The former secretary of the Department of Finance during Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s presidency, Gary Teves, gave me a call on August 10 while I was at the office in Makati.
Category: money
Nov 1 4 pm Because I seldom go out and if I ever I do, I don’t use cash for purchases, I now rarely have extra coins for my alkansya.
My daughter forwarded to us a link to an article that appeared on the online news site bilyonaryo.com. It’s about a 25-year old boy from Ateneo de Manila University who
I am having some difficulty accepting the fact that I did not win the $515,000,000 MegaLotto. Someone super lucky and blessed from Pennsylvania took away this life-altering shower of money.
My intention to train the cashier how to count a few peso bills turned into a disaster. I didn’t anticipate that what she needs is not skill in counting bills
I made a huge mistake thinking that this counting of bills practice would last for 15 minutes at the most. I was wrong. We’re approaching the second hour and I
I was asking her to divide the total amount of money in front of her into 4 equal parts but she couldn’t do it. I saw her set aside a
Me——“So, nabilang mo na ang one thousand peso bills, 500, 20, 50, 100 sabi mo kanina ang total ay P21,300. Ngayon, magkano ang pera? Cashier—– “11,300” Me——“Hindi sya nagtutugma. Iba-iba
Last December 18, 2020, one of our cashiers issued an official receipt to a female customer without counting the cash correctly. She already handed over the OR to the client
I was so mad at our staff, L, for not telling me that my BDO account was being charged 500 pesos a month penalty for being dormant. Wala na ngang
I missed paying two credit card bills issued here in the US that were due last April 7 and one on April 17. I called their customer service and using
Since my travels to foreign countries have become more frequent, I now maintain three different wallets in a serious attempt to be more organized. One wallet is for the Philippines.
I have made some friends around here, just a few. One is Rita, the black lady from the salon, and Carol, the Chinese-Singaporean bank executive. Today I had a 20
I have received at least 5 Viber messages saying how wealthy the Tesla founder is. The tv news and internet are full of articles about him. He recently dislodged Amazon
It’s shopping season once again and it’s very easy to accumulate debts. A credit card is one. If you allow yourself to keep on buying a lot of things online
I don’t normally count my sukli (change). Lately, I try. I try to remember to count but I still forget. I know most of the time the sukli given back