30
July
2014
by Darren Lim
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Sailing trip to Nongsa, Batam
Earlier in June, we travelled to Nongsa, Batam for a short getaway with the family and extended family from Evelyn’s side. We invited Evelyn’s parents to join us to sail together and they readily accepted the invitation. Apart from one other trip we did about…
31
August
2013
by Darren Lim
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Money matters!
On our trip to Australia this time round, we were faced with a ‘ happy problem’ related to money. My well-meaning mum, wanting to dote on her grandchildren, gave each of them A $100 /- to spend. Not wanting the children to become selfish in…
12
July
2013
by Darren Lim
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Traveling Down Under
We set off to Australia earlier this month for our long awaited month -long holiday. Australia had always held a special place in our hearts, with Cairns being our honeymoon destination (and the place where Kristen was presumably conceived, her being our honeymoon baby). Also,…
24
June
2013
by Darren Lim
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Don’t Exasperate Our Little Ones
Recently I was with the kids at the Singapore national museum, SAM at 8Q enjoying this year’s children’s season when I witnessed a moment between mother and daughter (of about 3-4 years of age) that went something like this: Mum: “Come on, draw something! You…
16
May
2013
by Darren Lim
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What ?! No 4!
The title of this week’s blog probably sums up most of the reactions we got from friends and family when we broke the news to them some 6 weeks back when we first discovered news of Evelyn’s 4th pregnancy. Of course the intonations that went…
20
April
2013
by Darren Lim
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Coach of Life
Recently , I was invited to co-host a travel-info-tainment-logue with Mark Lee and because our family was invited to appear in the programme , lock -stock -barrel were packed into the sponsored MPV to begin our 4D3N tour into Johor Bahru at the beginning of…