Why do we seek to prolong life? This calm yet provocative question came from a close friend whose parent, at over 80, had just undergone a costly self-funded treatment that amounted to half a million dollars. He wondered why humans can’t simply live out their natural lifespan and pass peacefully when the time comes like…
Recently, I had an eye-opening conversation with a self-proclaimed successful salesperson, Mr. B, who epitomized the luxury of our consumer-driven society. This was not our first encounter, but it was, by far, the most illuminating. Dressed in a tailored suit that likely cost more than my monthly mortgage, he exuded an air of success, punctuated…
I’ve finally settled back into my routines and resumed blogging after an extended school holiday break with our Europe trip. While I’m focusing on posting less frequently on my blog and more on LinkedIn these days, I’m grateful to kick off my first blog post of the year with reflections on 2024. As 2024 comes…
I just finished watching a viral YouTube video about a MIT graduate who worked as a neurosurgeon for 9 years before deciding to quit his job. The video has gained almost 7 million views in just a few days. I found it surprising that I was able to sit through the entire 48-minute clip as…
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…
Minimalist in the city is back! We have not been blogging for more than a year, since the onset of the pandemic in Singapore. With the implementation of the circuit breaker then (our version of a lockdown), we were also slowly cutting back on blogging as we transited into a new work from home arrangement…
2017 is coming to an end and as we welcome the New Year, I thought it would be good to consolidate some of our thoughts for the year, and some of the key takeaways that we will bring with us to 2018. Health In terms of my health, i went for a health checkup earlier…
Justin from Root of Good recently published an article on how his family of 5 managed to live for under US$40,000 a year. Dave and I are followers of his blog and needless to say, we were extremely impressed on how they managed to achieve this, despite the fact that they have 3 kids (yes…
We started on this blog somewhere in September 2016 and we managed to garner quite a bit of followers since then (we are currently top of the list in Google search if you type in “minimalist in the city” which we think is quite an achievement as our blog is relatively new). As for the…