When Spending $2500 for Parent Holiday in Singapore is the BEST THING That We Ever Had

Parent holiday,

This is the first thing that I had in my mine when I starting to earn money from my photography business. If this is your first time to visit my blog than I would like to say thank you in advance for your kind appreciation of reading my story, by the way I’m Bima.

I start my photographer career by shooting cheap local wedding in my town that bring me to earn $50 and who knows at this time I already work so serious in this business for over than a decade and it definitely provide me and whole family a better life than before. Together with my wife, Nina, the only one person that I fully trusted to accompany me in this small family business, we re-branding our studio to be able serving an overseas client just within few years.

Why We Really Want to Take Our Parent for Overseas Holiday?

The only reason why I choose to have such a parent holiday is because they just an ordinary person. Our dad is a lecture in a local university and mom is just simply a bank staff who spend their WHOLE LIFE for living in Yogyakarta and sometimes they visit their family at the small village just like an hour driving.

So going to Bali is just an ordinary holiday for them and we just thinking to take them and the whole family to the nearest country from Indonesia which has a modern style of living, good transportation system, and providing some cool things that they never had in the entire life. If you know little bit about moslem tradition than the only country that every Indonesian people will visit is just the Mecca and Medina, because this is where our Islamic religion coming from.

So what we thinking about is let our parent’s passport got an immigration stamps from other countries except Mecca and Medina!

Till the day that we waiting for almost 12 months is coming and we succeed to bring two most meritorious person + other 2 brothers to get their first parent holiday in Singapore. We flew with Air Asia because this airlines fly direct from Yogyakarta to Singapore and surely this is the cheapest airlines that we could provide for 🙂 but in case you need to browse some other flights than I suggest you to browse through this form below:

Total is 6 Adult + 1 Infant and We Spend $2500 for these 3 Days 2 Nigths Journey, and this is Worth It!

$2500 is not that huge amount if you could take 6 adult and 1 infant for their 1st family and parent holiday in overseas destination but what I had after this journey is truly blown away because I saw how the parent looks so happy and amaze for everything that they see at the first time. It could be the Changi Airport, I think it is one of the best airport in the world, than the MRT which is truly great transportation system that we personally don’t have it in our town.

Every eyes sight and smile from their face was truly mean to me and Nina, all we know about is we could make our parent happy to see a country that they never see in their entire life. It might be simple gift for them and our brothers but it millions to us. Both me and Nina are not coming from rich family so what we do is quite strange for other family but what we believe is experience is way better than just spending money for new clothes or cars that only bring short happiness for us.

What Hotel That We Booked for Them?

I could say that I’m falling in love with Ibis hotel chain named Ibis Bencoolen which we could easily find in a walking distance from Bugis MRT station and Bugis market, two most important buildings that we looking for by having this parent holiday session. After taking the whole family to get cheap lunch in Kopi Tiam Food Court (go to basement 2 and walk for 3 minutes) than we directly go to hotel by MRT, it’s a brand new experience too for our parents.

This is their 1st time to hold an EZlink card and tap it on the machine, so if you want to get it than you could buy it at the the train platform in Changi and if you bring infant or kids below than 7 years old than your kid will get free EZlink card for all around the city, just show your kid’s passport to the officer.

Since it’s January than wherever we go, Singapore is preparing for Chinese celebration so all the city is so beautiful with tons of red colour Chinese ornament and tourist promotional package for this big celebration and yes it helps to give more impression to our parent.

Let me show you some photos that really means to me and Nina,

Staying in Ibis was wonderful, their lobby is so cozy and all staff are so helpful to accompany what we need while bring these superb important person in our life. Just next to the hotel, there is a 7 eleven store where you could buy some night snacks and cold drinks just before you sleep and everywhere is feels so short because there are so many destinations that close to Bugis area.

Don’t forget to book Ibis Bencoolen with its bundling breakfast set in their homy restaurant, it really help you to fulfil your energy before taking a long way of walk around Singapore. Just go this page to check Ibis present room rates!

Our 3D2N Parent Holiday Itinerary

3 days in Singapore is the only thing that we could afford during those period and just in case you only got 3 days or less to bring your family or parents to spend around Singapore than this is what we had:

DAY 1 – We just arrive in Singapore and take our parent to Orchard Rd which is belong to busiest shopping district for modern style and sit back at the street bench to see the wild pigeon coming to us for sweet bread that we had in the hands. In the evening we went to Chinatown and get local Indian dinner just in front of the Jamee Mosque than sightseeing around Bugis market before we coming back to our hotel
DAY 2 – We bring all the family to Singapore flyer and get lunch around that place till bought S$1 uncle ice cream for all family member than spend a good time with Singapore river cruise to go to Merlion Park and get dinner at Hooters restaurant in Clarke Quay
DAY 3 – This is the saddest day because we don’t have more time to walk around because we must go to Airport for coming back to Indonesia.

How to Make This Trip Also Profitable for Me (and Even You!)

If you see my portfolio than you know that I’m working for wedding industry in majority but working as a photographer take you into unlimited chance of earning money, no matter you shoot for somebody’s even like wedding or selling your print out than it will bring money into your bank. But how about if I telling you that you still earn money by selling your travel and food photos online and earn cents to dollars even while you are sleeping.

What I called here is a Microstock photography that mean you are selling photos in digital than every single human being in this planet could download it over and over again after sending you a cash by sign up as in a subscription.

Let me take you into short explanation,

So How Do You Shoot Some Ordinary Photos Like Me and Earn $$$ Too?

All you need to do is sign up as a Shutterstock contributors for free, uploading your photos and submit it with a right description and keywords. If you see my photos above than you will see some description that I wrote for those photos like an ice cream cart with a motorbike.

I wrote,

ORCHARD Rd February 2012 – Modified scooter in Singapore that use for selling an ice cream that usually do by an old man

Those photo above is taken when I took my parent to Orchard on day 1 than found an old man riding his modified scooter to sell a local cheap ice cream. When I saw it than I simply pick up my camera and shoot it as fast as I can than take it into one of good digital asset that will bring me an income someday.

Most important thing is, you don’t need to use any pricy camera for doing this because you may using any smartphone that you have or using an entry level mirrorless camera, go try to read my other post about:

Just in case you need some recommendation of reliable mirrorless camera than I could suggest you to buy some of these lists below:

How to Edit Photos Faster without Worry for Anything?

Editing or post production seems to 50% of digital photography works, it helps you to make your photos stand out among the others. Some people are using Photoshop but if you don’t want to looks so busy or just improving your ordinary photos than using Lightroom is one best choice.

It’s Lightroom and you could use any presets or here in this case, it seems to be magic button where you can improve your photos as simple as cooking an omelet for your breakfast. Let me show you how the presets works,

My Lightroom presets here is work on desktop devices so you may use your own computer to work on it. Once you got my presets than all you need to do is importing into your Lightroom set up and directly use it to edit your photos.

Think about having these helpful “Singapore Glamz” presets!

Those photo above is the real result or BEFORE-AFTER picture of red lantern in Tanjung Katong Singapore, original files seems to be so ordinary and might be darker due to miss camera setting or others but using this Singapore Glamz preset will definitely changing your life.

>> Download Singapore Glamz Preset <<

I hope I could deliver great story today, took our parent to get their first overseas parent holiday is one greatest thing that we’ve made during our life. My dad is passed away now and I’m still dreaming to take my mom and the whole family to such wonderful destination like Hallstatt in Austria till London. If you still have parents than you might be consider to take them into their dream place, I know that you might spend almost your whole cash in the bank but as long as you got a chance better than me than this gonna be best decision that you could make.

I’ll see you in other article and I hope you guys doing great in life and your career, love and blessed – BIMA

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