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…
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The boring facts behind saving $100k in 2 years
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…
Finance Review: August 2020
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…
Finance Review: July 2020
I know, the last few posts have only been mundane end-of-month finance reviews but there really hasn’t been a lot, it’s covid season 🤷🏻 But! Watch out for this month’s posts! There’s a family trip, my birthday, another finance review (lol), and some resources based on feedback from all one (1) of my regular readers.…
Finance Review: June 2020
Being back in quarantine is great for the wallet, less great for the mental health. My net worth is officially in the 6 digits now, but at what cost…😭 Unfortunately, another side-effect of being locked on campus is that my life is incredibly routin/mundane/boring so I’m hard pressed to come up with interesting things to…
Finance Review: May 2020
Is it too late to refund 2020. I’m quite worn out so this will probably be the shortest one yet. Spendings Report: $824 Almost half of this month’s spendings was a session with a financial planner. It was very worthwhile and I will write a more thorough post about it when the world isn’t quite…
Finance Review: April 2020
I’ve been quarantined on campus for 3 months but damn if my spreadsheet doesn’t look fantastic. Does anybody know what is happening with the markets? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Spendings Report: $372 Was 1/3 of my spendings this month bubble tea and KFC? Yeah. My crippling tapioca addiction is the only thing standing between me and millionaire status…
Finance Review: March 2020
Guys. It’s been wild 🧻 This is my monthly finance review so I’ll keep it to the numbers. I keep on meaning to write other posts but my free time has been spent sleeping or worrying about being a failure in life/struggling with imposter syndrome. I realize I’ve been very lucky to avoid any major…