My family never fails to take 2 weeks or so off in a year to travel abroad, slowly ticking off places we been to from the world map. We’ve been to countries in the Asia continents such as Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia.

Other places outside of Asia include Australia, United States of America, Dubai, Egypt and the marvellous countries of Scandinavia which are Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Switzerland, Italy and Germany are on the list too.

Among all of these countries our family visited, I was not with them every single time, the members of family being 14 in number, we are a rather big group and naturally not everyone shares same taste and same vacation time of the year. So, there were countries we went together as one whole group and also occasions that we split and went on differently.

This year as of 2014 however, as one complete...