Life in Zambo

About two weeks ago, an office colleague of mine told me that she was buying a weighing scale for quite a deal. Being on the path of losing weight myself, I still haven't gotten myself an accurate scale. I got myself one a few months ago, but my brother and I found out that every time someone gets on it, it either adds a few kilos to the actual weight, or to make you like it even more, it actually makes you weigh a few kilos less. When I clicked that button to purchase the scale, I kinda had a tiny bit of guilt coursing through me, because I knew that I just did exactly the opposite of what I promised myself. Which was to be prudent with my expenses. But I'm glad that I at least got to spend on something that's related to my quest of losing weight. I really should put some numbers and logs on this blog so I can see if it's actually working for me or not. I need to start tracking to know what's working or not. My mailing address is always at the office, becau...

If you can remember my last post about Fitness Apps , you'd know that I have been running. It's been three weeks since I last posted about anything, so I figured I'd post something about my latest run. I started running regularly back in November 2012. Like most people who wanted to be fit, I would plan to go running, exercise, and eat less, but in the end, I'd just let my lazy self get what she wanted: stay on the couch, pass on the exercising, and just eat and eat and eat. Let me show you a few charts from Zombies 5k. It's from when I started running up till my last run.

As a public engineer, you can't really make the kind of money that will get you a nice house, a nice car and even some vacation time. It's all about public service. Once you enter public service, forget luxuries. You can't afford it unless you're paid what only about 10% of government officials are paid. My salary bracket is the lowest among government employees and that's not even PhP 10,000. *Sigh* So what can I do in this situation? Let's see. I'm a public engineer paid with minimum wage, living with the parents and that means I don't have to pay for food at home. I can contribute, but I don't have to. I don't have to pay rent, I don't have utility bills, except for my cellphone bill, which I will be downgrading as soon as the contract's about to renew. What have I been doing with my salary?