Would you spend $270k on a wedding when you can buy a house with that sum? It’s insane! Just on the wedding décor, this Singapore couple according to Wanbao spent $100k and the wedding dinner for 500 people cost $125k. They have gone to great expense, and as the article writes, this amount of money [...]
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Gold must be on many people’s mind, now with prices reaching new heights. What are the advantages and disadvantages of various types of gold? Gold jewellery is the most convenient to buy, and people get to wear them. It all depends on whether yellow gold is your colour. Other colours of gold do not have [...]
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Once again, looking at the income benchmark is a humbling experience. Yeah, I agree with the author of Salary.sg about the arrogance I had when I was a student, simply because I was in the Top 10% of my cohort, taking Higher Chinese and German as a Third Language, and thought that I was really [...]
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I don’t really like the idea of borrowing money or lending money to people, because I have an elephant’s memory and I still remember this girl borrowed thirty cents from me and did not return. We were in Primary One then. On hindsight, I think she must have faced financial problems at home, because she [...]
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Despite Zhang Chunchun’s immense wealth from property buying, she did not forget about her brother. Her father, a super stingy man, had trained his children to hate money unknowingly. It was much later that Zhang Chunchun realised the importance of money, but her brother still thought that money was the cause of trouble. Her brother [...]
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Imagine having a warrant of arrest for not paying your traffic violation ticket! That was what happened to my friend’s husband. They didn’t know they had a ticket since they did not receive any letter in the mail, so a $40 fine became a $400 fine. Posting bail can be quite expensive too. While we [...]
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I decided to do a bit of research and check out which bank offers the best current account with cheque book services. I’ve included DBS, POSB, UOB, OCBC, Citibank, Standard Chartered, HSBC and Maybank. There are some other clauses you need to check, such as how much you will be charged if you stop a cheque [...]
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I have heard about Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) from a forum and a colleague. A woman wrote in the forum that she has more than $250000 within 5 years of working, and she made used of the SRS to save. I was a little curious, but did not think that I earned enough to require [...]
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Installment Plans First, having a credit card allows us to buy big ticket items using installment plans with 0% interest. Expensive items could cost more than a month’s salary, and this will definitely reduce our liquidity. If we do not have sufficient savings, we have to wait for a long time before we have the [...]
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