Housemate Profiling

Housemate 3

NUS Electrical Eng graduate, 26, Malaysian, vegetarian.
"We should use the gas stove to boil water instead of the water heater because its energy consumption is much lower than that of the water heater. With that, our electricity(PUB) bill won't be so high la!"
"According to my few years personal research and awareness, it's not good using plastic bottles whether it's grade 1 or grade 3 or grade 7 since most of these grades will leach its chemical composition with time. The best thing is to use an aluminium bottle, recommended brands are Sigg and Laken".
He is quite chatty, but of course he cannot match the chattiness of Housemate 1. By the way, the things Housemate 3 say sometimes make a lot of sense and logic, whereas Housemate 1 will walk here and there, uttering matters pertaining to his company and some of his stuffs most of which could not be understood. Anyway, he's very popular for his way of being a spendthrift. With him as one of my housemates, there are lotsa things that would not go wasted in a significant way. Really.....in other perspective, he can be viewed as stingy also. I think that he has only a few friends since he's rather sensitive as long as money is concerned. Cannot blame him also, he really intends to have the tuition fee loan fully serviced as soon as possible as the compounding interest increases insidiously.

He had turned to vegetarian meals a couple of years ago because her whole family decided to do so. It was for health reason since poultry and meat seem to have come out with lotsa diseases. Oh well, at least vegetarian meals would cost less and then he can spend less money on food. That's why he looks so thin now. His favourite food, yah for main meals...masala tosai. It's an Indian food, something like mashed potato in a piece of large round thin pancake, with dried chillis and spice, always eaten with curry gravy. Oh well, it also tastes deilcious to me, but it really makes no sense to me seeing him eating that for lunch and dinner for several days. My gosh. Haha.

Anyway, half a year ago, what he said about finding an unfurnished flat was actually the right thing to do before renting this furnished flat that has rather old furniture and electrical appliances. The lower monthly rent for unfurnished flat could lead us to have a surplus fund to buy new furniture and appliances which would still be considered our asset. And should we decide to break away from the pact one year later, those assets could still be sold away and then divided among us. Housemate 2 and I didn't heed his advice because there was only one unfurnished flat that we saw, and its condition seemed to be in a terribly shabby.No choice, so we had to choose one of the furnished flats which the two of us(who were the only two in Singapore) thought the price was the most reasonable to the five of us. So I started to feel that sometimes the things he said although seemed not to make sense to me, will actually sound a indeed right on second thoughts. Points taken and mistake realized.