Saturday, January 31, 2009

McShame


Wednesday, January 14th

Woo hoo, we're out of the hotel!  David has to work today, so I'm in charge of packing up the rest of our stuff and hauling it to the new house.  I'm still not quite comfortable with driving, but the house is a only short drive from the hotel, so it was fine.  We complain about having to drive the Honday Odyssey, but you can certainly pack a lot of stuff in the back.

Sidenote:  Price of a new Honda Odyssey in Singapore:  S$95,000 (about $65, 000 USD).  And that's not including the price of the Certificate of Entitlement you need in order to drive any car, S$16,000 - S$90,000 ($11,000 - 64,000USD) depending on the car and how many people have COE's at the time.  It's the reason the traffic isn't horrendous.  Imagine what would result if we tried to fit the entire population of the state of Minnesota inside the 494/694 loop and gave them all cars.  It's about the same population/size here, but there are rarely any traffic jams.

As I was waiting for the air shipment to show, I called the cable company and had our selection upgraded.  It took less than 5 minutes and then I had Forensic Files to keep me company.  No MTV or Bravo, though.  I know, it's probably better that way, but I am going to miss Top Chef until David gets the Apple TV hooked up.

The washing machine repairman came and "fixed" the washing machine.  It turns out that all he did was jiggle the door, and it starting working!  Now I really felt like an idiot.  I swore to him that I tried that, I really did, and he just kind of looked at me.  Silly American housewife.

The air shipment finally came with our sheets, towels, pillows, and a few dishes and such, about 10-12 boxes of things.  But by this time it was 1pm and I was hot and starving with absolutely no food in the house.  For those of you who know me, when my bloodsugar gets low, it's not a pretty picture.  So I did what I swore I would never do here in Singapore.  I went to...  McDonald's.  Not only did I go to McDonald's, I drove the six blocks there.  McDonald's delivers here 24/7, and if I thought I could of gotten the food faster that way, I would have.  I had a Big Mac and a Diet Coke.  And it was great.


Afterwards, I went to Cold Storage, which is a local grocery store chain.  I bought milk, cereal, OJ bananas, peanut butter, parmesian cheese, and a bottle of wine.  To my surprise, the total was $72.  The orange juice was $2, so why the high price?  The milk was $16.50, and the cheese was $19, I kid you not.  Looks like I'll be cutting down on dairy.

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