My private balcony at the Pousada de Sao Tiago, Macao… my favourite hotel in my favourite city this year.

What a year!  What a dream!

I’ve done so much… and seen so much!

I don’t just have one book being published – The Romance of the Grand Tour: Fabled Port Cities from Rangoon to Hong Kong – coming to a bookstore near you in Spring 2015 –  I have TWO books being published in 2015!!

Hahaha!  Yes!  Two!  I won’t tell you what the other one is.  It came as a surprise.

So let me now take stock of 2014…

Let’s see… I travelled and I travelled and I travelled even more.  I suppose I must count that as an achievement.  I saw all of my loved ones, even those abroad.  I moved houses.  I wrote and I wrote and I wrote some more…  I worked at work… but that’s irrelevant.

And I travelled.

And I secured another book “contract” – sort of.

What do I resolve to do next year?

1. Travel more.  I resolve to see more of the world – bits that I haven’t seen before.  And I also resolve to revisit the places I visited which I loved….and bring my Beloved along with me, by coercion.

2. Write more.  I resolve to secure another – a THIRD – book deal.  This time in a genre I haven’t yet been able to pin down: FICTION.

3. Love more.  I resolve to spend more time with my family and friends, both here in Singapore and abroad.  Distance has never been an issue.  So London and Shanghai here I come – again and again and again next year.  =)

May 2015 be absolutely spectacular!

My favourite restaurant this year, at my second favourite city…. (sshh! This is a sneak preview of what’s to come on The Grand Tour in 2015)