Plans for the Future

With the semester half over, I've begun to think about graduation. Well actually, at the beginning of this semester, I was already thinking about post-graduation.

I spent the past week wolfing down information about investment and this morning, woke up at 8am ( my system is all geared up for waking at 8am no matter the day of week. Bastard) and spent the next 2 hours reading about the CPF system (equivalent to social security) in Singapore, mortgage rates, procedures for marriage, permanent residence (PR) , ... the likes.

The impending shift to the next phase of life somehow roused the innate planner in me and I'm taking great joy planning for things that can only happen after 3 months: how to spend my monthly income and marriage.

As you may or may not know/remember, me and Johnny are planning to get married within the next year or two. Before "I do", I have to first get MoM's (Ministry of Manpower) approval because I worked under the Work Permit scheme on my internships at SIA. Next things on the list would be marriage and PRship. Not necessarily in that order. After *THAT* comes the application for a HDB flat.

So my schedule for the rest of the year should look something like this.

|****May *** |***June *** |*****July *****| ***** August**** | ***** Sept *****|
Graduate --> Moving ---> Start job/ MoM's approval ---> Registry of Marriage --->

|***Oct***| ***Nov ***| ***Dec *** |**** Jan 06 ****| |--------->|****April 06 ****|
PR application ---------------------> Applying for flat --------> Renovations --->

|**** July 06 ****|
Moving into new home

This is just my most optimistic estimate of course. Looks like even at my most optimistic, it will still take another year before I have my own place. Anyway, both our parents do not even know we are planning to get married soon. Not that they will disapprove. Not like it matters even if they disapprove. Marriage is a personal affair after all. Oh and somewhere in between all that I would like to have a small wedding reception for close friends and family.

One of things we really want to push for after graduation is to move out together a.k.a cohabitation. We've already been cohabiting for the last 4 years so it's natural that we want to stay together. The beauty of it all is that his parents and my mum knows we are staying together. My dad doesn't even know who I've been staying with. When he asked if I was staying with a Singaporean, I just said yes. No elaborations.

Well even though I say I do not care for my parent's approval, I certainly hope they would because life would be less painful that way. I wonder how they would feel, to have both daughters marry in the same year.

Anyway, looking at my penchant for planning, I was starting to wonder if I should start a new career path after paying off my bond doing something related to that. Maybe be a financial planner. Will definitely look into this if I find my work boring.