One Year Anniversary for the Child's Stock Investment Portfolio

13 July, 2019 | Investments | 13 seen

Today, on July 13th, we are celebrating both 1-year anniversaries for our baby daughter and her stock investment portfolio.

In today's article, I will shed some light on the second (investment portfolio) a year after.

Originally I come up with a plan to build a high-yield $10,000 child investment portfolio by the time our baby girl will turn 2. (July 2020). Right now we are looking at $80-$100 monthly dividends by the time she will turn 2.  

Since July 2018 we have invested $5,485.07 in 8 stocks. In our first year, we have generated a dividend income of $241.36 ($71.12 back in 2018; $170.14 in 2019). That's about 4.4% dividend yield.

Unfortunately, we have experienced a -4.75% value drop, luckily dividends level things up, and after the first year, the value + dividends = -0.13%. 

Market value

HP ENVY x360 - 15-cn0003ur Convertable Touchscreen Laptop Review

9 July, 2019 | Gadget Reviews | 48 seen

HP ENVY x360 - convertible touchscreen Laptop is the latest addition to our home office. Bought at the local Tbilisi shop in early June 2019. Paid about $1,150 but I believe you could get one much cheaper on Amazon

Equipped with Backlit keyboard, FULL HD 1920X1080 screen resolution, this laptop will make many envy it. lol

Top 20 Laptops with Full HD 1920X1080 Resolution

From its distinctive materials and iconic design, this PC exudes unparalleled beauty. Built thin and light for those on-the-go - expect premium design features including a brilliant backlit keyboard, seamless profile, and geometric pattern speaker grill.

Top 20 Best Selling Laptops with a backlit keyboard 2019

Please note this article contains links to Amazon by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that at no cost to you.

HP Envy in a box

More power, more security, and more ways to do it all. The convertible 15" (38.1 cm) HP ENVY x360 lets you adapt to anything your day has in store, without sacrificing power or…

Kirman Belazur Resort &Spa Review in Antalya, Turkey

5 July, 2019 | Hotel reviews | 27 seen

Situated at the seafront, Kirman Hotels Belazur Resort & Spa has a private beach but you don't need a beach when you have one of the longest warm water outdoor pools. 

There is a water park and a bowling alley on site and guests can enjoy the restaurant and bar. Free WiFi is featured throughout the hotel and free private parking is available on site.

We booked a tour package from Tbilisi to Turkey's region of Antalya and chose this 5-star resort hotel in Belek (the total amount we paid for this tour package with a charter flight from Tbilisi to Antalya and Back was about USD 1,200 for a 6-night stay). Our trip took us here in early June 2019. For booking this trip we chose the local Georgian company Discovery which sold us a tour in partnership with Pegas Touristik

Top 5-star Luxury Hotels in Belek (Antalya /All - Inclusive)

For me, this was the first time experience booking all-inclusive tour package with a charter flight. Actually, there are not many all-inclusive hotels from my travel list, the last one I remember was back in 2016 in Spain's Torremolinos (see: Hotel Parasol Garden…

June 2019 Dividend Income Report - $299.51

3 July, 2019 | Investments | 18 seen

Welcome to the twenty-sixth (#26) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in June 2019.

At the start of June, we booked an All - Inclusive tour package from Tbilisi to Turkey's Antalya and spent a week in a 5-star hotel SPA and resort in Belek.

I made the following long exposure picture in the last evening while in the resort:

Kirman Belazur Resort and Spa 5-star hotel in Belek, Turkey

Learn more: Kirman Belazur Resort&Spa Review in Antalya, Turkey

$299.51 was taken from dividend stocks and peer to peer lending in June 2019. Ahh, so close to crack $300, that we could even smell it, but unfortunately not this time.

Actually, I doubt I will manage to crack $300 anytime soon (at least not this year, though anything could happen), but on the other hand we are in the two hundreds

Additional $408.80 were made from options trading, but as options trading is not actually a passive form of making money while…

Latvian - Georgian Cafe 4You in Gori

30 June, 2019 | Restaurant reviews | 47 seen

Now besides hostel in Tbilisi, Latvians have a cafe in Gori

Latvian - Georgian Cafe 4You is located on Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue 34, Gori. 

Opened for the public in 2018, this place serves pastry, cakes and a huge menu of a different kind of meals (both Latvian and Georgian style), you can get here both some salty Gori style cutlets and even Kiev's cutlet, not to speak about salad olive and more. 

Overall feeling  - The Soviet Obshchepit (общепит) - sometimes I just can't resist it. lol

Cafe 4You in Gori

Pastry at Cafe 4You

Now, they had a very good cheesecake, a decent chocolate cake. Oreo cheesecake was a joke. The best oreo cheesecake I've found so far is at Tbilisi Hard Rock Cafe. 

Riga black balsam

Now, there is one more place in Georgia to find Riga Black Balsam

Kiev's cutlet with a balsamic sauce

This place serves wine from a small nearby winery Chateau Ateni.

Tbilisi - Baku by Train Ticket Information

29 June, 2019 | Travel guides | 26 seen

At the end of June 2019, I finally bought train tickets Tbilisi - Baku for early August 2019. I have plans to spend my 34th birthday in Baku, Azerbaijan. 

The train is departing Tbilisi daily at 20:35 and arriving in Baku at 08:50, In total it takes about 12 hours and 30 minutes to get from Tbilisi to Baku by train

It seems there is no option buying tickets online yet for Tbilisi - Baku line (although I found there are some tour agencies selling tickets online, see: International Tbilisi-Baku Train, though the price might be double when using travel agency).

The option we used was visiting Tbilisi Railway station and buying a ticket over the counter and what's even more interesting when buying over the counter it's asked to pay for tickets in cash, despite they have a VISA terminal. On my question why don't we pay by card, the kind cashier replied that the Tbilisi - Baku line is operated by Azerbaijani Railways side and they accept only cash. The cashier was able to speak very good English. 

For purchasing tickets, we had to show our passports (baby passport wasn't asked…

Gori Fortress & Memorial of Georgian Warrior Heroes

23 June, 2019 | Military Heritage | 158 seen

Gori Fortress is a medieval citadel in Georgia, standing above the city of Gori on a rocky hill.

The fortress is very well visible from the city, unfortunately, I have never climbed up to the fortress, but I believe very cool aerial photos might be taken from here. At the bottom of the fortress, there is located the Memorial of Georgian Warrior Heroes consisting of 8 (?) sculptures of Georgian Warriors. 

The fortress first appears in the 13th-century records but archeological evidence shows that the area had already been fortified in the last centuries BC. The fortress controlled major strategic and economic routes and accommodated a large garrison.

Gori Fortress

In the 16th century, the Ottomans captured it to overawe Tbilisi. In 1598 the Georgians besieged it to no avail; in 1599 they feigned a relaxation of the siege for Lent before launching a surprise attack at night to regain the citadel.[1] The fortress continued to change hands between the Georgians and the Persians in the 17th century.

The citadel acquired the present-day form under the Georgian…

Georgia Palace Hotel & SPA Kobuleti

21 June, 2019 | Hotel reviews | 27 seen

Georgia Palace Hotel & SPA is the first Georgian Brand five-star Resort hotel located on the Black Sea shore of Georgia's famed summer resort in Kobuleti, Georgia.

We booked this 5-star hotel for a one night at the end of April 2019, during a short weekend trip to Batumi and the nearby vicinity.

We paid just USD 80 for our stay here, which I believe is a discount price and available just in the low-season.

Situated in the resort of Kobuleti, this modern hotel features a large outdoor pool, open-air restaurant and rooms with a balcony, offering beautiful views of the Black Sea or Ajarian Mountains.

Our Room at Georgia Palace Hotel & SPA

Stylish, air-conditioned rooms at the Georgia Palace Hotel & Spa feature satellite TV, a minibar and free wired internet. The private bathrooms include a bathrobe and slippers.

We got a free baby crib for our baby daughter

Georgia Palace Hotel & SPA in Kobuleti

Hotel is located in the small resort town of Kobuleti, on the Adjarian Black Sea coast, distinguished by a unique micro climate which benefits…

Net Worth $25,000 Reached

19 June, 2019 | Investments | 20 seen

On April 2nd, 2019, my net worth for the first time reached $25,000 Milestone.

It took me 2 years and 3 months since I originally started my million dollar journey, and I was 33 years old.

Here is what I told/forecasted back when first reached $10,000 net worth:

If things will continue to be so bright in the future, I could reach a total net worth of $25,000 by the end of 2018, being 33 years old.

Despite it was planned to get here some 3 months earlier, by the end of 2018, I still feel very great cracking this goal now. Better later, than never.  (One thing I forecasted at least right - I'm still 33 years old)

Net worth $25,000

Now, since around June 2018, my total portfolio has entered into a negative zone (invested is more than actual value). While the total value of the portfolio has barely cracked now $25,000, I have invested more.

The total amount I have invested is $27,987.20, while the value is just $25,428.10. The difference = $2,559 or it's -9.91% drop since the inception of portfolio.

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Top 10 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming Laptops

17 June, 2019 | Laptop Reviews | 24 seen

The GeForce® GTX 1650 is built with the breakthrough graphics performance of the award-winning NVIDIA Turing™ architecture. It’s a supercharger for today’s most popular games, and even faster with modern titles. Step up to better gaming with GeForce GTX.

In this article, I've listed top 10 laptops with Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card available for sale on Amazon.com

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I will earn an affiliate income at no cost to you. Prices for laptops listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer on the product page on Amazon.

Featuring AMD Ryzen processors and GeForce GTX 16-Series graphics, TUF Gaming FX505 adeptly handles modern game titles while providing reliability and stability to stand…

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

16 June, 2019 | Churches and Monasteries | 7 seen

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin is located in Gori on Lomouri street 7, just opposite to the Gori Fortress. 

Some might be surprised noticing that this church looks like a typical Catholic church rather than a typical Georgian Orthodox church.

According to Georgia.Travel the temple was built as a Catholic church between 1806 and 1810. In 1920, it was heavily damaged by an earthquake.

View towards cathedral from Gori fortress

During Soviet times, Gori’s Music School was situated in the church. The building was handed over to the Georgian Orthodox Church in the 1990s.

Currently, Samtavisi and Gori Cathedral belong to the episcopacy.

Top 20 9th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor (Gaming) Laptops

14 June, 2019 | Laptop Reviews | 217 seen

Latest Intel Core I7 9th generation processors have been around since early 2019. Intel Core i7 laptops are gaining momentum among gamers and business users. Creative graphic designers, video animators, and photographers will enjoy these powerful laptops as well.

Most of the laptops listed below is both gaming laptops and on-the-go workstations.

You should be ready to spend at least ~ $1,000 to get the latest Intel Core i7 - 9750H processor laptop. 

In this article, I have listed Top 20 laptop models with the latest Intel Core i7 9th generation processors.

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I will earn an affiliate income at no cost to you. Prices for laptops listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer on the product page on Amazon.

Black Sea Arena Georgia

13 June, 2019 | Tourism objects | 12 seen

Black Sea Arena is an indoor arena located on the coast of the Black Sea in Shekvetili, Guria, Georgia, some 45 km north of Batumi, the country's second largest city.

The venue, designed by the architects from the German company Drei Architekten, is the largest open concert hall in the Caucasus. The auditorium has a capacity of 10,000 seats in circular grandstands.

The American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera performed at the official opening of the Black Sea Arena on July 30, 2016.

Black Sea Arena in Georgia

Batumi McDonald's

11 June, 2019 | Restaurant reviews | 29 seen

The coolest McDonald's building probably is located in Georgian seaside town Batumi.

Officially opened for public already back in 2013, this place has been featured in countless architecture award magazines across the World.

Named as the World’s Best Commercial Building 2014 (source: Batumi McDonald’s: World’s Best Commercial Building 2014)

The restaurant, designed by Harvard-graduate and Georgian architect Giorgi Khmaladze, was named Building of the Year in the Commercial Architecture category in an international competition by world architecture firm Arch Daily.

Batumi McDonald's

The Batumi building combined a McDonald’s restaurant with a fuel station and recreational areas.

Four hundred sixty glass panels were used to create the exterior while the entire building is surrounded by a reflective pool.

Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori

9 June, 2019 | Museums | 49 seen

The Joseph Stalin Museum is a museum in Gori, Georgia dedicated to the life of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, who was born in Gori. The Museum retains its Soviet-era characteristics.

The museum has three sections, all located in the town's central square. It was officially dedicated to Stalin in 1957.

With the downfall of the Soviet Union and independence movement of Georgia, the museum was closed in 1989, but has since been reopened, and is a popular tourist attraction.

The Stalin Museum (in the background), with the birth house of Stalin in the foreground

Enshrined within a Greco-Italianate pavilion is a small wooden hut, in which Stalin was born in 1878 and spent his first four years.

The small hut has two rooms on the ground floor. Stalin's father Vissarion Jughashvili, a local shoemaker, rented the one room on the left hand side of the building and maintained a workshop in the basement. The landlord lived in the other room. The hut originally formed part of a line of similar dwellings, but the others have been demolished.

Stalin statue in front of…