Thursday, January 03, 2008

RM3000/Month in Malaysia? Boleh ah??

Can a family man with Salary RM3,000 survive in Malaysia

Let's do some simple calculations here.

In Malaysia, the average family income is RM3,000 /month
(where father works, mother doesn't).

I understand there are many families whose
monthly income does not reach RM3,000,
but, to make things simple,
let's take RM3,000 as the figure. Ok lah, right?

Okay, let's start rolling with a family which has
Papa, Mama, 1 daughter and 1 son. Ngam-ngam ....

Calculation starts...

Electricity and water bill: RM100
(No air-con, No home theatre, No water heater ... ok?)

Phone bill ( Telekom): RM100

Meals for a happy family: RM775
(3 meals on RM25/day, RM25 for 4 persons...?)

Papa makan / teh-tarik during working hrs: RM155
(RM5/day, RM5 ... can eat what?)

Car repayment: RM400
(A proton saga aeroback, 7 yrs repayment)

Petrol (living in city, traffic-jam): RM300
(go to work, bring son to school,
only can afford one car running)

Insurance: RM650
(kids, wife and myself)

House repayment: RM750
(low cost housing repayment for 30 yrs,
retired still have to work to pay!)

Tuition: RM80
(got that cheap meh? i don't think so)

Older children pocket money @ school: RM20
(RM1/day, eat bread?)

School fees: RM30
(enough ah?)

School books and etc: RM100
(always got extra to pay in school)

Younger children milk powder: RM50
(cannot have the DHA, BHA, PHA one, expensive)

Miscellaneous: RM100
(shampoo, rice, sauce, toilet paper)

Oh wait!!! I have to stop here, so...
No Astro,
no movie @ cinema,
no DVD,
no CD,
no online,
cannot KFC,
cannot McDonald,
cannot go Park walk during weekend (petrol expensive),
no chit chat on phone with grandparents, and etc...

Let's use a calculator to total up... WALAO EH! Shit! RM3,610 already...

EPF belum potong, income tax lagi........oledi RM3,610 ....

How to survive lah tuan-tuan dan puan-puan sekalian ???

Our Deputy Prime Minister asked us to change lifestyle?

How to change? Don't eat? Don't work? Don't send children to school and study?

Besides that, I believe in Malaysia population, there are millions of rakyat Malaysia which still don't earn RM3,000/month!!!

What is this? Inilah Malaysia Boleh... Sorry ... it should be Malaysians Boleh , because we're still alive and kicking!!

Our politicians must be mad!!!!

Please comment boleh or tak boleh. No wonder so many Ah Loong around lah....

4 comments:

Sue said...

There are lots of people not earning RM3k oso la..of course cannot la but can oso if u forego the car and other luxuries and just spend on the basic essentials..and tarpau to work makan roti..etc..hahaha..become frugal lo..

Medie007 said...

can i not get married? LMAO...

Anonymous said...

Yea... that is why Malaysians have been moving out from their own country slowly.... about 100thousand since some times ago.
and the number is expected to rise even more.

what the ass useful to have strong and stable economy structure like the Barisan Nasional ppl always used to wash our mind , IF inflation keeps on growing on its size?

an EG: a qualified accountant in malaysia have basic salary of 1500 permonth.

teacher ; 2000 permonth

engineer : 2000 starting permonth

senior engineer? > 8000 ringgit!!
but senior engineers in malaysia work more than 15 hours a day..



our government is SICK

ben said...

Sigh, that's why am not planning for get 'knocked up' (can i?). My mister and i not planning to have kids, and also i can't afford to be a 'incomeless' housewife just to depend on my mister.