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The truth hurts.

Very few influencers actually make big money. Uncle Roger appears to be one of them.

We tend to blame the adult children for not taking adequate care of their elderly parents, but even the middle class are sandwiched between paying for their children and their retired parents in the most expensive city in the world. The elderly who didn't plan adequately for retirement, have...

Are most S'poreans benefitting from the PAP's economic growth at all costs approach?

The PAP is going for economic growth at all costs - including sacrificing the well-being of true blue S'poreans.

Hot yoga may be required to clear out all that yoghurt consumed earlier.

Pritam Singh may be treading carefully after he was last fixed up by the Pappies.

Sabrina Ahmed sounds like a Muslim name, but she may have converted out of Islam, which sounds like a dangerous thing to do.

Not if it is an old couple engaging in oral sex by shouting "fuck you" at each other from across the living room.

Roger's wife is a Bengali (Indian) Muslim, but doesn't he need to convert when marrying a Muslim?

I notice many sprightly old couples in Japan and South Korea exercising in their more conducive weather for outdoor activities.

My problem is that after more than 20 years of child raising, the gulf between my Mrs and me has widened so much that we have become distant from one another.

Whenever I travel to Europe, I often meet and speak with British, Americans and Canadians who retired by their early 50s, but have enough money to travel w/o a care in the world. Yet many of us are still working in our 60s just to put food on the table.

The PAP hears our concerns, but they do not ever listen to us.

I suspect that many are money launderers because Josephine Teo once said that catching them is like looking for a needle in many haystacks.

I don't mind sharing that a typical weekend at my home involves my Mrs and me working on our laptops or watching TV when we are not running errands like going to the wet market or grocery shopping. My 3 adult children will be glued to their devices and only speak to us for brief moments at the...

I also marvel at my Malaysian relatives and friends who live in a landed home and own 1-2 cars on their PME salaries.

Only 15% of residents in SG live in a private home, so the number who own a condo is very much in the minority.

I know a Malaysian couple - husband is an engineer and wife a teacher - who own a terrace house and 2 cars in Penang. In S'pore, this couple would be staying in a HDB flat and rely on public transport. Who has the better quality of life?

That is the thing that I don't understand. Many of my CECA neighbours depend on only the husband's salary, yet are able to afford the rental or purchase of a condo along Dunearn Road and a car, while most local PME couples have neither a condo nor a car to their name.