Well, not directly to the owner since my parents refused to charge or accept rent. So the money will go into a rent account to be given to them sometime in the future. I figure it's about time for me to account for that expense.

Speaking of living expenses, last month, our electric bill went up to $80. Since it coincided with the electric meter change, we though the old meter wasn't functioning properly. This month, our electric bill was $24, which was slightly less than our average of $30, so it couldn't possibly because of the meter. We decided to check last month bill and noticed that the bill for last month was calculated using the last read number on the old meter, which was at the end of the month before last, of 99760 and the number of the new meter of 290 for a total of 550KW. But this month bill showed that we used less than half of that. We didn't remember when they changed the meter, but that looked like they didn't account for 250KW between the old and the new meter. I wanted to dispute the charge but my dad refused, saying it's too much hassles. I couldn't believe it but he had always been like that, paying rather than having to deal with putting time and effort to get the money back.

On to other news, my saving had dropped back to less than $7k after an all time high of $9k. Tuition does a lot of damage on my saving.