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…
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…
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…
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…