My 2016 Short Term Goals!

Here are my 16 short term goals as we enter the year 2016 in a few days:

1. Renovate our humble home.
2. Have first aid kit at home in case of emergency (thermometer & nebulizer)
3. Save at least 6x my monthly salary before the 2016 ends.
4. Open another savings account for my emergency fund
5. Buy a fridge
6. Look for a new job either in Makati or BGC
7. Visit my immediate family in Cebu and vacationing for a week or two.
8. Sign-up for Google Adsense for my blog
9. Learn how to do program in PHP language.
10. Have an investment in PH stock market amounting 50K
11. Buy blue chip companies for long term goal investment
12. Pamper myself once in a while
13. Burn some fats! I want to weigh 105 lbs. again. FYI, my current weight right now is 113.5 lbs. So good luck to me! Haha.
15. Learn how to do winged eyeliner
16. Travel to Palawan

So that's it. I'm excited to cross out all of these at the end of December 2016. What about you? What are your 2016 goals? Feel free to leave a comment below. I’d love to hear your thoughts! Let’s talk!

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Christmas 2015: Yes, I survived budgeting!

I survived the Christmas holiday! There's many presents, food and err godchildren. Haha. The good thing is I stayed on my target budget so no cray, cray moments for me. Here's the breakdown of my spending that day:

Those items labeled as free are either Christmas gift from the office or goodies from friends. Some of the dishes we prepared are stir fry noodles commonly known as pancit, ham, cheese sticks, fish soup for my dad and bread.

Too bad I didn't take a picture of it because I was too hungry munching the goodies. Haha. We only prepare a few dishes during Christmas day because most of my immediate relatives are all based in Cebu.

For my 11 Godchildren plus extras (yung mga hindi ko inaanak), I only spend about 2,172 pesos for gifts and monetary giveaways! I can say that advance planning pretty early help me to achieve this goal. Hehe.

What about you? How did you spend your Christmas day this year 2015? Share your stories at the comment section below. I want to read them!

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Life lately: December 2015

Hello, viewers and readers of my blog! Yes, I'm still alive and kicking. I became silent here because I needed to handle important stuff like getting our Meralco residential connection done. Luckily, we are in the final phase and hopefully, this Saturday we will have an electricity of our own. I'll blog about my experiences and the process of getting a Meralco residential connection here in my page so stay tuned for that. I will also include how much did I spend and the stress it cost me processing papers for wiring permit at the City Hall. Haha.

I haven't received my 13th-month pay yet, which is a good thing because I will not buy things that I don't need. Especially right now that there's a lot of holiday sale at the mall. Oh, it is so tempting to buy a beautiful dress and make-up but I still have new clothes and lipsticks that I didn't use so I must control the shopping hormones in me! Haha. I heard at the office that our 13-month will be credited to our account tomorrow. So that's hooray!


I'm still experiencing a paper loss right now in the stock market. Out of 7 stocks that I've bought.  Two of them are in green while the other five are in red. I'm still hoping that the latter will eventually turn into green. I'll cross my fingers for that to come true so that I can gain more. So yeah, that's the reason of no new entry posted here. And before I forget, I want to greet all of you an advance Merry Christmas!

What about you? How do you cope up with the Christmas rush lately? What did you buy on your 13-month pay? Share your stories at the comment section below.

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