There is a warm feeling that comes when you uplift someone—when someone laughs at your jokes and enjoys your company. I am always cautious at ensuring I don’t throw away my baggages to others who are seemingly down at one time. I stick to my purpose to keep one spirit up!

But of course—I also have my downtime. Luckily—-am not under the shadow of those days! Am on the verge of —-Happiness!

is having a sister……..

Am on the verge of Luckiness!
For earning about 100sgd from my stocks ( which was bought at relatively high price) . Hold it for 2 weeks. I was at loss position for a week. It scares me. Hehhehe.

Am on the top of Thankfulness!

For my sisters’s love for my daughter and my family. For making themselves available anytime I call them to Singapore without conditions attached.

I like our tan. Well, we don’t have much of a choice. But uso to ngaun sa Hollywood…nagkakagulo sila sa kulay namen. In fairness!

AGOSTO.
As early as now—-I can’t help but immerse myself in thanksgiving of the enormous blessings God showered to my Earthly Life! I am turning 32 and felt like 23! Just kidding. I was 23 once and will forever be,the amount of maturity I went through from 23 to 32 was amazing and yeah…am so blessed with experiences, the right level of interactions , people, circumstances that led me to who I am now.

I am Karen…..close to 32 now.

And I wish for this. Bwahahhaha…. ( ambisyosa!)

At bakit gumawa ang KIA ng CARENS car, napaisip tuloy ako.

Stock market is kinda bullish nowadays—prices were so skyrocketing amidst issues on Europe’s economy. am taking a halt to my aggressiveness and start to be a bit cautious. Hence, am now holding 3 of the counters for relatively lower costs than before for reason that 2 of which will be giving out cash dividends next month. But I am kinda scared of my SEMBMAR stocks, it doesn’t seem to have a comeback. I bought it at 3.94 for 2 lots ( 2k ) and now is sellling at 3.9. Yesterday was worse, it was only priced at 3.88. So, I say to myself- “steady ka lang jan”

Rare find

Chuck and myself went to Liang Court ( very close to Clarke Quay) to redeem our free juice extractor/grinder and blender. Thanks to my DBS patronage.Cool!

And stumbled on the Singapore food festival and tried authentic SG foodie. Ain’t complete without an ice cold BEER!

Oppps..it ain’t Friday yet.So, one glass is enough CHEERS!

Allow me but then it may not be necessary. But lemme rant about it.

Why on earth that enrolling to a Primary One is such a big deal here. Like one child should be enrolled to the best school - and such school is so hard to target on if 1) you are not a citizen b) not a volunteer of the school c) no siblings enrolled initially & yeah…In short, am designed to be a loser —in fact am a Permanent Resident here.

Do you know why they compete for great schools?
Because they are under the impression that the greater the achievements a school had, the better it will mold one child. Call it sour graping, but that is partly true. Anyway, am not just any face in the crowd, am never part of the majority—I don’t intend to go with the flow given the least option I have. Oh yeah, am sour graping buddy but not to the extent of self pity.

Anyway, I chose to be simple, straightforward with my approach. I will enroll my daughter to the nearest primary school in my community whether I like it or not. Can you imagine—enrollment has started and my schedule being a PR is on the 2nd of August while the 1st phase started a month ago. And the remaining vacancies of my school of choice is 91. Welcome to the jungle of survival baby. Anyway, I felt that they are becoming too stiff about this — while I know this is serious business but heck, classes will only start in January and these are Primary kids!!!!

Ok, while doing this rant—- I ended up laughing to myself. Because I know that no matter where we are , our space is special!

Chy and playtime mode with Kuya Jang and friends!

This photo shimmers an instant inspiration. Like how I blushed at Kindergarten.

(snapshot courtesy of Salt Harbor Designs)

I am so happy that my instincts were working at my advantage these past few days.

I did it again!

My CapLand stocks gave a little bit of 4.5% return at SGD338 in just 9 days! I sold it last Friday at 3.8 and at the opening of the stock market today, it dropped to 3.76. I just knew it. Hahhaha, without any technical basis. I am suffering some downside with my SembMar stocks , am at a loss for 80 bucks but these are paper loss at the moment, I am not selling it yet. I can wait. Anyway, this is off-setted by K-reit at SGD220 paper gains.

Anyway, we didn’t hang out at Orgo last Friday night, we call it K - Orgo or kilid sa Orgo because apart from wine was too expensive, we opted for coffee.A nearby Mrs. Field could only damage Garry’s 20 bucks. But we enjoyed the vastness of the night sky and the lovely scenery at the rooftop. See, we need not shell out a lot except that my sisters didn’t like the wasabi from the Japanese resto we had.

Thinking of Friday again–where do we stop for the night? Lemme think?

Today is Friday! Yahoooo- Friday itself is a statement of freedom!

Lunch spent with Ethel. She is suffering from back pains, but she looks cute on it. Sitting modestly with her back touching the chair, she looks formal , can’t stop but mimic her. We had a very healthy lunch today, glad to have spend it with my very endearing friend who will travel to Sri Lanka soon!

Dinner will be spent at Esplanade. Maybe a Japanese dinner + fine drinks at Orgo Bar. I look forward to a splendid Friday night!!!

( photo courtesy of Orgo site but we will have a photo op tonight esp that Joan’s DSLR is here)

I thank my instincts for selling KepCorp 2 days back. It went down to 8.73 today. Thankfully, I sold it at 8.87 the other day.

Enough of that. What happened to me these past days?

At work - I can say , am truly blessed to have a very supportive boss. Very supportive that he wants me out at 530 when i don’t have anything to do. But i felt that i have a lot of catching up to do. By bewilderment is– why is he trusting me this way?

While writing this, I am hoping to plan a dinner with spouse tomorrow. I like Friday! . There is so much to celebrate this week!

I was amazed and ended up unbelieving of the amount of energy I could stretch in a day, specific to last weekend.

Well, based on my energy history, I have been well given much of that after I gave birth and have a child as most of my energy was taken by her. Somehow, at this strange point of my life, I got it back. I give credit to Chy’s maturity- well, i noticed that she is not as vulnerable as before perhaps it helped that we don’t have a house help for 2 years now and another thing is her age— yes, had to accept that my baby is a baby no more.

But imagine me living in a stressful SG, without a helper. Chuck was a hard worker last week- so I spared him from the chores. Bought stuffs at wet market, cook, clean up, ironing , feast on Kimmy Dora and Here comes the Bride. Finally, sumptuous dinner at Thai Express and to the movie house for the last full show- Eclipse.

While my energy got sucked up, i have the feeling of tenderness that at the end of the day, my house is neat and yeah…peaceful!

Sometimes, I find it hard to reconcile why after all these years—–I will have to continue to believe that I will have to remain strong for others.  Why people just choose to get stuck and tends to be dependent like there is no growth and maturity going on with their lives.

Just the same old reason, why can’t you move on and don’t drag me behind.

For a stock trader, i know this is peanuts.  But gaining  187sgd ( 5600php)   207sgd ( 6500 pesoses) for a holding of 15 days is newsy to me.  I just sold my KepCorp stocks bec i had a funny feeling that I bought it at a very high price -hence, am taking advantage of the rally! I am not really technical on this, am just a mere, mere spender, i don’t call myself investor!

Thanks at may pang rebond na ako! pwede na ulit mag kape! Yahooo…

note; ( sorry for the wrong maths)

Today marks my baptism of fire. Graveeee…Hugs and kisses to me then. Well, number are just overwhelming at one glance, i will get used to this.

Eclipse— watched it last night and I am not very impressed- sagdi lang kay dinner man sa Thai Express.  A family feast.

Chy said last night : Jesus, thank you for keeping us safe in all our flights.

She relates this prayer to a certain show she watch on tv re: documenting plane incidents.

And yes, I thank God for all our safe trips recently. This year, we’ve been flying all over Asia and this August, I am flying back to Sydney. It was supposed to be June, then was moved to July and finally training dates were confirmed in August end.  Perfect timing - after my birthday celebration , my parents are coming to Singapore and I can’t stop thinking of my hair rebond! hahahhahha

While am very happy of my present state due to the changes I have made lately— example  my job, etc…, I can’t stop thinking of seriously doing another change. It’s a big deal because it is expensive , yes, I want a hair rebond. I miss my straight hair.

In line with my endeavor for a rebond, I am cutting off my coffee expense at around 3sgd / day.  I told Chuck last night that instead of a sports watch, my bday wish is now a hair rebond , he readily agreed which I am not imposing to him anyway. I manage our cash position , hehehe..and i remain true to it. 3sgd for the next 25 working days that I am not buying coffee would be 75 dollar, that is approximately 50% of the rebond cost. I can do it! As an alternative, I will have to brew coffee from our pantry So, am not 100% givin’ up on coffee.

Adik ko no?

Do you know why I like talking to dreamers? They inspire me.

Yesterday, I had lunch with a friend who dreams of owning and managing a mountain resort one day.  She will study soon and  will be in line with the career she wants to pursue. My heart skipped listening to her plan of actions.  I can’t stop but adore this free spirited woman who is very sure on what she is going to do.  It indeed starts with a dream and in near future she will pursue her passion—-I couldn’t imagine what life be without dreamers to listen to.  Well, am imagining myself having a fresh orange juice on her resort someday

Today, had lunch with a male friend who has been a consistent dreamer and successful player in the world of securities!   He was very sure on what he is going to do—-stay a peaceful life in Bohol, go fishing , park his land cruiser underneath his nipa hut inspired house and do the stocks. He spoke to me about this very high risk means to play stocks nowadays and it is fitted to someone like him who is a mature player. I can’t stop get dumbfounded by the huge success and huge risks he is into! He just got the spark!

Maybe this is the reason why I dislike people who doesn’t talk to me for reason I don’t understand or may not accept. I can’t accept ” being shy ” for a supposedly long term friendship. Opps..that was off topic.

What I just want to say is——-I am voracious listener of dreams! It’s for FREE!