My grandpa went to China this morning and he's coming back in six months. I decided to start cooking food for my brother and sister. I would love to set up a budget for our home food and since we mostly eat rice most of the time. Rice is already included so it's free so all I need to do is to find food to eat with it. From now I'm going to try to learn the art of cooking! x) No need to wait for the food to arrive at our door step.

I need to study math tonight for Tuesday's exam... I just came back from work and I was dead tired, I'm going to start doing it after I'm done with this blog and site for the day.

Today I spent 5.99$ on food at my work yesterday and today. I would like to bring my own food at work but I want to try their meals first so I can talk with the customers about the different foods and which are better. Oh yeah, I have to enjoy the food and the 50% off there xD. I know I could save more than a hundred dollars a year by bringing my own lunch like a coworker of mine. I brought my bottle of water to work and I only bought a sandwish that I had made myself there and I have save a dollar on that. That's cool. I'm thinking of bringing my own drinks from now on. I'll be starting little by little.

I woke up early today : 2$
Total : 258$

I'm going to finish my training next week!! Aaah... Spent two months of training. I hate that!! I wish I had worked two times a week to finish it in a month and now I regret it. Anyways, I'm getting better at my job and I didn't do a lot of mistakes so they started trusting me working alone. Eum... I wonder what I'll do with my first tip next week, I'll put it in my challenge money x)!

Today : I woke up early 2$ and I didn't spend today... Well I forgot to pay at my job so that makes 1$ for no spend day. xD That makes 156$

I already spent 161.30$ this month with all these outings and foods mostly... I need to stop eating out too much. >.< Maybe it's because I didn't write anything for a awhile that I'm lacking motivation to save. It's less worst than July where I spent 382.74$. Ah well. I have to be motivate again and I'm starting to bring my lunch to school.

My challenge money is going up so far, I have 253$ now.

It sounds fun!! I've learned many interesting things from you guys and it's my turn... Well at my age, there's not much looking back on lol. Anyways here goes :

1. Since you all probably know. I'm Chinese. Hehe. I speak Cantonese, Hokkien, French and English. I'm currently learning Spanish in school.

2. Ever since I was a little kid, I would pass by a travel agency whenever I see one to look up the itinery for tourism and start dreaming about the places I want to go.

3. I am innocent sometimes. I do things that aren't really logical.

4. When I was 8, I was waiting for my school bus to come pick my cousins and me to school. It was winter then and we climbed the snow mountain for fun, when the bus came, I tripped and I was rolling down the mountain like a bowling ball. I got dizzy but I didn't get hurt.

5. My brother and I lied to my 30ish stupid cousin on the phone that our grandmother tripped on the stairs and died. We got in big trouble with my dad, he made me copy fifty times a chinese text about lying to people and my brother had to copy one hundred times. We learned our lesson. My brother was the one influencing me to lied.

6. I forget things easily. When I was around nine or ten years old, I was sleeping in my mom's grocery basement and when I woke up, I wanted to go to the bathroom. I found a huge pile of box and there was a little exit. I thought my mom blocked the exit so I can't go upstairs and I spent an hour trying to climb the box. In the end, I peed on my pants and I was on the wrong side of the exit. Oh yeah and I felt on my head while trying to climb the box.

7. I used to really skinny when I was little until I was 13. People asked me if I had eaten anything because I was so thin.

8. My grandma used to put my training bra in front of the window where everyone could see. It was embarassing.

9. I cried on my first job because I couldn't do the things right like everybody.

10. My brother used to make up stories about a lot of things to make him look like he's smart and I used to believe him. Now I hardly believe him.

11. I got cheat a lot of time when I was little. My two cousins who hated me was nice with me so they can get things off me. I used to be such a naive girl. I got a job at tutoring my cousin from my aunt and one of my cousin wanted the job so she convinced me to give it to her by telling me that she has brought me to the amusement park and I deserve to give the job to her. Needless to say I give in but half of my hour to her.

My cousin's friend tricked me into giving him lunch money a few dozen times when I was in junior high school. After that, everytimes he would hear my name, he starts laughing. The funny thing is when I got into High school, he lost most of his friends and turned into a total reject. He said hi to me once in 9th grade but I was looking at him funny like : After what you had done to me, you expected me to be friendly with you?!

After this accident, I got a lot wiser on trusting people with things and I became meaner.

12. I almost failed my 7th and 8th grade in Junior High school because of the stupid computer programme where nobody worked. My teachers back then didn't believe I could survive in High school with my bad grades. They were wrong! I did great in High school and if you compare me to then, you wouldn't believe your eyes that I sucked back then and I was looked upon as a stupid girl. Wel... I'm still stupid but way less than before.

13. In my friend's mariage where we ate at a restaurant, I unconsciously took out my hat off to talk to my auntie and they were laughing at me because they thought I was trying to be respectful with the bride. I was four years old back then and I took it off because the hat bothered me.

14. In the same night as the mariage, I pulled the entertainer dress to see what was inside. I got yelled at my parents after that.

15. When I was around nine - ten years old,I used to run with my cousin and to boast my speed up, I said : speed 3000!

16. My aunt told my mom that I'm going to be rich someday because I have a lot of money save.

17. I went to Vancouver at the age of 16 to improve my English.

I think that's all for now. I'll probably write more if I remember.

I had no school on Thursday and Friday this week. Yesterday, I read my book where the exam is next Monday, I have about 200 pages left than I'm done. Well I finished my book today and I was so happy! I did a lot of cleaning in the house ; clean the two bathrooms, clean my room, mopped the floor and wash my clothes. At around 6 pm, I was exausted so I took a break listening to music and took a shower. At around 7 pm, I went downstairs to eat and watch a old movie from the 90's, it was not bad. So far, I was pretty relax in the two days, I didn't start on my math homework yet... And I have to study economie and Spanish for Monday too... *sigh* I still have the weekend to do it but I hope I'll finish it on time.

Today challenge money :

1$ for cleaning +
1$ no spend day +
1$ quit habit (I did a lot of cleaning today)

The total of my challenge money is 241$!!

My family don't celebrate Christmas like every other people out there and we don't give gifts to each other either. My parents worked at the time of the year even on New Year, they worked and they don't take a break for two weeks. It used to bother me when I was little because everybody outside my family celebrate in that time of the year with presents and parties, the tv doesn't help me much either. Eventually I got used to not celebrating it.

I like the Christmas feeling outside, it's so jolly and everything look so pretty. I hope I'll get to do something special this year with a bunch of friends after work (Yes, I may have to work on Christmas since I'm a part timer in Tim Hortons). Maybe throw a Hot pot dinner??!! That'll be great. Maybe go see my aunt at her motel and play with my baby cousin.

I'm not much of a christmas giver and I don't see the point of doing so with people around me. I rather have their company the whole day and spend on things that both of us can enjoy. I can learn to bake food as a gift, that'll be so cool. =D I'm so in the holiday mood!! It's a cool non expensive holiday for me.

To finish this blog off, my challenge money has gone to 228$ to 237$ in less than a week!

On November the 13th, I put another 2$ for finishing my homework.

On November the 14th, I put 1$ for quitting a habit, 1$ on cleaning my clothes and 2$ for finishing my homework.

Today, I put 2$ for waking up ealy and 1$ for a no spend day.

That makes 237$!!

I was in my last class of the day, our teacher asked us to plan our schedule for college as a pratice to learn how to be realistic and use our time well but it's impossible to get the way we want because most of the times, they choose for us.

I looked at my friends schedule and one girl in particular is planning to take the pure science programme next year and works about twenty or more hours after school and on weekends. I asked her if it's a little too much and she said no, not for now because now, she works more than thirty hours a week and makes about 300$/ week... She still managed to finish her homework and get good marks. What surprise me the most is that she's not even tired at all because she got used to it for a year already. Her plan for the future is to buy a house at 23, I was truly fascinated by her goal... She's 17 and she already have about 6 000$- 7 000$ already!! Woah... I admired that woman, she manages to take extra math course at night. I am really motivate to finish my homework and study hard to get good grade. Hey, if she can work more than thirty hours a week and manage to get really good marks in class, plus, she joined a book club than I can do it too!! I mean, I won't work thirty hours a week because I know very well that I'm not capable like her, join extra course and stop being lazy like I am now... lol... But she inspired me to do my homework and study hard no matter what the circumstance is.

I should go study now.

Oh yeah, I got 10.75$ back from a friend today because I bought the "Macbett" book for her last Friday to get our 10% in English for the second term and for our oral in a few weeks, I'm going to put it in my challenge money.

216 $ + 10$ + 2$ (wake up early) = 228$

The 0.75$, I'm going to put it in my piggy bank.

Today I went with my friend to the "au coeur de la mode" event. It located in the "palais de congres" in Montreal where many designers and boutiques sell their clothes at 50% off the retail price and in season. To get in, we need to donate 5$ and that money is going to the foundation against the aids. I didn't buy any clothes because most are not my style or too expensive because there's designer who sell their clothes at 200$ with the 50% off already. I planned to limit my spending to 100$ but I put an extra 50$ in case... Turned out I spend less than I plan! =)

I bought a teddy bear with a gorgeous tear drop necklace at 12$ (about 13$ off retail price), that money is coming off on my piggy bank (gift) money. I'm going to give my cousin this gift for her 16th birthday in January. I bought a nutcracker fireman for 8$ for my aunt, so that's also coming off my gift money. In total, I spend 20$ for gift and I have 20$ left.

With my 150$, I bought food in Tim Hortons and I paid retail price : 3.99$. I paid 5$ for the entrance. eum... A hat for 10$ to keep me warm in the winter. I bought lunch for my friend and I for 5.50$ including tips... What else. I think that's all. In total, I spent 24.49$ and 125.51$ left!!

Today, I spent 44.49$ !! I think I did a good job by not spending too much. Yay!! I think it is worth it, 25% of the sales will go to the foundation and it's going to help find a way to cure the aids. I wanted to buy the freedom necklace but I didn't want to because I don't need it. Ah well, I can't afford to buy whatever the heck I want. This month budget is not so bad, I enjoy some time with friends and I only spend about 100$ this month... Hopefully, I need to cut back on my eating at school. I don't have a lot of time to buy groceries or make myself to eat. mmm... I'll have to think about it after this week, need to concentrate on school first.

Oh yeah, I put 2$ on my challenge money for yesterday because I woke up early and I went to work on time. hehe... I put another 2$ because I resist on buying a few things that I may later regret later... That makes 216$ !!

My brother is a big spender, as I mentioned earlier in my blogs. He's always finding ways to spend his money. I think he got his paycheck recently and he's selling his baby hamsters to kids for 5$. He makes money for nothing but to spend on useless things. It's a pain looking at him think about things that he should buy. For example : the lightbub in our washing room. He said : We need to change the lightbub, I gotta go buy them soon. I asked him : When it's soon? You don't even have the money because you're always spending your money. There's never any left to buy a lightbub. It makes him think twice before buying something.

Well anyways, I don't feel like writting anything for now... I have to think about my homework now.

I add money in my challenge money and it's now 212$!! Yes, it's growing.

4th November : cleaning 1$
6th Novemeber: 1$/no spend
2$/avoid spend
2$/homework done

7th November: 2$/homework done
1$/good grade

At around 5:30 pm today, I talked with my Swiss friend on msn who's from "of course" Switzerland. We first talked about my frustration with my dad for being an ignorant, he told me not to make a big deal out of it. I talked about my dad when he told me to go to Mcgill University to study because it's one of the best school in the world and I'm going to get reconized a lot when I graduated, basically, my dad was brainwashing me that Mcgill is the top of the world and that I must go there. I, on the contrary, think that their Finance programme is not good, they're mostly known for science and art or communication, not anything else. I'm thinking of going to Concordia because they're pretty good in that area, so yeah...

That how our conversation started :

Swiss : McGill University?
Me : You don't know what Mcgill University? It's the 21st best University in the world I've heard. I'm not going there to study Finance, I'm going to Concordia. My teacher talked to us about the 200 best university in the world, the top 3 are the US, I think. I think Oxford is on the fourth or was it third?
Swiss : "Show me the list of the best schools in science"
Me : I think it's the wrong one. This is only in science.
Swiss : Yes, it's for me.
Me : Okay, but the list my teachers has shown us, they are based on general education.
A few minutes later...
Me : I've found it. "give link" My bad, UK topped the second and third.
Swiss : And?
Me : What and?
Swiss : You're surprise that Uk are in the second and third spot.
Me : Not really, I'm surprise that I've heard it wrong.
Swiss : I'm not surprise you believe that.
Me : What? Why?
Swiss : Americans think they're the center of the world.

Anyways, to give a brief resume of our arguments, I got offended by him thinking that we, Canadians and Americans are the same in term of living today and don't care about tomorrow. But he's saying that we, americans, in general, we think of ourself too much. I told him that I've met some who are not like that at all, he replied back by saying it's the general society. He has the audacity to tell me that he's sorry that he hurt me. He didn't hurt me. He offended me. The worst was he was putting me in the same category at them, even if he didn't, I would still be offended. He only visited Vancouver and Quebec (Montreal and Quebec) and he's generalizing North America as a whole. I feel like punching him in the face because that's something he shouldn't have said. I wonder if the rest of the world really do think like that.

I'm going to start eating healthy... No more junkfood like chocolates anymore. I gain weight these days. *Sigh* My skin was starting to heal too...

Starting now, I'm eating healthy and exercise five times a week and eat junkfood once a month.

Today no spend day : 1$