Okay, I’ll admit it: I hate planning for travel. 8 years ago when I was studying in the US, I found myself without any plans for the week-long Fall Break. I would’ve been perfectly content to take a 2-hour bus ride to Manhattan and pig out on Chipotle. Luckily, I had a couple of friends who had a MAJOR thirst […]
Frequent flyers have a common saying: “Once you go flat, you can’t go back.” No, they’re not lamenting about their car troubles, but about the amazing experience of sleeping on a lie-flat Business Class bed. Because once you’ve done it, it’s very hard to go back to flying Economy Class. I first flew on First and Business Class in my
Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could travel around the world for six months? I’m talking about visiting 9 countries across 6 regions. Not rushing through them like your typical packaged tour, but spending a leisurely 3 weeks in each country so you can really soak in the culture. Being on the road is tiring,
I’m just gonna put it out there: My fiancee is way better at planning our wedding than I am. She often tells our friends, “Lionel is getting an invitation to our wedding. There will just be a big X on the floor with “STAND HERE” written in big, easy-to-read words.” Yes – I’ll be first
A couple of years ago, I shared about how I tried Tim Ferriss’ Slow Carb Diet. After 13 weeks of eating yong tau foo and avoiding my favourite noodles, I lost 5kg. GREAT SUCCESS! Actually… not really. As we all know now, fad diets are unsustainable. Fast forward 2 years, and my fiancee is poking my tummy
For as long as I can remember, my family follows the exact same weird routine every Chinese New Year. After a light vegetarian lunch at my grandma’s house, we’ll all pile into several cars and drive off to the nearby Lot 1 Shopping Mall. There, we’ll fight through the crowd at the cinema, buy some popcorn,
Happy New Year! New Year’s day is often a re-e-e-a-ll-y lethargic day for me. I had a slight hangover from my New Year’s Eve countdown, so I spent the day reading Superforecasting – a pretty cool book on how to make better forecasts The author, Philip Tetlock, organised a “forecasting tournament” where he recruited 3,200 volunteers – regular people
Hey ho! Sorry I’ve been a little M.I.A for the past 2 weeks – I just started a new job and have been spending my mornings trying to digest the waterfall of new information, which is why I haven’t been updating the blog (or replying to emails) that quickly. Anyhoo, it’s the end of the
Lifestyle bloggers are kind of annoying. You know the kind I’m talking about: the people who post pictures of themselves gazing pensively out into the ocean in some exotic location, with ten billion hashtags: #summervacation #totallydeservedthis #liveyourdreams. I’m pretty terrible at taking pictures and posting them. Here’s the only kind of lifestyle picture I’ve ever posted: The
