goodbye savings...

i haven't even spent anything, but i know i will be broke by the time sem 1 starts again next year...

end of year trip is going to cost a lot. a few days at theme parks cost the equivalent of a new gadget. and whilst i'm there i wasn't to go "all out" on shopping, but now i have to reconsider...and i promised my parents i would pay for my share of the trip, and after paying parents back + shopping + other overseas expenses, that trip will be about $8k just for myself...in NZ, even though we had a very economical trip, we still spent about $500 for a few days, and we didn't do any extreme sports/eat out every single meal...america isn't that cheap once you add all the taxes, it's just servings are big so you don't have to order as much i guess. but the aussie dollar is dropping which isn't helping D=

then i do want a new camera and thinking of getting the new iPad when it comes out...i feel that my laptop isn't as fast when it's not plugged in, and taking to uni, i'm always scared something will happen to it since everything is on it...and iPads are so much lighter, and i'll be able to do readings and look at notes more easily on the bus...another $1.2k

and i really want to go to Heston's The Fat Duck (if i get drawn from the ballot). it's obviously over priced compared to the UK where it's about $400AU and in melb it's $525 just for one meal...but i don't have the money atm to fly and holiday in London. when i first heard of heston, i put on my mental bucket list that when i go to London I will also go to Bray for The Fat Duck. stuff there isn't cheap (well it's cheaper than a few years ago but still expensive). i was talking to my friend who went there for an internship, and she said a medium cap is about $7AU D= here it's about $3.50. if i do go to melb, that would cost about $1k, if i also end up eating at other places...will not shop since (hopefully) i bought enough in america. still...i can go to the top 3 restaurants with dinner degustations in sydney and melb for that Heston price, you can't help but cringe at the cost...

the number of brunches/dinners/lunches that i pass when people ask me, and the places i want to go but resist to go isn't enough for that one dinner =/

then people want to go on a road trip...at least that's "cheap". at this stage, anything under $500 is "cheap"

and that's my uni life savings gone.