RAEVILLE

Saturday, October 28, 2006

I've already spent $200 in a week, and I assure you, it is not a good sign. After a very long and angry phone call from pa before flying back to Sydney about how money doesn't grow on trees, I have taken everything I spend on into account. I've been trying to keep myself to a budget of no more of an average of $50 a week. Considering last term, I spent an average of $75 a week, which wasn't good at all. Within the two weeks that I've been here in Sydney, I've only been out 3 times, 2 of which I went to BJ Westfield shopping centre. I've also started keeping an MSExcel spreadsheet record of what I buy, how much I spend and how much I save.

"A dollar saved today, is a dollar saved for your future."

I'm going to Canberra tomorrow morning on an history excursion. How bothersome! Thank goodness it's only one night long. And on the same topic of THINGS-THAT-BOTHER, Daylight Savings Time has once again, returned. That means I am now 3 HOURS ahead of Malaysian time, sigh. And that means I lose one hour of sleep tonight. My clock says 11pm. It's basically 12am, with DST. I should get to bed.

I've been missing home alot. I speak to mum at least once a week, and everytime I talk to her about what she and Lisa are cooking for dins, or who's open house she's at for Hari Raya, or about her new obsession over a demo tennis racket, I start to cry a little. Is it OK that I cry a little at the thought of home? One of my dorm mates, Ashleigh, has perfume that reminds me of mum. Sigh. Missing home like you wouldn't believe.

Otherwise, things are great. I have a nice dorm, great dorm mates, a lifestyle busy enough to keep me on my toes, and the drive that keeps me motivated everyday. Sydney's weather is a tad confused - it can't make up it's mind if it wants to be cold or hot. I start History Extension classes next week. There goes two hours of my Wednesday afternoon. I also start Tildesley Tennis training on Monday afternoons. There goes another hour and a half of my week.

Cheersssss.

Labels: homesick, school life

& turned on the lights; 19:47

about me.

raelene. rae. roro.
eighteen years.
malaysian.
completed her final year of school at st caths, sydney.
is a musician, photographer and aspiring designer.
loves travelling, art, music, great food, clear blue skies, writing and ice-cream.
enjoys drowning in music, strumming random chords on the guitar, playing tennis,
finger-bashing it out on a game console and a bowl of curry laksa.
despises bad traffic, girls with long and fair faces with large contact-lensed eyes, bad food, mascara goop, hard pillows and hard beds.

raeville.

RAEVILLE came about some time in the year of 2001. or 2002. it's been so long that i've forgotten already.
it all started here (i doubt the link works anymore though), in a dodgy little blog page. then it moved to here. a year later, and we moved to better things, namely blogspot.

ps. raeville is best viewed on mozilla firefox. just because it's better :)

webcam.

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