Smart living in Singapore, covering work life, money, tech, hobbies, culture picks and things to do after hours.

Smart living in Singapore, covering work life, money, tech, hobbies, culture picks and things to do after hours.

It’s Singapore’s 60th birthday this year! With such a milestone on the horizon, I've been thinking about a time-honoured tradition experienced by every Singaporean son - National Service. As I reflect ...

Let’s be real: for the longest time, your Physical Employment Standard aka PES status felt like a label you were stuck with from the moment you stepped into CMPB. If you had flat feet or an old sports ...

We know that suggesting steakhouses for your Father’s Day (21 June) celebrations is kinda cliché, but we couldn’t ignore the ever-growing number of red-blooded restaurants that have mushroomed across ...

Every year around April to May, I go on a holiday with my mum. It’s become sort of our little “tradition” - the two of us (and one time, with my husband) travelling somewhere new and creating memories ...

Your first time at the new National Stadium – was it to watch a football showdown… or Taylor Swift? Whatever it was, chances are your jaw dropped just a little. 12 years on since it hosted its first ...

Recently, a friend of mine was lamenting the number of X and Y nationalities in his workplace. “They keep pulling one another in,” he said. “At this rate, we’ll have all foreigners and no Singaporeans ...

Read human Singapore stories about identity, culture, relationships and everyday life - told with heart, humour and honesty.

Practical, honest reads on family life in Singapore: from parenting, home routines, relationships, to the messy (but ...

National Service is such a uniquely Singaporean experience, it only makes sense for our media to take inspiration from it as a vehicle for storytelling. Countless films, plays and novels have been ...

Singapore’s food culture is legendary, with staples such as chicken rice, bak chor mee, laksa, and roti prata feeding generations of locals and visitors alike. But there’s one thing they all have in ...