If you don't ask

For the last few months, I've noticed a $2 service fee on my bank statements. I was at first confused, then irritated by this. It didn't feel like the bank was performing much of a service, apart from taking my salary every month and sitting on it.

$2 isn't very much, but if everyone in Singapore was that lacksidaisical about money, the banks would be making $11 million dollars a month for doing nothing at all, and I object to that sort of thing.

Clearly I can't object to it that much, because I didn't do anything for two months, while I was flying around the world or eating cheese in far-flung places. However, this couldn't go on forever.

Cough it up

I've been feeling progressively less fit this year, as a result of not doing much running, and sitting around in an office drinking milky coffee and eating doughnuts.