the wants and must dos

Some things I want and must do:

1. despite being an accounts exec, I don’t keep a budget for myself. Usually I give myself a gauge by looking at my savings balance and that’s where I tell myself how much I can spend or not. Perhaps for better planning purposes, I shall adopt dearie’s suggestion of keeping track of my expenses. I’ll kick that off in feb 08.

2. after the bike ride on Sunday, I realize how much I have slacked off in biking for the past half a year. I couldn’t even keep up with an uncle on a dahon foldable bike. It’s a disgrace! Hence I do have to buck up if I am going to go for any of the tri races in Malaysia come later part of the year. I’m tossing with the idea of training on my trainer on some mornings, that’s the best way to get a good bike workout without having to weave through traffic.

3. sell off my road bike. After much consideration, I’m going to let go of my Tania (my orbea vitesse). Dearie reasoned with me on why am I keeping neon (my cervelo) like a white elephant; spending so much on it but not using it. I always gave the reason that it’s too expensive to run on the road for training, so I’ve always kept Tania for training despite it being a little big for me. time to let it go and I’m really hoping I can sell it off at a decent price. Bad thing now it’s not tri season as yet so there might not be a demand. Nonetheless if I can sell it off, then I can finance a new 650 wheelset for neon to be used for training. The hed will be kept for racing. So, keeping my fingers crossed, I hope to find a good owner for tania.

4. get my wisdom teeth removed. After enduring 2years of wearing the tormentous braces, those idiotic wisdom teeth pushed my row of straight pearlies all out of place. Grr!!! I’m so angry to see all my nice pearlies messed up because of those “wisdom” teeth growing inwardly. Not very “smart” teeth to begin with. I’m really hoping to get them removed before cny when we’re back in Malaysia. To get it done in Singapore in crazy expensive. On the average it’s about $500/tooth. my eyes nearly rolled off their socket upon seeing such a price tag on removal of teeth.