Money Matters

Work

COVID-19: Don’t forget the freelancers

Young adults, our adulting quest just got super real.  For many of us, not only is this coronavirus market crash our first brush with a financial crisis as members of the workforce, it’s also...

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Resilience Budget: 6 things we young people liked

The situation is bad, you guys. President Halimah Yacob confirmed as much, through House Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin, in the lead-up to the Resilience Budget presented in Parliament today. With a global...

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I made my first half a million at 15, lost it all at 16 and found God

Part of my quest as a teenager was to become free from the question of God. I had been brought up in a Christian home and learnt about God in Sunday school, studying the Word and memorising verses....

News

5 things we ordinary people liked about an extraordinary Budget

So you’ve probably already heard that Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Finance, Heng Swee Keat, delivered the Singapore Budget 2020 today. We’ll get into what some of the...

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2 months of income wiped out in 2 days, but the Foongs believe that God will provide

For many, the novel coronavirus and changes in the DORSCON code may just mean minor inconveniences or more precautions. But for others, the growing crisis has wiped out entire incomes. “Within two...

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5 steps to handling money well

Money. Practically speaking, we need it to live. We use it to get food, clothes and to secure a place to live. To some extent, it influences nearly every decision we make every day. How can...

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Help, I’m a blur sotong: I realised how little I knew about finances

One of the less talked-about (and much less fun) parts of becoming an adult is having to figure out all the adulting stuff needed for real life. By adulting, I mean that moment when you realise...

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Want or need?

I’m not a fan of online shopping, mainly because I want to be sure of my purchases. I’ve only become more open to it because certain goods are much cheaper online than in stores. But the...

Discipleship

3 things I learnt about God’s provision

Whenever my friends hear that I’m still an intern despite graduating from university more than a year ago, they usually remark: “Can survive meh?” I have yet to draw a full-time...