new things, new challenges

 We are moving to a new home, one that is near the office, so we can save on gas, which is ridiculously around 50 pesos! Good thing my ever reliable car, Boks, a Lancer EL (yes, I know, he’s an old model, yabang nyo, but I love him coz he never lets me down), doesn’t eat a lot of gas. Another reason for moving is because of the accumulated stuff we have, what with all the wedding junk, I mean presents, that we got. We would’ve preferred cash, but you lot want to have it your way and buy that present, and carry it all the way to Tagaytay, when we did tell you, rather discretely, to GIVE US CASH, and if you still want to gift us that it should be delivered in Manila. I only had to walk five times carrying the gifts from our room to Boks on my first day as husband! Thank you!

Okay. You see, since we got married, we have been living in my old room in our tiny condo in Manila. So now, we are moving to our own place. The only downside is we have to pay rent.   One month advance, one month deposit. But the good thing is the building is new (we are the first tenants). It’s near my wife’s parents’ house, which means we could just walk there to eat (like we do on most days anyway) and maybe once a week their househelp can drop by to clean our new home.   As added bonus, there is a brand new aircon installed. And Boks has his own covered gated parking space, complete with padlock (I have the key). It’s in a gated village, with guards. Oh, did I mentioned that its a two-bedroom unit?! Yay for the wife! She’s thinking of making one of the rooms as our walk-in closet. And it’s walking distance from Mercury Drug, a supermarket (Big C), the palengke, and the hospital (Paranaque Doctor’s Hospital). This is our new home, an answered prayer, a favor, a blessing. Thank you God!

Also, the wife and I are setting up a business, a part time business. This is something new for us, something we never thought we would do, something out of our comfort zone. We want something in our life. We have goals. We want to travel (not just locally, we’re thinking Europe, the Caribbean, Maldives). We want to retire early and have a nice house in the city and a resthouse maybe in Tagaytay or Batangas. We want good things not only for us but also for our children and grandchildren. But our current jobs won’t make these things happen. Sure we get a handsome salary, but is that it? Living from monthly salary to monthly salary and saving a little? We have to do something. This is in not enough.