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…
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…
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…
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…
December is the month for lots of celebrations as we hosted a few rounds of gatherings with family and friends. The kids had lots of fun and it was generally a chill period, as everyone basked in the holiday season.
And here are the lineups for this week… Retirement is a Human Invention (Four Pillar Finance) When I first started my financial journey, I was dead set on early retirement. Then, as I began to realize that I love working as long as I own the work and can determine my own hours, I decided that…
And for the inaugural 2019 edition of Friday reads, nothing better than some resolution setting for the new year! Hope the following list inspires. What I learned at work this year (Bill Gates) Today of course I still assess the quality of my work. But I also ask myself a whole other set of questions…
It has been a while since I last blogged. And part of the reason was because I haven’t manage to find the time to do so. You see, I had ended my sabbatical and have returned to the workplace, albeit in a different organisation, and a different capacity, details of which I shall spare you…
November is the month that we celebrated Ashton’s first birthday and it was not that long ago when he first arrived into our family. It also marks the first month that Kate goes back to work after a long hiatus. We hosted a birthday celebration party for Ashton at our home with our family and…
And here are the lineups… This Is Why Talking About How “Hard” You Work Makes You Look Incompetent (Forbes) When you express to your social networks how “hard” you are working, what you are doing is creating a cue for response. That message generates pity, or awe, or offers for assistance or support. What you…