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…
We have been preparing for this road trip through driving up north numerous times since last year (click here for our Malaysia road trips) to make sure our kids get accustomed to life on the road before we embark on this two weeks road trip in Australia. Its actually the first time we took a…
Our family have been busy travelling during the recent school holidays, thus we were checking up on the cost of living in different countries as compared to Singapore using this cool website call Numbeo. The top 3 expenses for most people are usually the accommodation, transport and food and we found out that maybe no…
We have been driving up to Malaysia pretty frequently since last Sept as we were getting bored of our small city state during the pandemic period where we were literally trapped in Singapore for more than 2 years. Not to forget that our exchange rate is currently hovering around 1SGD to RM3.30 to RM3.40 which…
Do you know?In Singapore, the CPF is the largest financial asset for many people. However, if we don’t know how to make good use of it, we will miss a lot of good investment opportunities. In this issue of “Money Management Oh Coconut”, we will discuss in depth the different investment methods of CPF, including…
Speakers: Chris from Honey Money SG and Dave from Minimalist in the City This program will discuss in detail the Retirement Sum Top-Up (RSTU) Scheme of CPF in Singapore to help you and your family achieve a solid financial foundation and have a better retirement life. Simply putting money into your parent’s or family member’s…
I think the buzz word “Retirement” doesn’t really sync in well to potential retirees nowadays as reported in this Straits Times article on ” ‘After retiring, I felt bored’: Why some seniors prefer flexi-work and gig jobs” One of the most common job to consider re-employment is teaching in a MOE school. All MOE staff…