A lot of people might have read this best selling book “The Millionaire Next Door” by Dr Thomas J. Stanley. I read another great book from him call “Stop Acting Rich and Start Living like a Millionaire” during my trip to Bali back in 2017. These two books which encompass more than 30 years of…
Travelogue Series – September 2023 – Desaru Long Weekend Trip (3D2N)
After our last day trip to Desaru in April where we went to the Desaru Fruit Farm and beach, we wanted to have more time to explore this region and will make use of September school holiday to do so. We went in via the causeway to our favourite breakfast place Tea Garden at Mount…
Minimalist in the City – Our New Minimalist Home
We shifted to our new Minimalist home for more than 2 years back and would like to show you the design of it and what we enjoyed about living in it so far. As we really love our minimalist theme of our previous place so much that we decided to retained that design as much…
Minimalist in the City – Reflections of 2023
Its been awhile since I last did my year end reflections and the last two I did were in 2017 (birth of my second child) and 2021 (pandemic period). While I was reading my past reflections, I realized that my family had came a long way though the years with the various challenges and breakthroughs…
Dave’s Life story revealed – How Does One Go From A 6-Figure Debt To Financial Independence (Youtube released)
Finally, my interview with The Financial Coconut on my life story is finally up on Youtube. For those people who are not into podcasts which I did earlier, you could probably watch this video to gain more perspectives from the roller coaster ride of my financial journey and why minimalism is the ultimate achievement for…
Dave’s recent conversation about “Mini Retirement”
Recently, I met up with one of my blog readers who read my old article titled ” Do you want to live your life by default or by design – The concept of Mini Retirement” which sparks some thoughts in her about taking a mini retirement. Mini-retirement is a concept first coined by Tim Ferriss…
Travelogue Series – June 2023 – Queensland/Brisbane Road Trip Part 3 of 3 (Montville/Maleny/Noosa – Sunshine Coast)
As we slowly move off from Gold Coast and head up north towards Sunshine Coast, we were looking forward to the last leg of our road trip which started from Brisbane. We will be driving to our next airbnb – Laura’s Cottage located at Hunchy near Montville which is a little town in the Sunshine…
Travelogue Series – June 2023 – Queensland/Brisbane Road Trip Part 2 of 3 (Tamborine & Lamington National Parks and Gold Coast)
As we continued our journey out of Brisbane City (Road Trip Part 1), we begun our warm up treks within Tamborine National Park. We had been training our kids in the various hiking trails in Singapore for the past one year to condition them to at least be able to hike for an hour or…
Travelogue Series – June 2023 – Queensland/Brisbane Road Trip Part 1 of 3 (Brisbane City – Springhill)
We have been preparing for this road trip through driving up north numerous times since last year (click here for our Malaysia road trips) to make sure our kids get accustomed to life on the road before we embark on this two weeks road trip in Australia. Its actually the first time we took a…
Singaporean Couple’s Two-Home Dream in tatters
Our family have been busy travelling during the recent school holidays, thus we were checking up on the cost of living in different countries as compared to Singapore using this cool website call Numbeo. The top 3 expenses for most people are usually the accommodation, transport and food and we found out that maybe no…
Travelogue Series – April 2023 – Day Trip to The Desaru Fruit Farm and beach
We have been driving up to Malaysia pretty frequently since last Sept as we were getting bored of our small city state during the pandemic period where we were literally trapped in Singapore for more than 2 years. Not to forget that our exchange rate is currently hovering around 1SGD to RM3.30 to RM3.40 which…