About a month ago (haha), Tiq and I went to Japan! We spent almost a year preparing for the trip and it was definitely the best trip I've had so far. But if you didn't know, two or three months after buying our flight tickets, we both quit our job and we had to save money for this trip. So for this blogpost, I'm going to tell you what I did (because I cant speak on behalf of Tiq) in order to survive and also save enough money for Japan!
So, sometime in May I think, Tiq and I spent about RM950++ each to buy our flight tickets. At that time we were quite rich because we worked and don't really use our money that much. So after that, we focused on finding a cheap and comfortable accommodation. I tried looking for a hotel room but apparently the rate of a hotel room is super expensive especially for our currency. And to top it off, we started looking when our currency rate was so bad that I started to regret my impulsive decision just for a bit.
And then I checked AirBnb. The best decision ever. The rooms and houses are quite cheap, and we didn't really need much. But it took about 3 months or so in order for us to find a house in a great location and with reasonable price. I waited for our currency to go up a bit, checking oanda.com everyday and we finally booked the house for only RM858. That is considered as cheap because the cheapest hotel room is for like RM400 a night.
After paying for the rent, I went broke again. Hahaha. But it was only January so I believed that I would have the time to save more money. I made an upwork account and from there I worked as a writer writing about beauty products. I only managed to get 40USD haha and then I stopped working because Tiq and I had the idea to publish our own zine. Okay, this is not the reason why I stopped writing, I just got lazy.
Tiq and I gathered some artwork from talented peeps on the internet and we printed, promoted, joined an event, talked to many people and many more to sell our zine. I used all my savings to print the zine so yeah, I was super broke at that time. But Alhamdulillah, rezeki is everywhere, I was offered two jobs as a social media manager. I took both offers and started tweeting and Instagramming like mad.
And finally, it was a week before Japan. My salaries were paid and we finally broke even in our zine sales. I can finally take my money back and we were off to Japan! But to tell you the truth, there were times where I thought that I might be going to Japan broke.
What about other preparations? I wanted to go to Japan because Japan, there's no other reason so Tiq took care of the itinerary (I will share later). We didn't buy any new clothes because it was spring time and I think that's it. Oh, I made my passport 5 days before going to Japan and because our immigration system is the best, it took me only an hour.
Thank you for reading this completely useless post. But I promise I will share more in my next post. Bye!
So, sometime in May I think, Tiq and I spent about RM950++ each to buy our flight tickets. At that time we were quite rich because we worked and don't really use our money that much. So after that, we focused on finding a cheap and comfortable accommodation. I tried looking for a hotel room but apparently the rate of a hotel room is super expensive especially for our currency. And to top it off, we started looking when our currency rate was so bad that I started to regret my impulsive decision just for a bit.
And then I checked AirBnb. The best decision ever. The rooms and houses are quite cheap, and we didn't really need much. But it took about 3 months or so in order for us to find a house in a great location and with reasonable price. I waited for our currency to go up a bit, checking oanda.com everyday and we finally booked the house for only RM858. That is considered as cheap because the cheapest hotel room is for like RM400 a night.
After paying for the rent, I went broke again. Hahaha. But it was only January so I believed that I would have the time to save more money. I made an upwork account and from there I worked as a writer writing about beauty products. I only managed to get 40USD haha and then I stopped working because Tiq and I had the idea to publish our own zine. Okay, this is not the reason why I stopped writing, I just got lazy.
Tiq and I gathered some artwork from talented peeps on the internet and we printed, promoted, joined an event, talked to many people and many more to sell our zine. I used all my savings to print the zine so yeah, I was super broke at that time. But Alhamdulillah, rezeki is everywhere, I was offered two jobs as a social media manager. I took both offers and started tweeting and Instagramming like mad.
And finally, it was a week before Japan. My salaries were paid and we finally broke even in our zine sales. I can finally take my money back and we were off to Japan! But to tell you the truth, there were times where I thought that I might be going to Japan broke.
What about other preparations? I wanted to go to Japan because Japan, there's no other reason so Tiq took care of the itinerary (I will share later). We didn't buy any new clothes because it was spring time and I think that's it. Oh, I made my passport 5 days before going to Japan and because our immigration system is the best, it took me only an hour.
Thank you for reading this completely useless post. But I promise I will share more in my next post. Bye!
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