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Matt Hitchcock
My Cash is a series looking at how people invest their cash – and the often hard choices they have to make. Here, Matt Hitchcock from Singapore takes us through a week in his life throughout the coronavirus pandemic.Matt is 39 and has actually lived in Singapore for 11 years. They rent a three bedroom flat in River Valley, main Singapore.
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Singapore is mandating work-from-home, or “telecommuting” as much as possible due to Covid-19 and today was back-to-back meetings for me so I didn’t leave my conferences very much as my workspace is at the extremely of my bedWork space At the end of the day we had chicken rice (a Singapore staple).
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Matt Hitchcock
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Matt Hitchcock
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Another day of the same … working from house. I was up at 05: 00 today, partially due to the fact that I wished to see the recording of Man Utd vs Southampton, but also due to the fact that I had some documents to read and updates to prepare before the day began. I was supposed to make healthy smoothies for lunch today as part of our healthy week, we had actually currently purchased the components at the weekend, but decided on going out for lunch rather. Imelda and I went to Kurry Korner in River Valley, one of our favourite Indian dining establishments. We had the vegetarian lunch set, an overall of Singapore $1760(₤ 9.86) for the two people.
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This is the standard in Singapore and we are very helpful of this practice.After leaving the dining establishment, I strolled house and picked up 2 coffees and a sausage roll to share as an afternoon treat, an overall of Singapore $19 Conference calls till the end of the day, followed by a house cooked supper of shepherd’s pie, our evening walk then settling down for the night.Total spend: Singapore $3686(₤20
Imelda remained in the state of mind to buy breakfast today, so we purchased from Fun Toast to start the day. A sardines toast, hot coffee and a mee siam set us back Singapore $1529 including the Singapore $4.99 shipment from Food Panda.I had a quiet early morning and needed to get some thinking time in so I had the ability to stroll through the neighbourhood for over an hour. I like strolling through our area due to the fact that we survive on the edge of a suburb of houses valued into the 10s of millions of dollars. We will never ever afford them, however nice to l
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