Pricey

And I'd planned to spend so little today, too. Thing is, my mother has been complaining about my expenses and making me feel guilty about being a) a spendthrift, b) an academic failure, and c) a daughter to boot. Okay. Well today was sort of a special occasion because I was meeting a (sort of) old friend for dinner at fish&co for the evening, and fish&co is expensive. Surely you must be thinking of how extravagant I am already. But consider that my supply of mints are quickly running out and that I hadn't been to fish&co for at least three months.

The fish&co mints are extremely worth their money. We are talking here about a 1 kg bag for fifteen dollars, meaning that I am getting over three hundred extremely delicious sweetmeats for less than ten cents each. The only good alternative to these wonderful mints are Ricola, which come at $3.15 a pack and take about two days to finish -- whearas each bag of mints can take me three months to finish at least if I go crazy over them in the way I have for the past term. I shall make this bag last until the end of the year.

Now, let's take a look at my expenses. In chronological order.


sandwich (breakfast): $2.00
chrysanthenaum tea (breakfast): $0.60
foolscap: $1.50 <-- because, like the fool I was, I had forgotten to bring any of my own out.
cashcard -- for photocopying and payment of library fines: $5.00
A level math past-year papers: $3.45 <-- my mother wanted me to get this. She thinks for some reason that it will help my math.
rosti (lunch): $4.50 <-- the grease this shop used made me feel ill, by the way. I do not think I shall go there again.
tic-tacs (lunch): $0.85 <-- in a half-successful attempt to placate my stomach
unwilling donation: $2.00 <-- that guy was so smarmy. I wanted him to go away so much I just gave up the cash. I think next time I shall succumb to the impulse to punch him very hard.
fish&co (dinner): $11.45 -- a shared fish-and-chips and kola tonic. Half as much as I usually spend at fish&co.
mints: $16 <-- because my friend was broke by then, and she had got the mints too. Hehe.
manga: $18 -- only now do I realise that I had been cheated of $2 merely because I was too tired to notice the register. I shall never trust the people at Tampines Popular again.

Total:___________ <-- I can't bear to write it down.



The thing about this particular manga was that it had been out of print for some time, and to find any books from it at all was a miracle. Unfortunately, they had only BOOK ONE and BOOK THREE. Where was book two? MIA. Hooray.

In any case, I'm not going to a football sleepover tomorrow because my parents think that 'sometimes it's better to be more traditional', and that even if people happily agree for you to go over for the night it is not nice to comply. Something in the order of refusing presents, which I've gotten out of the habit of because people have taken to pooling their money just to foil me. Also, apparantly, because I'm a girl.

It's really inconvenient to be a girl. THe only good thing about being a girl is probably getting to wear BOTH pants and dresses, and not having to do national service (in where I stay, and at the moment anyway.) Otherwise.

I shall attempt to survive on $50 for the month of July as I save up for that military atlas I still want.

Yah.





edit: I just realised I wasn't cheated after all. I was just not paying attention.

Something is deadly wrong with my cranial construct.