I second this - Find a small problem that you are in fact facing in your day to day life, and write code that would solve it.

Over the years, I've a directory tree full of little scripts I wrote. Examples:
* I can never find a random password generator to my liking, write one yourself.
* Write a script to curl to retrieve the torrent file & auto submit to your rtorrent
* Pull down maxmind geoip database & massage it into a format suitable for ipset
* Hate (short 1-paragraph) RSS given out by sites? Write script to ingess RSS, fetch the full articles (w/ pix), & egress to rss-tt
* Write a script to poll your VOIP prepaid balance and pushover notifications to your iPhone, if it gets low. ....

Taobao has a 64GB SSD @ RMB200 (US$32.47) before shipping. That's 50 cents per GiB for you, with a SM2246EN Silicon Motion controller and Intel 25m IMFT NAND flash. According to Tom's review on this controller, this can hold its own against Samsung 840 EVO.

Singapore

Cigarettes are even more expensive here. A pack of 20 is, effective a few days ago, SGD 8.60 or JPY 580 or USD 4.90!

Cinema tickets are SGD 8.50 (USD 4.85 / JPY 572) during weekend 'peak hours', or SGD 7.00 (USD 4.00 / JPY 472) during weekday 'off-peak'.

Postage rates are here - a 'standard' letter less than 20 grams is SGD 0.22 (USD 0.13 / JPY 15).