Most personal finance stuff on the Internet sounds like it’s targeted at fifty year old towkays with piles of cash in the bank just waiting to be invested, and a...

Christmas is coming, and just about every parent in Singapore is going to have to think of yet another excuse for not buying their kids the dog or cat they’ve...

The biggest hurdle to most Singaporeans hoping to purchase property isn’t the hefty loan repayments each month, but the gigantic downpayment, a sum that exceeds the lifetime earnings of the...

I’ve never received a vacuum cleaner for Christmas, but I imagine it would be somewhere near the top of the list of the worst Christmas gift of all time.

As a kid, if you wanted to buy that minidisc player or JNCO jeans, you had two options—either beg your parents for the money to buy it, or go without—even...

So you’ve decided to take the plunge and become your own boss. The only problem is, you don’t have the skills to pull this off your on your own, but...

They don’t call shopping Singapore’s national sport for nothing. Let’s just say it’s the one sport we don’t need to import players from abroad to excel in. A recent survey revealed...

The world is full of questionable items that people buy anyway. If someone is crazy enough to think it up, you can bet wily marketers somewhere are scheming to make...

Singaporeans are master outsourcers. We like to pay people to do everything for us, from household chores and minding the kids to washing our cars and feeding ourselves. We never...

It’s getting more expensive to raise kids than to upkeep a thieving mistress these days. Kids in school uniforms play games on the latest, greatest smartphones while their elders get...

The average Singaporean under 35 changes job every 3.4 years. Unless you plan on being abused by your current boss for the rest of your life, it’s worth your while...

Ten years ago, Singaporeans had to flock overseas to shop at H&M and Uniqlo. These days, we have almost every retail option we could hope for on our shores except…...

No, you’re not in a long-distance relationship if your significant other lives in Pasir Ris while you’re somewhere in Woodlands. Yes, we know taking public transport to your SO’s place...

Shopping is Singapore’s national sport, and trust me, that’s not a compliment. Addiction to shopping is like a national disease. People get into mountains of credit card debt, spend months...

Talk about salary in Singapore and people react in two ways—they either berate themselves for not making it into medical school, or they wish they had a life to go...

So you’ve just graduated and you’re about to enter the working world. The minute you step into the office on your first day at work, you look around for attractive...

For many Singaporean students, uni days aren’t a carefree time of drunken debauchery and experimentation—they’re an intense three or four years during which one tries to chalk up as many...

Every so often, you get a call from friends living overseas who excitedly tell you that they’re coming to Singapore and have appointed you as their guide! Yippee. That means...

The hipsters of Singapore profess that they love shopping at thrift stores in theory, but in reality they get all their gear at Haji Lane. And despite the fact that...

Singaporeans are big food wasters, according to reports revealing that 792,000 tons of food was wasted in 2013. We like to boast about being huge foodies, but take a look...

There are some very seedy airports in the world, and you only realise this when you’re forced to sleep on the cold, hard floor of one of them, praying the...

In an ideal world, anyone with the will to work hard in any full-time job would earn enough money to maintain a decent standard of living.

As much as I know they’re just clickbait, I’m a sucker for those lists of “Top Travel Destinations” or “X Places You Must Visit Before You Die”… especially those featuring...

Writing a resume can feel like penning a fairytale or a dating agency profile in which you need to turn your painfully average Boon Peh into Brad Pitt.

If only SMRT’s bus services could be as frequent as their MRT breakdowns. The only thing that seems to be improving year on year is SMRT’s profits. If you’re the...