It's a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to L.C.H. and wife!!! The new addition to the family is a healthy boy!!! Good on ya mate!!! Guess that means not much more time for weekly badminton anymore hey?! Hahaha...come back to Bandar soon ya, baby's gift is waiting for him!! I bet you'll love it too..

Down memory lane...

It's nice to meet you guys..its been what, 4 years or something like that since the class of '99 and whoa everyone's done well hey..like what...4 scholars in each of the top prestigious unis around the world...or everyone's migrated and is making their own mark in the world..great one!!!

Reminiscing over old times and current times, and it struck me just how good we have it here. For all you say it's boring over here and whatnot, did you know there are certain facts that establish that working here is heaps better than outside??

1) Stop complaining about the pay. People in Malaysia get paid half of us AND get income tax again. Or try working in US of A and getting whacked with a 35% total tax bill every paycheck.
Or in real world figures: on paper u earn 2.2k but bring home a real cash amount of 1.6k only.

2) Did you guys in Brunei know what real world petrol prices are? I've had so many people complain to me that their car consumes a lot of fuel. Hey, get a life..I've paid up to $1.40 per litre of petrol before and thats real world oil prices man. Don't go whining about how little your $5 of petrol gets you. In Malaysia $5 gets you from 1 end of the petrol station to the other. Try asking for $5 of petrol in Singapore, at $1.80 a litre I'm sure mineral water bottles hold more.

3) Complain about work, try why don't you. At least you get to go home at 5pm. Others overseas go home at 7pm and some are lucky if they get home by 9.

All in all, I think we've got it pretty good here. And at $0.53 a litre of petrol I'm sure you guys can save up enough money from there for other things..like another car.... :p

What to blog?

Whoa, I think that I am not meant to diet. Seriously. The last time I tried a low carb diet for a week, I ballooned up and ended up not fitting in any pants of mine. And how depressing it was as well. So I ended up going back to eating my normal meals and voila I shrunk back to size. Thank God!! I thought I needed to go for liposuction.

Anyway so apart from that, I've actually become pretty proud of myself. Managed to squirrel away a few coins in the past month or two. I think I'll go buy myself something now..muahahaaha NOT!!

Seriously I think I can..I'm sure I can...I know i can...aahh whatever...