I can’t seem to stop buying lamps. 🤦🏻♀️ I don’t know why but I’m obsessed with ambient lighting. I only turn on the white ceiling lights when I cook or when we have company. Otherwise we just turn on the lamps to illuminate our house.
I attended a presscon to give me an excuse to go to Metro Manila so I can shop for a lamp. 🤦🏻♀️
I had to get out of the house to dig myself out of the rut I was in. I was working on two analysis pieces today while coordinating another story that our PH reporter will write. I couldn’t afford to not be productive today.
So I went to a co-working space.
It was effective. I was halfway through my first piece when I got distracted by an editing job. I accomplished so much within the three hours I worked in that cold office. I knew I wouldn’t have achieved anything had I stayed at home. There were so many distractions (chores, cats, my bed) plus being locked up in my room for more than a week does *things* to my capacity for critical thinking.
Local stock market looks better this week compared to the past few months or years. This is the first time that my ETF was only negative PHP 300. In the past 10 yrs I was always bleeding. I partially cashed out my ETF at a loss when I was building my house.
This would continue until the market corrects/rebalances in February. Let’s see if the winning streak will continue until June — unless the US implodes before that.
@dena_mccoy 🇺🇸 A United States combat veteran’s perspective… #repost @kris.and.dave
This song suddenly popped up in my head:
I was suddenly roused from my bed rotting by my mom yesterday because her laptop’s charger stopped working and she had a zoom meeting at 2 pm. I hopped from one shop to another trying to buy a replacement but that dang tiny Acer pin made it difficult to find a match. Even the Acer service center didn’t have it and it will take several weeks before Acer could ship an original charger.
I ended up racing to another city 23 km from home to get to SM Cyberzone. 50 mins to and 50 mins back.
So now I’m off to a good start, going to the community weekend market on Sunday January morning.
Hope that this a good start for the week. Let’s see if Washington will throw more bombs (figurative and literal) to cause a world economic meltdown.
I finally taught Twin A how to use the sewing machine.
After the sewing lesson, I made a new table cloth, which Twin A also chose.
I really fear for my relatives in the US. Good thing my mentally impaired uncle already went back to the Philippines. My cousins, my aunt and uncles…even the super MAGA uncle…
@jalvarez840
And this is where Putin and Xi wants the US.
Jesse Ventura is right here. What is happening in America is reminiscent of the martial law years under Marcos Sr.
@fox9mn Former Minnesota Governor and professional wrestling icon Jesse Ventura shared his thoughts about the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
His invasion of Venezuela is no different from what Bush did to Iraq. It’s all about greed for oil, for power — it’s America’s old bullying ways again. And you know how Iraq ended up, right?
Denmark recently declared that it is ready to defend Greenland should Trump invade that large inhospitable land.
The US creates wars to prop up its economy, which won’t be doing great in the long term. Right now, the US economy is propped up by the corporates (mostly tech doing the heavy lifting) and the high-income households. This is what the economists call the K-shaped growth — only certain segments of the economy are growing or different segments have different rates of growth. Given that only the rich are advancing, that means the middle class and low-income segments are left behind. They are the ones feeling the full brunt of the higher prices due to tariffs and slowing jobs market.
High-income households spend aggressively, boosted by soaring wealth, while middle and lower-income households remain worried about job security and the impact of tariffs on their spending power. — ING
The next six months are precarious given the geopolitical tensions and inflation concerns. Japan has recently raised interest rates, the highest in 30 years, while other central banks remain cautious despite the cooling inflation in their respective markets. Jobs and wages are uneven.
I’m currently working on my own economic and public and private markets outlook and I’m racing against the clock. The expert comments are just coming in trickles. I HAVE A DEADLINE, PLEASE!!!
I’m bored. It’s probably the reason why I am endlessly procrastinating this week. I haven’t produced anything and my mind keeps wandering off — like I want to do something else. I need to get out of this funk because I cannot afford to just pick up my bags and leave.
My bff/business partner is so busy with their startup logistics company after they purchased two cargo trucks a month ago. We couldn’t get our business idea off the ground because we both are busy with other things.
I need to have my brain working overtime tomorrow to make up for the slack this week.
This nativity scene would soon be taken down and the world will go back to how it was before the Christmas rush. Students will go back to enroll by next week or the week after that. My friends would have been done grading this week and are taking their brief academic break.
I’ve always taken photos of my kids on by this nativity scene almost every year. One day I will line up all those photos from when they were still babies up until the time they still take photos by the scene.
Meanwhile, I’m back to work but today is slow and my brain is not functioning yet. I’m supposed to reply to a number of emails but my head is still full of cobwebs. Probably because I’m on intermittent fasting and prayer this week. It’s hard to think when your tummy keeps on telling you it’s hungry.
Getting out of bed is harder as well because the temperature keeps dropping. It’s at 24 degrees C at night and at times it goes down to 23. Suffice to say we no longer have our aircons and electric fans on. I also have taken out my comforter and put on fresh duvet covers for it to snuggle up. I’m playing catching up with the holiday that I missed. I wasn’t able to have a Lord of the Rings movie or book marathon, which I used to do during Christmas holidays ever since I started working in Manila. I wasn’t able to play my games but I managed to buy Twin A her own controller because I don’t want her taking mine.
Whoa whoa whoa! Philippines’ Alex Eala with her partner Iva Jovic defeated the Venus Williams (former #1) and Elina Svitolina (former #3) at the ASB Classic in Australia.
Rizza Maniego-Eala, the former CFO of Globe Telecom, retired early to support her daughter, Alex, as she goes around the world to put the Philippines on the tennis world map.