The other day, my office mate was telling me about the refund by Manila Water (former Nawasa). I was delightfully surprised. First,the subsidy from the government for Meralco customers, now, Manila Water’s meter deposit refund! The better news is they will be refunding about Php1,600.00 of our payment for the meter deposit. Wonderful!
When I went back to our office today, there was a memo requiring signature of those who wanted to buy half sack of American NFA Rice at Php25.00 per kilo. I again thought: “another good news.” Because of the rocketing price of rice, our family tried American NFA Rice and to our surprise, it was actually delicious! No wonder there’s always a long line waiting at American NFA Rice distributors in any place.
Although there’s a downer at home (my mother and my mother-in law are both sick), I’m happy that somehow, God was sending budget relief like bill refunds and NFA rice availability. However, it remains a fact that I need to work harder and explore more business opportunities to augment our ballooning expenditures.
There are some business possibilities I was offered by good friends. One was putting up a web hosting services for Philippine bloggers. This is actually promising since there are thousands of new blogs created every day. If you would look at webhosting geeks dot com, you will see the list of top web hosting services internationally with magnanimous earning one would never receive even if she/he works 24/7 and 360 days a year.
Who knows, if and ever our web hosting plans push through, we may even get to theweb review page of this site. That would be the day!
Budgeting has never been harder these days where prices of just about anything seem to escalate. One moment, I have some hundreds in my wallet, before I knew it, it’s almost empty with just some coins loitering around.
Motherhood is indeed challenging these days. Working mothers are so used to multi-tasking — going to their day jobs, performing household chores, assisting kids with school works, doing sidelines… etc. I missed reading my favorite books and actually resting after work which luxuries I used to enjoy when I was still single. These anyway are just part of my blabbering but I have no doubt in my heart that I love being a mother. Resentment is just part of the whole motherhood routine but usually fades after you see your kid happy or thankful for the little things you give him.
Oh yeah, parenting is all worth it. Amidst the price increase, the government and Meralco scandals, Winston Garcia’s playing hero but actually mismanaging GSIS funds… blah… blah.. and more blahs.
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#1 by Cesar on June 28th, 2008
Meralco bills, Water bills, Phone bills, LPG bills… Truly A Mother’s Budgeting Woes!
If you’re not careful when using your home appliances.. Meralco bill alone, is enough to obliterate your entire pay check.
So, how do you solve this manipulated billing charges? Go back to the stone-age. no more rice cooker, electric pan, Refrigerator, flat iron, electric stove, TV set, radio, computer, washing machine, light bulbs, and any other form of electrical devices.
Okey.. Lamig lang…ang puso ko!
#2 by mhel on July 1st, 2008
cesar…
tama, lamig ng puso! mahal din ang magksakit ngayon!
all i can say is…. malalim na haaaaayyyyyy….
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#3 by | Lotto Result on July 10th, 2010
hay naku minsan peste talaga ang meralco sa taas ng bayarin namin sa kuryente”~.