“Hindi ko na nga alam kung san ko kukunin ang pambili ng pagkain namin kinabukasan eh.”

In English, “I don’t even know where I’d get the money to buy our food for the next day.”

The Filipino translation has a much deeper impact that its English counterpart.

Anyway, a lot of Filipinos use that sentence when describing hard times, money-wise. I thought they were just exaggerating. I have to learn the hard way that situations like that do happen.

You live by the day, not really knowing if you’ll have money to feed yourself the next day.

I admit, I have finance management problems, but the situation is in a kinda worse case now because of my maternity leave. For two months, we have to live off the husband’s income. Nothing from my side. I wonder when paid maternity leaves will become a law.

In that two months of one-income living that just passed, we have drained what little savings that we have. Of course we don’t have much savings, I suck at budgeting our income.

Hopefully, things get better now that I’m back to work. Seriously, I need to get better at managing our finances, or I might be forced to make the kids help bring in additional moolah by entering show business even before they turn 3 years old.

Heeeey…

Nah, Philippine show business isn’t ready for them yet.

Credit goes to Sodahead and Cashflow for the images.