Joe Hickman
Joe continues to travel around Asia Pacific for his job. When not on the road, he still enjoys working on the website, spends way too much time on social media posting his travel pictures on Instagram and Facebook (SingaporeJoe is his handle on both sites), to do so he continues using his camera to capture memorable sights and happenings in the region. This coming May will mark the 34th year that Joe has lived in Asia. Three and half decades ago Joe dragged his family halfway round the world to Malaysia on what was supposed to be a 2-year contract to open a new hotel in Kuala Lumpur... 2 turned to 4 years, 4 to 8 to 16 years and so on. Asia has been home for over three decades. Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong &, for the past 23 years, Singapore. Joe, JR, Cui Mei, Sawyer and Joey live in Singapore, while Alexis, Adam and Margot live & working in Freemont, California. Joe purchased a second home in La Quinta, California. The home is at Rancho La Quinta which is a great place, it is on a golf course, and will be great for holidays with an eye on it eventually becoming home after retirement. The purpose of this website is to give you a glimpse at what's going on in their lives; important events, simple moments and times they simply laugh at themselves. Here they share their stories, photos, adventures and experiences when traveling to various parts of the world.
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Drs. Adam & Alexis Bateman
Drs. Adam & Alexis Bateman live in Fremont, CA in the Bay Area with Margot Geraldine Bateman who is now 3-years-old. Baby Boy Bateman will be joining the family in April 2018. After 5 years at Harvard as Research Scientist, Adam was lured away from academia to the semiconductor industry & better weather in California. He has been working as a product engineer with Lam Research for the last 1 1/2 years. Alexis has been fortunate to continue her work remotely as a Research Scientist with MIT, with occasional trips back to Boston to return to HQ. She spends half her time working on research related to sustainability & the other half working on online education through the edX platform. The Batemans just visited Singapore for the holidays so the Hickmans and Batemans could spend some quality time together. Cousins Sawyer & Margot were happily reunited again, everyone was excited to meet baby Joey Hickman for this first time. Three cousins together at once kept everyone busy! The 17 hour nonstop flight from California is a little too long, but better than 30 hours they used to have to fly from Boston. Hard to say goodbye on the return trip back, but luckily between FaceTime and WhatsApp, family memories can still be shared from 1000s of miles away in the in between time.
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JR & Cui Mei HIckman
Cui Mei & JR had been busy with new experiences in 2017. They toured Northern Europe on a Disney Cruise. 7 European countries in 2 weeks with a toddler (Sawyer) and a (6 month) pregnant mom. Not long after their Europe adventure, they welcomed Joey to the family on 27 Sep 17, one week from Sawyer’s 20 Sep 15 birthday. It was deja vu all over again for Cui Mei and JR: 3am feedings, pacifiers, and the endless rocking to sleep that accompanies a new born. Joey’s number one redeeming factor is his quickness to smile, he has the uncanny ability to charm anyone he meets. JR and Cui Mei are mastering the art of tag-team parenting. Bath time can normally be described as “wet organized chaos.” But they love it all the same.
The family of 4 currently live in a shoebox 2-bedroom apartment in Queenstown, Singapore. Although small, they enjoy having pretend tea parties, watching Disney cartoons, and combing Dolly's hair. When the weather is especially good, they head to the Botanical Gardens for a picnic, where Joey enjoys popping the bubbles Sawyer blows while mommy and daddy fend off mosquitos. Every
weekend, they meet Grandpa Joe for quality family time. They can be found catching up by the pool while Sawyer splashes water at Joey or on the constant hunt for the best Chinese and Korean food in town.
Joey is starting a new school in January 2018 and Sawyer is being promoted to nursery school.
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IN LOVING MEMORY
 Dedicated to the life and memories of Gerri Hickman. Loving wife, mother, sister, daughter and teacher. Gerri was only 52 years old when she lost her 4 year battle with breast cancer on 9 April 2005. We miss her!
Meet Joey!
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www.JosephHickman.com
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