Journal no. 3

tomorrow i'm going to a town called Leonora because i signed up with the uni volunteer group to go help out with the remote community there (hospital, youth and kangaroo refuge). 

it's 833 km from Perth (roughly the distance from Singapore to Jakarta) and the population is about 400!

flying there in the afternoon and arriving back Monday morning.

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after talking to flatmates, realised that Singapore is not 28 km long from East to West, which was what i have been telling people! /facepalm

it's 49 km long EW and 25 km long NS.
population is about 5.3 million.

we have no minimum wage!
a Business graduate (accountancy) will start with S$2700~ a month.
minimum age to work is 16 years old.

we have a "non-modified universal healthcare system where the government ensures affordability of healthcare within the public health system, largely through a system of compulsory savings, subsidies and price controls."

CPF can be used to pay for housing, investments, children's education...
upon death, the nominated beneficiaries will receive the CPF money.
CPF still seriously confuses me.

a new 3-room HDB flat costs about S$300,000.
a new Honda Civic costs about S$160,000 with COE.