Don’t believe that every one of your colleagues is relying solely on that job for their entire income. At my last job, several of my coworkers were earning a bit...

Cash Converters is the sort of place that makes you feel like sneezing even before you step in. The second hand consignment shop is like a pawn shop without the...

I used to bring my own lunch to work back in my office days, and boy did it make me a bit of a freak. People always raised their eyebrows...

Singaporean couples complain incessantly about how expensive it is to hold a wedding banquet here, but they conveniently leave out the fact that many are secretly hoping their wedding guests...

If you’ve ever sneakily taken an MC on Thursday night to secure yourself a long weekend, you know how precious annual leave is. A weekend trip from Friday to Sunday...

Retirement is a sensitive topic in Singapore. Lots of people, disheartened by the sight of wizened people working in menial jobs, assume that this is a country where people just...

It’s that time of year again—no, not haze season, but Halloween, that day when bars, clubs and theme parks urge their patrons to dress up in their most bizarre costumes,...

It’s better to be sick and rich than sick and poor, especially in Singapore. With the very real possibility of having to use all my retirement money on healthcare someday,...

So you’re still in your 20s and 30s, and like many people your age, you don’t have very much in the way of cash savings. In fact, you might be...

How much money you can save really depends on the amount of time at your disposal. If I didn’t have to work or have a life, I would be able...

It might sound unromantic, but wedding banquets in Singapore are often run like businesses. Aside from those couples whose main objective is to throw the most lavish banquet possible, many...

So you’ve graduated from university. Now what? After the celebrations, grad trips and soul searching are over, it’s time to join the The Workforce. Whether you’re raring to secure your...

Recently, I found myself seated next to two Singaporean guys on a flight from Thailand to Singapore. They were having a very loud two hour-long conversation, and after trying in...

Most of us aren’t idealistic enough to expect to be able to do what we love for a living—doing what we like most of the time is good enough. But...

The good old days when a night out on the town could cost less than $20 have gone the way of the dodo. Popping out to buy a small item...

There’s a saying that wealth in the family never lasts more than three generations. While the first generation slaves away to earn money, the second generation works hard to spend...

If you’ve ever gone crazy shopping at Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok or even at the Great Singapore Sale, you know what happened to all that stuff you bought. No,...

Let’s be honest, you probably don’t rise and shine in the morning feeling grateful for your job. You’re more likely to be cursing under your breath and praying the office...

Work-life balance is so scarce in Singapore that many young parents have given up on it altogether. Instead, they just concentrate on trying to get enough sleep and make it...

It’s a little ironic that Singapore markets itself as a shopping and lifestyle destination when many of its inhabitants can’t even afford to partake in the bulk of the increasingly...

The government might think they were on to something when they deduced that couples needed more money to start producing more kids. But giving married couples monetary incentives to have...

If you’re planning to retire in Singapore, unless you’re the sort of person who finds Kevin Kwan’s novel Crazy Rich Asians totally relatable, forget about sipping piña coladas by the...

When Singaporean parents lament that it’s crazy expensive to bring up kids here these days, most of the time they’re not talking about mundane things like keeping the bubs fed...

One thing that drives me crazy about life in Singapore is the fact that young, unmarried Singaporeans often can’t afford to move out of the parental home. The rule that...

I have some friends who are unabashed about the fact that they hate reading. At school, they loaded up on math and science subjects while religiously avoiding the humanities. If...