Hi there! Hoping you are having the best days of your lives! If not, at least I wish you are trying to make it better and in the process, enjoying the journey. Afterall progress and growth is more important than hitting stagnancy and it helps a lot if you have a defined goal(s) for yourself. For us, March was a busy month for our restaurants as both establishments catered for almost 800 guests combined! Although we have fulltime managing partners at each place, I had to pitch in and help with both events on 2 consecutive weekends. We are still fairly new and hadn’t catered to this sized event ..read more

Hello dear readers! Happy New Year! I hope 2023 is treating you awesome so far & your life is getting whatever you longed for. Our long term follower/subscriber may know that I took a break from updating this website for entire 2022 to focus on few more priority initiatives. I am planning to write few articles on key 2022 updates including how restaurant business is doing, how new Indian grocery business is posing new challenges everyday and how life changed after sudden demise of one of our dear business partner, who brought us all together. Overall 2022 was one of the most difficult year ..read more

Hello readers! It had been a while since I wrote our monthly updates and as you can see May is been written in August! It was quite a busy past few months due to travels, personal work and foremost enjoying the weather! Summer is finally here and for some reason it feels quite different in terms of weather conditions. The hot days (..which are quite few so far) are extremely hot, evening gets surprisingly colder that you need a light jacket/hoodie and it rains almost every day. I don’t recall witnessing so much rain in any of the past nine summers we have been in Canada! I don’t know whether t ..read more

Happy Holidays! Hope you are enjoying the winter with your fair share of hot chocolate or mulled wine! I can’t believe we already saw 3-4 times snows before Christmas! November have been extremely busy but exciting on my 9-5 work front as it was time for annual performance reviews, pay hike and bonus allocation. I have handful of employees working with me and with all honesty and dedication I can proudly say that I the best I could for each and every one of them. This is one of my favourite part of the job as it involves constructive feedback towards team member’s growth, and rewarding them fo ..read more

We went to Europe in May for a 16 days family trip and visited Switzerland & Italy covering few cities with a layover in Paris. In coming days (..or weeks) I am going to share the complete itinerary including flights, hotels, trains & rental cars; places we visit, expenses, valuable tips and of courses lots of pictures, right here! Please stay tuned. For now, here is the gorgeous and world famous tower you don’t need the name of! The post Europe 2023 trip! first appeared on Settling Nomad ..read more

Hello! Hope you all are doing great regardless of the constant flip-flops with the weather! April is a special month in our household as we celebrate my better half’s birthday. If not everyday, at least this day is a solid reminder to all of us that how fortunate we are to have her in our lives. She makes it super easy on all of us by taking care of us relentlessly and effortlessly. The other day it was my physical office day and I was amazed to notice how much she accomplished before I even stepped out of bed – she cooked for kids, packed their lunches, fed them breakfast, gotten them ready a ..read more

Hello again! Hope this winter haven’t tested your nerves yet, few more weeks of cold hopefully! When the weather crossed 10 degrees back in early Feb we thought it is over and then came 20 inches of backbreaking snow to dash the hope. When we first came to Canada back in 2013, the winter wasn’t so bothering but slowly over years we “charm” is fading and probably our tolerance level is decreasing as we are getting older. Hence it is highly likely that once we achieve financial independence and work gets optional, we may spend majority of the winter months in India or at least somewhere warmer a ..read more

Happy New Year! I wish and hope this new year brings new light in your lives and it lets you achieve whatever you aspire for from your life. New years are often tagged to new goals and resolutions, and 2022 for us particularly comes up with high hopes and expectations. This year is of extreme significance financially and I realize so much need to be accomplished including seeing one business get into profit, another business get up and running, buy another investment property (solo or partnership), try to close the TFSA contribution gap as much as possible, attain $300K portfolio valuation, hi ..read more

Hi there! October is the third special month of any year in our household as my birthday falls in this month. Most important month is June in which we have our anniversary and both kids birthdays followed by April when my better half was born. With one year older (.. or shall I say wiser?), we are a bit more closer to financial independence and I feel awesome to say I am more confident and little less worrying when it comes money. If I reflect back past one year, we achieved a lot – we moved in a new house, turned it into a home, both myself and wife got fully vaccinated and evaded Covid so fa ..read more