Haha. Well, I’ll still be seeing patients and n Sydney but only on a part time basis. My retirement is more about walking away from my full time Singapore career and slow down the pace so I can enjoy the life we’ve worked hard to achieve.

How old are you and your wife?

Take cruise from other continents

In young days I wouldn’t consider this at all

Maybe at nearing retirement u might wanna try luxury cruise

And if I had 10 days of holiday or more I will do a China Xinjiang trip , heard from my China friends it’s amazing and beauty of nature , people and foods

Just started our fifth decade of life

Oh for sure. But that’ll be for another holiday, as I think it’ll be too difficult to juggle a round the world trip with a cruise.

I love the idea of cruise ship holidays.

cant advise much as that is a level i cant reach in this life, but good to have ur plan as reference

Don’t go, doctor
We will miss you.

Stay home safer araso
Now everywhere war

Cruise from SG to Alaska. Or HK to Japan

I can still log in from Sydney also la

You should try to hire a private tour guide for each of the destination.It helps a lot.

I hope you are not joining those tour by arrange by tour agency, with that budget I dont think you are doing that. But if you ever think of doing it, just dont, those tour are waste of time.

have you ever try Cruise? Picky something like Royal Caribbean. It is quite relaxing experience to rest & enjoy.

Hi doc!

First of all, early congratulations on your retirement! I'm surprised you have only a few countries planned for Europe. How about going further central or east Europe or down south?
- Austria, Czech Republic (Prague), Turkey... I heard they're beautiful
- Italy, I heard from colleagues they really hate speaking English but food is good.

Next about your Japan trip: I'm going for cherry blossom this year and we're making a (hopefully) decent itinerary not sure how it'll turn out yet but we're planning for a lot of pretty pinks (hanami/flower viewing) lol. I would highly recommend a long stay as we've already packed our 2 weeks full just within Kansai. Previously went Fujisan, Hakone and a few more places during the winter, I really enjoyed onsen in that painfully cold weather. You'll probably enjoy ryokan stays with private onsen based on your budget lol.

Lastly, I'm developing an itinerary planner on Google spreadsheet which I think will work well if you have a list of places you want to go and you want to optimise the route between these places, and the time taken in between. Here's a sneak peek on phone (it's not meant for usage on phone because it's intended to be a pre and post trip planner, but view only for day of execution... but I'm writing this on phone so....)

If you're interested, feel free to PM me
Grey text is all formulas/auto-calculated and how I get the values are based on Google map's direction with limited configuration... It's good enough as an estimator.

Wow. Thanks for sharing bro! I’ll definitely PM you in due time after I’ve firmed up things in my end. Enjoy your Sakura 🌸 visit to Japan!

Happy retirement. Do flex your pics and experiences here as you travel!

Thanks in advance. Ain’t retiring just yet, but it’s a step in that general direction for me!

Will definitely share the photos and my experiences when that day finally arrives, just like how I shared my Porsche purchases in Sydney 3 years after I first asked /k for their opinions, and how I went on to share my month long epic (well, it was epic for me and wifey) road trip from Sydney to Tasmania and back.

Thank you for letting me share my joy with all of you!

Thanks for the question. To be honest I really didn’t think I would be contemplating early retirement. I love my job, I love my patients, I love the challenges medicine presents both academically and professionally and even after nearly 30 years I am still passionate about what I do.

However, I also love my wife, and I know she has given up 30 years of her life to support my ambitions and my calling. Yes, she had a professional life of her own but she also wished for a richer family life with her husband. I often say that for the first 30 years she’s given me far more than I have given her. So it’s only fair that for the next 30 years (and that is if we both stay in our present good health together) that I step up to the plate and be as good as husband to her as she has been a wife to me. that she would like me for herself and not have to share me with my patients.

We are blessed to be in a position financially to contemplate early retirement. So I figured why not take advantage of it while we still have good health and we can still travel the world, enjoy smelling the roses and still have money left over for a meaningful post full time work life.

So I don’t think it’s a question of losing satisfaction from work. In my opinion, I have too much passion for medicine to ever face that concern. I think this is more a question of me wanting to be as successful and as good husband to my wife as I have been as successful and as good a doctor to my patients.

So, this new year, I’ve started the ball rolling and planted the idea of retiring in my mind. My time frame is 2 years - if I’m lucky, and I can successfully decant my patients to my other colleagues, I hit my target on time. If I’m not so lucky, I might miss the self-set deadline, but I’m determined to get there before the official retirement age arrives!

I see it as a new challenge for a new stage in my life.

This post has been edited by hksgmy: Feb 4 2024, 10:43 PM

Buy a landcruiser and do epic trip from Singapore to Europe.
https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.see.singapore

Might be a plan, but definitely only after the round the world trip happens

Watch aurora in the scandinavian countryies

Thanks for the suggestion… definitely worth a good think about it!

grats buddy! u go chase those michelin restaurants!