Am I Paid For This?

So it's finally back to the 'wake up early, spend whole day at hospital, came back home to sleep' routine *sweats*

I'll be starting my surgical posting starting tomorrow. Personally, I would have liked to stay a bit longer in medicine but hey, why call them rotations if you're going to be staying in one department only, right? 

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I had a lazy afternoon's discussion with my friend today. It revolved around our sad financial status and the even sadder rise in living costs. After some advanced and really complicated mathematics (involving the multiplication of 15 with 7), we figured out that roughly we spend around RM100 each week. And that is a lot for a couple of people who have yet to earn their own money.

Can you imagine that? One hundred bleeding ringgit per week just for meals twice a day, a weekly mobile phone top up of ten ringgit and the occasional indulgence in sweet corn ice-cream. Things sure are a lot more expensive than what they used to be back then.

I still remember back when I was in Standard 3, I would save some of my daily pocket money (which was just one ringgit, mind you) to 'feed' my piggy bank, which wasn't a pig at all, rather a monkey with a top hat and cymbals. I was very diligent (not to mention prudent) when it came to saving at that time, and guess how much I had saved by the end of the year - only 50 ringgit. Compare that to now. Today, the same amount can only see me through to Wednesday! (assuming I hadn't used it all up by Tuesday that is.)

At the alarming rate of rising prices, I wonder what'll it be like when I finally finish my undergraduate studies and start work. Probably I'll be declared a bankrupt before my first paycheck arrives.