Well I only work for my dad right now and I don't have any incomes anymore because I decided to accumulate my hours at my dad's place by working there and take my pay before my trip to Morocco.

I've been having problems with my own money and it's mostly because of the people I hang out with who influence me to spend. My dad isn't helping me either, some days he just randomly dumps some things that I need to pay for my own. Anyways, I really don't know what the heck he is thinking and it is frustrating us that he just randomly tells us to pay this and that.

Basically, I'm trying to stand up for myself now as I realized Kiwii have been influencing me to do things that I don't want to do which involves spending my money. Anyways, I will stand up for myself and not feel bad when I hurt her feelings. I can't make everyone happy!

From now on, I'm going to follow my plan B by not working that much and to concentrate on my studies. Studying have become a lot easier because I am more stress free and I don't need to work that much anymore.

As for my money challenge, I'm going to save my money first on my Morocco and my other trips with my dad in the summer. When I come back, I'm going to concentrate on my Japan trip. I realized that in order to do this, I should be here more often. I will try to update it as often as I can.

My allowance will be 200$/month with my dad.

Here what I need to pay for each month:

Bus pass: 42$
Phone bill: 51$(I'm trying to lower it)
Beauty: 20$
Emergency: 52$

Left to save: 35$

As for going out and all sort of things... I don't know yet. I have to track my expense.

It is quite hard to live a simple life when everyone around you are into the spending life.

I have found a guy that is simple and I love him. On February 14th, it will be our first month together and he asked me what I want to do that day. I told him that I will just visit him in his school and after school, we can go do our homework together and talk. I don't want to go eat dinner or anything because there's too much crowd and I don't feel like spending any money anymore.

Sometimes, I just wish I have someone who can propose me simple activities instead of me. My friend Kiwii is starting to save a portion of her pay for our Japan trip in 2011 but I know she still doesn't know the difference between wants and needs. She gave me a Winnie the pooh cell strap with my zodiac sign. You know those cell strap from the 2$ machine. She spent 60$ in there just to get her boyfriend his zodiac sign and he didn't like it in the end because it was too girly.

Anyways, I will try to update this as much as I can. I have finally made a budget and I will update it later on tonight.