Callie Yak

From reference from SGagainstpoverty, according to the Department of Statistics, 105,000 families in Singapore are earning on average $1,500 per month. Meaning that life is a daily struggle for about 387,000 Singapore citizens and permanent residents. After paying necessary utilities, schooling, housing rental, loan instalments and medicals, they are left with about $5 a day for transportation and food for each family member. How do they do it?  Hence, I decided to take on the challenge of surviving on SGD5 for my food and transport for a day. SGD5 for the Challenge As I come from a family of middle income, I challenge myself to follow my normal purchasing routine and lifestyle using only $5.  I feel that in this way, I can fully understand the less fortunate families in Singapore better. In Singapore, I feel that poverty is a rising problem amongst Singaporeans, it may be because of the rising cost of living in Singapore. Doing this challenge, I feel that this way we...

Living in Singapore, there are many variety of food available due to the diverse community. Our food is affected by the people and the way they change it to accustom to their cultures. For example, the chicken curry is not only well-known amongst Indians, but as well as Chinese. Have you ever noticed that the chinese and indians have both very different cooking styles for the chicken curry? Although they both are very similar, the chinese chicken curry usually uses other methods for thickening the sauce while the indian uses mainly coconut milk. However, they both still taste delicious! Through food, people are able to bond and find similar topics with. It brings people together whether it is by cooking the food or eating them, either way they both build strong relationships with one another. Being a diverse country, we would try to accommodate to our friends preferences such like their religious food restrictions etc. In school, I have a group of friends that are of different race, ...