{"id":2644,"date":"2009-02-23T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2009-02-23T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:56:37","slug":"r-s-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/23\/r-s-p\/","title":{"rendered":"R S P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-family-DSC_8572-dad-birthday\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blog2009familydsc-8572dadbirthday.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-family-DSC_8572-dad-birthday\" width=\"353\" height=\"521\" align=\"right\" \/> For $180, I can buy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two premium-priced <strong>PS3 games<\/strong> that&#8217;ll last me at least a week of play time; or<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Seagate <strong>external 1 TB hard drive<\/strong> to backup all my photos and classical music MP3s which will be enough for a year; or<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Four pairs of <strong>shoes<\/strong> for Ling: which will last her at least a year; or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Five <strong>polo-shirts<\/strong> for me: which I&#8217;ll wear for at least 2-3 years; or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A <strong>B+W 77mm CPL<\/strong>: which has great resale value; or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Microsoft Office 2007<\/strong> (even if it&#8217;s the academic version) with spare change; or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Pay six months of my <strong>M1 phone bill<\/strong>; or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One <strong>Roast Suckling Pig<\/strong> which takes you 10 minutes to finish, but takes off (maybe) at a week of your life-span!<\/p>\n<p>We were at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benghiang.com\/\">Beng Hiang Restaurant<\/a> on Sunday evening yesterday for a birthday dinner for my dad and this fellow was the opening number. Oh man. The sort of things I could had done with the $180!<\/p>\n<p>More pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#\/photo.php?pid=2129396&amp;id=784455406\">here<\/a> LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $180, I can buy&#8230; Two premium-priced PS3 games that&#8217;ll last me at least a week of play time; or A Seagate external 1 TB hard drive to backup all my photos and classical music MP3s which will be enough<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/23\/r-s-p\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  R S P<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-dining","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}