After a long haul flight (about 16 hours with a layover in Hongkong) we arrived in Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris, which is about an hour away from the city-centre. Peering down my window from the plane, Paris looks … More Paris Je t’aime
I’m back from my two-week trip to Europe. My travel companions and I visited Paris and Burgundy in France, the Swiss Alps in Switzerland, Boppard in Germany, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Bruges in Belgium and Rome and Milan in Italy. … More What most people don’t tell you about Europe
The timeline from college graduation to (hopefully) your first job will be short and before you know it, you will be facing the realities of #adulting. … More On Adulting your Finances After College
The latest high-teched commodity for barter is bitcoin. Bitcoin is said to be a digital currency** invented by a group of individuals in 2009. It’s simply made up of computer code. … More Let’s face it, using bitcoin is a step back into a BARTER economy
It’s my last net worth update for the year and a time to take stock of what I’ve done with my money this 2017. … More Net worth update 28 December 2017
For our annual visit to a children’s home this Christmas season, my frugal mom, who is multi-skilled and multi-talented, opted to do a short talk on saving money for kids. … More Personal finance for kids
As an update, I officially started my new job and now settling in to my spanking new four-corner office … More How I pay myself at my new job
Not too many years ago, I was an anxious 17-year old dealing with what then felt was the biggest problem of my life—to shift or not to shift courses/ degree in college. … More If I wasn’t in law, I would be in the medical field
The internet has blown up about Manila commuters’ horrendous stories of living without Uber, which was meted a one-month suspension for violation of LTFRB rules in accepting applications beyond the approved number. I feel their pain, truly. And so I’ll jump in with my own. … More Much ado about Uber and Grab/ Manila cab drivers are the worst in the world
In 2014, I was 27 years old when I made my first adult purchase – a condo. By then I had been working as a lawyer for only about a year and a half. I had done the travelling and the shopping and felt that I was ready for real property … More A look back at my first adult purchase at 27 – a condo
