Tight Budget

I should be sleeping.. is 1130 PM or 430 AM in Malaysia.. I gotta get up by 5AM to work but I couldn't sleep. Probably because I found and song and being repeating for 30 minutes now. 张雨生 - 我期待. Very nice song.


Anyway, I only get to stay at my company accommodation for probably another 5 weeks therefore I am gearing up to search for a house. Searching for a house is a not a difficult part but searching for a good one and under budget is a tough one. There are apartment as low as 3000 per month but it is either far or some facilities is missing. I found one today about 5 minutes away from my office, Doha Suite 2. It is about 5500 per month and the apartment looks alright. One bedroom, water and electric bill included, Internet and kitchen as well. It was perfect until the problem arise lack of parking, that apartment location is somewhere behind an alley I bet it is dark at night and impossible for me to walk out buy stuff and the right and left side of the building looks very run down and looks like a drug addict place but it is not. :) Well there is a price to pay for a cheap place but there are cheap and good location apartment I just need to have the time to search entire Doha :( with that, moving out means I need to get a car for better mobility around the city. So right now I am trying to keep my monthly of everything under QR9500 per month which is possible but difficult. 


Some said why are you so save, spend it la since you came all the way to work and you should enjoy a bit. Well I am but in a bit more moderate way, as I still keeping my purpose of coming here to work. Main thing to earn as much money as possible within the shortest time and go back home to make good use of the money. Well maybe this is my habit since I am at Malaysia so hmm just stick with it.


If you are spending like crazy and not much saving left then what is the purpose you are here? Enjoy? yeah you could but it is not the right time. There is still a long time to go, I know life is short enjoy today like there is no tomorrow. But tomorrow you still need to eat, you can't live your life like a Malay proverb kais pagi makan pagi, kais petang makan petang. 


I do enjoy.......... sometimes and I am doing OK so far so no worries. :) KHALAS!


ana bikhayr



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