You want cheap and easy maintenance, don't use taiwan/philippine/japanese grass la.
Just plant the common cow grass, the type of grass that cows like to graze on?
It is actually cooler to touch than the exotic species.

Yup, that's the one. It doesn't look too bad even with minimal maintenance.

You try walking barefooted on cow-grass compare to other grass and feel the difference.
Carpet grass is high maintenance. It looks nice if well maintained like what you see in the golf course putting greens.
But, it looks horrible if you don't know how or don't have the time to maintain it properly.

This post has been edited by tehtmc: Feb 13 2012, 09:25 PM

The spiky looking thing is a weed. If it looks good to you and you don't have to maintain it, why bother.