Missing $5

Haha. Well, I'm laughing at myself.

Just a short entry since I've gotta go to work soon.

Anyway, I was doing my accounting yesterday and I found that my supposed cash-in-hand in my accounts and the actual I'm holding deviated from each other. I checked and rechecked...finally I came to the conclusion that I might have lost it.

Then my girlfriend came along and I went thru the whole list of expenses with her. And she found where the $5 went! I had made a wrong entry of $22.50 for our dinner rather than the actual $27.50.

Reminds me of "Why We Want You to be Rich" by Kiyosaki and Trump. One of the most interesting insights (which undoubtedly one might have gleaned from other books) is that in the game of money...it is not the investment which is risky...it is more often than not the investor that is risky. Lack of emotional control is risky, no knowledge of financial judgement is risky.

In the same way...the "missing" thing here is not the $5 but my mind or awareness. It is strange how I got it wrong so many times when the actual figure of $27.50 was correctly reflected in my handphone note of my expenditures for the day. Assumption I guess.

Do not assume, not even if it's $5!