Friday night and...

normally I would be asleep by now since I have to wake up at 4:45am every Mon to Fri. But tomorrow I only need to be at the office by 8:00 (yeah, still have to be at the office on weekend!! arg..) so I'm indulging my staying-up-late habits, just to feel less like some one in the working class. hehe

anywho... last weekend, I got my first official salary (not a paycheck, we're not that advanced yet). Mom asked me as I was holding the money in my hands pondering "what're you gonna do with it?" Somehow the first thought that came right across my mind was "investing in the stock market" (although VNIndex is going downgrade like dropping the ball on NYEve), and the second thought was "putting it in the banks and enjoy some gains from interest rates (most VNese banks' interest rates now are almost close to 20% per year *faint*). That being said because I have no idea with that much of salary I receive every month, when am I gonna be able to afford 1 house, or even just an apartment.

Mathematically, I earned about 5 million Dong monthly (dont be misled by the "million", watch the foreign exchange US$1 = 16,500 Dong), and 1 middle-class apartment at the moment is about 3 to 4 billions each. Lets say I spent only about 2 millions monthly (which is quite a generous number, since VNinflation could reach 23%, I should be spending a lot more)... anyway, then I can save 3 millions a month. So a 3-billion apartment can be bought by me after 3,000,000,000 divided by 3,000,000 = 1,000 months = app. 83 years.
Wow, I need to work about 83 years more with this job to get an apartment.
Haha, of course I didnt take into account of rising inflations and the fact that I might get promoted and earn somemore, but those numbers I just calculated does make sense and help explaining why we are still so poor, and why some of us want to takes so many risks with the financial markets.

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Anyway, lets talk about something else.
I finally watched Mamma Mia the other day with my buddies after a week desperately trying to get some1 to go with. The trailer seemed so well-done and it prompted to watch it, and it certainly didnt disappointed. I used to listen to a lot of ABBA songs, I can still recall some of the lines, and it was so exciting watching Mamma Mia because its the movie in which you can sing a long even its the first time you see it. The music, the songs, they're all being put rightly to each scence. Love the cast too, Streep is awesome esp her voice, Pierce is still looking sharp, poor handsome Colin Firth, he turned out to be gay in the end, Amanda acted well too. Its a musical so most of the scenes appears quite dramatic, but I love it.
This is probably the best movie for this summer.
Looking forward to it when it comes out on DVD :)