Career
3 Ways Perfectly Competent Singaporean Employees Sabotage Their Careers
That colleague of yours who’s so spectacularly incompetent that even the interns make him look stupid? Either his days of being employed are numbered,...
29 December 2016
Travel
Want to Spend Your Sabbatical in Thailand? Here’s How to Do It
It would be pretty awesome to be able to eat $2 pad thai every day of the week, in between $8 massages and shopping sprees at hip malls where everythi...
27 December 2016
Career
5 Biggest Reasons Hiring Managers Have Rejected Your Resume
’Member those days when you could hop to a new job every 6 months and people would still scramble to hire you? Those days are over thanks to the slowi...
27 December 2016
Dining
The New Cheers 1-for-1 App Is Going to Change the Way You Buy Drinks in Singapore
If James Bond had been Singaporean, he’d have been stuck ordering Tiger Beer rather than martinis just to cut costs. That’s why Cheers is something we...
23 December 2016
Budgeting
4 Ways Singaporeans Can Make a Bit of Spare Cash Over the Christmas and New Year Holidays
Is Christmas really a time for giving? Well, not if you’re a retail or F&B business—for these folks, the holiday season is a time to profit, as people...
22 December 2016
Budgeting
4 Money Hacks All Fresh Grads in Singapore Need to Use
The other day, I randomly ended up deep in conversation with these two university students in their early 20s. They were talking about opening bottles...
22 December 2016
Education
The MOE System Has Churned Out PISA Top Scorers, But Is It Really Heading in the Right Direction?
Looks like all those tuition hours paid off when Singaporean topped the PISA test in all three categories—reading, mathematics and science. While some...
22 December 2016
Property
Before Dropping All Your Cash on Your First Home, Make Sure You’re Not Making These 3 Mistakes
When Singaporeans complain about the rising cost of living, what they’re really thinking about is the high cost of accommodation. (Okay, cars are expe...
21 December 2016
This Versus That
GrabShare Vs uberPOOL – Which Carpooling App Is Best for Singaporeans?
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, or so they say. In that case, fiercely competitive rivals Grab and Uber must really love one another. The...
21 December 2016
Budgeting
5 Money Mistakes Fresh Grads Can't Afford to Make
Getting your first job should mean you're no longer broke. But the bad habits of many local graduates have made them worse off than when they were job...
20 December 2016