Whenever I need to buy something—whether it’s a new laptop, a pair of shoes or a McDonald’s meal—I inevitably turn to the Internet. Now that you can buy virtually anything...

Insurance agents are just one rung below telemarketers on the list of people Singaporeans avoid… until they actually need them.

After the initial furore surrounding Halimah Yaacob being, err, elected as president, Singaporeans have predictably decided it wasn’t worth the fuss and gone back to their daily lives.

Raising a kid in Singapore is expensive, but Singaporeans make it even more expensive than it has to be with their mania for education.

Sending out your resume and begging someone to hire you is a bit like entering the Miss Singapore competition. Get ready to get ripped to shreds.

With everything in Singapore getting more expensive even as we speak, the pressure to supplement one’s income is omnipresent. What’s more, now that job security is dead and everyone lives...

Cooking at home is one of the most obvious ways to save money and stay healthy, other than limiting yourself to only the yong tau foo stall at the hawker centre.

Waif-like Singaporeans often feel like they don’t have to worry about their health. After all, we’re nowhere near as fat as people in… certain other developed countries. But it turns...

There’s been a lot of talk about how the government hopes to transform Singapore into a cashless society. And I can’t say I’m complaining, because every cent paid in cash...

Every so often, somebody asks me how much I earn each month as a freelancer. Other than the fact that that isn’t the most polite of questions, I struggle to...

In this year’s National Day message, PM Lee pushed for Singapore to become a cashless society, in line with the government’s Smart Nation ambitions.

Of all the different types of credit cards, I have to admit I have a soft spot for cashback credit cards. There’s something so satisfying about getting money for doing...

Now that the government has been clear that they’re aiming to turn Singapore into a cashless society in their relentless drive to become a Smart Nation, Singaporeans had better start...

There are two approaches you can take when buying a home. The first is to dive in without a second thought. Go and ballot for a BTO flat before you’re...

So everything’s going to plan. One of you successfully pulled off a tearjerking engagement, and you’ve found the perfect home…

There is no such thing as having no time to go shopping, at least not in Singapore.

So you’re all grown up now and one of the things you need to do to get this adulting thing right is to buy your first insurance policy.

When you stop learning, you stop living—quite literally in Singapore, actually, as you need to constantly learn and upgrade yourself in order to survive.

Getting married isn’t just about romance, flowers and a rockstar wedding. For most Singaporeans, it’s a huge lifestyle change that includes having to wash toilets for the first time in their...

MRT delays are a way of life in Singapore. Over the last decade, we’ve come to terms with the fact that those days of near-100% reliability are never coming back.

Anyone who says Singaporeans live to eat isn’t telling the full story. We live to eat—and travel, which is why we’re some of the world’s most frequent travellers, with the...

There’s nothing quite like getting your credit card statement and realising you got $50 free thanks to your card’s generous cashback policy. #Winning

I have some friends who pay for Tinder premium memberships. They fork out a monthly fee so they can dish out an unlimited number of “likes”. No wonder people say...

Most Singaporeans’ first experience with online shopping happens with the help of a debit card. This has nothing to do with the wonderfulness of debit cards, but rather the fact...

We’ve come along way from the first budget flights in 2004 (anyone remember Valuair?), which went to Bangkok and Hong Kong. Fast forward to 2017 and we’ve got a budget...