
Education
5 Reasons Why Being a MindChamps Education Advisor Is Perfect If You’re Looking To Boost Your Income
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...
15 September 2017

Budgeting
8 Reasons You are Overspending on Food Even Though You Cook at Home Every Day
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.
15 September 2017

Fitness & Beauty
3 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in Singapore & Save Money at the Same Time
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...
14 September 2017

Opinion
Cashless Payments in Singapore – 7 Reasons Why Merchants Should Get Onboard
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...
11 September 2017

Career
Why It’s Meaningless to Ask How Much a Freelancer Earns
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...
11 September 2017

Opinion
Singapore as a Cashless Society: Why We Should Be Looking Forward To It
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.
8 September 2017

Credit Cards
The 6 Most Popular Cashback Credit Cards of 2017 in Singapore
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...
5 September 2017

Opinion
Ignoring This One Point About a Cashless Society Could Have a Huge Impact on Singaporeans’ Finances
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...
4 September 2017

Property
Using a Mortgage Calculator – 3 Things Singaporean Home Buyers Tend to Forget
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...
31 August 2017

Home Loans
Engaged and Waiting For Your Flat to Be Built? What You Need to Know About Your Home Loan
So everything’s going to plan. One of you successfully pulled off a tearjerking engagement, and you’ve found the perfect home…
29 August 2017

Credit Cards
Shopping on Lazada, Zalora or Qoo10? Here Are The Credit Cards You Should Be Using
There is no such thing as having no time to go shopping, at least not in Singapore.
24 August 2017

Health Insurance
5 Tips For Buying Your First Insurance Policy 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.
22 August 2017

Budgeting
4 Easy Ways Young Singaporeans Should Start Educating Themselves Financially
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.
21 August 2017

Travel
Here’s How You Can Earn More KrisFlyer Miles Just By Being Married
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...
21 August 2017

Transportation
6 Tips For Surviving The Next MRT Breakdown
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.
18 August 2017

Travel
KrisFlyer Miles – The 3 Best Ways to Collect Miles on Your Starting Pay
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...
17 August 2017

Credit Cards
4 Ways to Use Credit Cards to Win at Life
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
14 August 2017

Budgeting
3 Big Reasons Dating is So Expensive in Singapore and What You Can Do About It
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...
11 August 2017

Credit Cards
Is It Better to Pay by Credit Card or Debit Card?
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...
10 August 2017

Travel
What We Can Expect From Scoot’s 5 New Holiday Destinations
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...
8 August 2017

Savings Accounts
4 Types of Savings Accounts Singaporeans Should Consider Opening
When it comes to savings accounts, we’ve all had this experience at least once in our lives—you’re stuck in the interminable queue at the POSB/DBS ATM machine. Meanwhile, your friend...
4 August 2017

Career
4 Tiny Tips to Make Working as a Freelancer Work For You
As they say, you choose your battles in life. What we do for a living and how we do it is no different.
4 August 2017

Opinion
3 Grave Mistakes Singaporeans Make That Result in Financial Hardship
We’ve been brought up to believe that screwing up in that one PSLE exam is going to doom us for life.
3 August 2017

Budgeting
5 Things Singaporeans Can Automate to Make Their Lives Easier
If there’s one thing a Singaporean loves, it’s convenience. Cook your own meals, clean your own home, help your own kids with their homework? Pfft, why do it yourself when...
1 August 2017

Transportation
6 Reasons The Taxi Population Has Fallen that Aren’t Grab or Uber
The taxi industry is in trouble. According to a recent report, the taxi population is the lowest it’s been in eight years. In fact, the taxi population has fallen every...
28 July 2017