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Family guy, wine guy, blogger, digital guy in Singapore 🇸🇬. Running account @nickpan.runs

Happy 57th National Day #Singapore As a Singapore

Happy 57th National Day #Singapore

As a Singaporean we are truly blessed. Our country is an anomaly on our planet. The safety, the peace, the prosperity, the multicultural integration, comparatively to the rest of the world it’s utopia.

However, within our society there are still those we struggle, those with needs. Our intellectually disabled, our homeless, our dysfunctional families, our lower income families who still have to battle with health and putting food on the table.

2 years ago, with a bunch of friends we started #LittleRedDrop a non-commercial wine community and now we have > 450 members and many are meeting up regularly to share wine and enjoy time friendship.

One of our members @kennethkongk felt as a community we are truly blessed and came up with the idea to run a charity drive within our community. After months of planning and several meetings with a small working committee including Angela, Bee Leng and myself, we pulled it off last night at 8.8 LRD Gives Back event at @portersrb

Everyone who came donated at least a bottle of wine and some even donated an entire case of wine. 27 came for the charity auction dinner and bidded for the wines. Our target was $40,000 and since it was Singapore’s 57th National Day, we thought a stretched target of $57,000 would be nice.

With the generosity of the community we managed to donate on the spot through @singaporecares donation app and www.giving.sg to several Charities in Singapore and donated $64,355. In the morning after we had a few more donations and we landed at a final number of $65,050!!! How nice as Singapore is +65 and our independence was 1965.

We donated to @sgminds @eyesofacres @worldvisionsg @touchcommunityservices @theyesinitiative @babes_pregnancysupport @snec_seri @nhcs.sg and more.

It was such a meaningful was to celebrate Singapore by giving back to the needy amongst us. I’m truly blown away by our small wine community and their generosity. All I can say is a big thank you too all our generous donors.

So Singapore Happy Birthday. Happy National Day. Cheers! 🍷

#singapore #ndp2022 #ndpeeps #charity #LittleRedDrop #wine #redwine #winelife #winelifestyle #winesg #sgwine

Wonderful night out with my dear @pearlyeo for a w

Wonderful night out with my dear @pearlyeo for a wine Charity event which I’ll have another bigger post on.

Such nice photos. Thanks @happilygreen24

#couple #couplegoals

Daughter coffee time. #cliepan

Daughter coffee time. #cliepan

So my daughter #CleoPan opened her first web store

So my daughter #CleoPan opened her first web store @_fl0werpot_ she have been doing lots of illustrations for a long time and some characters have nicely become keychains and stickers and more. If you see a clownfish keychain on my bag pack, it’s an original from Cleo.

Check out her store and support her by buying something cute to give your loved ones that might like them. 🙂 This is what I bought and it came with some freebies! Nice.

#illustration #keychains #smallbusiness #supportlocal #sgsmallbusiness #singapore #doodle #stickers

The 90mins wait for dinner commences.

The 90mins wait for dinner commences.

Lunch today was a treat. @pearlyeo worked from hom

Lunch today was a treat. @pearlyeo worked from home and made Paella.

#pearlyeocooks #bookofpearl @jiakathome.withpearl #homecook #sghomecook #homecooking

So over the weekend when I was having dinner with

So over the weekend when I was having dinner with the family at my mom’s place we talked about an old painting from my aunt’s old house. While she was moving she found this painting and did not know what to do with it.

The artist is Kor Ean Ghee. For those who don’t know, he designed the “Dragon Playground” for the Housing Development Board back in the day.

The painting is of the junction of Club Street and Ann Siang Hill. Right now the corner would be 98 Club Street and is currently @lowtide.sg

A really nice water colour art piece of slice of time in our history.

If anyone wants to buy this painting off my aunt, pls PM me.

#singapore #art #singaporeart #singaporeartist #watercolour #hdb #sgart #sgwatercolour

Foochow Ang Chow Chicken Soup is something I’ve

Foochow Ang Chow Chicken Soup is something I’ve drank growing up as a Foochow boy. But ever since my grandma passed many years ago, we no longer have that feel for it although my parents did attempt to make it.

@pearlyeo made it this weekend for my parents and it was the DOTN (Dish of the night) for me. It brought back memories of growing up in our old house at Telok Kurau.

#pearlyeocooks #bookofpearl @jiakathome.withpearl #sghomecook #homecooking

Kinda first post COVID office party since 2019. So

Kinda first post COVID office party since 2019. So good. Got to know a few MS Teams friends and more.

#WeAreVMLYR #Singapore #AgencyLife
#rooftopparty

When a project launches, we bring the hardworking

When a project launches, we bring the hardworking team out for a nice dinner and drinks. This is the way.

#WeAreVMLYR #agencylife

The chef cooked Amat Betutu together with our help

The chef cooked Amat Betutu together with our helper and more. What a nice afternoon with friends from church.

#pearlyeocooks #bookofpearl
#homecook #homecooking #homecookag #aghimecook #nomnom

Coffee run after lunch and before picking up young

Coffee run after lunch and before picking up youngest from school.

#lunchdate #coffee

Family group photo for a Sunday outing to a family

Family group photo for a Sunday outing to a family baby full month party.

Our early childhood education student #cliepan mad

Our early childhood education student #cliepan made a whole bunch of upcycled toys to teach her internship kids about transportation. Man, those toys look so cool even I wanna play with them especially those planes.

I should be sleeping. But #CliePan

I should be sleeping.
But #CliePan

First overseas trip since COVID and it was for a c

First overseas trip since COVID and it was for a client workshop in Bangkok. Other then being able to connect with clients in person, being able to spend time with team mates there over trainings and casual meals was really nice.

Fellowship is a term used in our company globally where people connect with people and do good work together. We are in the people business, so am glad we make time for things like that.

#WeAreVMLYR #AgencyLife

Rooftop bars are no fun when it’s pouring. But i

Rooftop bars are no fun when it’s pouring. But it’s still beautiful. How did we as a civilization gone from flat ground to this. Feels like SCI-FI for people 200 years ago.

Feels like I’m in Japan. Solo dinner so random w

Feels like I’m in Japan. Solo dinner so random walk and nice discovery.

We celebrated Father’s Day for my Father-in-Law

We celebrated Father’s Day for my Father-in-Law today. Have wanted to bring them out for a good meal for a very long time and today was the perfect opportunity.

My MIL don’t like to eat at expensive restaurants as she feel that they usually don’t have nice food. So I managed expectations and told them I’m gonna bring them somewhere that looks nice, unnecessarily expensive and might not have nice food.

The review after dinner was that all the dishes were to their taste except just the aged tofu which was not our thing. The environment was simply beautiful and lots of pictures were taken.

Happy Father’s Day to my FIL.

#FathersDay2022

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