Wednesday, October 31, 2007 . 9:28 PM
Actually, this is rather old news, bcos i've aldy basically told all my friends abt my financial plights last week.
When you have money, you look great, you feel good and you feel important. When you have onli $3 in your wallet and that's ALL you have, you.. or rather I felt like the smallest insignificant human to have walked this earth.
In the same way, i think it's the same theory regarding careers. When you got a career, you feel so uh important. When you have none or nothing to do at work, you...or rather ME feel like i'm the most useless being.
So wat was it with that $3 in my wallet thingie. Let mi repeat the story once again. Don't mind me if you have heard it before aldy.
I actually had $100 in my bank. Stand Chart account that is. And i couldn't withdraw with ATM bcos it's esavers. So i had to transfer to citibank. ANd blame it on my stupid management, i didn't transfer earlier. So i was stuck with the money hanging/disappearing in the air while it is 'being' transfered to citibank. It takes about 2-3 working days. So during that crucial no money period, my only $100 savings is hanging in the air, while i had only $10 in my wallet. I only had 10 bucks becos previous nite, i went for my fren's wedding dinner and that's all i had left. The next day, for work, i took a cab, even tho i KNEW I only had this 10 bucks and that $100 hanging in the air. In my defense, it was cos i was REALLY late. SO after paying for the cab. I had....$2 left and one dollar coin. SO i had 3 bucks! YEah!!
Frankly speaking, it was the 1st time i felt so poor. IN the past, yes i grew up having not much money in my pockets but i still had my mom to rely on right. If really canot take it, could ask for mom. But this time, i couldnt' ask from mom bcos she would literally nagged mi to death. I had to hide this from her! even if i die from hunger i'll still not ask money from her.
So that noon, i tot ok $3 wasn't so bad, i could still afford lunch. But my insurance agent friend asked me out. SO i went. The one bowl of noodles cost $5 there. I had onli $3? SO i opened my mouth and thickskinly asked my fren to treat me, which he gladly agreed. And then he was all concerned abt how the hell i ended up like this. I have no idea lar! how i know. By the way, he called mi out, bcos the previous nite after the wedding dinner on my way home on the train ( see..i've ended up taking public transport!! i was worried about how i gonna get pass this week and the next few mths. Thinking abt my enormous insurance that i have to pay every month. I decided to call him and told him promptly that i wanna cancel on plan.) So my agent had to treat mi.
But for a person with onli $3, i must say i have the most optimisitc outlook on life. I felt even happier actually. It's as if alot of things doesnt' really matter anymore. I only focused on how to make my money go as far as possible.
I didn't even have any single dollar left in my posb account. Cos it's where i put all my giro deduction. They deduct till no money left. Blood suckers. Esp my insurance! That's y now i dno't really care anymore. I think best is have the money by ur side instead of investing them. Unless i got lots of money lar!
I was quite touched. My insurance fren offered to lend mi money to help mi get by that week. My pay would b in by Sat. But i declined. It's v paiseh u see. Anyway i saved that $3 right, so i had money for dinner yeah!!!!!! But albert paid for my dinner cos that nite we had dance classes and after that we went to eat. After lunch, i went to 7-11 to buy sweets bcos i can't leave without sweets. I would die. I bought mentos and cost me $1.30. So that's like 1.70 bucks left for myself actually.
Deying offered to lend mi money as well and i accepted. I borrowed $100 from her. Just in case anything happens. But nothing happened in the end haha..i have returned everything i owe her, actually not everything. I still owe her my 02 atom life money.
Nonetheless, i've learnt a very very valuable lesson. ANd i won't take money so lightly anymore. It's gd that i learn it now rather than in the later part of my life. It's strange when at night, when you pray to God, you ask Him to provide and seriously, i was really praying him to provide. WHen i knew i had barely enuff cash to go thru the week, i juz said oh please i don't wan to think about how to squeeze the money out. Juz provide mi!!! And yes He really did. I began to really live my life according to how he would provide. Even tho that was nothing...bcos i still had deying's 100 bucks and my 100 bucks in bank, but it's enuff to send panics.
Now that my pay is back. I went for a shopping spree on Sun :p My cell grp commented that, that's how i learnt my 'lesson'. By shopping:p
As for my work, i've been assigned to 3 projects. And work is piling everyday. I'm new right, alot of things i have to learn. But not enuff time to learn. I finally understood what pple meant by no time to go toilet or drink water bcos it happened to me finally! I have so many things to do i think i need to split myself up. While i'm trying to just finish something, i kept seeing my mailbox being bombarded with emails that are none of my business. I was juzt keep in the loop. And then there are more things to do with some emails.
But i feel better actually. Bcos i hate to have nothing to do and having to pretend i'm busy. SO it's gd. Time passes faster.
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