Women Xplore

I’m a woman, exploring my roles as a daughter, sister, friend, wife and mother!

12:54 AM

For His Discriminating Taste

Posted by Bela |

My dad has a collection of all kinds of fine jewelry and watches. And so when my siblings asked me to look for a gift for our dad, I know that I should be buying something of finest quality to pass for our father’s standard. And that is when I thought of IWC Watches.

IWC Watches have a lot of styles in their men’s collection like the IWC Aquatimer Watches or their IWC Specialities Watches and the IWC Vintage Watches. which I am sure our father will love. All of these watch have the best craftsmanship and they only manufacture a number of watches per style so we will be sure that each of their watch is a rare find.

I am sure no matter what watch we choose for our father, he will surely love it as he just loves any kind of fine time pieces from Lussori.

21. If you were to live your life without your best friend, what would change? Maybe I will have different set of choices and decisions as most of my decision in life have been influenced by my best friend.

22. Tell us about a era of your life that you really miss. My childhood days like when I just played with my Barbie dolls, or eat chocolate porridge prepared by my aunt during rain season, or play finger puppet during brown out.

23. Have you ever been betrayed by someone that came as a complete surprise? Without revealing the person, if yes, tell us about it. Thankfully this has never happened to me.

24. Do you ever think that is a good idea to hide your feelings? No, because if you keep on hiding your feelings, there will really come a point where you will just break down and things would be even worse.

25. Tell us about your favorite year when you were a student. High school days because I met my life long friends in high school.

25. When was the last time you were in a very good mood? What caused it? A few weeks ago, when I received a very good news from my employer which allowed me to shop for my favorite bag.

26. Have you ever had a romantic relationship with a sibling of a good friend? Yes. LOL.

27. Tell us about the last thing that you did that you truly regret. When I said something that really hurt my husband’s feelings.

28. When did you laughed today? When I was staring at my two month old son.

29. Do you trust easily? I think so.

30. What do you care about that you wish more people would? The environment, our country.

31. Is it easier for you to go without food or go without sleep? Go without food

32. What non-alcohol beverage do you enjoy drinking the most? Ice tea.

33. When you walk into a room full of strangers, generally how is your confidence? I can easily blend in.

34. Does talking about sex with anyone but your lover make you uncomfortable? Yes.

35. Do you tend to believe members of the opposite sex mostly behave the same way? I don’t think so.

36. Did you drink any alcohol this week? If yes, what? No. I am breastfeeding so no alcohol for me.

37. Would you ever consider being a vegetarian? No, I love to eat all kinds of meat.

38. Do you believe that there’s always room in your heart for someone? No, because it is already occupied.

39. Do you believe in the concept of soul mates? Yes.

40. Last week, we had a few players criticize our victim’s questions. Which is fine to do and we value your opinion. Would you ever consider writing questions for Bud and me to post on a Sunday Stealing? I can’t think of any right now.

11:03 PM

Out with the Old..In with the New

Posted by Bela |

My aunt was at our house the other day and she suddenly commented on our curtain which was her gift to us during our wedding five years ago. And this made me realized that I haven’t replaced it since she gave it to us. We will only remove it when it is time for our house help to wash it but I never really took time to shop for more curtains to replace the one and only curtain that we have. LOL. I guess this just only shows that I am no domestic goddess really.

But I guess that curtain has served its purpose for five years already and it is time for me to replace it. But I am thinking to get custom blinds instead as it is more modern looking and much easier to clean. I did some online window shopping already and I saw a lot of nice designs like the faux wood blinds.

I promised my aunt that I will really take time to replace our old curtains and assured her that she will see our new blinds installed when she comes back to visit us.

4:24 PM

Done

Posted by Bela |

August is a very special month for me and my husband as it is the last month where we have to pay for the monthly amortization of the loan that we got five years ago to purchase our house and lot in Bulacan.

It was five years ago when hubby and I decided to make our first major investment and purchased the house and lot that our relative is selling. We just got married then and we don’t have that much savings in our bank account but we decided to go ahead with the investment. And I can’t believe that five years just passed by like that and we are finally finish with one of our financial challenge.

To celebrate, hubby and I bought each other gifts that we can't afford to buy before because we are paying for our monthly amortization. We bought modern furniture as our gift for each other to upgrade the old and outdated furniture that we have at home as hubby knows that I have long been wanting to replace them. Then hubby bought me a Philip Stein watch and I bought him a new toy, his Canon 50D.

It was really difficult financially while we are paying for the monthly amortization of our housing loan but hubby is really right, that we did not make a wrong choice for this investment and I am really glad that I let hubby convinced me to make this investment.

11:15 PM

For A Better Future

Posted by Bela |

I am not the typical girl who loves to wear accessories and jewelries whether it’s gold, white gold or even silver. Actually, I would prefer bags instead of these.

But this made me realize that even if I don’t want to wear gold, I can still collect them in many other ways. But then, I’m still not sure if I can afford to buy gold bars but this won’t stop me for I can always settle for anything less. Like for instance, gold coins can be a lot cheaper than gold bars so I guess I can deal with that when it comes to investments since it also has a great value that doesn’t easily depreciate, which is a very useful tool that we can consider in the future.

So I guess, from now on, I’ll have to budget my money for this and start my new investments for the benefit of my whole family.