Insurance

My wife and I finally decided on a good life insurance policy for me. Its called I-insure 65. It’s cheap and at the same time provides enough coverage as advised by most finance books.

We have also been regularly doing mutual funds investments instead of wasting our extra money. It’s too bad that we are only able to do these things now, but I believe that God’s timing is always perfect, so we should do the best that we can do with what we currently know. We are looking for other methods of better managing our finances and hopefully make our extra money work for us better.

Nice Jam

Enjoyed a number of awesome jams this month. The latest was with the band called Ten to Midnight, which in my humble opinion, have some of the most memorable and well written original music in the indie circuit. Since I usually play solo gigs, its nice to be gigging with a band from time to time.

Good thing we have a schooled drummer because my ears can’t take hard hitting on cymbals. Some drummers tend to have uncontrolled use of cymbals which eats up too much of the available frequencies that are supposed to be for other instruments. You can easily tell if a drummer is good by the way he hits his cymbals.

All in all it was a nice gig, and we are scheduled for some more this month.

My Gift

When my mom came home last August she gave an unexpected gift. It was one of those mens titanium watches I see a lot in magazines but this one was more important because it belonged to my stepfather. It’s of the Tagheuer brand and the first time I owned one. It’s really a work of art. Now I know why people spend a lot of money on watches.

IndyCar Tragedy

Dan Wheldon, who just won the IndyCar championship last May, is the latest fatality in racing. This story reminded me of Ayrton Senna, a champion driver in F1 who also got into a fatal accident. Dan Wheldon’s cause of death is the same as Ayrton Senna’s: Head Trauma.

The incident happened last October 16 at the 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship in Las Vegas. A 15 car pile up ensued leaving a number of drivers injured and taking the life of the former champion.

This is another sad day for racing fans and for the entire racing industry. And hopefully F1 and IndyCar will learn something from this tragedy in order to avoid future pile ups and fatal injuries.

Car damaged by arguing ex-couple

A few weeks back I was called on to check on my car because of a recent fight that ensued near the place where I parked it. I was a bit nervous but more than that I was angry and wanted to take my anger out on the couple that caused the problem.

When I got to my car though I was thankful because there was very minimal damage. I was then saddened at what happened to the girl’s car which was really wrecked. In the end the offending parties decided to pay for the minor repairs and rightfully so. At least I didn’t have a problem while on the road in which I’d hope I have an rv emergency roadside assistance coverage.

Pedring Aftermath

Thankfully we were unscathed during the Pedring storm, but I can’t say the same to our brother up north.

They were hit very hard, and the sad thing was a follow up typhoon also hit the northern part all within the same week. Water dams were opened and widespread flooding occured. It was like Ondoy again, but not in Manila this time.

People are now just returning to their homes and some of them will probably have to find new work. I hope they can find relief and replacement jobs, like Legacy System Operator Jobs, or any other job for that matter, and hope that they can quickly recover from this unprecedented ordeal.