ticked off...

okay now i'm really ticked off. because i have been leading a frugal and austere lifestyle since last december. that means no excessive binging on fast food (which is a waste of money), controlling my habits when i do go out, no new cds, t-shirt buying put on hold, no more new shoes, NOT CUTTING MY HAIR (okay this one is for another reason i shall not go into) and finding ways of earning money.

and i have saved a considerable amount, not that much but enough for the original intended use:


which takes place here:


doesn't it look lovely? so being my naive self, i finally decided to put my plans to action in the past few days. so i checked the jetstar website and a round trip to hong kong would cost me about 200 odd dollars, close to 300.

i was pretty happy up till this point. seeing that i could probably make this work and it signals my partial independence, planning this all by myself and not having my parents pay the airfare all the time. so i went about getting myself some awesome tickets, probably a shiny 3-day all-access pass to the event. and the moment i read what was written on the website i was horrified. the tickets for public sales were already sold out last december!

in a moment of panic, i tried, in a frenzy, to search for websites that still sold tickets, and these are the flabbergasting sight that greeted me:

footballtickets.eu.com : roughly S$824

soldouteventtickets.com : roughly S$982... right, the name said it all

getmein.com : same story...

worldticketshop.com : a whopping S$1393 !!!

Now compare these to the original official price:

HK$1080 = a mere S$192...

great, the grand total would have run up only to about S$492, and i don't even have to stay in a hotel like those tourists, only if i'd bought the tickets earlier. i'm starting to hate myself, all hopes have gone down the drain. i don't know when will be the next time that i'll be able to catch the hong kong sevens again. the fact that i'll probably stay there for a month before uni starts does nothing to help. now, why did i miss the singapore sevens in 2006? i'm hating myself really badly right now. and when i'm pissed off, i tend to spend money, like there's no tomorrow. argh...