i shall be more thrifty.

my mum just told me that she's likely to get retrenched. somehow i thought my family would escape unscathed from this recession. but i guess probably not.

so that means being more thrifty from now on.

i dunno if i like the idea of my mum being a housewife, but i seriously doubt she'll be able to find a decent job at the age of 55. probably it's a good time to retire, but then again, dad is going to retire soon in 3 years' time, and bro and i would just have started work, with a lot of uncertainty and a low starting pay. and given our family expenditure, i wonder how we're going to survive the next two years (before i start work).

ah well, not like i can do anything about it now. i dun suppose my parents expect us to find a part-time job, and i just hope my income from tuition is able to finance most of my expenditure. and i really hope the email about the bizad school study award is true, cos that means at least another 3k, which prob will mean a lot to my family at this time.

i guess at least it's good that both my bro and i are undergrads already. this reminds me of like 5-6 years back, when my mum got retrenched also. it's not exactly a difficult time for my family, but i suppose it can be rather worrying. or maybe i just haven't felt the true impact of it.

anyhow, it's damn scary that it's already the end of week 4 of school already. have been so super busy these few weeks, doing tutorial after tutorial, case after case, reading after reading. i actually feel rather happy that i'm consistent this sem, but sometimes it can get really overwhelming.

and i'm actually rather glad that cai joshua and i are putting aside our weds just to mug. really makes me miss 6h times a lot. study play study play. but now instead of squash/bball/floorball/frisbee/handball, cai and i played this old school game called puzzle fighter. we were playing at fass bk, and played until they closed the whole place. power rite. that day i only ended up doing 3 qns of my math tutorial.

and i've been on the verge of falling sick for a few days already. my throat has been sore for the last few days, without a cough, or fever or flu. you know i actually hope to fall sick, cos i really just want to rest. but given my 'healthy' track record, and the fact that my wishes never come true, i think i should forget about it.

sometimes i think the only motivation for me to go to school is the fact that i can meet friends, whether arranged or unarranged.