SINGAPORE: In what might be the most Singaporean plot twist of the year, a couple who boldly quit their jobs, in their own words, to spend the rest of our lives travelling the world have gone viral on TikTok for discovering that their grand adventure had the shelf life of just 36 hours before it [ ]
Monday 3 November 2025
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‘My fiancé and I quit our jobs to travel the world for the rest of our lives, but we ran out of money in 1.5 days’ — SG couple is now ‘coming back to work’
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