There are many things that are great about living in Malaysia, but one of the BEST things are the amount of public holidays that we get to enjoy. Back home, we had around nine federal holidays that everyone usually had off (of course, there are always exceptions in health care, hospitality and retail), but here
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Now I want to start off by saying that our long weekend trip to Thailand was NOT a disaster. Far from it. It was absolutely amazing! What WAS a disaster was the trip we had intended to take. We had planned to take a low-budget, backpacker-esqe trip to our northern neighbor, Thailand. It has been
Recently, I was lucky enough to take my first trip to Australia. My husband went for work and I decided to tag along to the city of Perth, in Western Australia. I admit, when I thought of Australia before I had only really thought about the Eastern side: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
This past Sunday we made our way out to the famed Batu Caves on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. The limestone caves are over 400 million years old and home to an amazing Hindu temple. One of the most popular Hindu temples outside of India, in fact! The temple is just over 120 years old,
Wow! I cannot believe a week has already passed of us living in KL. We have already done so much in this past week, that it makes me extremely excited to think of all we are going to get to do in the next 3 years! It has been a whirlwind since we landed last
Singapore was an amazing city…a fantasy land mash up of Western culture, mixed with Asian influences of all kinds and a ton of high rise buildings! It was quite a site to see, and one of the cleanest cities I have ever visited. Now, one of the best things about Singapore is the food, so
The reason I started this blog is to share our adventures and our new life as ex-pats with family and friends. Ex-pat is short for the term expatriate, which means a person who lives outside their native country. With our big move across the world approaching, we are quickly going to be ex-pats and experience






