It used to be 5% of income that all goes into a cash envelope. We pull money from it if there’s any large purchases for the parents or flush into red envelop during Lunar New Year. The experiment Luckily, our parents are in good financial shape and that gave us room to plan for the…

On 34 34 was a year of liberation. Millie turned 4 and now enjoys art and craft, I have more time on my own. I changed job after almost 7 year stay, it brought the opportunity to live in the US for 30 days. That was an unimaginable and incredible experience. Milestones Lessons from 34…

November is a month with multiple large one time bills; we’ve almost doubled the monthly expense from NT$82,558 of October to 165,212 of November. There are 3 expenses that contributed to the inflated number. It accumulates 55% of the November expense; without those, the November expense is 76,138. The baseline expense is actually lower than…

Unless it’s health related, these sometimes turn into a great exercise. A long day of work; exercise becomes a switch of thoughts. An argument with family; exercise blows the steam off. Emotion can be flipped with motion.

Sometimes things get tough at work or in life, sometimes it creates a domino effect into other aspects. A badly done project at work leads to a bad mood, unintentionally brought it home and it leads to an argument with our partner; then it kept us from sleeping at night and the lack of sleep…

Results for 33 1. Exercise is progressing after the dip Ever since my daughter born in December 2020, the exercise volume axes in half in 2021; then I transit to product marketing in November 2021, the number hit rock bottom in 2022 and 2023 as I tried to balance between raising a toddler, rebuilding a…

A choice between NT$35,600 Apple refurbished M3 Macbook Air and NT$31,900 new M2 Macbook Air. Which one to keep and which one to return? The price difference is NT$3700. There are few ways to justify the difference:– 2 display output vs 1– SoC performance– Dynamic caching ChatGPT says a MacBook typically gets 7-8 years of…

The airplane stuck on the tree while we’re at the park today. I tried knocking it down with branches. I tried climbing and shaking it. I have told people to shut up, but I did not call for help. My wife did, and we got our plane back. Some problems aren’t solvable with personal ability.…

Recently at work, I found members sitting idle on a task longer than planned. This pattern happens when they’re in a project for more than 2 to 3 weeks. During the first few weeks, information pile up quickly. Over flooded with information on the project, judgement becomes more difficult because the considerations increased. The idea…