outflow

yes this is an update of my life.

yeah that is my current state of life in a picture. haha.. well of course not literally burning my money but i am spending money like crazy ever since the semester started. if you remembered a couple of posts back, i mentioned about expensive textbooks that are sort of needed for some of the modules i am taking this semester. yeah, that is part of the reason for the spending of large sums of money. the sad news is that i probably still have one more textbook to buy.. sigh.

i'm sort of alright to get textbooks are can be really useful and that because the needed content is too much to be placed in lecture slides or what not. however, i find it rather annoying if the module coordinator is just pushing students to get the textbooks so as to rack in those extra income. no names will be mentioned but yeah.. we students aren't blind. we see your name on the cover among the list of authors. you need not keep bragging about how good the book is nor how the book is very useful. it is a module that most students would probably not put in much effort in. elective module after all.

how they further bragged about the "great" student discounts are even more comical. how much is the discount compared to the real cost? i mean.. yeah the discount might ease the pain of paying so much for a book but come on, at the end of the day, buying the textbook is going to burn a hole in all our pockets. money don't grow on trees.

well, i just hope after i completed college, i won't be like the person in the above picture. i rather have stack of notes and what not. not books or textbooks. notes are more handy and i can get what i want to know way easily compare to pages of paragraphs of long-winded sentences. sigh.. i want to cry when i see how much i have spent so far on study materials. time to tell myself some lies to keep me comfort.. lol. they are useful. they will help you for the rest of your lives. they are worth the costs.

apart from purchasing study materials, the next main cause of my cash outflow is from the process of improving my wardrobe. like i mentioned before, since Chinese New Year is approaching, i am up and finding and buying new clothes and what not. in fact, wow, it is in about one more month's time. time really flies. i could still remember what i did last Chinese New Year as though it was merely couple of weeks ago. nonetheless, the cost of the most expensive textbook so far is about the same as the amount i have spent to buy two long-sleeves shirts, one pants, one polo so far. sigh.. what a difference.. haha.

anyway, last two days saw me attending all the introductory lectures of all the modules i read. what can i say? well, bumpy start.. real bumpy. some lecturers are bad and some content is just so difficult to understand. i hope it will be slightly smoother soon. or at least, i will get used to the pace and standards. until next time then, cheers.