Writing The Milelion has been an exciting experience and it's always great hearing your stories about how you managed to put what you read here to good use. At the same time, it's also a challenge to get 3-4 articles out a week while juggling regular work and other commitments.
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Although it's nowhere as good as the old spend $800 get 12,000 miles offer, this revised sign up promotion for the DBS Altitude Visa sure beats the previous iteration (which only gave 5,000 miles with $800 spending and required you to be among the first 500 applicants each month (I'd...
2016 is here and it's time to review the gameplan. I've sort of covered this already in the 2016 Credit Card strategy, but that was more specific to me. Here I'm going to lay out the credit card landscape as of 1 Jan- which cards should you use in...
The year's not even out and already one of my Christmas wishes has been answered
As per the gurus on HWZ, BOC is set to launch a Visa Infinite product in Singapore that does not levy the 1.5% forex fee. This means the only "fee" you get hit with is...
First things first: I know Tigerair is a budget carrier, and as such they will engage in certain practices that full service carriers won't. I know they earn their margin on add-ons. I know they are dependent on cross selling you car rentals and hotels in addition to just flights. I...
Here's wishing all readers a very blessed Christmas!
Thank you for your readership and support in 2015, and especially for sharing your thoughts and tips with me as well. As much as I love sharing what I know with you guys, I've also learned a lot of new tricks I...
One question I get asked very often is about using credit cards for bill payments.
Now, intuitively you won't be able to pay for a credit card bill with another credit card. Because this would create a wonderful cycle where I could
(1) Pay my DBS Altitude Card bill with my...
Ah, the dining card. The card which imbues us with a sudden sense of generosity when it comes to paying the bill ("oh let me get this one guys! just ibank me the money, no problem"- me at every social function, which is why I don't get invited to...