Mango Pao Signing In and Me spending money freely? Is it True?

Hi Buns,

Miss me? Mango Pao here. Long time never come talk to your already so I decided to come again. Pleased? Good.

Hmm. Looking foward to both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Why? On Christmas i am going with my family to Malaysia for a 1 day short trip. And on Christmas Day? I am going with Orange Pao to eat at Vienna at Novena Area then proceed on to East Coast Park for a BBQ later on in the evening.

And oh ya. Oh Christmas Eve, as a jam is expected, my family and I will be moving out earlier. Perhaps around 8.30 Am or so. Hee Hee. Looking foward to the food there.

As for Christmas Day, the timing for Vienna will be at 1.30 Pm. Hmm. I think i will not be eating anything before that. Perhaps just make a drink or something like that would do. If all goes to plan, I will be picking up Orange Pao and its family at around 1.15 Pm or 1.10 Pm at the Main bus stop where 851, 852, 133, 136, 130, 13 Bus services will be passing by.

So what is my plan everyday? The usual until any bun ask me out. So i am just like a waiting bun. Have things to do but can change accordingly. So one can consider me as free or busy also. Whatever the case, I am fine with it.

Hee Hee. Almost left 9 weeks to my enlistment. How should i feel? What should i do? I dreamt about Orange Pao. It told me something to do and i rejected it. Lucky it is just a dream. Or is it real? I cannot remember.

Today is Cookie Ice Cream 1st day in the Air Force School. Poor Ice Cream. It has to wake up at 5 Am. Reporting place is at Paya Lebar. How to get there? Take Train along the North-South Line from Khatib to Toa Poyah which will take around 14 Minutes without waiting and then take a bus number 90 or 90A (Available in the morning only) to the Air Force school. Oh well.

Lucky we are living in a small country and public transport is quite accessible. But to me. Nah. Public Transport is never good enough for me. So i told myself already, when i can afford to buy a car, i will. Thus i need to study hard.

So I am going to apply to NIE under NTU when the application period opens in February 2010. Going to study hard for the English Proficiency Test. $74 for the test you know. I am going to study very hard and get the best possible grades. I heard that once you are accepted into NIE, that means you have to work for 3 years.

It works like a bond. They will pay for all your school fees, give you some allowance like around $5000 to $1000. Perhaps they will help you pay some for your laptop i think. And when you start working, they will pay you full time salary starting from $2550 to around $2990 depending on how good your grades are.

Wah. Still have pocket money to spend while need not pay for school fees. Good ma right? Help parents save the university fees. Hee Hee.

I heard comments about me spending money too freely. Hmm. I do feel so too. As and when i am short of cash, it is just a swipe away. Plus i do not pay the amount after swiping the card. Hee Hee. That means while i am not making any attempt to earn money, i am just spending money freely. True. But i feel that it was last time. I used to receie pocket money every week and even had to withdraw more money on some occassion.

Then when my parents company started making a loss of around $20000 a month, i decided to stop taking pocket money. And usually when i swipe the card, it is due to some special prices a s a result of it. Like watching movies at Cathay Cineplex at $6 for weekdays and $8 for weekends, discounts or rebates by usiong this card, discount at departmental stores, etc.

And then began my thrifty lifestyle. I started to buy NTUC housebrand stuff to eat. This is so as to save money. I stopped going out alone and spending money. I eat cheap stuff, stop eating yogurt and drinking milk, buying things that are only on Offer, do not buy things that are not needed, etc. But the swiping of card is still there. Hee Hee.

My wallet does not have much cash. Serious. Less than $10 usually. So i decided that once i am being enlisted into Army and start receiving my allowance, i will use that allowance to spend on myself. So swiping of card only when discounts or rebates are applicable. Fair enough right?

And another issue. I received feedback that throughout this year i am not doing anything. And that i am wasting my time. Hmm. I feel that i make the right choice. One even said why i do not correct the mistake when i knew about it. I felt just let it be. Since there are new changes to the obese intake, i am happy about it. As it is now at 19 weeks instead of 15 weeks, i fell the additional time will give us more time to get into shape. And more time to train as well.

While it may seem that i did not do anything this year, the main thing that i had been doing and is currently doing is to focus on losing weight. So far i have manages to shed around 20 Kg from 100 Kg plus to the currently 79 Plus Kg. My pants size dropped from 42 inches to 36 inches while my shirt size fell from XXL to Large. It is a big change for me.

I feel happy about my own commitment to lose weight. It is not a easy thing to do. Seriously. Removing the temptation, suffering the pain, etc. But i must continue to get into shape if not i will suffer in the obese training. My target weight is 70 Kg before i am being enlisted. That leaves me with around 9 weeks plus from today. Do not think it is a long time. Soon it will come.

So training is important to me. So whatever others say about me i do not mind. I reflect back and think about it. If i find it to be true, i will change, if not i just leave it.

So that brings me an end to this post. A very long post i must say.

Yours Sincerely,
Mango Pao