Richardson Chan

After months of salivating over Apple's Magic Mouse, and a 1TB external hard drive, I finally put my gadget lust to a temporary rest, by buying a 1TB Seagate Expansion external hard drive. And then there's the iPad. Thank you Apple for coming up with a product that I don't wanna buy. At least I can save a few bucks for more important things.

A few days before purchasing the Seagate Expansion, I was lucky enough to book 2 round trip tickets to Cagayan de Oro, which means, I'll be spending the Holy Week at my honey's hometown. Hopefully, there won't be any storms or flash floods this time around. :D

And oh, did I forget to tell you that we got new phones too? And some more stuff. What does this mean? I'm f'n BROKE. That's not a good way to start the year. I won't justify my purchases. But they are serving their purposes. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to report a decrease in net worth, and an increase in credit card debt (note: I still and always pay my bills in full).

I am so broke that I had to skip on my planned monthly investment in mutual funds. Fortunately, I still have my forced savings program going. So despite the shortage in cash, I know my emergency fund is getting bigger and bigger every month. Updates on our financial goals are posted here.

Despite all these "mishaps", I will still declare that we’ll have a super-blessed year in 2010! I claim a year of amazing abundance for our lives. This year, we shall receive more love and give more love. We shall experience more joy, greater generosity, dreams fulfilled, financial increase, open doors, new opportunities, divine connections, supernatural appointments, great miracles, answered prayers, and exponential growth. Amen! (Thanks to Fina & Sir Bo for this line. It keeps me inspired.)

What else? Ah yes, my brother got married. And we're expecting a new family member by May. That means we'll have 3 family members who were born in the month of May. My sister & I were arguing whether "Jet" should be born on the 17th (my sister's bday) or 25th (my beerday). I'm still contemplating how Jet should call me. Should it be "Uncle Sonn" or "Tito Sonn"? What do you think sounds better?

That's all for now. Til next time. :)