The whole “Singaporeans try going cashless for a week” type of thing has been done once too many, and I think we all get the point. We’ve been hearing the buzzwords “cashless” and “e-payments” for the longest time now, and I thought this weekend of carelessness taught me good on how far-behind Singapore actually is on the e-payments front.
This all happened because I rushed off from work on Friday evening last week without first doing a second-take at my desk and left my wallet(which has my cash, EZ-link and credit cards) sitting there in the cold, dark, loneliness….but I digress.
Since I didn’t have my wallet, this “cashless-ness” for me was not by choice. I was forced into it!
I either had to borrow cash to pay at ...