Background story:
I'm currently on my internship in Japan fo 6 months. No pay, no
allowance. Just subsidised accomodation and stuffs. My parents are
giving me about $700SGD per month. For me, That's enough to survive
and still have spare for entertainment.
There's 4 of us. Excluding me, I know the other guys already,
the other guy we didn't know him before and I find him a big
snob.
I have about $600SGD spare cash myself.
With that $700SGD, I get about 10,000yen spare to spend.
I'm in Kyuushu, the cheapest region so it's okay.
Next month, will be going on a sponsored trip to Yokohama and
Tokyo for 5 days, I told my mum and she told me that she would give
me $800SGD for the next month. I told her it's okay. But she
still banked in that amount. I won't say I'm not happy about it but
I just feel bad.
So basically, after deductions and stuffs. I would have
20,000yen spare next month, that along with my $600 converted to
yen. Brings a total of 60,000yen.
I'll be here until next year april, can't expect to spend all
60,000 yen. Plus there will be another sponsored trip to Osaka and
Kobe next year.
So I'm putting my budget for Tokyo at about 30,000yen max.
I know thats not alot but I won't be shopping like crazy.
Rant Starts..
So there's 4 of us. 2 are rich. Another guy and me are poor
blokes, our financial status are somewhat similar. For me, I know
that if I ask my parents for more money, they would definitely give
because they worry about me so much they want me to enjoy and live
comfortably here.
But I don't want to spend anymore of their money. Already for
this internship alone, I would have potentially spend $5,000 of
their money in just 6 months. And they still have to pay bills at
home and support other stuffs.
That's why I'm budgetizing alot and trying to save here and
there.
Then the other 2 are so rich, they have no qualms about spending
money like water. One guy just needs to mention money and his
parents would give him. The other insists that it's his rights to
swipe cards and spend his parent's money like water.
When they asked what was my budget for Tokyo, I said
30,000yen would be on the high. They scorn at me. And come up with
alot of shit like "Oh, once in a lifetime go tokyo blah blah blah".
Afterwards, one of them started to indirectly attack me like
"Singaporeans are cheapskates blah blah blah".
They wanted to plan the trip all for shopping, then they say
they don't mind eating cup noodles everyday and spend their money
all on shopping.
The other guy and me wish to spend half the time on sight seeing
as well but they won't agree to it. Moreover, we can't split up
because our supervisor will be the one taking u around.
Even bigger rant..
This guy, the one whom I had mentioned about swiping cards keeps
taking cheap shots at the other guy and me.
Bragging about how he went to the US and he spent only 7000sgd
and he feels its too little.
He doesn't realise that he's rich, we're not. We don't have
spending power. He has a good grade, that's why he can come on this
trip. He's a fine epitome of high IQ no EQ
To be continued..