I was desperately counting down to this day. Since the beginning of 2012, Theo and I had almost burnt every free moment of our time juggling our careers, managing Joel’s burgeoning school work and tests and making key financial decisions pertaining to a new car and property investment in JohorContinue Reading

The family including mother, brother and sister-in-law joined us for the house hunting trip last Saturday. Together with our two older kids, we only managed to cross the Causeway around 1pm and famished. So much for having an early start. The day before I had drawn up a list ofContinue Reading

The recent family trip to Australia triggered another thought which has taken me this long to pen down due to mounting work commitment. Many of the places we visited were recommended by Lonely Planet. Apart from the obvious destinations like Brisbane, Gold Coast, Blue Mountain and Sydney, most others wereContinue Reading

It has been five days since I returned to my mundane life and I am still recovering from jet lag and travel fatigue. I must be getting old! We landed back in Singapore at 9pm local time, which would have been 12mn in Sydney (yah I crossed daylight savings whileContinue Reading

One full day left for us in this part of Down Under. As highlighted earlier, we were already beginning to feel the rigour of travelling by Day 9 so I was actually glad that this was our last day of travelling. I must be getting old. It took me awhileContinue Reading

The power came back on sometime in the middle of the night and we were once against warmed by the small tiny heater which we are grateful for. The morning came and despite everything, we had a pretty good rest hibernating under our sheets. We did a quick wash upContinue Reading

We woke to a start this morning. It felt like the roof of our house was caving in. And then we realised what it was, it was raining torrentially and sound of the raindrops hitting the roof was what woke up. With a sudden chill, I realised I had leftContinue Reading