Secondary school kids complain like crazy about having to complete their 2.4 km run under the hot sun. But hey, at least it’s free!

After a year that seemed to go on forever, most of us should be glad to finally see the end of 2016. Like many Singaporeans, we’d have made plans to...

The City of Love Singapore is not. We’re not people who wear our hearts on our sleeves. In fact, a Singaporean couple is more likely to get married when it’s...

We all have that friend who always has the best “lobang”, and who seems to bump into someone he knows every three seconds. These guys are never afraid of losing...

The Baby Bonus isn’t the only cash incentive that doesn’t seem to be working. The government’s Work-Life Grant, which attempts to persuade businesses to put in place formal flexi-work arrangements,...

Back in 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin popularised the phrase “conscious uncoupling” to describe their separation after a decade of marriage to one another. It was a novel concept...

You’ve been slogging away during the school term, and now it’s finally the holidays. Woohoo. The only problem is that while your well-off peers are spending their parents’ money on...

Groupthink is strong in Singapore. That’s why people here love queuing so much even if we don’t know what it’s for—there’s something about standing in line with a bunch of...

If you’ve missed out on the massive discounts that Singles Day offered earlier this month, don’t fret. The massive sales Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have originated in the...

Spend an afternoon at Raffles Place, and you’ll feel the stress practically sticking to you. People run stoney-faced from the MRT station to their offices, from their offices to lunch...

Hands up everyone who hates their telco for overcharging them every month for a pathetic amount of data, but is helpless because, uh, we only have three and it often...

Singaporeans definitely need no introduction to Black Friday and Cyber Monday by now. You can be sure that if there was a world championships of finding good deals online, we’d...

We all know finding a place to live in Singapore is freaking expensive, weak property market notwithstanding, especially considering living in a tent is officially illegal. But what about staying...

$5 doesn’t take you very far in Singapore. It’s a sum of money you can spend without even realising it—on a tasteless meal at some cookie cutter food court that...

A favourite pastime of many Singaporeans is heading north to visit our neighbours in Johor over the weekend to enjoy relatively cheap shopping and delicious food, not to mention the...

The Christmas season brings to mind wintry scenes and happy families, chestnuts roasting on an open fire and presents under the tree.

Most Singaporeans have some awareness of how expensive falling sick can get here. But guess what—it seems like, for all our complaining, we’re still not fully aware of the financial...

Competition is always good for the consumer. In the very highly competitive industries of private car hires and credit cards in Singapore, we consumers are the ones who benefit from...

Considering the amount of time Singaporeans spend buying and then renovating their homes, they don’t get to spend as much time in them as they might like.

Singaporeans are very proud of the fact that theirs is one of the safest cities in the world, often citing as proof their ability to walk around at 3 in...

Last minute shopping for Christmas is a surefire method to both spend way more than you should, and also cause some really unnecessary stress. Thankfully, there’s quite a lot happening...

In Singapore, you might not find scammers at street markets who’ll try to charge you five times the actual price of an item, or street hawkers who harass you to...

As much as Singaporean parents are (I hope) happy to let their kids de-stress a little during the school holidays, if both are juggling full-time jobs, having the kids at...

With Singaporeans very much focused on the cost of living these days, many people want to make sure that their money is working much harder for them, which would explain...

When I was at school, local JCs and secondary schools were notoriously bad at providing career guidance. Poly and university courses were pretty much chosen by default, meaning everyone just...