Costs of living in Malaysia

June 13, 2008 by Ang Gu Gu
Filed under: Life, Malaysia 

Following the fuel rise of 78 cents on Malaysia’s fuel, i think i start to feel the impact on the daily petrol, food and even consumer products!

Everything only up, up, up, up but i don’t see my salary even goes up as well!

I already bought a motorbike or more precisely a Vespa. You know whats a Vespa? =)

This is a Vespa alike to mine but wait till i finish repairing and spray it ill show it to you all. People ask me, why i buy Vespa? Its such an old model of motorbike and almost to extinction already!

I think its just cute and its made of metal unlike motorbikes nowadays. But its much much heavier than our bikes now and its just so romantic if you try to bring a girl out with it =p But i doubt any girl would wanna ride with me on this cause they would of cause prefer guys who drive sport cars like fellali, poshe, jaguor or BMW!

And guess what? Superman drives it too!

Lately i been counting, how much should i earn to support myself at this time for being an adult (not including having a wife or childrens).

Lets say im single having a house, a car and other basics stuff and my cost of living a month ;

House Repayment : RM 300 ( Low cost under 100k house with 30 years loan )
Electricity and Water bill : RM 150 ( No air-con )
HP and Phone Bill : RM 50 ( Cannot chit chat for hours with girl )
Streamyx broadband : RM 60 ( No internet how to blog? )
Meals (3 times a day) : RM 450 ( RM 15 ringgit a day - Eat what?? )
Car loan repayment : RM 300 ( Perodua Kancil 7 years repayment )
Petrol : RM 300 ( Enough to go work but cannot go drive around!)
Insurance : RM 120 ( Who dont buy insurance? )
Total : RM 1730

Ngaiti……Already RM1730 without adding we go clubbing, watch movie, eat seafood, steamboat,pizza hut or KFC, ciggarates, car maintenance, buy present for girls/parents .

How much do you earn? I bet alot malaysians not even earning up to RM2000 a month. Some maybe just can cover every month but if you have a family? Got childrens?
Looking at the increase of prices in products and things, anyone can teach me how to save? Walk to work? Eat instant mee? I once read an email saying ;

Our motto for our country is “Malaysia Boleh” , but i think it should change to “Malaysians BOLEH” because even with the massive increase of cost of living, we still alive!

UNLESS your parents are as rich as Lim Goh Tong, Bill Gates, Sultan of Brunei then you shouldnt have felt the effect or impact of the rise!

So my advice to all ,
- Dont go out
- Dont smoke
- Dont drink alcohol
- Dont court girls
- Dont call any girls beside your mum
- Dont go travelling
- Dont buy new hp, clothings or anything new!

And eat only economy rice + instant mee!

Or theres another solution is that we all start to ;
- Plant rice field
- Grow vegetables
- Raise livestock

and be a farmer =)

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Comments

7 Comments on Costs of living in Malaysia

  1. angel on Fri, 13th Jun 2008 4:19 am

    2. ngaiti! ngaiti!! but rice oso expensive leh! :P

  2. Ang Gu Gu on Fri, 13th Jun 2008 4:32 am

    3. ngaiti…liu liu…why everytime your online also at 3,4,5 am one? =p

    Yea rice last time 15kg my mum buy 32 ringgit, now 53 ringgit!!!

    eat grass lar..

  3. erlynda on Fri, 13th Jun 2008 7:07 pm

    4. huaa… the rise of living cost definitely takes a toll on low- and middle-income citizens. not to mention, students as well. Haiz… all we can do now is to come up with a proper budget every month. save as much as we can. no entertainment never mind - as long as there’s enough money left for INTERNET. Eheheh… :D

  4. Ang Gu Gu on Sat, 14th Jun 2008 2:18 am

    5. Lol =p Yea, hopefully we can “survive”

    My dream to drive BMW will takes me another 5 years i guess..

  5. abby on Sun, 15th Jun 2008 9:37 pm

    6. I WANT A VESPA! Lol

  6. Ang Gu Gu on Mon, 16th Jun 2008 1:51 am

    7. Lol, get one =) Its very unique and nice..trust me..good for collections..im looking for a lambretta now!

  7. Mina on Sat, 6th Feb 2010 4:41 pm

    8. how much did you vespa cost? or how much does a vespa costs in malaysia?
    I’ve been meaning to find out but there are no sites for malaysia.

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