when do I get my adult certificate?
Happy birthday to my TFSA and RRSP! It’s been 2 years since I’ve opened them and a couple of months shy of this blog’s birthday as well. Let’s combine both and talk about lessons I learned after 2 years of tracking and blogging about my net worth. First, the usual monthly review for January condensed…
Happy new year everyone! May 2021 be the best year for all of us yet! In one month, it’ll be the 2-year anniversary of when I first opened a TFSA and RRSP, how nostalgic *sheds tear*. I’ll do a more comprehensive review of my finances for the past 2 years and see if there are…
This August, for the first time in 16 years, I went to visit my ancestral lands in southern China. The previous time I went back it was to say my last goodbyes to my grandfather. I was 11 then, I’m 27 now. You’d think I would have learned about the importance of time and family…
It’s been an exciting month, the American election, Covid19 vaccine news, I found a place to buy salted butter–you know, stuff that really impacts my day-to-day life as a Canadian in China. Spendings Report: $650.61 The biggest one-time purchase this month was $50 for a Secret Santa followed in a close second by last week’s…
Friendship is priceless, and also $160 a month. Between last month when none of my friends were back/out of quarantine and this month when most of them are out, my leisure/eating out spending more than doubled. That only sounds impressive until you realize eating out in China is cheap and my ideal weekend involves me…
Special edition of my monthly finance review as it has been 2 years since I started keeping records of my net worth 😎 I thought about going with a more click-baity title like “You’d be amazed at how I saved $100k in 2 years!”, but I do believe honesty is the best policy in this…
I’m solidly in the middle of the Boring Middle. Just trucking on and doing the same as usual 🙂 Spendings Report: $1016.77 Yup, a full 63% of my spendings this month was for Mandarin lessons. I’m on HSK4 and I’d like to pass HSK5 within a couple of years. Basically the level of Chinese a…
My birthday has come around again and since last year I did a 26 pictures for my 26th year I figure I’d do the same this year. Below are my top 27 pictures since my last birthday and some thoughts about each. They’re not the best photos I’ve taken but rather ones that represent the…