saving pains

syh leong gave us a talk on financial planning last saturday. and man, i am really starting to worry about the health status of my wallet. the talk has raised my awareness and even sounded the siren for me to really start saving money. but argh, it's only been two days and i'm overwhelmed with problems regarding money, or the lack of it...

five hundred a month seems quite a reasonable sum of allowance. but it was never able to last me through the month... and so for the month of may, my mom broke the allowance up into installments, so i'll get it a hundred and fifty for every ten days. so from the first day of may til today, the fifth i tried to save as much as possible. so let's see how much i'm left with...

(debt) pay kenneth for botti concert = $43
pay kenneth for my music theory book = $6.60
bought polishing cloth, valve oil and polishing kit for my trumpet=$40
topped up ez-link card = $10
ate one dinner at macdonalds = $7
took cab once cos i was running late = $10

and with that, i'm only left with $33.40... and i still have five more days to survive with that meager sum before i get another hundred and fifty... i guess i shall starve. thankfully, i've successfully negotiated with my mother regarding my handphone bills and she as agreed to relief me of that...

ok the thing that is really bothering me is that five hundred is most prob a quarter of my starting pay in the future, and if i'm dying with five hundred, how am i going to save, and to pay for my other bills in the future?? sigh...

oh Lord, you are my Provider! and help me to be a good steward of the things that You have given me!!