KEI CARS
was again attracted to a small (kei in japanese) car. would've liked to test drive a suzuki alto but of course you can't crash it through the glass walls of gateway mall, can you? i was reading tsikot.com last night and learned that people are only shelling out P500 for gas a week. one said his/her regular route in a week is driving from caloocan to manila to pasig while the other one i caloocan to laguna.
freaking P500?! that would only cover my FX/tricycle/taxi fare for three days! imagine, i have to shell out P50 so that i can get out of the subdivision without cramming myself with 6 other people (including the driver) inside a tricycyle in the mornings. di ito yung jeepney-style tricycle...ordinary tricycle with a cab with a somewhat elongated front but still an ordinary-looking tricycle. i'll take a photo of it one day to show you the indignities of riding one when you're rushing off to work. apat kayong pinagsisiksikan sa loob ng cab tapos dalawa sa likod minus driver. aaaaagggh!
then i have to ride an FX to get out of pasig to wherever i have to go. if i haveto be in ortigas, i will pay P18 to get ther. if i would go to makati, then i'll pay P35 but i have to queue for like an hour because it takes a while for the FX to come back from makati because of the horrendous traffic along C5 every morning.
then within the day syempre as a field whatever i go around pa metro manila di ba so wala akong choice kungdi magtaxi sa kung saan man ako magcocover dahil nagmamadali ako. sabihin nating another P100 na naman yun. eh minsan 3 kinocover ko sa isang araw.
in the evenings, i have to pay again P35 or P18 to the mamang FX driver (depending on where i came from) and P40 to the tricycle driver to reach this f*cking subdivision(not really my choice, do i have any these days?). forgive me, that's the childish me talking...as much as i want to cut back on my commuting expenses, i realized i dont have the energy to cram myself inside a hazardous take the tricycle with 6 other people at the end of the day. i mean, i can't be cruel to myself. i've worked my ass off the whole day trailing after these people, writing stories on the fly and dealing with colleagues who are also competitors and stuff and as a reward, i'll ride that sardine can of a tricycle?
so buying an 800-cc cheap car is sooooo attractive to me right now. i don't care about the resale value or what (since when is a car an investment anyway?) but i could save a lot of energy and money by getting myself that alto. my weekly allowance is just for commuting. buti na lang may nagpapakain sa amin so nakakatipid ako sa food minsan. nagbabaon ako paminsan pero since i'm always mobile, minsan parang hassle magdala ng lunch box sa kung saan man ako pupunta. if i have a car, mas madaling magbaon.
imagine me lugging a lunch box that i can't shove inside my bag because the food may spill on to my laptop. then i would have to cling to whatever i can hold on to when i ride at the back of the tricycyle, stuffed with live, breathing people. there are mornings that i don't have any choice but to ride those sardine cans because tricycle drivers who are willing to go "special" in the mornings are hard to come by.
mas masama pag umuulan. you get the picture.
the only problem to this solution i've found is the money. where in the world will i get P420,000 (base is P398,000 plus 3-year registration and insurance) when other Half and i put our money in the stock market that is falling, falling, falling falling *sigh* (i didn't see the bottom) and in a mutual fund that we promised we will not touch for 10 years?
hay...dream on.
kelangan tumaya sa lotto.
freaking P500?! that would only cover my FX/tricycle/taxi fare for three days! imagine, i have to shell out P50 so that i can get out of the subdivision without cramming myself with 6 other people (including the driver) inside a tricycyle in the mornings. di ito yung jeepney-style tricycle...ordinary tricycle with a cab with a somewhat elongated front but still an ordinary-looking tricycle. i'll take a photo of it one day to show you the indignities of riding one when you're rushing off to work. apat kayong pinagsisiksikan sa loob ng cab tapos dalawa sa likod minus driver. aaaaagggh!
then i have to ride an FX to get out of pasig to wherever i have to go. if i haveto be in ortigas, i will pay P18 to get ther. if i would go to makati, then i'll pay P35 but i have to queue for like an hour because it takes a while for the FX to come back from makati because of the horrendous traffic along C5 every morning.
then within the day syempre as a field whatever i go around pa metro manila di ba so wala akong choice kungdi magtaxi sa kung saan man ako magcocover dahil nagmamadali ako. sabihin nating another P100 na naman yun. eh minsan 3 kinocover ko sa isang araw.
in the evenings, i have to pay again P35 or P18 to the mamang FX driver (depending on where i came from) and P40 to the tricycle driver to reach this f*cking subdivision
so buying an 800-cc cheap car is sooooo attractive to me right now. i don't care about the resale value or what (since when is a car an investment anyway?) but i could save a lot of energy and money by getting myself that alto. my weekly allowance is just for commuting. buti na lang may nagpapakain sa amin so nakakatipid ako sa food minsan. nagbabaon ako paminsan pero since i'm always mobile, minsan parang hassle magdala ng lunch box sa kung saan man ako pupunta. if i have a car, mas madaling magbaon.
imagine me lugging a lunch box that i can't shove inside my bag because the food may spill on to my laptop. then i would have to cling to whatever i can hold on to when i ride at the back of the tricycyle, stuffed with live, breathing people. there are mornings that i don't have any choice but to ride those sardine cans because tricycle drivers who are willing to go "special" in the mornings are hard to come by.
mas masama pag umuulan. you get the picture.
the only problem to this solution i've found is the money. where in the world will i get P420,000 (base is P398,000 plus 3-year registration and insurance) when other Half and i put our money in the stock market that is falling, falling, falling falling *sigh* (i didn't see the bottom) and in a mutual fund that we promised we will not touch for 10 years?
hay...dream on.
kelangan tumaya sa lotto.
