No warning signs!

Alright, I've been busy planning baby's trip. From Bristol to Stansted to London to Manchester to Bath to almost-anywhere-near-and-cheap! I want this to be perfect for him. He deserves all these!

The f***ed up thing about being an accounting and finance student, from my point of view, is that I tend to draw up a cost effective analysis and also a cost benefit analysis (out of nowhere!). I tend to think like a blah-dy accountant and it annoys me, especially when I am shopping for clothes. Say, I make a random visit to the Mall. I see a nice top. I tell myself, "Yeah, its nice and its at a reasonable price". My hand reaches out for the top and I'll be trying on it in the fitting room. Then, the moment I tell myself "I'm getting it!", the accountant side of me will go

"Wait a minute, Carmen, do you REALLY need this? I mean come on, even your Mum could sew this top for you! Owh, look! Its made in India! The cost of this shirt is probably 50pence but here you are, like ALL other customers, blindly paying for this top at 8 quid. You could probably get this somewhere else at a lower price! Or they might reduce the price in a few weeks time. Just wait patiently"

and there I am returning the top to the salesgirl. Now the same thing is happening as I'm planning baby's trip in UK!

WHYYYYY? Why did I sign up for this? Nobody warned me about such things. I knew that business wasn't really my thing. Okay, I actually prefer Marketing. I'd rather talk and prepare for presentations than to sit and stare at numbers and spreadsheets and have that I-think-I'm-going-to-die-tomorrow face (Walk into a bank and you'll know what I mean). OR I would have been better off doing a Law degree, noimjustkidding.

Now, my mantra is "Go in, buy, come out". (Thank God they do refunds here!)

My 2.50 quid Nasi Lemak.

I paid 13 times the usual price for satu bungkus in Malaysia.

(ARGHHH! I was thinking like an accountant!)

Topped chips with cheese and bacon

Again, I didn't expect it to be like this.

Though I have to say, the benefit outweighed the cost.

(GET LOST, you evil accountant!)

Till then, Carmen and Accounting can never coexist.I'll be damned if I were to tell you one day that I work for an accounting firm.

xoxo, -carmen-