
Family
3 Uncomfortable Money Moments Filial Singaporeans Might Face
Filial piety is highly valued by mainstream society in Singapore. Without a proper pension system, it falls upon adult children to support their parents in old age if the latter...
7 April 2017

Career
4 Networking Mistakes Singaporeans Tend to Make
Networking events are just as awkward and unappealing as Chinese New Year visits to disliked relatives.
6 April 2017

Travel
Super Kiasu About Saving Money on Flights? Skyscanner Shows You When the Best Time to Book Your Flight Is
Part of being kiasu is doing everything in advance, whether it’s beginning to prepare your kid for Harvard once he turns three, queuing up the night before for the release...
5 April 2017

Travel
Should You Book Hotels Through Third Party Sites Like Booking and Agoda?
The days when travel agents would sell flight-and-hotel packages are deader than the dinosaurs.
4 April 2017

Credit Cards
Is it Better to Pay Using Cash or Credit Card?
According to some people, credit cards are of the devil. It’s almost if the moment that piece of plastic appears in your wallet, you are doomed right from the start.
3 April 2017

Career
4 Ways to Protect Yourself From Retrenchment in Singapore
Recently, a friend of mine who’s been working at a bank for more than 10 years told me she’s been thinking of alternative career plans in case she gets retrenched.
3 April 2017

Career
Don’t Quit Your Job to Chase Your Dreams Until You’ve Considered These 4 Things
Feel like a corporate drone? Fit the profile of what they call a “millennial”? Then you must have at some point bought into the narrative about “finding your passion”.
31 March 2017

Opinion
4 Super Common Money Wasters in Singapore
Scrutinise the spending habits of any man on the streets and you’re sure to find items that make you snigger. But hey, just as you might judge somebody for spending...
31 March 2017

Home Loans
A Singaporean’s Guide to Getting a Home Loan in 2017
So we’ve written many articles before on important things to note during your home purchases. But every year, things change and we have different things to note when it comes...
30 March 2017

Family
4 Ideas for Raising the Birthrate in Singapore
The Singapore government prides itself on getting things done. It’s transformed the economy over a matter of decades, blah blah. But the one big, glaring failure has been the inability...
30 March 2017

Career
4 High-Paying Jobs That Don’t Require Degrees
There’s a reason Singaporean kids wear such thick glasses and are more likely to be seen labouring over assessment books than frolicking at a playground. The wage gap between degree...
30 March 2017

Opinion
4 Things Every Singaporean Should Have By Age 35
Singaporeans love milestones. The high point in many people’s lives is the day they receive their degree, get married or make that downpayment on their first home.
29 March 2017

Travel
5 Relatively Affordable European Holiday Destinations That Aren’t Flooded With Singaporeans
Despite our small size, that familiar Singaporean accent is often heard in Western European capitals. Singaporeans absolutely adore going to Europe on holiday, at least according to this survey, in...
28 March 2017

Education
5 Reasons Good Grades Don’t Necessarily Mean Your Child Will Succeed in Life
Ah Boy has an army of tutors towering over him every day after school, making sure he scores those As. His kiasu parents are determined to ensure he gets good...
28 March 2017

Opinion
3 Things That are Going to Happen Thanks to Taxi Surge Pricing
Unsettled by the fact that Uber and GrabCar are eating into their business, taxi companies have decided that instead of lowering fares and taking a cut of their own profits,...
27 March 2017

Opinion
3 Key Finance Tips for Singaporeans From Budget 2017
It’s no secret that we’ve got a fiscally prudent government. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, this is not a government that will spend public money in a way that would...
27 March 2017

Career
4 Phrases To Use At Work That Don’t Sound Like Excuses
Dealing with everyone at the office pining for your attention takes up the bulk of your waking life, and with the little time you have left, you try valiantly to...
24 March 2017

Career
4 Hacks to Improve Your Work Life Balance When You’re Expected to Spend Long Hours at the Office
Work-life balance doesn’t exist in Singapore. If some bosses had their way, you wouldn’t even have a life to balance with your work.
22 March 2017

Opinion
3 Dangerous Beliefs the Singapore Education System Instills in Students
The Singapore education system is great at churning out top-scorers, later to become doctors, lawyers, bankers and civil servants.
21 March 2017

Budgeting
Here’s Why Singaporeans Transferring Funds Overseas Through a Bank Are Just Wasting Money
Some days, it’s amazing to realise I truly am living in the future. Just the other day, I remitted some money to an overseas account through my internet banking account...
21 March 2017

Invest
Is This The Direction Investing is Heading Towards? Here’s Why You Should Pay Attention
This post was written in collaboration with IG. While we are financially compensated by them, we nonetheless strive to maintain our editorial integrity and review products with the same objective...
21 March 2017

Career
Why Having More Women in the Workforce Doesn’t Automatically Mean There’s More Equality
According to many Singaporean men, local women have been dealt a good hand of cards because they don’t have to spend two years of their lives doing NS. There have...
21 March 2017

Career
5 Signs it’s Time to Quit Your Job This Year
Have you complained about your job today? If you haven’t, you must still be sitting for the O levels. Work-related angst comes with the territory of living in Singapore, but...
20 March 2017

Budgeting
5 Alternative Lifestyles That Can Save You Money
Mainstream society reigns supreme in Singapore. Doing something as “edgy” as cycling to work gets you raised eyebrows (“not hot meh?”), while bringing your own lunch to work makes colleagues...
20 March 2017

Family
Should You Send Your Kids to An Elite Affiliated Primary School?
Primary 1 registration is a nail-biting time for kiasu parents islandwide—especially those who don’t want their kid to end up in some neighbourhood primary school, and insist that they go...
20 March 2017