Chasing the Moon
Yesterday is Mid Autumn Festival and my favourite time of the year. I have always enjoyed the mood during this period of time when family and friends exchange mooncakes and children and adults alike descend ...
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Down Under – Accommodation
After I had firmed up my travel destinations, the logical next step would be to book the accommodation. Given a choice, I would have loved to be able to be laissez faire about this, that ...
The lure of Korean drama
I just finished watching Heartstrings, a Korean drama that first aired in June this year. I completed watching the drama over a span of three sleepless nights and now that I am suffering the after ...
Down Under – Destinations
After confirming the flight arrangements came the arduous but interesting part of the trip planning – determining our daily stopovers and activities. For this part, an Excel spreadsheet with columns for date, day, address, activity, ...
Down Under – Flights from Singapore
In exactly 4 weeks’ time, this day and this time, I would have touched down in Brisbane airport. The last time I was in Australia was more than 10 years’ ago. The destination was Perth, ...
Down Under – Road Trip
Happy to finally have something to write that is related to travels. The family brood will be heading down under to Australia in approximately 28 days’ time! Boy am I trembling with excitement as I ...
Regarding early childhood education
Its been so long since I wrote in my blog. It is like my blog has evolved beyond what I intended it to be, a place for me to share my travel experiences. But if ...
The price of being different
I recently read a local comic book entitled The Resident Tourist. It is an ongoing autobiography of Troy Chin who is also the artist behind the series of books. Troy studied in US and pursued ...
Two sides of the coin
And so the general elections came and went. It has been three weeks since the results were announced but this little dot at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia is still experiencing the reverberation of this ...
Do children need financial education?
Two weeks ago, I picked up one of Robert Kiyosaki’s book titled Rich Kid Smart Kid. Now I heard of his first book Rich Dad Poor Dad way back in 2003 when I was a ...