No spend month: Week 1

Week 1: March 11-17, 2012

Budget: RM70.00

Actual expenditure: RM69.55

*Phew!* There wasn't any big events which required spending this week but I barely made it with my budget due to two things: lunches at Sushi King and NK Food Network. :( However, I thought that both times were good opportunities to socialise with new people, i.e. the new PhD student, Jessica, who will be sharing a lab and an office with me; and some Biotech undergrad freshmen!

Croquette with Japanese curry. It looked 80% like in the menu so I was happy. :)

NK's homemade beef burger - one of the biggest I've seen in Kuching!

There was also one point in the beginning of the week when I had to drop by the post office and spent quite a bit on courier charges. I wasn't quite sure if it should come from my budget or if I should separate it and put it under my bills etc.. I'm still not sure actually...but since I didn't blow my budget, it's alright I guess. :)

I must mention here that it's been overwhelming getting support from friends who know of my no-spend project and worked around it when it came to lunches and dates. Normally I'll be on a movie or dinner date on Fridays with a few non-university friends to catch up with each other, but this week one of them suggested hanging out at her house to watch The Big Bang Theory while finishing up her Chinese New Year stock of snacks and beer. Good stuff, that. ^^

Week 2 will start tomorrow. I don't foresee any big happenings in the coming week as well so I should be able to keep to the budget. We'll see!~