Looks like there are plenty of twits in this world who do not know what journalists do for a living. And these twits are causing me a lot of pain and putting the anti-wrinkle properties of my pricey SKII lotions to waste. There are three essential things one needs to bear in mind when they decide to approach the media. And quite frankly, these three pointers are common …

It is Eat With Your Family Day today, one of my favourite days of the year. It is a day for people to get off work earlier than usual, so that they can go home to prepare a nice meal to share with their family. As encouraged by the government, the office let us off at 4pm. Since I cannot cook for nuts, and I sure don't want daddy to cook (he gets to do it most days and …

The Great Singapore Sale has started. Hurrah! And since large crowds always draw out the Hulk in me, I very smartly woke up early this morning and hit town by 10.30am. It was such a bliss to have the whole mall to myself and a few other equally smart women. :) When I was much younger, I would exhaust my funds before I was tired of combing the shops. Now, at 32 years old, …

There is this common joke about marriage: Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. I'm glad to say that this joke has remained just a joke in my world. Joshua and I became husband and wife in the eyes of law five years ago today. We have had some shitty times - which couple hasn't? - but we are ever more in love with each other. It is …

It seems that lately I've been falling sick the moment I'm due for a business trip. This is so frustrating! Today I departed for Phuket with a sore throat and body aches. A fever set in the moment I exited the airport and into the island's sweltering heat. By evening I was half dead, but had to press on because I was on a sponsored trip to cover Phuket's biggest corporate …

Singapore's deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday made a speech about the country's sharp inflation - the Consumer Price Index registered a 5.2 per cent year-to-date growth in March - and pointed out that the average Singaporean would not feel the pinch of rising prices. His exact words were: "The vast majority of Singaporeans, who already own their homes …

Lady Luck must have been shining on me today because I won a lucky draw prize at TWO separate trade events. I first bagged a two-night stay for two at a five-star international branded hotel in Macau, which comes with breakfast at one of its fine dining restaurant. I did a quick check of its room rate online and discovered the accommodation alone costs in excess of S$1,000. …

One evening during the recent business trip to Shanghai, my new sub-editor burst out of the public washroom with a grimace on her face. "Oh my goodness!" she howled. "The women here don't wash their hands after they use the toilet! They come out of the cubicle, touch their hair and their faces in front of the mirror, then exit the washroom!" Having been to Shanghai and …

One of the many things I did not inherit from my mummy dearest is her flair for bargaining. You would think that the ability to bargain is an innate characteristic in women. Just look around when you are at the marketplace. Mummy is so good at haggling to her benefit that a fruit seller in the market she used to frequent begged her not to buy from him anymore because he …

Nanyang Polytechnic student Lai Shimun's racist tweet, which had created a furore after an angry netizen reported her to her school and the police, is a stark reminder than racism exists in multi-racial Singapore. Lai's thoughtless tweet said a particular race of people in the country "need their own form of transport. Or trains need to have separate cabins for humans and …