Heh, was spending time at Borders reading about personal financial management and mortgages. These aren’t topics that interest me to any extent, but when you come out into the working world, you are really ill prepared to handle all the responsibilitie to come with it. I read a funny quote that when you start working, you are now earning more than just your pocket money. These words ring so true. Prior to graduating, you apportioned your money for daily expenses, rent and bills, and whatever you had left you could treat yourself to a nice gadget or two. Then I started working and the pay isn’t too bad and you could probably afford a lot more gadgets and live more lavishly. The truth is, that lifestyle never really materialised. Looking at home loans and actually owning a piece of property as a roof over your head is really not that easy.

It’s really basic supply and demand. If houses were cheap, everyone would be able to afford one and soon houses would be like cars as a commodity and a lot of people might opt to have one house per person (as is the case for the cause of traffic jams in KL). It makes sense to price houses accordingly but somehow, you feel trapped into having to spend your entire working life paying off the fees that are associated with just keeping a roof over your head. Escalating oil prices of late have been highlighted on the local current affair shows on TV in Melbourne. A lot of people are finding it difficult to continue their current jobs because travelling costs have increased a lot to the point where it would save them money to not travel to the workplace.

Heh, not something I’m too keen to write about, but only because we should be aware of all these ‘down to earth’ things in life.

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On the lighter side of things, have taken this Sunday (my first in a very long, long time) to not even bother with recreational activities. Just taking the time to clear out my hard disk with backups and reordering some data. Also looking at the WordPress development cycle a bit, and am already thinking of new improvements for the next design version of this blog.

Waiting for the end of the month so I can go watch Serenity on the bigscreen. It’s actually the bigscreen version of Firefly which I was giving such rave reviews on a while back. Something to look forward to this coming Friday. Heh.