Celebrating 900 posts. By being thrifty about the way I spend and strategic about long weekends, I find myself traveling about once every four to eight weeks. My friends often ask me how to save money while traveling and AirBnB comes up a lot. Of course, it depends on what Read more…
Art changes the way I see and understand history and human nature. Peter Paul Rubens with his Baroque renderings of biblical images has captured my heart. He’s undoubtedly my favourite painter of all time. I’ve had the fortune to see a wide collection of his works in the Old Master’s Read more…
I did the same thing in January 2025 as January 2024—I visited Vancouver for a weekend to reconnect with family and friends. Facebook memories reminded me of the 2023 travel summary I posted last year, so I decided to do it again this year. 2024 was also the first calendar Read more…
This is a modified excerpt from my master’s research project in 2022. “Burke,” a 53-storey condo tower being erected on the corner of Sherbourne and Howard streets, just steps away from Sherbourne subway station. On the same site as the new condo there are two heritage buildings – the Anson Read more…
When travelling to Munich, the Bavarian National Museum is one not to miss out on. The Museum building itself was built during King Maximilian II in 1855, around the same time the Neuschwanstein Castle was built (the castle used as inspiration for the one in Disneyland). The interior of the Read more…
I saved $917 on my vacation to Alaska even before it began; $815 from full price on a first class flight and $102 on a rental car booking just for checking the price again three months before departure and booking cancellable rates. While not as impressive as the $953 win Read more…
Some people collect stamps, others collect garden gnomes, I collect points. Last year, I got the President’s Choice World Mastercard that gave me 300,000 points as a welcome bonus. I had earned another 50,000 points before the end of 2023 with help from the elevated earn rate from the credit Read more…
I’m sitting in a diner near the Atlantic Ocean in West Haven, Connecticut knowing that this trip to Yale will yield enough content to help me surpass 800 cumulative posts. I also know that as I write this in September 2022, it will not be published until summer 2024, almost Read more…
If you want a subsidized holiday then you have to put in the legwork. I recently scored a suite in New York City’s Soho for one night valued at $953 for free, but it took three months of preparation to get to that room. I’ve previously written about how I Read more…
I visited Vancouver in January of 2024 and met up with my old secondary school principal from when I was in Hong Kong. We went on a school trip to Yangshuo and Nanchang, China in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He left for another head of school job in Vancouver and Read more…