As our world population just went past 8 billion people at the end of last year and is expected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century, the problem of overpopulation led to many other growing issues like increased urbanization thru deforestation, increased demand for basic resources such as food, water, energy put…
Do you know the minimalist storage queen Marie Kondo of this spark joy movementgiving up on tidiness? But that doesn’t mean we should give up trying to live a minimalist lifestyle! Why? Because the mindset of leading a minimalist life still has many values worthy of our reference! Seeing through the essence of minimalism, “Letting…
Adversity is inevitable in life, and it is important to be open-minded when encountering challenges. Have you ever wonder if one day your business fails and you owe a huge amount of money? Can you imagine being a boss of a company yesterday and being a small employee on the next day? Everyone perceived life…
Recently, Kyith Ng from Investment Moats wrote about his thoughts on an interesting article by Morgan Housel, the author of the book “Psychology of Money” (Maybe I could do another post on this long article). It talks about how your family background and past experiences with money can have a significant influence on your financial…
Recently, you might see a lot of furniture below your flat and our town council who offers to remove bulky items by appointment had seen an increase on such requests. Sometimes, people might even try to salvage some of the thrown items which is still in pretty good condition. Some charitable organizations received large number…
This is our second road trip during the December school holidays as we want to gradually increase the distance and days to make the kids slowly get accustomed to life on the road. This time round we spend quite a bit of time driving on the North South Expressway where you see all the nice…
This will be our new Travelogue series for the Minimalist in the City household where are targeting to do a series of road trips to cover all the 11 states of Western Malaysia or possibly cross the Thai border in the near future. As our kids are finally old enough at age 8 (Ally) and…
Finally, my interview with The Financial Coconut on my life story is finally up on Youtube. For those people who are not into podcasts which I did earlier, you could probably watch this video to gain more perspectives from the roller coaster ride of my financial journey and why minimalism is the ultimate achievement for…
Recently, I was very fortunate to have another opportunity to share about my personal experience with CPF at their biggest digital event this year. I shared about how CPF helps me navigate through my financial challenges at different life stages which includes purchasing a flat with my parents and funding my sister’s tertiary education in…
Frankly speaking, when I was first invited as a panel speaker for this CPF Webinar, I didn’t realize that I will be going down to their office physically until I received their email just one week prior. I initially thought that I will just be doing my sharing over Zoom as that is what most…