We took a 6 months sabbatical from blogging and it came at a time where we needed a break. We thought it would be good to give our readers a short update on our lives. So below are the updates for our Minimalist in the City household in 2019.
Jun 2019 – Monthly Updates
Times flies, and we are already past the halfway mark of 2019. As I embrace slow living the past few weeks, it was definitely quite an experience, as I became more aware of my environment, more conscious about minute things happening around me, and most importantly, myself. Something which I would probably share in a…
Thoughts
It has been a while since I last blogged. Not that I had intended to take a sabbatical from blogging. But quite a bit had happened in the last 6-7 months. I returned to work, at a new workplace, and the first three months was tough, with a new learning curve, etc. But now I…
May 2019 – Monthly Updates
May is the month where we were away for almost two weeks to the land of the rising sun at Hiroshima, Japan. We flew direct via Silkair and stayed in Hiroshima for a few days before we started our road trip to Shikoku which is a more rustic part of Japan (known for being the…
Apr 2019 – Monthly Updates
April is the month where we celebrated my father’s 65th birthday. It is a milestone achieved in a way, as he will also be receiving his first CPF payout. He is currently working part time as a private hire driver and most likely would not require the payouts for his monthly expenses except for overseas…
Mar 2019 – Monthly Updates
March is the month where we tagged along for Kate’s business trip to Hong Kong. Dave’s family came along as well and we all had a great time there. We visited Hong Kong Disneyland and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Both adults and kids! We all had a fun time there. It is quite possible that we…
Feb 2019 – Monthly Updates
February is the month where we celebrated Chinese New Year and our birthdays – both Kate and I are born in the same month. We did a gift exchange based on our personal wish list and had a simple celebration with our families. This is the 11th year we have been celebrating our birthdays together…
Jan 2019 – Monthly Updates
January is the month where we start a new year and reflect on our previous year as mentioned in Kate’s post. Last year, we spent a lot of bonding time with our two precious kids and Asher also turned one last November. Kate, with her one year sabbatical over, is back at work and adjusting…
Friday reads – volume 29
And here are the goodies… The Balance Between Novelty and Stability – and How That Affects Your Dollars and Cents (The Simple Dollar) Novelty comes when you try a new experience. You’re interacting with new people. You’re trying a new meal. You’re going to a new store. You’re going to a new place. Those are…
Looking back at our 2018 finances
With so much debate about the sandwich class recently, I tend to think that perhaps this is the generation with the highest proportion of this population thus far. We are often confronted with multiple challenges that stretches us financially, including not just supporting ourselves, but our children and even aging parents, while at the same…