Tag: southeast asia
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Disgusting taxi scam in Hanoi!
Just last week, my friend Arati and I flew to Vietnam for a little girlfriends’ getaway. We were super excited! Prior to the trip, I didn’t really bother looking for attractions; I was more interested in learning how to survive there. And an important one that I read was: Only use Mai Linh or Vinasun…
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5 Ways We Unknowingly Abuse Our Helpers
Hiring domestic help is common in Singapore; people from the middle/upper-middle income onwards are generally able to afford them quite comfortably. In Singapore, our domestic helpers mostly come from Indonesia and the Philippines. With a minority percentage coming from other South-east Asian countries like India and Myanmar. And although this is part of the solution…
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3 Beauty Must-Haves for the Haze
This nasty haze is bad for quite a number of things… General health, country relations… My lungs have so far lodged a few hundred complaints and threatened to quit a couple dozen times. My throat and eyes aren’t too happy about the situation either… But the one organ that is evidently showing its unhappiness is the…
Gera Shen 