{"id":2846,"date":"2011-12-01T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:10:03","slug":"morning-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"Morning chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Dec already! so fast!! I wish time would stop for me \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I have been here for 3 years and it had been a wonderful 3 years&#8230; I love <em>almost<\/em> every moment I spent here (except the times I go to the doctor) Yes, I do complain at times&#8230; BUT i still like my life now<\/p>\n<p>I think I have reached a certain point in my life that I want to settle down ( not have kids) &#8211; I just want to belong in 1 place and know that things won&#8217;t change. I used to like moving so as to have &#8216;change in environment\/feng shui&#8217;. However, for now&#8230; I just want things to remain stagnant and unchanged. Maybe SG is small&#8230; everyone goes thru&#8217; a natural progression of things: Go to school, date, get HDB, get married, give birth. Over here, we have more options. People don&#8217;t say &#8220;You need to have kids early, you are getting old&#8221; .. haha&#8230; it&#8217;s common to take birth control pills though<\/p>\n<p>Everyday, I toyed with the thought of going back to SG <strong>with<\/strong> BH. My reasons:<br \/>\n1) When I&#8217;m sick, I know where to seek help<br \/>\n2) When I&#8217;m lost, I know who to get advice from<br \/>\n3) when I&#8217;m hungry, I know where to find good food<br \/>\n4) We have our home there<\/p>\n<p>BH <strong>disagreed <\/strong>with me. He countered most of my reasons with his reasons:<br \/>\n1) You NEED to pay to seek help from a doctor<br \/>\n2) You can call home. We have friends here &#8211; game to meet up anytime even if it&#8217;s a weekday!<br \/>\n3) Ok, food-wise, there&#8217;s nothing I can say<br \/>\n4) So what if it&#8217;s a HDB. The best we can go is a Condo. When our family gets bigger, we can get a BIG house here<\/p>\n<p>In BH&#8217;s opinion, he thinks that &#8216;money is not an issue&#8217; and that the quality of life is better here. What I always wanted is a home, a real home&#8230; how everything is nice and perfect &#8211; that&#8217;s what I have been saving up for. Now the money is reserved to repay the bond. In SG, I can get everything I want NOW (which will make BH and I unhappy people because we will work like crazy)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, BH said something new which I have never heard before. &#8220;Amanda, you are very short-sighted and you keep making all these mistakes. Money is not a problem. I need to <strong>GUIDE<\/strong> you to see how this is going to help us in long-term&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I shut up&#8230; thought about all my mistakes and decided to let BH &#8216;guide&#8217; me. We will get there some time&#8230; not soon&#8230; but some time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Dec already! so fast!! I wish time would stop for me \ud83d\ude41 I have been here for 3 years and it had been a wonderful 3 years&#8230; I love almost every moment I spent here (except the times I go to the doctor) Yes, I do complain at times&#8230; BUT i still like my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morning chat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}