I certainly am.

Some bad habit to break.

Goodbye!

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I love my life and I won’t allow you mess with it. I am doing this because I want to be pleasing in the eyes of Jesus.

“Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!” Matthew 25:23 (NLT)”

Yahoo..madame pa daw blessings si Lord!
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Chuck and I met up with Sally Sunday night after our badminton game- grabee…our whole body ached but then we managed to pull ourselves to meet Sally and see her joy buying her new pair of Charles & Keith boots. Don’t worry dear, I will carry it straight to Sydney and i know you can’t wait to use them, good for the month -end when you return from your vacation! I also did my shopping for Gracy’s LACOSTE…Nakaka -tempt tong mga babaeng ito. Ewan ko ba..nakakatanggal talaga ng stress ang shopping. i hate you shopping—nakakaaubos ka din ng pera!!! nyahhahaha!
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My stocks are not doing good now. In red= duguan.
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My life is painted in beautiful colors because I want it bright!
It’s a choice at the end of the day, although there are days that you ain’t have much of a choice. Living in the moment. Enjoying down time!

pls..forgive me, am not bragging—

I just want to tell myself of how a good feeling it is to fully own my home..Not buying it but simply renting it and call it our own.

Indeed, there is no tag price to privacy. I so luvvvvvvvvvvv it, I don’t care if it means extra dollars to sweat with.

Another note made me smile today—-my beautiful bday flowers from Dada and Chy bloomed like sunshine and I customized the arrangements. I can be a florist I guess.

Saturday is kinda lazy—I treasured the down time. I needed this very much.
Went to Library borrowed some books for Chy. I missed the due date of the last 3 books I borrowed , had to pay the SGD1.35 fines. Neat!

Apologies for the the delayed publishing of this post.

“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” — Rick Warren

Random posts/thoughts

I have been busy lately –allow me to post randomly ( as usual)
1. My parents and mom in law are in Singapore for a short visit, yay!!!
Singapore Zoo- Universal - Sentosa - Flyer- Bird Park- Lucky Plaza maybe Chinese Garden?…On their 4th day and I don’t think they are tired. I am so happy, my floors and sink are well maintained! Gee…it’s a bonus..really!

2. The badminton part 1. It is very nice to know that such team grow both hubbies and wifies play while kids running around free. And it develops much of our personality and discipline in sports. Yay! seryoso ito.

3. My boss is ever understanding. I have mixed feelings over his move to a new role and I will have a new boss. I don’t know why he trust me but he do trust me and somehow i have earned his respect. But somehow, he is too relaxed. Maybe, I will get to that state soon. Not the managerial part—only the chill out state.

I have so much in my mind–I wanted to right but my mind is spinning off my inspiration to write at the moment. The right time will come.

By the way, they luvvvvvvvv the singapore flyer—-i loved it best because the ride was FREE!

View from the top is AMAZING!

I finally decided to sell the first stocks I bought last June.
SGD150 returns from SGD2200 costs would be a 6.8% rate of returns for the period 2 months. It’s equivalent to 3.4% interest income monthly.
It was a pretty good equivalent to the rebonding expense I had yesterday.

It was really unplanned- i was visiting the saloon for a haircut , then after negotiation of the time I will have to spend, I was OK and the price was just right.

I have 3 more counters to sell- waiting for the right time. 2 of which is gaining while 1 is really losing. As in. SMRT pls bounce back.

I am so glad of this extra extra from the time being.

I have decided ( & may change) to wear this colorful dress on my bday.
Hehehhehe…Thanks my sponsor- Ebay. Well, am not doing it grand. I just want to spend a quiet time with my family on that day. Given it’s my bday, i just want to wear something different. I would have wanted Jessica Biel’s dress from the movie Valentine’s day.

But I can settle with this and what is grand is my parents are with me and my mom - in -law too.

I have given myself a surprise gift today. Advance happy bday gift to me!!!

I would have to settle for a watch because I couldn’t afford a car . I don’t mind —-it’s Kenneth Cole!

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!

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 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!

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?

I’ve  been through a lot myself. Especially emotional challenge and to see this going through with Chuck is painful knowing that he is not used to it.

I am fumigating in anger for the unfairness and while I am sorry for him , I felt that it is the best opportunity for us as a couple to show kindness in return. This is not the best position to be in but I claim that we are in better position to experience this - to show that the Holy Spirit is working in us and unkind treatment deserves a show of a holy heart. This is my sweet surrender to this challenge because I believe that is not our battle and not worth our freakin time.

On the other hand, Wendy ( my friend who taught me on stocks) was so right about OCBC Bank stocks with a potential to soar in the stockmarket. Based on intuition I bought 1,000 stocks at SGD8.36 each 3 weeks ago in fact with less knowledge of the basis of my decision and luckily as of today, the stock’s market value went high to SGD8.80 each. I am not selling,  not just yet. I will most probably base again on intuition and perhaps a bit of reading.

Speaking of stock trading, I am a  newbie and wouldn’t have ample foundation to achieve my goals on this but this is better than making our money sit in a  bank at .4% interest p. a. That’s how pathetic interest rates are , that it couldn’t beat inflation. We tried scouting for TDs ( time deposit) and it is less than 1% at .75% which annoyingly is the highest here.

So , in May, we decided to take a RISK, whether it will pay–that we have to know. This is much more worth my time.

Apart from my job which is really new to me now- Vlook Up everywhere and understanding the magic behind each automated sheet, surprisingly , I loved the positive aura it transcends to me in the last 3 days. It is somethin new though to wake up early morning and catch the 7:30 train to work. Plus, the early to bed system am going through, am in my home at 7pm and off to bed at 10. This will benefit Chy very much. Will sort of change her schedule on sleeping as it is majority anchored to my sleeping habits.. Fantastic! A new job is needed to make it happen.

Another thing is stocks—-yes, I will start to trade soon. Well, the few essential safe stocks. I don’t go for the short term ones as I don’t have the luxury to read through trends and my interests are ain’t high on biz news yet, so, am starting my little investment on stocks soon with a long term perspective. Hence, I will just have to find the perfect time for me to buy the stocks I would love to own in the right price, just like Warren Buffet says. Hhahahhaa…I like it, am ambitious!

Can’t wait to see counter prices this week!

I had my way to make it unforgettable somehow. My First day at Tera is actually the last day of the month of May.

And here’s the organizational announcement.

I am pleased to announce that Karen Baquial has joined Teradata in the position of Financial Planning Manager - South East Asia, effective today.

Karen brings great experience from similar roles in HP and other large multi-nationals.

Karen’s main focus will be on supporting the growth of the SEA countries and using her experience to improve the efficiency and accuracy of our finance function.

Please join me in welcoming Karen to the Teradata team and wish her well in her new role.

Nakakawindang naman pakinggan ang aking job role. Wala lang..kakatakot.

God, ikaw na bahala sa akin. Lam mo na nilalaman ng puso ko- na wag naman sana akong magmukhang mangmang sa trabaho na ito. Na araw araw po ay bigyan mo po ako ng lakas at wisdom na maipahayag sa aking mga ka trabaho ang nilalaman ng aking utak, maka suporta sa kanila ng buong buo at naway, tumagal naman ako sa trabaho na ito.

Thanks po , Lord sa opportunity na ito. Better than what I hoped for. I will do my part, promise. Remind me to wake up at 6:15am everyday though.

to wear my trench coat to office today. So, while doing my dress rehearsals, this is what I got.

Trench coat is not appropriate in Singapore weather. So, I ended up with this.

When I dropped by at G2000, i also found a very nice purple trench coat at 79sgd. Hmmm…Am seriously thinking if I needed that. But with the Aussie plans moved further , I wonder when I could use the stuff. June in HK is summer so inappropriate as well. Then, I don’t need to decide, I don’t need such. Well, this month is a tough month as I need to pay for tax,full payment of the Cavite dwelling reno, credit card majority of which is my parent’s travel ticks— in short, am keeping the belt tighter & my financial awareness more stringent in April. But I know, I need a new shoe ( wink ..wink..)

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One of my best at WV ( a former company) is getting married. Ghie, I can’t believe you have fallen in love. But it is really good for you girl . Finally, it is proven, you have EMOTIONS. The lady seldom displays such. I am busily looking for the right invite wordings. 11th of June would be magical for her and Anthro. Life is full of beautiful surprises. My friend amazingly surprised me.
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The moment I have given up expressing the truth is like given up my right for freedom of speech. I find myself speechless but my mind is overwhelmed.