Sometimes, achieving work-life balance can seem as hard as finding a cure for cancer. Long working hours are so common right now that when someone manages to leave the office...

Since the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) opened the gates for insurers to distribute life insurance products online, we’ve seen a slew of new products reaching out to an audience...

Christmas means different things to different people. For kids, it’s the perfect opportunity to beg your parents for a Nintendo Switch. For some, it’s a time to get together with...

For many of us, after a long week at work chained to our desks, the weekend is the only thing we look forward to. And being Singaporeans, nothing defines weekends...

Do you spend all your spare time fantasising about your next overseas holiday? Do you religiously save up all your annual leave to use on travel? Then you want to...

Networking is something everybody knows they should be doing, but many don’t for fear of coming off as slimy and opportunistic. After all, Singaporeans are taught to be modest and...

Singaporeans can’t get enough of Australia. There are thousands of us studying there, and every holiday season planeloads of us head to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to visit friends and...

I’ll never forget my last trip to China when my dad booked a tour package and we got scammed into buying $100 tea leaves. At one of the stops, a Chinese guy...

Earlier this month, DBS launched what they claim is the world’s largest API platform by any bank. Some 155 APIs for Singapore are now available to anyone who wants to...

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...