A throwback to our much-anticipated road trip with our extended family felt like a long-awaited reunion after the trials of the Covid era. As 2023 unfolded, it seemed that travel was on everyone’s agenda, with “revenge travel” plans in full swing. The prospect of returning to Japan, a place we hadn’t visited since 2019 when…
Just finished re-reading this book “The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down“ by Haemin Sunim which is a beautiful book that offers valuable lessons on finding joy, peace and fulfillment in our fast-paced modern lives. Minimalism does provide me with the platform to finding my true self, do not be easily affected…
I still remember vividly about why I wanted to pursue minimalism in my very first blog post “Why I embrace minimalism – Dave’s story” that was written 8 years ago. The reasons that I wanted to pursue it in the first place had evolved quite a bit while I also had new discoveries about minimalism.…
A lot of people might have read this best selling book “The Millionaire Next Door” by Dr Thomas J. Stanley. I read another great book from him call “Stop Acting Rich and Start Living like a Millionaire” during my trip to Bali back in 2017. These two books which encompass more than 30 years of…
Recently, I met up with one of my blog readers who read my old article titled ” Do you want to live your life by default or by design – The concept of Mini Retirement” which sparks some thoughts in her about taking a mini retirement. Mini-retirement is a concept first coined by Tim Ferriss…
After our last day trip to Desaru in April where we went to the Desaru Fruit Farm and beach, we wanted to have more time to explore this region and will make use of September school holiday to do so. We went in via the causeway to our favourite breakfast place Tea Garden at Mount…
We shifted to our new Minimalist home for more than 2 years back and would like to show you the design of it and what we enjoyed about living in it so far. As we really love our minimalist theme of our previous place so much that we decided to retained that design as much…
Its been awhile since I last did my year end reflections and the last two I did were in 2017 (birth of my second child) and 2021 (pandemic period). While I was reading my past reflections, I realized that my family had came a long way though the years with the various challenges and breakthroughs…
As we slowly move off from Gold Coast and head up north towards Sunshine Coast, we were looking forward to the last leg of our road trip which started from Brisbane. We will be driving to our next airbnb – Laura’s Cottage located at Hunchy near Montville which is a little town in the Sunshine…
As we continued our journey out of Brisbane City (Road Trip Part 1), we begun our warm up treks within Tamborine National Park. We had been training our kids in the various hiking trails in Singapore for the past one year to condition them to at least be able to hike for an hour or…