De Karlota

Karlota is a woman whose greatest achievement in life is to be able to stay away from Mental Institution and/or Jail. But she is still alive and breathing hard. A lot can happen still. :D

Death Call

If someone dies in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? My mom. 🫡 Already retired and receiving pension, but she freelance and sells death insurance or Sterbegeldversicherung as we call it in Germany. With our insurance company HanseMerkur, they offer funeral insurance also for a minimum of 8 euro per month (500 pesos). Much much…

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School is Cool

Every child is accounted for in Germany so nobody gets left behind.  This means that school is mandatory and must be registered in a school by the time they reached the age of 6. To prove this, I received a letter from the state telling me that they have not received any record of my…

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Eunuch

We took our papa rabbit to the animal doctor to be castrated for 118 euro. If this is in Philippines, my father would have become a quack doctor and do the surgery by himself. Without anesthesia too just to save some money. But then again, they would not have a rabbit in the first place…

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Smugglers

Mann and his dust collector items. This time its the mandalorian. 🤭 Lego items for 6+ year old which he smuggled while we went to buy some grocery. And the kids smuggled also a minecraft lego box. I was wondering on our way back why I paid more than a hundred euro again.  Turned out…

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