Surviving Language Barriers with your Wits

When you travel to a foreign country, you can certainly expect to encounter language barriers. Or you just try to wing it and try to make your way through using sign language or basic English. So what happens when you encounter no favourable conditions? Well, you survive by whatever means you possibly can. For me,…

Little Known Facts about Singapore

Friends from overseas sometimes ask me about my hometown in Singapore. Often, I had to explain that there is no such concept of a town in Singapore like in any other countries. This is because, despite being a cosmopolitan city with a population of 5.4 million people, Singapore is still essentially a very small island.…