The Glass Bead Game

Bills, bills, bills. It seemed yesterday that I just paid a stack of them and in the mail just now came another stack.

Gee. I should probably start keeping track of how much I pay each month for bills. Just bills. Debit card bills(I can't afford a credit card yet, thank goodness), phone bills, cable bills. Yes, I haven't been keeping track. So far each month I just pay the lot, or hoped that I've paid the lot. Lol.

Another something I need to keep track of is GIRO.

This GIRO is a tricky little thing. It's convenient and invites laziness. It's simple. It's fuss-free. And yes, it doesn't send that 4-dreaded-letter word to you. Yes, no more bills!

And yet, why am I still whining? Just pay everything by GIRO. No more bills (actually not really but definately a great reduction in them).

Because it's a sneaky little thing. I never trust how much they deduct from my bank account, and most of time, I forget to check. Til today, sadly and full of shame I am to say that I have no idea when they detect from my account, and how much. I need to start keeping track. Thankfully I don't have that many accounts using GIRO, never liked it much.

But when it comes to GIRO or bills... I rather have bills piling up my house.

I think I just started 3 paragraphs with the words "and", "because" and "but". Something my primary school teachers have been teaching me not to do. Haha.

My dad's birthday is coming. My mum was telling me just 3 days ago how my dad's pen is spoilt by my brother, and now he has no pen to write with in the office. And while I was having my dinner just now, my dad was trying to do his work while complaining to me that all the pens at home don't work (which is true haha), and that his work pen is spoilt by another one of my brother's 'experiments'. When I offered to lend him one of mine, he refuses.

Haha... I get the hint already.