Reading Time: 3 Minutes Hola senors and senoritas!!! Como estas? Estoy bien gracias! What’s that? It’s Chinese New Year? Oh shit. Um. 女士们先生们大家好!!! 大家都好吗? 我很好，谢谢! 新年快乐! For those of you who weren’t aware, today is Chinese New Year, one of the biggest days on the calendar in the Chinese culture. Why is it called Chinese New Year? I think it’s because it is the New Year celebrated by the Chinese. Oh and it’s also known as the Lunar New Year – something to do with the moon and the stars and handing out red pockets. It’s supposed to be a time for family reunions and removing bad luck to usher…
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Return Of The Donald (And How It Affects Me)
Reading Time: 2 Minutes He’s Back! Who? The Donald of course! The President-elect of the United States. I still can’t quite believe THAT GUY I watched on The Apprentice two decades ago will now be the leader of the free world for the SECOND time. Amazing what the circle of life brings. But frankly speaking, I wouldn’t have voted for either Harris or Trump even if I was eligible. If those two candidates were the “best” which the US had to offer in terms of the presidency, then it’s a pretty sad state of affairs. Sigh. Seems to me that politics these days is all about pandering to whatever extreme left…
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5 Thoughts From Our China Trip
Reading Time: 4 Minutes “STREWTH I’M GLAD THAT’S OVER”. I said, as I collapsed onto the couch. “Daddy!!! Can we GO AGAIN PLEEEEASE”. Something yelled in my ear. No-forking-way I thought, as I closed my eyes and rubbed my forehead in stress. You see boys and girls, MrsFrugalSamurai and I (and the rugrats) just came back from a trip to the motherland. And what a trip it was – if you’ve never gone travelling with kids… DON’T. For a couple of weeks there was proper blood, sweat and tears – the whole shebang, sometimes (oftentimes) all within the one day. This was the first trip back to the motherland for…
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USA Cuts Their Rates By 0.5%
Reading Time: 3 Minutes “Owww, owww… damnit it’s so painful”. That was me at 5am this morning, on the toilet, bent over, in pain. It’s quite surreal going to the toilet at 5am, in complete darkness. Not even the birds are awake. Some would even call it serene. But not for me, and serenity was certainly not evident this morning. I know what happened of course. I’d caught a stomach bug from MiniFrugalSamurai. The lil shite recently picked up this habit of touching everything and shoving his fingers into his mouth. I’ve told him to stop of course, but he just sticks his tongue out and does it anyway –…
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The Wealth Effect (Another Crazy Auction Story)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes “And SOLD, to the young woman in green”. “BANG” goes the gavel, as it comes crashing down… to the applause of the crowd. Yep. You guessed it. It’s another bumper auction result from what is Sydney, nay Australia’s biggest past-time. That is, having a sticky-beak at your neighbour’s property auction. This time, the property in question was a street over from ours. But First, To Set The Scene. MrsFrugalSamurai and I had viewed this one at it’s first mid-week open about 3 weeks ago. It was a standard 3 bed/2 bath/1 car on a sloping block, freshly landscaped and renovated throughout. I was sipping a freshly…
