There is something I am sensing not right here, have to somehow cabut before it is too late. I know some of you already cabut across the causeway, now I am wondering if I should go too.....
Patriotism is something from yesteryear. Gone are the days where you ask yourself what you should do for your country and not what your country should do for you.
Now recently I received 1 e-mail stating that if you have RM 3000 and a family (sole breadwinner) you simply cannot survive in KL. I did a little calculation so to speak, assuming I live in SJ and go to work in KL. Simply put, it is tough!
| Petrol | ||
| Kilometers to and from work | 30 | |
| RM per km | 0.2 | |
| Average working days | 21 | |
| 126 | ||
| Kilometers to shopping/lepak | 30 | |
| RM per km | 0.2 | |
| Average days to lepak | 5 | |
| 30 | ||
| Total petrol cost | 156 | |
| LRT cost | ||
| LRT ticket (LRT only) | 100 | |
| LRT station parking (RM 4*21 days, Taman Jaya) | 84 | |
| Makan | ||
| Lunch at work | 6 | |
| Working days | 21 | |
| 126 | ||
| Family cost | ||
| Parents and brother (good son) | 600 | |
| Cost of Makan lunch and dinner weekend | 50 | |
| No of weekend days | 9 | |
| 450 | ||
| Sub-total family cost | 1050 | |
| Car Costs | ||
| Road Tax (1.5 liter wira, from parents) | 7.5 | |
| Servicing car (every 5k, 630km a month) | 56.7 | |
| Insurance (1.5 liter wira, costs 10k, provided the insurance company such as P&O insurance dun hate old cars) | 50.25 | |
| 114.45 | ||
| House cost | ||
| Internet (RM 88 with line rental) | 100 | |
| TNB (3 air-con in house, 1 for parents, 1 for bro, 1 for me) | 350 | |
| Water (free, TQ PAKATAN RAKYAT!!!) | 0 | |
| 450 | ||
| Total cost per month | RM1980.45 | |
Oh dear, that is not even counting the following:-
Entertainment
Daily Newspaper
Insurance (our lives are so worthless)
Dating (you think can be single till die meh?)
Parking at shopping complexes and other locations when you go to site/meetings
Handphone
Toll
Toiletries
Car Loan
House Loan
Breakfast (forget makan roti, minum Milo and the like)
And to have someone saying we should change our lifestyle? Maybe we should change the country we live in or change where we live. Or maybe change the person who said we should change out lifestyle.
Ok, maybe can cut somemore, like not using air-con, not giving parents money and not using my car. But as a consultant which need to go for meetings and site meetings, you NEED a car. How about sales engineer? They too need a car to meet potential clients and bring along the brochures to let their clients see them. Using motor? Imagine how embrassing it is to tell your client "sorry sir, rain too heavy, cannot see you" or "sorry, I got motor only, cannot deliver sample board".
Can someone in Singapore/Korea/US/Australia do a cost calculation like the above to compare?
P.S: Sorry to rant so much on Hari Raya, just need an avenue to release all the negative thing in me.
