Feed me or feed the car?

In singapore,before you get to drive a car on the road, you need to have a valid driving license of course. then you need to buy a piece of paper to put your vehicle on the road. that paper is called "Certificate Of Entitlement". and mind you, that piece of paper will cost you more than S$10k. Don't believe me right? take a look here

so besides paying for the piece of paper right, there's road tax, parking labels and vehicle insurance to take into account.besides all this, there's parking coupons to deal with, cashcards for ERP gantry and cashless car parks. and with the recent price hike of petrol prices, all these are going deep deep down into your pockets, reaching for your wallet and then it will creep into your hard earned money$$$$....without you realising...

since the amount of money you need to spend on the COE already requires you to spend more than S$10k,and then on top of this you need to pay for the actual vehicle price. the cheapest from $50k onwards for a 1.3litres vehicle... of course the high end ones will cost you more. if you want a mercedes or a BMW Z4, it will cost you more than $120K.then when you buy such expensive cars right, your insurance will cost more than the low-end ones.

recently,there was a big drop in the COE prices.It fell to as low as $11,200.see here to believe.It was so much different from the last time i was interested in buying a car for myself.at that time, the paper cost me $15K.Wwhooaa... BIG DROP man! that's why my father told me to chip in some cash as well and change a new car.i didnt ask him what car he was interested in but i told him that if i were to buy the car,i would have no money left to support my 3 meals.

i think feeding my stomach is cheaper than feeding the car with petrol. my stomach can leave on a bowl of $2.00 mee soto for 7days.but $21.00 would not be sufficient to fill up even 1/4 of the tank. cant even bring me anywhere with $21.00 of petrol.if i were to pour the amount of money i spend on food onto 'food' for the car, i would have to 'eat wind'(hokkien translated) because i would just drive the car around and can only fill my stomach with 'wind' from the breeze...

so daddy, drop the car. and Linus* too, don't ask me to get a Ford Mondeo. i can't afford it.perhaps i'm thinking i might eye on a motorcycle license instead. that is the cheaper alternative in getting mobile around the island.