Singapore — Singaporean actor Thomas Ong has been described as a free spirit. The 52-year-old never seems to stay put in a place for too long. After leaving Mediacorp in 2000, Ong was involved in a few businesses, such as selling corporate gifts, crystals and most recently, durians. He still acts these days, and his last onscreen role was last year’sIn the latest episode ofOng shared about the perils of being “too carefree”.
He revealed that he used to take his daily showers at a “club with cheap membership fees” as his finances weren’t in great shape either. Ong mused, “I wasn’t in debt at the start [of the six months], but I didn’t have much cash either. I probably had a couple of thousand dollars in my bank account but it depleted quickly in those four or five months. [When I ran out of cash], I resorted to using my credit card and the bills just piled up.”
He eventually managed to pull himself out of the slump and can now help others with the money that he’s earning., he intends to backpack for a year once the Covid-19 pandemic is under control.
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