Bad Habit - Money Like Water
This is so wrong but for the last few days, I've been doing something I so rarely do in Singapore, or for that matter something I so rarely do all my life. Shopping. Many of my friends call it retail therapy, but the problem is that I do not really have any theraputical needs, so maybe it's just a bad habit.
Maybe it's because I'm getting this 'since you're abroad just spend' mentality, or because things are really much cheaper here, but this is unhealthy. For the past few days, the gang and I have gone shopping at many different areas (especially Mongkok), and we have never failed to come back with a new purchase every other day.
Since arriving, I have bought things from shoes and boots, tops and shorts, to misc stuff like water bottles and CDs. Just yesterday, I spent the most on one single item, my all new 08/09 blackburn rovers away jersey. I am feeling the pinch from all the money that I have spent, yet again it gives me a good sense of satisfaction. There is also still one more thing left on my 'shopping list', that being a nice bagpack. I see myself getting one real soon.
Now those I mentioned above were all so called 'luxury purchases'. There's still the living and traveling necessities, books, hostel fees, and not to mention, rather costly food here in HK. I so need to keep my finance in check.
Random stuff. Mid-autumn is a public holiday here, so there's no lessons on my most packed day of the week today! Apparently my triple room has become a 5-person ... err 5-living things room, because Smeagol brought back two tortoises and he's letting them run loose in the room! Smeagol still sings aloud and talks to himself, and it's still scary. School work and module allocations are much kinder to me, and hopefully all will settle in my favour when it's all confirmed next week. Rovers are on a bad run, and they'd better buck up if not I'm going to make a huge lost for the jersey just purchased.
Maybe it's because I'm getting this 'since you're abroad just spend' mentality, or because things are really much cheaper here, but this is unhealthy. For the past few days, the gang and I have gone shopping at many different areas (especially Mongkok), and we have never failed to come back with a new purchase every other day.
Since arriving, I have bought things from shoes and boots, tops and shorts, to misc stuff like water bottles and CDs. Just yesterday, I spent the most on one single item, my all new 08/09 blackburn rovers away jersey. I am feeling the pinch from all the money that I have spent, yet again it gives me a good sense of satisfaction. There is also still one more thing left on my 'shopping list', that being a nice bagpack. I see myself getting one real soon.
Now those I mentioned above were all so called 'luxury purchases'. There's still the living and traveling necessities, books, hostel fees, and not to mention, rather costly food here in HK. I so need to keep my finance in check.
Random stuff. Mid-autumn is a public holiday here, so there's no lessons on my most packed day of the week today! Apparently my triple room has become a 5-person ... err 5-living things room, because Smeagol brought back two tortoises and he's letting them run loose in the room! Smeagol still sings aloud and talks to himself, and it's still scary. School work and module allocations are much kinder to me, and hopefully all will settle in my favour when it's all confirmed next week. Rovers are on a bad run, and they'd better buck up if not I'm going to make a huge lost for the jersey just purchased.
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