my friend used to tell me that one needs to break the piggy-bank or to spend a hell lot of money before one goes overseas to study......well, there would usually be a ''parlimentary'' style of debate between us whenever we talked about this , as i was a firm opposition to the above-mentioned notion and i was always adamant about it , until recently...
yeah , make no mistake about it , i have been converted into this religion just a couple of hours ago .....
one needs not be wealthy or affluent , but one definitely needs to splash out an ''astronomical'' amount of money , just to cover the cost of all the necessary stuff...
the fact that i have spent around rm 1000 just to get some winter-outfits and bags attests to this truism...
well, i do not think that i've been lavish or excessive in my spending or watsover,i'll let u be the judge.....look, winter stuff are actually and literally not cheap at all ... a travelling bag costed me rm 200 , another rm300 for WINTER jacket....on the other hand , a polo neck at rm100 , two pullover at around rm 100 each,with another set of '' long johns'' at the price of rm 150 ( pure wool)....so i guess that added up to slightly more than a thousand......and i'm not done with my shopping yet!!!!!!
but that's not the main problem.....the most frustrating part is i only get rm700 from my scholarship provider for my predeparture preparation!!!!
sigh, seems like i have no way out but to work days and nights incessantly(i doubt i shall.....) to augment my theoretically ever-decreasing , but practically ever-expanding budget.......