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I went through a bout of throat infection recently and it took a course of antibiotics plus lots of early nights for my body to fight off the invaders. The GP bill was $64.40 (4 medicines – antibiotics, cough mixture, tablets for throat swelling and nose block) at one of the big group GP chains [...]

I was at the Resorts World Singapore Integrated Resort recently and stepped into the casino for the very first time. The occasion was my mother’s birthday and she was staying at Hard Rock Hotel for her birthday vacation with my father. My parents are social casino patrons who do visit Genting and those Casino Cruises [...]

MM Lee’s comments about retirement has highlighted about the changing paradigm of retirement, in that it is increasingly becoming less of an automatic ritual upon reaching a pre-defined age and more of a lifestyle choice.
Traditionally, retirement is an age where one is able to stop working, collect a pension and to take time to smell [...]

The more I read about lifestyle design and think about how it applies to retirement, the more I realise that my paradigm on what constitutes retirement has fundamentally changed.
Previously, I used to think like what many of us did, that retirement was an age and it was not to work. But increasingly, my own research [...]

I just made a significant mortgage loan payment using my CPF ordinary account which currently stands at $0.15 as at today. My special and medisave accounts are reasonably funded as there’s not many avenues for me to tap on those funds nor would I want to as they are meant for retirement and medical needs [...]