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Money money money, its so funny, in the rich man's world.no wonder i'm the only guy not laughing.
anyway, i've came up with this theory that the best way to save money is to go out with friends. then somehow, you'll always end up at this posh restaurant, it is likely that you'll save a lot of money. cause one look at the prices will already make you not feel like eating.
disclaimer: this only works if you are as cheapskate as me
today went outing with my class, usual stuff, went arcade and bowling. then went for dinner at country mana, some western restaurant in suntec. though i kinda expected us going somewhere ex and posh for dinner, i was hoping i might be wrong. after entering there, i realised that my theory was totally true! i've never felt fuller in my life, so i didn't eat anything there. (although the real reason was that my mum had already cooked dinner for me). as usual, the food there was ex (to me), like half a spring chicken was about $14.
so i sat down there and started sipping the FREE ice water, probably from the tap anyway, and watching them eat a hole into their wallet
then arrived home at about 9:30, and ate my frugal dinner of homecooked fishball soup and curry chicken. so started telling my mum about what happened, and when i got to the restaurant part, she's like "what? your friends so se3 de2, half a chicken $14, outside one whole spring chicken only $7, can eat outside cheaper don't want, must eat at such expensive place"
so i thought about it, hey its true! my mum only gets $50 of grocery money a week (no i am not lying, we are THAT poor). then the food at restaurants aren't exceptionally nice too, just maybe a bit better than what you find outside, but the price difference is so damn big! and spending like $20-$30 on 1 meal is just too much, maybe some families have survive on that a WEEK.
i mean, students like us, wth do we have to go to posh places to eat posh and "delicious" food? so what if its a class outing? so what if its an outing with friends? so what if its only once in a while? you won't die if you don't eat at posh places, your life won't be greatly affected, your standard of living won't drop. but if someone else had that money, it could mean having a proper breakfast, lunch and dinner, for 2 days!
while typing this, i also realised, if i converted the amount spent on food to oriental working hours, $20 will be like 4 hrs of work, slogging your guts out, getting scolded, not sleeping, walking non-stop, carrying endless trays of glasses, tables, chairs, getting bossed around by the boss. suddenly i feel like i'd rather starve.
in my secondary sch years, i always wondered why ri boys like to go fastfood so often, the food isn't THAT nice, its probably unfresh, unhealthy and unnutritious, and its damn ex, bloody waste of money. now i realise how lucky i was to have friends who actually go fastfood rather than posh restaurants which cost 2/3 times more though i still wish people will just go coffee shops and hawker centres.
anyway, new lesson learnt today, never eat dinner outside with friends, besides my np dudes who seem to always enjoy the humble atmosphere of S-11 (cheers guys!).
W toked kok @ 3/05/2006 10:18:00 pm
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