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Celebrating New year - Far east style!

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Family friendly vacationing at Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Pre-departure planning Having lived in India all my life, I have always dreamt of watching New Year fireworks in close proximity ever since I was a kiddo. But I never could realize my wish until I had a baby of my own. One reason – such grandiose displays of light, colors and sound almost always happens in distant foreign land. And my teeny weeny wallet never permitted such expensive pursuits. My parents are simple folks (read Indian middle class folks) who preferred saving and spending money for our education rather than on such silly wasteful interests like travelling (meh!). But the gen Y people as we are, had other aspirations in life. With more stable jobs and better paychecks, we like to believe, the future will take care of itself as long as you acquire enough life experiences – even if it meant zero savings at the end of year. And so it was decided. An international destination for this year’s New Year vacati