feeling poor
I’ve just started my eleventh - 11th !! - year as a full-time tertiary student. While I enjoy the flexible hours, the variable and sometimes lower work load, the (in my view) relatively more enjoyable and interesting sort of work and the other intangible benefits that come with being a student, the one thing that I do really, really, really miss is a stable and relatively decent income. I’ve just had a look at my bank account and I think I’m finally, after two years of being in Canberra, scraping the bottom of the barrel. It’s not a happy place to be in….
That said, it’s situations like these that make you start fantasising about stuff you would buy if you had the money (if nothing else, it takes my mind off the money worries, albeit only very temporarily). So here’s my current list:
* a Playstation Portable (PSP) - so that I can play games and watch movies on those long bus journeys between Canberra and Sydney;
* a new portable HDD (with minimum 160 HDD) for my ever growing music collection (it now stands at 24625 songs, taking up 147.48GB of space and would require 68.8 days of continuous play to listen to it all… and that does not include another 10GBs, and counting, that just wouldn’t fit at the moment); and
* the Nokia N93i - my best mate, Matt, has just bought one and I hate him.
By the way… it’s my birthday in two weeks… if you’re feeling decidedly rich, I can give you my postal address for special deliveries and/or details of my bank account!
Posted on March 14th, 2007 by jl
Filed under: Life!
As you know, I understand and sympathise fully! Despite all the “great” things about what we do, it still has many shit things about it that can seem overwhelming at times, be they of a financial, or indeed supervisory, nature! I guess its just part of the package that we signed up for (although really I don’t remember the ANU advertising continued poverty as one of the reasons to study here).
And of course your jealous of the phone, your only human…….
damn iPod for its lame gaming capaility. i was at Megamall last week window shopping for external hard drive. apparently, the highest capacity for 2.5″ (laptop) is 160Gb. the guy quoted me 250Gb 3.5″ (desktop) for RM250 and a nice Phillips hard casing for RM150. Altogether RM400. There’s a Lacie (Porshe-design 3.5″) 250Gb on Amazon going for USD150 (RM525!) the last time I check.
is matt shooting come video clips and uploading them to YouTube? can still remember gary oldman doing that in nokia’s N-series ad!