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24/2/2012
My mom is a house-holic
She kept pushing me on the issue of handling the application of public housing since I nearly finished my degree.
Just like the TV drama, she works everyday,
she worries on every single details,
she pays her life, to work for a house,
more precise, a home.
Her friends told her different "tricks" and she kept changing her mind everyday.
Today, she told me that one-on-one application is faster, so she urged my sis and me to place the application at once.
The day after, she heard from the tv drama that 2 person's application will be faster so she urged me to change the application.
Tomorrow, during her breakfast with her friends, she noticed that one person's application is actually faster and more efficient. So she said"i am gonna ask your brother to go for the application once he finishes his public exam."
~~~
well, unless you are living in HK
or else, you will not get to understand how difficult and how desperate HK people are starving for a house, more than a "home" of themselves.
is that really so important to have a house on our own? i wonder.
My friends are actually starting to plan to purchase their own apartment.
While i am planning and saving for my next trip to East europe.
you will never have enough money to spend.
If I use my whole life to struggle for a piece of tile, why not spending the money and travel so that I can have a look of the great world outside.
I would rather free myself for better knowledges and sights than to throw myself in a trap for 4 walls, struggle my whole life for the 'house" and then paying it each month. Then I will just be stucked in it for the rest of my life.
The world is big, do not limit your sight for just a house to live, you will definitely miss all the beautiful things out there.
We will never have enough time to spend to explore the world,
are you still going to work for a tile everyday?
well, that's your choice.=]
媽媽每天都在嘮叨.
嘮叨到底公屋申請應不應該轉和妹妹的申請一起.
就像電視劇裡的人一樣.
每一天都有不同的主意.
當天,她的朋友告訴她,一個人申請比較快,
她逼我們兩人一起到房署遞2張表.
今天,電視劇告訴她,兩個人的公屋比較少人申請,應該會更快派上.她催促我有空就寫信到房署轉申請.
後天,她的朋友又告訴她,一個人的公屋比較多,所以她打消了要我寫信轉申請的念頭,
說等弟弟一考完試,就會拉他到房署遞表,3個人排,總會比別人更快.
她一直相信,有了一間房子,就完成了人生的目標.
沒辦法,當年移民來香港的時候,婆婆堅持要我們把我們的房子賣掉,
她要把房子留下的意見沒有人聽得見.,
以賤價倉促地賣了之後,他們又倉促地在當年我已不看好的地區買了一間待起的房子.
不到一年,倉促賣掉的房子,地價漲了一倍.
媽媽有點生氣,氣自己當初不堅持.
其實也堅持不了.我還小,但依稀記得當初為了那橦房子,他們大人,吵得有點僵.
婆婆使出絕招--不聽我就生氣.
結果當年,辛苦借錢買的房子,以賤價賣了.
我也不免有點氣,我們的房子,關你什麼事.氣婆婆少有的無知和無謂的自尊而致的堅持.
而新買的房子呢?
房子起好了,但地,還是廢地一塊..
沒有承諾好的設施,沒有任何其他發展.
據說,那個住宅區,到現在,入住率還是只有50%
叔叔把房子租給了幾個馬來妹,
她們把房子弄得很殘,
叔叔說,不如把房子賣了吧,留著繼續供這爛房子也只會不停地虧.
他們再次讓我們的房子,以本都賠不回的價錢賣掉了.
那時候,媽媽快要崩潰了吧...
連她最後的希望都沒有了.
到現在,叔叔們各有自己的房子,婆婆也是,4姨婆更是一位炒樓為生的包租婆.
我明白媽媽的不安全感.
隨時被屋主加價就要另外找房子的徬徨無助.
每當看著自己住的屋子,想改,想裝修,想有自己美麗的房間,
"你只是租客"這句話就會打消了把居住的環境弄得美麗一點的念頭.
所以我明白媽媽一直想要一間房子的原因....
可是,房子就這麼重要嗎?
有錢,儲蓄都只為了買一塊磚.
好,我是享樂型的80後,
當身邊開始有朋友在為買房子作計劃的時候,我在為夢想鬥氣.
當朋友在羨慕別的朋友已經上樓的時候,我在朋友的FB看了她們的照片而計劃下一次的旅行.
當朋友在省吃儉用儲蓄買樓的時候,我在花大錢,把省下來的錢放進了旅行基金.
我一直都在想,有了房子就真的滿足了嗎?
一生就只為房子努力,得到了房子再去追求別的事情.
到時候,還有時間追求嗎?
他歐遊回來後,說,世界真的很大,窮一生都看不完.
為什麼選擇窮一生,換個房子,整世人都窝在房子裡,供供供...直到永遠.....都沒有機會去看世界到底有多大,自己的4面牆有多狹窄吧.
到了有多餘的錢,我怕我沒有福氣,把想看的看完.
錢用了在旅遊,換了看世界的美妙.
手上一樣是空空的,心卻是滿滿的.
不過每一個人追求的都不一樣,
有的人,有了房子,就滿足了.
就像媽媽,
可是省吃儉用,真的有可能在有生之年買到屋子嗎?=[
我還是為旅行好好計劃一下好了.
