What are the top forums in Singapore and Malaysia where we can seek advice or just have fun chit chatting? Let us check out the top 5 forums in Singapore and Malaysia!
5) Petalbytes for Women in Singapore and Malaysia
Remember Cozycot or Flowerpods? Those were the old forums in the past that cater to the women's topics. Ladies flocked to them for the best deals, sharing their fashions, health and love stories. Now, petalbytes.com is the new Singapore and Malaysia forum for women, including motherhood and family sections where women share stories of and seek advice.
Their top section? No doubt about it, it is their Love and Romance subforum.
Fun fact: Petalbytes even has a work-friendly SAFE MODE to discreetly use the forum and looks like you are using Office word editors. Just toggle the Safe Mode at the top right corner for the forum.
4) Malaysia's number 1 forum- Lowyat
Lowyat is the name of a shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur that is famous for electronics. A forum pops out for tech discussion and evolved into Malaysia's number one forum.
The topics are diverse and interesting, with many Malaysians participating and giving their two-cents worth. Some debates get hot and heated and you will welcome the diverse views in society. Manglish is widely used, with English, Malay and Cantonese making Lowyat home-sweet-home to all malaysians.
| Lowyet, Malaysia's #1 Online Forum |
Top section in Lowyat beside their huge mobile phone section? Their Kopitiam section where you can discuss anything you can discuss over a hot cup of kopi-O or milo dinosaur.
3) SG Talks
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One of the oldest forum around in Singapore, SG Talks has seen its ups and downs. Over the years, it has evolved and has a regular group of people who talk about stocks, politics and current affairs.
Top section:- Their Market Talks! discussions about how the market is, costs of living and the average man's savings and investments
Fun fact: There is an android app for using SG talks to make it convenient for mobile phone usage.
2) Hardwarezone (owned by SPH)
Hardwarezone started off as a tech forum, where people logged in to discuss about their PC builds, their graphic cards, sounds cards etc...
It eventually grow big enough to have such a huge diverse variety of subforums, from travel subforums (and many subsections on different regions), health and fitness to money mind, where people debated on the benefits and costs of stocks, ETF, funds and insurance policies (insurance agents trying to find business are rapidly exposed there). Many of the subforums have grown so large into its own battalions of regulars and experienced seniors.
SPH which owns the major newspapers in Singapore, took notice of Hardwarezone.com.sg and bought it in 2006 and has since incorporated management with its digital media.
Their top section? Hardware section. Yup, they have lots of great sections on mobile phones, laptops, electronics part. Actually... their biggest traffic zone is a non-hardware section... a section so huge, it deserves a mention on its own as its own "forum"
1) EDMW
EDMW forum, aka Eat Drink Man Woman, is the huge beast in the room. Not just in term of users, but the amount of time each average user spend in this forum. (Goodbye office productivity). As the name implies, Eat-Drink-Man-Woman, this is the coffee shop forum where everything goes, be it food, drinks, man or woman ;)
It has evolved so huge that it has a life of its own in hardwarezone, and where other users at different sections even frown upon EDMW users and their lingos. EDMW users have their own subculture, lingos that seems funny to most and annoy to some. Even celebrities, such as actors Tay Ping Hui or father of Singapore bloggers- mrbrown has revealed that they do surf EDMW.
One of the more enduring cultures of highlighting how local dramas tend to "eat medicine" and using this line on one another in EDMW if his opinions differ from the rest. You will love the humour as they whack government officials, celebrities etc.
Well, hope these forums will bring you joy and fun when you are stressed or while travelling to work. Don't get sucked up mindlessly surfing and get your work productivity wrecked. Have fun!
