Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Flog - Wednesday April 18, 2007

8am - Tea + sugar

10am - Latte with caramel sugar-free flavoring

Lunch - BBQ Pulled pork sandwich with potato salad + potato gratin

Dinner - Weird Chinese marinated pork dish with strange tofu noodles + steamed cabbage

Stomach felt sink in the morning, probably from the weird chicken from last night :(

Monday, April 16, 2007

Flog - Monday April 16, 2007

Food Log! At Moobob42's suggestion, I'm going to log my food for the next week.

Morning

8am - 1 cup tea, includes 2 teaspoons sugar

10am - 1 cup latte (1% milk) including 2 squirts of sugar-free french vanilla flavor, 1 shot of espresso

Lunch: - Italian Style Roast Beef, Tomato & Herb Rice Pilaf, Garlicky Green Beans, Tuscan Salad. (Green beans weren't fully cooked and not fully eaten)

1pm - 1 can Diet Pepsi

Dinner: - Weird chinese food, 1/2 bowl of rice, pork & tofu skin, boiled cauliflower

Friday, April 13, 2007

Nice little applet from NYT showing you when buying a house will start to pay off better compared to renting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/2007_BU...

What I like about it is that it lets you play with the rate of return on investments and takes into account things like your income tax rate, inflation, home price appreciation, etc. It basically does what I originally wanted to do in Excel, and does a better job illustrating it :)

Personally, according to this applet, based on what I pay for rent, there is no way that buying a house would be better in any number of years :) I'm better off putting my money into a savings account and letting it appreciate.

Oh yeah, and hi to the only people reading this blog and bugging me to update it :P

(Ooo... I love this article... seems like this country loves to reward stupidity. So what if you screwed yourself over by not reading the fine print or making a budget. The government will bail you out! http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/13/real_estate/subpri...)