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Thepans Japan 2017

The trip we have all been waiting for. We head to Japan and will be at Osaka and Kyoto. There will be lots of sightseeing, shopping, food and cultural immersion.

Rather than doing a big blog post, I’ve been journalling our journey in Instagram instead and here is the full collection of our best photos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcLy2OClq76/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcM5BD7lGfe/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcNR4f0l74N/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcOd-cIFop2/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcOr2csFLpH/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcPCF3LFbVM/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc7fwi2lzsw/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcPfnpTl5Ec/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcQ8u4glnSu/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcSDCKFlKmI/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcSHtXqllJ2/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcTXcoxlDmV/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcUDbJblOXY/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcUzztNl3YH/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcVp9p0FaxP/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcWQn9ule6V/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcXQc9jlLCc/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcXT4MolReA/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcXWSYHldF1/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcXW4Wwl-63/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcZ4cuoFEJj/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcchAzmFiLW/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcdya_0FBtk/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BceQZ24FvSR/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BchqUETF9ra/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bci4PjtFOT2/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcjgECbleXd/

Till the next trip.

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3 years of #GoingOut

3 years of GoingOut

Time flies. Its been 3 years already since our very first #GoingOut photo at our lift lobby. It started as a let’s do something fun while we wait for everyone to be ready to go out, then it became a let’s see who is last, then it became a let’s take a different pose, sometimes we are just waiting for the lift, then slowly it became a regular thing.

It’s really nice to see our kids progressively growing up. I can’t imagine how they will look like 10 years from now.

Quite fun to look back on what they wore on different days as it gives a hint on where we were going, also its clear not every day is a happy day. Sometimes someone don’t want to wear a pair of shoes, someone step on someone’s feet, someone have yet to wake up, but the best is when all are in high spirits and I get a good picture.

3 years of nickpan's GoingOut photos

Once I hit 5 years, I think I’m gonna print all of them out, exhibit it somewhere or maybe create a microsite for it. For now, if you wanna have a look, you can see them either on my Instagram or on my public Facebook album.

I’m glad we did this. Pls copy this idea and do it for your kids too starting today. :)

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Analysis Paralysis

wedding dresses

Clara Pan spent one month and managed to collect five stars after completed writing five pages of words as her homework from daddy. The deal was for a toy (not too big one) as a reward if she kept to her side of the deal and we both kept to the deal.

We spent 2 hours today pacing up and down through all the toy sections at the nearby mall and she could not find something that she really wanted for the effort she put in to have earned this reward. Suddenly spending her own hard earned reward is a lot more difficult then we all imagined.

I saw her frustrated. I saw her helpless. She looked like she could not find joy in any of the toys available in front of her. It felt as if her effort is worth a lot more then any of these colorful plastic in front of her.

Both my wife and I could sense her sadness and offered to buy her anything she wanted, but she could not decide. She honestly could not find something she really really wanted.

We left. Headed home. Empty handed. And on the way home, she fell asleep in the car, frowning.

It is a sad, emotional and philosophical evening.

Originally posted on my Facebook