2015 wasn’t exactly a stellar year for property in Singapore. With both home sales and prices dropping steadily, buyers are now standing ready to pounce on any good deals that...

Your parents told you your biggest regret in life would be not studying hard and ending up as a garbage collector. Now you’re all grown up and fortunately or unfortunately,...

Despite the fact that most Singaporeans are reportedly miserable in their jobs, not many people have the guts to switch careers. That could be because one of the most off-putting...

People living in other countries have the option to bugger off and go live in a cheaper city or town when the cost of living in the capital rises. Unfortunately,...

So all your friends just spent the December holidays in Tokyo, and your only consolation was watching Japanese drama serials on your computer alone at home. While pictures of sushi...

So your boss refuses to let you leave the office before he does, which doesn’t really matter because you’re doing the work of 10 people anyway thanks to the manpower...

A supermodel looks into the mirror and sees a lump of lard, while that guy who plays 50 hours of DOTA a week looks into the mirror and thinks, “Not...

Once upon a time, people thought of going for job interviews as a once-in-a-lifetime affair. Get the job of your dreams and toil away obediently for the rest of your...

While I may have dabbled with Tarot cards and even joined a religious order in my crazy past, I’m definitely not a fortune teller or a prophet. So when I...

In other developed societies, couples move in together before getting married, and then at some point before or after the wedding they decide if they’re financially stable enough to purchase...

The ultimate test of friendship is when you get invited to a wedding. If you’re not invited, or invited and not interested in going, then congratulations, you’ve been downgraded to “acquaintance”....

Think of getting married in Singapore, and the first images that come to mind are balloting for an HDB flat and a lavish wedding banquet.

Last year may have been the year of #SG50 but this year is definitely starting to be the year of #SGRugi. Assuming you don’t speak Bahasa Melayu, “rugi” means to...

Some Singaporeans are so addicted to shopping they get panic attacks when they realise how much they spent on that one trip to Orchard Road. Every few weeks, someone on...

While “free gift” is like a clarion call to Singaporean aunties islandwide to assemble outside their favourite FairPrice branch, we don’t actually have too many opportunities for a free lunch...

Recently, a good friend of mine declared that he wanted to start investing. As a lawyer earning a five figure annual sum, he’s amassed a pretty decent nest egg, but...

Have you heard of the Butterfly Effect? No, I’m not talking about the terrible Ashton Kutcher film from 2004, but the chaos theory concept it’s based on. Put simply, it...

Everyone in Singapore considers themselves some sort of culinary expert—but only when it comes to eating and not cooking, of course. Despite the fact that posting food pictures has gone...

So you’ve made a New Year’s Resolution to save more money this year, but we’re just a week into 2016 and you’ve already gone back to your old ways. Sure,...

How did everyone’s New Year begin? Mine began with bumming around at home with my girlfriend. It was the best date of the year, and the fact that it didn’t...

Just like Singapore’s low birth rates and lack of work-life balance, incentivising child-rearing in the workplace has been discussed to death, but to little effect. And once again, experts are wondering...

If there’s one thing I learnt during my time in the corporate world, it’s that many SMEs are pretty clueless in terms of HR and managing their staff. All too...

Nobody ever said Singapore was a cheap place to live in. But some things here are more expensive than others. While everyone pretty much agrees you need to pay obscene...

Nobody wants to buy something that will make them unhappy. Even sadistic parents who put their kids through gruelling tuition sessions every day after school do so with the hopes...

If you take personal finance advice from women’s magazines or Men’s Health, you could be forgiven for thinking that credit cards are responsible for terrorism and the ebola virus. We...