We’re getting to that time of year when bonuses are doled out to employees. That means it’s time to evaluate your career and, if the time is right, to quit...

When planning a first trip to Italy, most visitors flock to Rome, Venice, Florence and Milan. Now, there’s no question that these cities are all amazing destinations in their own...

Any Singaporean who’s had to go through the experience of renovating their home will each have their own traumatic experience to recount.But here’s the real issue – on top of...

You know how we Singaporeans love to complain about our CPF? How we don’t believe that we’ll ever see our money again? If you’re someone who thinks CPF is really...

The government is getting serious about turning Singapore into a car-lite society with their latest announcement that the car and motorcycle population will henceforth grow at 0%.

The Singapore education system is known for producing top scorers in the PISA test, and for being extremely rigorous in math and science. The medium of instruction is English, which...

The Singaporean Dream got a little more out of reach when the LTA announced recently that they were cutting the vehicle growth rate to zero, down from the current 0.25%,...

Buying a private building under construction, or BUC, is a little different from buying a home that’s already been built.

Singaporeans on car forums found themselves despairing when the LTA announced that they would cut the vehicle growth rate to 0%. The vehicle growth rate for private passenger cars and...

Ever since Singaporeans discovered Taobao.com, more people have started to wish they had paid attention during Chinese lessons back at school. Especially when 11.11 is just around the corner!

Whether you’re hunting for a good facial cream, a drone, make-up, a watch or what not, the choices online are ENDLESS. And the variety doesn’t help indecisive people like me...

It’s pretty complicated to be a young person today. You’re told to do what you love and love what you do. But you’re also told that if you don’t earn...

Falling ill in Singapore is expensive, or at least that’s what everyone says. But thanks to Medisave, you might feel the pinch (a tiny bit) less.

I vaguely remember my last holiday to Taiwan with my parents. We’d camped out on all the budget airline sites like Scoot, Jetstar, AirAsia and just picked the dates and...

The face-off between baby boomers and millennials rages on at the workplace. The former continue to be infuriated by the latter’s demand for flexibility and work-life balance, their dislike of...

Last month, I visited Poland for the first time. Imagine my surprise when at least three locals that I met in the capital Warsaw told me they had Singaporean friends...

Gone are the days when the Singaporean uniform was a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, or when blogshop fashion ruled local campuses. The number of bona fide fashionistas has shot...

The end of the year is approaching, and for Singaporeans that doesn’t just mean Christmas presents and New Years’ Eve parties, but also: clearing leave.

Fixed deposit linked home loans! It’s the latest innovation the banks have come up with in the mortgage sector and it looks like it’s here to stay. For a while....

The options facing young workers in Singapore today are vastly different from what their parents had to contend with.

Singaporeans embrace Halloween almost as warmly as they do Christmas, as evidenced by the number of people queuing to get into Zouk’s annual Halloween party and Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror...

Singapore’s dog-eat-dog work environment brings to mind young office workers on the brink of burn-out, rushing to work on the MRT every day during rush hour, determined to work hard...

Diamonds are no longer just engagement rings that send brides-to-be into a size-comparing frenzy. Now, investing in diamonds is also a thing. Yes, is it even surprising?

Singaporeans really love a good savings account, but sometimes dealing with banks can feel like we’re part of a circus acrobat’s obstacle course. The number of hoops we have to...

As you stuff yourself into an overcrowded MRT carriage at 8:15am, bursting at the seams with people all rushing to their Raffles Place offices by 9am, you curse your boss...