Did you realise your mind are constantly engaged even though its about time to sleep or even while having lunch with your friend? Did you realise that you are still checking your work phone on a weekend or while on a holiday? Did you realise that you are constantly waiting for the next email or…
Does planning for your retirement early ease your anxiety about the future?
Have you been worried about losing your job? Have you been worried about when your next paycheck will come in? Have you been worried about the rising cost of living and healthcare? Have you been worried about both your physical and mental health? Have you been constantly worried about not having enough money for retirement…
Friday reads – volume 30
It’s been a while since I last did a Friday read. But since we are restarting our blog, I thought it’s timely to bring this back! And here are the roundups for this week… Millennials’ High-Earning Years Are Here, but It Doesn’t Feel That Way (Wall Street Journal) The oldest millennials are approaching a new…
Minimalist in the City is back! Reflections of 2021
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…
Random thoughts of the day – Living in the consumerism bubble
Recently, I met up with a old soccer friend of mine who I haven’t seen for more than a decade. We had a really good conversation over dinner as it has been quite awhile since we last saw each other. One of the most amazing similarity is that we share a goal towards achieving financial…
Minimalist in the City – 2019 Short Update
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…