So last week, I came across a picture of freelance writer/fitness blogger Maria Kang wearing a sports bra, baring her abs, kneeling behind her three children and under the caption of “What’s Your Excuse?” That picture got Maria way more attention than a she bargained for. Yahoo Shine reported that the photo went viral and racked up more […]
There are so many things to hate about traveling. Let’s start with the flight: You walk through Business Class, feeling incredibly jealous at the smug dudes holding their champagne and their copies of the Wall Street Journal. And then you pull back the curtain to Economy Class, and it’s like a war in there. People
I’m really embarrassed about this, but here goes: Hi, my name is Lionel and I’m terrible at Mandarin. No, really. I’ve had endless tuition sessions as a kid, I took my AO-level Chinese exam twice, but when people talk to me in Mandarin today, I still end up looking like this: So when the girlfriend
This is pretty awesome. Check out this video which explains the last 10 years of the US economy in a lovely animated cartoon with visually appealing vintage graphics that came right out of a Papermarket store. It’s 30 minutes long, which is long for an online video but shorter than reading a boring-ass Economics textbook.
As you know, I love making fun of people who get overly stressed about tiny things. Don’t we all know someone like that? For example: the student who obsesses about the half-point that he lost on a test, or the co-worker who stays late in the office to churn out a report that nobody reads.
Check out this infographic from iMoney.sg. A lot of people tend to look back at how much their home prices have appreciated and brag, “Hey check it out, I made X dollars on my property!!” What they don’t take into account is the amount of fees, surcharges, and interest they’ve had to pay over the years –
A funny thing happens to Singaporean males whenever we hear the word “IPPT”. Our eyes glaze over and we shrug, and go, “Yeah, I should really train for that.” And then we go back to whatever we were doing before. But that doesn’t stop the thought from nagging us at the backs of our minds.
Okay, I confess: I’m a huge fan of Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider. I don’t normally fork out cash to go for concerts because I think they’re lame, but I paid $60 bucks for Cat B tickets to watch Sam and Kurt when they performed in Singapore this week. I know, I’m actually secretly
Discovered a surprising fact from a Forbes blog post, titled Singaporeans Are The Fastest In The World To Become Millionaires: While the popular belief is that the wealth of millionaires in Singapore has come from the dramatic rise in property prices over the years, that is only partly true. According to the survey, 72% of
