Day 60 of the 60DWCC - McDonalds Salad for Dinner for a Change

The entire day gone by quickly like always. Do we only feel it when we are past 35 years of age? I have no idea but I really do feel the fast passing of time after I was 35 years old. Weird...

At evening time, THL and I meet up at the McDonalds nearby our place to get our dinner. We bought chicken salad from McDonalds and a McChicken burger for RK. The queue was relatively short for peak hour and we got our dinner all packed up within 10 minutes.

We had our dinner while catching up with our Korean drama. Spent the rest of the evening alternating between watching TV and Korean drama.

That's how we spent the final day of the 60DWCC. :)

Transport Expenses: $1.66

Home to Boon Lay Interchange (THL) => $0.83
Boon Lay Interchange to Home => $0.83

Expenses from Day 46 to Day 60 stand at $102.58 which is somewhat lower than last 2 weeks. 

The entire 30 days expenses for the 1st Month = #214.64
The entire 30 days expenses for the 2nd Month = $228.69

Hence the total expenses spent on transportation over the entire 60 days challenge amounted to $443.33 which is really a small fraction of the entire car expenses ($1700 x 2 = $3400) had we still own the SUV. Wow...

Daily Afterthoughts:

Today marks the end of the 60 Days Without Car Challenge. Although it has ended, THL and I feel that we should continue to track core daily activities and transport expenses. But we will not be updating it on a daily basis anymore. I will be providing the update every once a week highlighting some interesting happenings throughout the week and of course I will still collate and tabulate transport expenses we incurred for the entire week.

Will we be getting another car soon? The short answer is No for now. But who knows...the genuine need for it may spring on us soon, we will see.

Day 52 of the 60DWCC - Final Round of CNY Shopping at JEM

Although THL and I have declared that there is nothing else we will need to get for CNY, there is always something that we will buy whenever we do window shopping.

After we do our last swiping of credit card, we had lunch at HANs. The food wasn't really nice today but it is bearable for our already hungry stomachs.

We took a feeder bus home after that. The rest of the afternoon was spent doing some light touchups. As we were too lazy to cook, THL and I went down to a nearby McDonalds and bought back dinner.

We spent the rest of the evening watch TV shows and the all popular CNY countdown variety at 10.30pm.

Transport Expenses: $2.91

Bus Rides:
Feeder bus to Jurong East => $0.73 + $0.36 = $1.09
Feeder bus from Jurong East to Home -> $0.73 x 2 + $0.36 = $1.82

Daily Afterthoughts:

The ultimate challenge that we feared most is tomorrow. The first day of the Chinese New Year. As we do not know what kind of transport challenge we will get into, we are all hoping for the best tomorrow.

Pray for us...:D

Day 41 of the 60DWCC - Chinese New Year Decor Shopping Spree (Part 2)

As the amount of CNY decor we have got is somewhat lacking, we decided to visit Chinatown today to buy some more as well as to continue our traditional practice (THL and I have been doing that over the past many years) of visiting the CNY stalls at Chinatown every once a year.

The 3 of us left the house early since it is a Sunday and it is fast approaching Chinese New Year. We had breakfast at Wendy's which is located underneath the Jurong East MRT station.

After breakfast, we took a train to Clementi station and took a connecting bus to Chinatown. Upon reaching there, we first went to OG to shop for THL and RK's clothing. We bought a pair of shoe and a few clothing for RK. THL also bought herself 3 pieces of upper wear. 

After we are done with OG, we crossed over and started our CNY stall tour at Pagoda street. We bought a few sets of CNY decor as well as some fries and drinks from McDonalds. 

After we have finished our annual "Tour of Duty" at Chinatown, we took a bus back to Clementi central. We had lunch at the Japanese restaurant at CityVibes.

After our late lunch, we took a train to Jurong Point. We had a bite at Durian Empire before leaving for home. THL cooked some light stuff for dinner and we spent the night watching some TV shows.

Transport Expenses: $15.43

Bus Rides:

Feeder bus to JE => $.073 x 2 + $0.36 = $1.82

Bus from Clementi to Chinatown => $1.35 x 2 + $0.58 = $3.28

Bus from Chinatown back to Clementi => $1.47 x 2 + $0.58 = $3.52

Bus from Boon Lay Interchange to Home => $0.73 x 2 + $0.36 = $1.82

MRT Rides:

Train from JE to Clementi => $0.83 x 2 + $0.41 = $2.07

Clementi to Boon Lay => $1.17 x 2 + $0.58 = $2.92

Daily Afterthoughts:

Since we have started taking public transport, we have the chance to visit quite a few new places which we normally would not visit had we still own a car. It is through these many bus rides that we have started to discover many interesting shops and eateries around Singapore. Now that the 3 of us have gotten used to taking public transport, there is a very high chance that we will continue to take public transportation even after the 60DWCC. We will most likely continue to go car-less unless the MAS make positive changes such that car loan can be serviced over a long period than the existing 60 months as well as for the car loan percentage to go beyond the existing 50%.