Day 22: The Day I Spent Loads of Money (Theoretically)

It's Valentine's Day today. What have you done for your loved ones? For all the singles out there, it's Friendship Day (I know, I know. This is just some crap someone thought of to ease the pain of being single.). What did you do for your friends?

Me? I spent money! I finally got tired of receiving those welcome messages from Vodafone whenever my auto-roaming mobile switches to their network. Oy... One useless message from them I also got to pay leh. So I finally got my pre-paid SIM card for use in Sweden. It wasn't that expensive. Only 99kr with a stored value of 66kr. Oh well. So long as it's sufficient for my use.

Too bad the S$10 million Toto draw is over otherwise you can try to find tickets with numbers close to my new mobile number.

Ah well, people back home can easily mix and match the numbers to buy 4D or something. Want the number? Email me. I ain't stupid enough to put it online for Tom, Dick and Harry to see.

Speaking of home, why didn't anyone tell me that someone from the lab actually tendered her resignation? Such an big event and I was left out of the loop? Sob... I'm the ostracised one now...

Anyway, spending 99kr is not a lot. But that's not all to my shopping spree today!

I've finally gotten tired of this unstable, unsure internet connection. Yes, I know. I'm borrowing the bandwidth from some kind soul, so I shouldn't expect too much. That's why I've decided to spare that kind soul the agony of slow internet connections any longer. I've asked the manager of this apartment to get me broadband internet connection. Now, this is expensive. Since I'm here for less than 12 to 18 months, it doesn't make sense for me to get a plan that has some contract. So I can only get the super expensive version. For 2Mbits/s, I'm paying a whooping 419kr/month, and this doesn't include the installation fee of almost 2000kr for the connection and the modem. Now that's chor.

The things I do for internet. All apartments should come with mandatory internet connection. Come on man, which young person today can survive without the internet? It's like water to us!

And I've finally realised why there's a burning smell whenever I shower. It comes from my hair! Help! My hair's burning!!! The static is causing my hair to smell like burnt wood or like some stale cigarette smoke has embedded itself onto the strands of my hair. And a haircut here costs an arm and leg (make that two arms and legs). The cheapest I've seen so far is 200kr (++), and that comes to more than S$50 a cut! Oh. My. Goodness. Pay S$20 more and I can have an entire treatment on my hair and scalp back home! What to do? Wait till I can't stand the length of my hair any longer, then plan to cut. So by the time I really go to the saloon it'll be in April or something.

Hyuk Hyuk.

But I doubt it'll happen.

To spending money like water, and to my living on bread and water for the next few weeks. Cheers!