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...

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...