I’ll be the first person to tell you that you can’t expect MOE teachers to teach kids everything. Asking why your kid can’t tie his shoelaces or isn’t a stock...

No one likes to be told that their job can be done by anyone. Whenever a Catholic priest counsels people about married life or raising children, the common criticism they...

I’ve got several friends who are either business owners or recruitment agents, and as a result I’ve had the opportunity to have a look at many of the resumes sent...

If you intend to rely entirely on your CPF savings when you retire, you’d better prepare to spend the final years of your life eating plain bread and spending all...

To be brutally honest, the pursuit of the Singaporean dream is going to end in bankruptcy for a lot of people. When are Singaporeans going to come to terms with...

Once upon a time, whenever I met random people overseas and told them I was from Singapore, those who knew we weren’t part of China used to snigger and comment...

It seems so easy to be an insurance agent in Singapore. Seriously. Why else would there be just so many of them? I bet that you’re related to at least...

Wake me up, when Septemb…. OH COME ON, it’s almost 2016 already?! Well, if you haven’t got around to having an SG50 baby, I have bad news for you. It’s...

The school holidays are upon us, and hordes of 17 to 20-year-olds graduating from secondary schools, JCs and polytechnics all over Singapore have a tough decision ahead of them—deciding what...

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 think my company is the best place to work. And I’m not just saying that because it’s the end of the year and my year-end bonus is imminent. Assuming...

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...

Maybe it’s the fact that Potong Pasir is firmly out of opposition hands, but come 2019, it’s going to start looking exactly like any other PAP stronghold. Not only has...

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...

If you’ve been to several McDonald’s outlets recently, you may have noticed their new self-ordering touchscreen kiosks. I love the idea, it allows me to order at my leisure without...

If you’ve actually started planning for retirement, that puts you ahead of most of your fellow Singaporeans, 41% of whom haven’t put a single cent towards it. So congratulations, you’re...

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...

I’m probably going to show my age here, but I’m old enough to remember the days when we had to carpool to get into the CBD for free. Back in...

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...