Day 27 of the 60DWCC - Stay Home Sunday

The 3 of us woke up pretty late today due to the fact that it is a Sunday plus we have had a long day yesterday. Yeah, looking at our public transport expenses of almost $15, anyone would have guessed that our poor legs have had a torturous time yesterday. :)

Hence THL and I decided that it would be the rest day for our legs today. We had late breakfast followed by a late lunch - we had the ever popular porridge prepared by THL.

Most part of the day was spent doing our own stuff - RK working hard in finishing up his Youtube's 4 hour cartoon marathon, THL did laundry and watching her Sunday shows and me doing and testing out new tools for my SEO business.

As usual, we had dinner at coffee-shop nearby and bought some titbit from the 24 hour NTUC nearby our house.

- The Internship Movie -

The 3 of us watch The Internship to sum up the Sunday evening. The thriller somehow managed to melt away some of the "Monday Blues" of THL to a certain extent. It was a good show with a super nice ending. Thumbs up!

Transport Expenses: $0

Daily Afterthoughts:

THL and I could not believe that 27 days have passed and we have kind of "normalized" to the public transport taking lifestyle. While we do not know if we can make it through the toughest challenge (it has been known that even Taxi is scarce during the CNY period, let alone public transport) that is coming our way (Chinese New Year), it is certain not the end of the world for us.

Day 24 of the 60DWCC - First Day of School and Work

Peace and Quiet - At Last!

Most of you are probably still sleeping when our poor RK woke up at 5am. By 5.50am, he was already seated excitedly beside his classmate inside the school bus. As usual, THL left the house by 7am and that was it...

Finally.

Peace and quiet welcomed me with open arms, something that I have longed for since RK's school holidays started in mid November. Heeding our bed's tempting beckoning, I went back to sleep and I manage to wake up at 9am to start the day.

12pm - I went down to fetch RK but his school bus did not arrive until 1233pm. THL and I was worried that he missed the school bus. LOL.

RK took a 2 hours nap shortly after lunch and I resumed my productive work till 5pm.

Delivery from Redmart

At 4.30pm, I signed off a delivery from RedMart. THL and I recently agreed that we should try out online purchase of necessities (drinks and dry stuff only) and hence this delivery from RedMart is our virgin attempt to get necessities online. The delivered items were all in great conditions and service was ok. I am sure we will continue to use this online service provide and this will eliminate the need for us to carry heavy stuff back from NTUC and super markets. Hurray!

RK and I meet THL for dinner at a nearby coffee-shop and we walked home after that. After RK finished his homework, we played some online games with him before sending him to bed.

Transport Expenses: $1.66

Bus to Work (THL) -> $0.83
Boon Lay Interchange to Home (THL) -> $0.83

Daily Afterthoughts:

Before we sold our car, THL and I would never have thought that we would one day order our necessities online. One of the main concerns we had is the condition of the items delivered. We were worried that we have to go through the hassle of getting a refund if the items delivered are damaged or dented. I foresee that we will be ordering most part of our necessities online in the future and we will continue doing so even if we do get another car in the near/distant future. Nothing beats getting the necessities delivered to your doorstep, don't you agree? :)

Day 21 of the 60DWCC - Busy Day Working From Home

The best part about working from home is the fact that you have absolute freedom on how you want to plan out the day. You can have a short break every 15 minutes, or have a 3 hours lunch break, no one really cares. :D But there are times when I have to rush out some work for my clients and yet have RK jumping and breathing down on me every 10 minutes or so.

Sigh.

That's life, isn't it?

At long last, after I was done with my work, I compensated RK by playing some online games with him. One of his all time favorite games is the Fire Boy and Water Girl series from Miniclip site. The series consists of 3 worlds namely Crystal, Light and Forest Temple. Each of the Temples has huge number of levels where the 2 players will need to work in unity (team work) to solves complex puzzles while collecting diamonds at the same time. It was really a fun game to play with the young ones.

Warning: The game can be addictive and never let your child play alone or he or she could easily spent 3 to 4 hours on it. You have been warned. :P

There are many other games over at the Miniclip sites and most of them are really great for training up your child's reflexes and creative mind.

At about 5.30pm, I went down to packet dinner back from coffee-shop and we had dinner together when THL reached home at 7pm.

Transport Expenses: $1.66

Bus to Work (THL) -> $0.83
Boon Lay Interchange to Home (THL) -> $0.83

Week 3 transport expenses stand at $174.85. That's like less than $60 a week so far, can't wait for see the figures for week 4.

Daily Afterthoughts:

It has been 3 weeks since we sold our car and to my surprise our lives have not gone upside down and in fact, I feel that I get to enjoy more quality family time with both THL and RK - something that would otherwise not be possible if I still have to drive the car and focus on the road most of the time. My attention would have been mostly devoted to the road and traffic and I would not be able to pay 100% attention to what they have to tell me. 

Ever since the car is gone, I have not had the chance to hear THL's "I told you" comments - THL loves to tell me things whenever I was driving. I have always hope that she can understand the fact that I could not possibly remember everything she said while I am on the wheel. Well, women are wired differently, aren't they? That's life again. :D

Day 11 of the 60DWCC - Watch Pacific Rim Followed by an Overpriced Dinner

The day went past quickly with me going through the usual routines. I did not go for my run this morning as I was feeling very tired and I was also down with a bit of a flu.

Both RK and I had McDonald for lunch while watch a rental DVD - Pacific Rim. It is a very nice show but the ending was somewhat unreal and short.

As for dinner, I arranged to meet THL at a nearby Kopitiam (singapore term for Coffeeshop) and we ordered 3 dishes from one of the food stalls selling BBQ stuff. The food (BBQ Stingray, Sambal Sotong and Butter Crayfish) arrived and to our disappointment, the portion of each dish was very little and yet they were charging $10 - $12 bucks for each dish.

The food did not taste particularly nice despite it being overprice and we both agreed that the stall has lost us as customer for good.

Transport Expenses: $1.86

Bus to Work (THL) -> $0.83
Bus Home (THL) -> $0.83

Daily Afterthoughts:

Many food stall owners are take advantage of the recent inflation by either raise the price of their food items or giving very much smaller portion of the food. Either ways, these greedy stall owners are losing customers and it is such stalls that usually close shop within a year if not months.