by: Reyna Tabbada
Before the big financial shakedown, money issues dwell on the shadows of sensitive and taboo topics. There was no urgency to put one’s financial house in order, until Filipinos realized that anyone could fall victim to bad money management and bankruptcy.
Financial advice and useful tips abound, together with a troop of dedicated experts who carries the mission of financial freedom to heart. Given our own unique situations, a financial advisor can help make sense of the jargon and lay out the best strategy to make our money work for us. Read the rest of this entry »
Crisis situations have a way to bring out the best and the worst in all of us. Though we are faced with the same dilemma, we have different ways of engaging the enemy, so to speak.
When my mother left for the U.S., all she had was a gray carry-on, betraying the fact that she will be staying there for good. It took a lot of negotiations and compromise to fill up the void of her absence. However, the pieces start to fall in its rightful places, together with valuable lessons of a mother separated by 7,000 miles from her daughter. 
Rise. Tumble. Fall. Such are the rules of this universe – hard lessons that must be learned outside the comfort of a university’s hallowed halls. Congratulations graduate, here is the moment you have long waited for, a goodbye kiss to nagging parents and distracting schoolwork. 
