Category — Managing Money

This post has been long over due. For some of my regular visitors, thanks for checking back from time to time. It just that I don’t have anything really interesting on the money part to share.

Since this blog title is partly personal, partly money, maybe I’ll write a bit more on the personal side for this post. So here goes.

We went to have some fun time last week. Took time off work to see some hot air balloons which is rare over here. The half day off was really enjoyable. I did not have so much fun in a long time. I got to practice my photographic skills, (which were quite rusty), ride in a hot air balloon and also a trike for the the first time in my life.

Photographing hot air balloons is also new to me since, like I said, we don’t have them much over here. Even the event was limited due to proximity to our airport. Gosh, I wonder how on earth the organizers planned the event. Granted there are some nice background to photograph the hot air balloons.

Heck, there was even a pair of Levi’s that got inflated.

The balloon ride was tethered, not go with the wind type of ride. Perhaps one of these days, else where, we might just try that. The best best part of the day was riding a trike. If you don’t know what that is, it is a tricycle with 2 wheels up front and you ride it in a reclining position much like a sports car. The trikes can go pretty fast and cycling them is quite different from a normal upright bicycle. After riding the trike, I came back and look up some information about such tricycles online. This is what I found and here we can draw some lessons from history.

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I went to a fund raising event with my other half and some friends recently. While we are not loaded rich to give money out simply, it was a cause that we believed in and wanted to support this non profit organization.

So we bought tickets for the dinner, which by my standards are for the well heeled to say the least. It was a new experience for us. The event was attended by some VIPs (perhaps 10 to 20 percent of the crowd). How I knew? There was only a few of them bidding during the auction.

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