Journey With Deb

Twelve months in a year can easily whizz by without much thought. Hectic schedules and personal commitments get the better of me – but we, both Terence and I have made it a point to purposefully set aside some days in our allocated annual leave to go out and do something meaningful – give back, [...]

July seems to be a month of celebrations, festivities, homecomings and farewells. Usually what that means is that there’ll be a feast! An ongoing, perpetual feast for this month particularly. Dinner parties, tea parties and lazy weekend lunches… It’s a dinner party at ours last night and we made homemade pizzas and chicken wings. Decked [...]

So I’ve realized that busyness has swept me by like a thin layer of haze, hoping that it’ll be blown away one fine day by a great gush of fresh air. But I’ve somehow grown accustomed to it; at times I’m even comfortable in its presence. My task list is never empty, fresh scribbles on [...]

Believe it or not, since the introduction of recycling bins in our kitchen, we have just been constantly surprise (and appalled) at the mounting recyclable waste accumulated over time. Almost every product we buy off-the-shelf has an element that can be recycled.  Everything from plastic wrappers, plastic bottles or cups, old newspapers, cereal boxes, juice [...]

In the age of digitization, finding a physical photo album or prints are hard to find. Photos are burn onto CDs, uploaded on Facebook, shared on Trip Advisor and emailed to friends. Whilst this digital phenomenon has made destinations more ‘accessible’ and it has also allowed friends to digitally travel with other friends without leaving [...]

We’ve reached yet another milestone in our marriage, though our wedding was 2 years ago, the celebration continues (everyday). It’s been an incredible adventure thus far. Sure we have our squabbles, rifts and not-so-great-days, but conflicts only makes us a better person, a stronger couple – if we choose to work through it. One of [...]

Life as ‘normal’ After being away for so long, I would imagine that our house would feel foreign, our plants would somewhat wither, the letters overflowing and lizard poop polka doting the walls. But we were wrong! We came home to an oh-so-familiar place we called home. The sheets clean, pillows as we left them, [...]

Upon arriving in Vienna, my first thoughts were ‘we have to drink Viennese coffee and watch the world go by’. We did exactly that, not one but two cuppas. After two nights of forced sleep, I realized that the caffeine doses have been a tad too much for my body so we retreated back to [...]

(Terence writes) When I was a boy (not very long ago), I’ve had a dream. And being a boy, you have all sorts of dreams: Being on a spaceship Becoming a soldier and serving your country To be the next president Owning a sports car Having a machine gun I had one too – it [...]