Money Matters

I'm very particular when it comes to spending my money where its worth what i pay for in terms of practicality & satisfaction. Money to me is a very very dear valued friend that are hard to come by but its frigging easy for you to wave them goodbye as well. Every time my buddies buzz me to go out with them, my first action will be to call them back shortly and my second order of business is to frisk my wallet. I'm practically telling my wallet "You are under arrest! Put your hands behind your head and face the wall!". Going through my mental calculator on how much is spendable and how much is untouchable no matter what happens is a daunting task especially in the starting of the month.

Study savings
RM600
Money for parents for home expenditures and utilities
RM500
Monthly Food Expenditures
RM300 (minimum)
Monthly Transportation Expenditure
RM150
Monthly Prepaid Reload
RM30
Total for Monthly Expenditures
RM1580

That is my life = =. The untouchable sum RM1580 which i have to get to survive for 1 month. The rest of the balance i have are all savings which i can spend depending on mood and situation. BUT . . . . . plans are not always what you planed them out to be . . . . . like my good friend who taught me a good phrase which is "SHIT HAPPENS".

With only a little bit to spend for fun and enjoyment. I'm always left with a dilemma which is TO SPEND OR NOT TO SPEND. . . . don't know if William Shakespeare had it easy in his days but I find it very difficult to challenge the urge to spend when you know you got not much to spend.

Opportunity cost - Something i learn from economic studies, you gain something by sacrificing the second best option. With limited resources, we can't have everything we want so we opt for the best thing we should have and leave secondary desires out. But heck! What i learn does not change the fact that I still feel like I want all of them. When i see someone playing a PSP, its like OMG! I NEED ONE! When i think about it . . . . . do i even have time to play it? I saw one of my friend with a PS3 . . . . i drooled over it and said OMG! I NEED ONE! When i think of it, I'd rather save up for a laptop which i need in college later. But on some occasion before I can think, I already spent it. The most recent incident was when i was in The Gardens, I fell in love with a Toy Bread Smiley that looks so darn cute and the moment i exited the shop . . . Darn . . . I bought something i have no real use for . . . . O well what is done is done. Apparently the toy was strongly scented with the smell of vanilla. = = Bonnie grabbed hold of my bag and refuses to let go of it till i distracted her with left over sushi which i brought home.

Alas my spending is always dominated by my left brain (Logic dictates! Live long and prosper!!) BAH! It takes the fun out of everything = =. The only thing that can make me spend without holding back is FOOD =D. Never did look at my wallet when it comes to food, Dim Sum, Sushi, Pizza, Chinese Cuisine, Italian Specialties and a lot more. Being born as the son of a hotelier, my pallets are on the mark when it comes to judging food & beverages! Oh one exception on the beverage part, I don't really drink alcohol. The most i have is a glass of wine on New Years Eve.

Sigh* What would i give to get a strike on lottery ticket . . . . . wait . . . . i don't even buy them. Sigh* What i would give if i money is miraculously appear whenever i want =p. Ha ha ha I better be careful with what i wish for because these things often has a way of biting back.

Till i have more to write about. Laterzzzzz

Treadmill Joy Ride

When i went home yesterday i discovered something was wrong with the living room, there was an additional contraption which I'm vaguely familiar with set up right in the middle with an invisible sign that says "you can walk all over me and i won't mind" Yes! Its my long awaited treadmill, a device so cruel that makes you run and run but you go no where at all~ *I likey*

So I hop on the devilish contraption and tried it out, at first i thought since i had not done much physical work out in a long while i might as well start slow to loosen up the old rusty muscles. I put my Mp3 on and started walking with Jason Mraz (Lucky) at the speed 2 which is a walking pace. Got practically carried away with the tempo of the music by Boys Like Girls (The Great Escape) and I turned up the speed 5 and started running, it was a good running pace till the song ends and played something faster which was from Linkinpark (Bleed it out) so i went faster at 6.5 I almost practically bleed it out on the treadmill that moment. Luckily the song does not last that long but when your runing it seemed forever, and then back to slow songs for me with Taylor Swift (Love Story) with speed 3. Its a fast and slow run mix decided by the random plays of the songs on my handy Mp3.

In the end I survived a 3 Km run thinking i can still reach the 5 Km mark after a gazilion years of non-physical excersice. My legs felt like logs and I think my dog is laughing at me = =. Bonnie is a Golden Retriever and she is a bitch. We usualy don't let her in the house but that night I let her in on purpose coz it does feels awfully quiet in the house when no one is around. She can stay in till the very moment I hear my parents on the front gate =p have to chase her out before that.

This morning i practically overslept, luckily for me its laundry day where my mom wakes up at 6.30 am to turn on the washing machine so that she can dry em out later at 8 am. So i got a loud knock on my door and i draged my feet and pry my lazy ass from the embrace of my dear darling bed. Belive me it wasn't easy coz I realized I overdid my excersice on the treadmil and now my body is aching all over. Well its gonna be a rutine to get on the treadmill, might as well get use to it.

Well the thought of my mom holding a whip with my dad on the treadmill seemed funny enough, since my dad hardly does anything physical at all in the house. Basicly my dad is retired because of health issues, high blood presure, diabetics, gouts, kidney problems and a whole lot of mean things. But the thing is he needs excercise to keep him healthy, when someone has kidney problems they are resticted to low protein and low potasium diets. Because these 2 element gives alot of work to your kidney and when you have a damage kidney, doctors would advice you to go on these diets to reduce the workload the kidney has to take. With a low protien diet you will lose muscle mass. My dad practically shriveled to a thin bony figure with the diet compared to his previous jolly belly status. The weight loss he got was a good sign but it comes at a high price which is his muscles. = = Diet my mom prepares for him made the doctors happy for a reason which is my dad takes a few less medication and from the charts doctor saw my dad was improving health wise. The doctor adviced that he talk some walking excercise to help him improve his muscles. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/H/usda607.html

But the main issue now is his muscle loss which made him weak. We tried morning walks during my day off but just after one day he complains that his feet and leg hurts and so on. = = I basicly find it pathetic looking at him complain about the pain. From my point of view its only muscle aches and not real pain which is what he felt. One we get use to the excersice we won't feel much then doing it routinely. We all feel it when after we excercise because out muscles uses borrowed energy when oxigen is insufficient to provide energy for your muscles to burn. Just after one day he gives up and refuses to go for a walk the next morning.

So we temporarily gave up in making him take a morning walk because he likes to hide himself with petty excuses. Its just walking >_< its not a marathon. So we went to the mall for food supplies and a treadmill caught his attention. Heck!! it caught my attention too because I'm lazy to jog outside the house and i always wanted to get one =p. Mom hatches a plan while we drool on the machine and make us promise to use it every single day without fail because its FRIGGIN EXPENSIVE just to get one. I'm all happy agreeing to the terms but the main man which this contraption is targeted at nods his head too. Practically I'm skeptical if he would really stick to the routine to slowly walk on the machine for 20 minutes minimum on a slow pace. Well time will tell but i do hope he does coz with just skin and bones looked so awkwards on my dad.

More to write when i think of something. Laterzzzz

My first ever blog O_o

Well its my first ever written diary online and made public...don't think its even a dairy if its made public though. Alright! Down to introductions.I'm Jonathan Yeo, 24 this year and my dream is to be a game designer. My interest in games are RPG fantasy, I love stories and i love writing them. I'm an addict to mainstream music, i play keyboard, piano and a little guitar. God knows how bad my skills have rusted because i have not touched any of the instruments for ages but i'm still proud of the fact that my beats and timing are still perfect. Might be single for life (affraid of making and keeping relationships because i don't know if i can commit myself to it) if i ever make a girl cry my guilt is gonna haunt me till i die.

Life is a roller coaster- Hmmm there is good and bad in everything and it all happens for a reason. Well usually more shit happens than miracles. I try to be as understanding as possible, life is too short for drama and taking sides will make my life shorter. Worrying about things that canot be changed no matter what the outcome is a waste of time, unless worrying does help in solving problems then by all means start worrying.

Even when i said life is too short for drama but in the office, drama is un-avoidable in certain times. Thank the high heavens I'm not involved in any of them, being a spectator has its perks. I'll leave the work topic aside for a while. It tends to get touchy when i start about the topic.

What am i doing now?

1. I'm gonna go back to studies in July 29th in one of the most notorious of colleges.

2. I'm gonna work and study full time. Yes you heard it. Work full time study full time, alot of people call me crazy for even atempting it but i see no other immediate salution coz i'm not getting any younger. Oh and the last thing i would ever do is to ask financial help from my parents because they are already retired. = = not nice to break thier bank if they are hapily having candle light dinners in the house when i'm not around (GO DAD!).

3. My game writing is on going, imagining skills and going through the dictionary to see what descriptions can best describe the effect of the skill. Thankfully my dad is english educated which resulted in my westernize writing and speaking, I hardly find any words which are outside of my vocabulary range in normal speaking terms, shakespears is still out of my range of untilization.

4. I'm helping out an independant game studio called Acid Labs in their game called "Project Dream" which is about Amanda a daughter of a scientist who studies dreams and some how there is a whole new world in dreams itself and things got messy. Go to http://acidlabstudios.com/index.html to check out the story.

Thats all for my first blog. Laterzzz.