place and we were introduced to Taiwanese beer. I m not a
lover of beer and I dun really drink but this beer was light and refreshing with a very subtle taste. Nicest I have ever tasted.

On the second day, I also followed them to the company and one of his vendors dropped me at the nearby Ikea to take a look since I had nothing much to do inside the company. There I saw this nice cupboard, which I like. I hope next time, we can do something similar for our house.

After that, we went to eat Japanese food, but really tasted very taiwanese but still nice. Had this interesting soup in a tea pot, which I heard is only available in Taiwan.

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Power Failure!!!

What the heck! The power went off for almost 2 consecutive days on Wed and Thur! Resulting in the fact that I couldn't access the internet, couldn't stay in my room to read or do whatever I wanted cuz there is no windows in my room and without switching on any lights in the day, the room is pitch dark! I could only do my cross-stitch in the dining room area, which was really stuffy and hot cuz that's about the only place where the sunlight comes through.

You can imagine how damn pissed I was. On the 1st day, the power failure lasted from 8.oo am to 5.30 pm and the 2nd bout came in the wee hours of the very next morning, i.e. for about 2 hours from about 3 to 5 am!!! And that's not the end, on that very same day, the power went off at about 10.30 am again and lasted all the way till late evening..it was only when Piggy went to meddle with the power switch (cuz he was so pissed off that I was so pissed off with the heat and stuffiness) that the power went on again. I m really amazed at how this is the normal way of life for the people here. Cuz in Singapore, the very last time that the power went off for a couple of hours, SP almost got sued! And yet, it's part and parcel of life here. Perhaps we have too good a life in Singapore, but that just makes me think even more of why we are here. With the power off, it was literally impossible to do anything or at least feel comfortable doing anything. I really hope this episode would not repeat again in the near future..

However, I was happy that on the first day that the power went off, I asked the maid to bring me to the surrounding areas to take a look. To me, since I m here, I might as well get to know the place a little, knowing that such things will never interest Apple. The maid brought me to the "jie1 shi4" to look at what the locals here sell. It was pretty interesting and despite the fact that it was stuffy, I was quite happy to get some good buys. I bought a few tops for only S$6 each. I could hardly believe it and it was not like the tops were ugly, infact they were quite nice! Then during one of the nights, Piggy's local friend brought us to this night market, where they sold lots of nice stuff too. Nice blouses and tops, which I could fit into and which were priced like between S$4 to SS$7.50!! I could hardly believe it. The blouses were so sweet, that if you were to buy them in Singapore, it would probably cost like 2 or 3 times more! So I was quite delighted with my find. But one thing is that the sizes here are really small, so it's harder for me to buy bottoms. Most of the ladies here are really thin, hence most of the stalls carry only small sizes. At best, I can fit into their largest size for the bottoms. I bought a 3/4 demin bottom for only S$12 and the good thing here is that you can still bargain..haha..I think the clothes here are pretty nice, if only I was slimmer, then I can buy even more..haha..and these clothes cost only a fraction of those Apple buys.

And she still had the cheek to tell me off when I told her about my cheap find. She said that China also has such cheap buys but then to the people there, it's not cheap cuz they only get like S$700 - S$800 a month, so I shouldn't think it's so cheap. It's not like I didn't understand that but to us foreigners, such things are considered cheap. And Piggy was saying, since it's so cheap, then why Apple herself doesn't buy the cheap stuff and still likes to buy branded goods. One piece of her branded goods can probably buy 10 pieces of what normal people has!! And she still complained to me that she doesn't have many clothes!!!

Anyway, I feel that she is a very mecernary person. That day, I lent her some of my korean VCDs. One of it was about this girl who chose to marry her childhood sweeheart over a very rich guy despite the fact that her childhood sweetheart was very poor and probably couldn't give her as good a life as the rich guy. Then, she commented that the show was not very realistic, cuz she said "nowadays, where got people so stupid choose sweetheart over rich guy"...she continued"nowadays, people will surely choose a rich guy who can provide a good life then a poor guy". I feel that this clearly depicts her way of thinking and her values in life. Apparently, in her search for an ideal husband, the number one consideration is that the guy must be rich. Nothing else really matters. Really can't stand her sometimes. Almost everyday, she talks about money. I have seldom ever met a person so mercenary before.

And sometime ago, I was actually quite pissed with her for always trying to "tiao3 po1 li2 jian1" between Piggy and I. Actually, it was over long ago, but just talking about her brings back so many things that I wanna talk about. When I first came over to Vietnam, she told me that Piggy said that our room was very small and according to her, Piggy said that I should go and stay in the woman's hostel next door. I couldn't believe that Piggy said such things, so I verified with Piggy and he confirmed that he said nothing of the sort. Actually it was quite trivial but this was not the 1st time that Apple related something that Piggy said to me that was not true at all or at least, I felt that she always tried to twist it into another story. On another occasion, she told me something like she, Piggy and Piggy's brother all took 1st class airplane, so she said that Piggy said "it's better for me not to go to Vietnam since I would need to take economy class". Then when I asked Piggy, he told me that he didn't say anything like that and that he wouldn't have minded taking economy class with me. Anyway, Piggy usually takes economy class also, it's not like he always takes first class like her.

Then on another occasion, she was talking about how hard her life in China was, that she had to take train for 19 hours and that she only earned S$1000 plus per month or something like that. Then Piggy said to her "so now your life very good lah, no need to take train anymore, take aeroplane also take first class one". Then she was quite embarassed and said something like "no lah, not always first class, only when come to Singapore then take first class". I also think she should have nothing to complain about. Last time, she earned about S$1000 plus, now without doing anything, I think she "earns" more than that every month, still wanna complain...so Piggy and I have come to the conclusion that we should take whatever she says with a pinch of salt!

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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Life in Vietnam

Haven't updated my blog since I arrived in Vietnam 3 weeks back on 24 Apr 06. Life here is pretty sedentary but I am still pretty occupied with my own things at this moment and feeling quite okay.

Last week, Piggy's boss asked if I wanna work for them in Singapore as they are going to set up an office there and needed someone to help with the setup. Actually, I wasn't too sure about it so I said I would think about it cuz the reason why I took no-pay leave is to be here with my little Piggy. If I were to be back in Singapore, it would defeat the purpose of my leave and I might as well have stayed on in my job in Singapore. Then his boss said that Piggy would probably be in Singapore very often next time and would only fly occasionally. I was really happy to hear that cuz I kinda miss Singapore. Having been to Vietnam a few times really makes me appreciate the goodness of being a Singaporean and living in such a beautiful, safe and cosmopolitican city like Singapore.

Vietnam is really nothing compared to Singapore. There really isn't very much you can do outside of the house on any normal day. To me, walking out of the house feels like walking down a kampong and the air is always so dusty. Well, probably apart from going to the Casino, which I have no interest in, whatsoever.

Talking about going to the Casino, I really wonder how Apple can go to the Casino everyday. She told me she is really bored here and her life basicially comprises eating, sleeping and going to the casino. What a statement man! I told her that she could probably find something she likes to do, but for every suggestion I made, she had a statement to rebutt, which basically shows that despite the fact that she was bored, she was clearly happy staying the way she was. I suggested that she read and she said that it was hard to buy books here (which was partly true), suggested that she did some cross-stitch (like me) but she said she was no good at such things. Suggested that she picked up English at the language school but she said it was difficult for her. Basically, I just feel that she is happy to live her life like this despite all her complaints. Actually, I can't really be bothered so long as she doesn't ask me to go to the Casino with her. I really can't stand the smoke in the casino. Out of 5 persons there, at least 3 are smoking. Of course, she isn't bothered but I am. I think it's really bad to be taking in second-hand smoke and not from just one or two persons but from a casino of persons. Going there occasionally is fine but everyday is really going overboard.

I was actually quite pissed last week cuz I felt that I was "tricked" into going to the casino. Usually Apple's habit is that she would head for the casino once she wakes up in the morning cuz there is free food in the casino, she says. On that day, I went to Piggy's company cuz his boss wanted to talk to me about the job. So Apple said she would meet me near the Casino for some shopping after that. But when I reached there, which was about 2-3 hours later, she was still inside in the Casino and asked me to go up and look for her. But once inside the casino, it was another 2 hours before we left for shopping. I didn't really enjoy it but well, I told myself, it's not everyday, just that day. After that, we really did go shopping as planned but only for 1.5 hours. And I thought we were heading for dinner as earlier mentioned but instead, she said, "Let's go back to the casino for another 2 hours, try our luck again". Wah Lau, you can imagine how pissed I was. So I went in for a while and because I really couldn't take the smoke any more, I went home first. It's not that I wanted to be picky about this casino business; it's just that I feel that she visits the casino so often that she might as well be a permanent resident in the casino itself!

Yesterday was another classic example. As per her usual routine, she was at the casino after she woke up, coming back in the afternoon. So she said she was really sleepy during dinner time and wanted to go home very badly to sleep. But well, because we had dinner at the hotel where the casino was located, I had a hunch we would end up going there again. And true enough we did, and of course the mention of the casino really perked her up and miraculously, she didn't feel sleepy anymore.

Today, she said she was going to the office for lunch and asked if I wanted to go along. I wouldn't have minded but I didn't want to end up at the Casino after that so I politely refused. It doesn't really matter cuz I had cooked some noodles and eaten at home. Anyway, she offered to help me "ta pau" food but she isn't back yet. I think she probably headed for the Casino after that although she had mentioned yesterday that she would take a break today.

Actually, I can't really be bothered with what she wants to do cuz it's her life. If she is happy living it that way, so be it. I just can't stand it when she always tells me not to be cooped up at home, saying that it's very boring staying at home and asking why I dun go out and "play". As if she is doing a lot of meaning things or activities outside of home. Day in, day out, she is also at the Casino, gambling away. I m just very contented doing my own stuff at home and I feel that it's more meaningful this way.

Still thinking about the job, I think I may do it for a few months to decide if that's really what I want to do. Cuz Piggy said they probably can't offer me the same kind of benefits and leave as what I m getting in my current job. And I dunno if the hours would be long. To me, my current job is very family-oriented and would be greatly conducive when we have kids.

I really hope to go back to Singapore soon. Dun really like the fact that we need to drink distilled water here and the water that we used for bathing is from the ground. I heard from Apple that it isn't very clean although it appears to be and there may be health consequences in the long run. And everytime, we go out on the streets and see all the motorcycles buzzing by and the conditions of the surroundings, I ask myself why we are giving up our nice comfy life in Singapore to be in a place like this when it's not like Piggy's pay is double or triple what he was getting in Singapore. In fact, it's the same and he doesn't even have expat or spouse benefits. And to add to that, he works almost 7 days a week with an occasional off day here and there and after he comes back from work, he is still reading work-related stuff!

Yup, perhaps people might say that because we have had such a nice, secure and steady life in Singapore, we can't take hardship anywhere else in the world (i.e. chi1 bu4 liao3 ku3). But then I think it really depends on how you look at it. I always go back to the purpose of why we are doing this. I know some people visit 3rd-world countries to help out and experience the hard way of life so that they can better appreciate their comfy life, because that is the purpose they set out to achieve. They want to experience it and know how it feels like, so they take time off to do it. For me, I dun see any purpose. I m basically here because I want to be with my hubby but I really hope we will go back to Singapore real soon...

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