I went to downtown the other day to pay the bills and I was surprised to see the colorful lanterns adorning the street, from there I know Buddha’s birthday is coming soon.

Buddha’s birthday is a public holiday in Korea, it is the birthday of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama and traditionally celebrated in Mahayana Buddhism.

In Korea the birthday of Buddha is celebrated according to the Lunisolar calendar. This day is called 석가탄신일 (Seokga tansinil), meaning “Buddha’s birthday” or 부처님 오신 날 (Bucheonim osin nal) meaning “the day when the Buddha came”. Lotus lanterns cover the entire temple throughout the month which are often flooded down the street. On the day of Buddha’s birth, many temples provide free meals and tea to all visitors. The breakfast and lunch provided are often sanchae bibimbap.

Source: Wikipedia

Eating instant noodles became my habit every day, I don’t know but these past few days I really have craving for instant noodles probably from watching TV shows and seeing them eating noodles and it was also easy to prepare rather than cooking my viand especially I am little busy these past few days.

I am sort of workaholic where I won’t stop until I am done working into something online,  forget to hunger and the food. My break was just to fee, well probably it is not workaholic anymore but addicted, lol.

When the website Friendster bid goodbye as social network I back-up most of my photos to other site like multiply and flickr.  The other day I browse all the pictures I uploaded in picture and I stumble to Scottie’s picture, our lovely dog.  I got Scottie from a relative, he was very small compare to his dog siblings.

I once took him to work because I can’t get enough of his cuteness, he was mistakenly as chihuahua thought he was not he’s only a native dog. The funny thing though when I allowed him to walk in the street, he walked like his feet is one inch away from the ground. I think the pavement was too hot for his tiny feet.

I haven’t received allowance from my husband these past few month because I am paying the money I owe him years ago. My allowance just started again this month and I am saving it so I could buy a DSLR camera, all I need is a body because my husband has another camera lens. He told me he would gave it to me when I already bought a body for it.

[Photo courtesy of stevepb/pixabay.com]

My allowance is not that big so it would take me months before I can save money. That’s why when my friend invited me to wander in the city again I declined because it wouldn’t help me on my goal.

Setting a goal when you are saving money is necessary because it will help you saves more and avoid temptations along the way, like buying for a new clothes, shoes and even wandering around the city that will cost you money.

Originally published @ herzfinance.com

When I first arrived in Korea it was mixed emotions. I am happy because finally my husband and I are reunited to each other, sad because I am far away from my family.  Depressed because I have no job and I am not going to have one because working is not included on my visa type,  having no job I can’t send money to my family. Way back then while applying job in Jobstreet I always see work at home  job advertisement so what I did I search for jobs that I could do at home.

It was not easy as 1,2, 3 I found several advertisement but still I have to attend personal interview which I think very impossible for me to do. I did extensive research and I ended up earning cents from doing paid to click sites, I joined a lot of them hoping to earn more. I also do blogging upon finding that I could earn money on blogging, I started on free platform like blogger and after a year I am able to buy my own domain and even transfer to self-hosted wordpress.

With the help of blogging I am able to send money monthly to my family probably not that big but still it is a blessing. With the help of my earnings from blogging I have bought my own laptop and digital camera and other small stuff without asking money from my husband.

I am sharing this blog not to imply something but to inspire other Filipina like me in Korea that it is possible to earn money from home, I always read in one forum that their husband doesn’t allow them to work outside and they are in wit ends because they can’t help their family in the Philippines.  Try blogging and try earning money from home.

I am quite busy these past few days that I am not able to update my blogs, kind of procrastinated eh.  Anyway last Thursday I went to Seoul to meet my one and only friend in Korea, as we agreed I went to their apartment so we could eat lunch first before wandering around the flower festival. She cooked “pansit” for me but that’s not all we ate, we had brownies, rice cake, tuyo and more.

After eating our sumptuous  lunch we took the Subway to National Assembly Station where the Spring Flower Festival was held every year. We both wander and enjoyed the beautiful cherry blossoms on the street, there are lot of people as expected.  As we want a picture together I place my camera in a tree but a kind Korean woman help us, she took the shot for us which are thankful.

When we think it is getting late we decided to find the nearest subway so we can go to another place we, I want  to visit. I have planned to visit four place that day but time was not enough.  So we ended visiting two places only, I am going to blog the second one on my next post.

I think spring is well love by every one, flowers and cherry blossoms are in every corner of the street. The photo below is my first glance of spring here in our place, it was taken near the Paris Baguette bakery when I bought some baked goods the other day. I would love to have my picture taken but that is impossible unless I climbed to the wall. Haha

The cherry blossoms nearby are not yet blooming, probably I have to wait few more days before I can have a picture with it. I have asked my husband few weeks ago if we can return to the city hall because there’s a lot of cherry blossoms in the walkway.

After long years I am able to cook and taste longganisa in Korea, I bought one package from the Asian store in downtown the other day.  Longganisa is one of my favorite food to eat on breakfast probably most Filipino people too,  well I think I am too excited that even they are not well cook I ate already, haha but after eating I return the remaining longganisa to frying pan and friend them a little.

I would say those longganisa that can be bought in wet market is much better than the longganisa in package, I am expecting that this longganisa taste good because the packaging says it came from Pampanga but sad to say it is not impressive. Luck of taste and no flavor at all, just a processed meat in red coloring.

I just can’t get enough of Filipino foods so when my husband and I went to downtown to look for knee support that he could use while doing squats in the gym I asked him to visit the Asian store while waiting for the bus home.

When we went in there are lot of Asian customers probably because it was weekend and it is off day.  Unfortunately there’s no other Filipino around other than me, in my few years of existence here in Icheon I seldom see Filipino and I am just going to notice it after they started speaking in Tagalog.

Anyway I bought two pack of coconut milk powder, longganisa, tocino and a can of Bicol Express and Sizzling Sisig.

After our short trip to downtown we decided to buy fried chicken at the nearby chicken joint, Kyochon. I went in and order after asking the guy in the counter what do they have (flavor), I order original.  I remain standing for few minutes because their only table is occupied, one of their guys is eating in front of 2 or three boxes of pizza, some of the chairs are around him and then another guy came in and sit in front of the pizza. Well nobody offered me a chair so when I felt tired standing I asked how long should I wait, 10 minutes, 15 or 20 minutes. The guy in the counter replied 10 minutes so I went out and tell them I am going to return after 10 minutes.

I went back to our apartment and after 15 minutes I returned to picked my order. It was already ready when I came in I was surprised seeing a  bottle of coke so I told the guy I didn’t order a coke but I think it is part of the set so I asked him if it is included in my order, which he replied yes by moving his head up and down.

When I arrived in our apartment my husband was surprised seeing a small box of chicken, he is expecting a larger box like those pizza box or chicken from Masday.

The chicken was good, it turns our their original flavors is garlic flavor with honey. The chicken is crispy and taste good but probably we are not going to order anymore because it is quite of expensive, as my husband says next time he will order KFC chicken or Masday Chicken instead of Kyochon chicken.