We travel for many reasons – visiting friends and relatives, making new friends, discovering new places, sampling local foods, fulfilling our dreams & bucket list,…
A throwback to my primary school days (oh, that’s aeons ago) when teachers often quoted this proverb to us, a class of maleable students. At…
Golden Jubilee National Day My National Day 2015 celebration started on 07 August, a special national holiday declared by the President of Singapore in conjunction…
Activities for the SG50 celebrations are still pouring in as Singapore celebrates its Jubilee Year. It was just at the beginning of July that the…
We can now commemorate the 4th of July as the day in which our Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage…
Now that’s a very audacious goal in the title itself ‘How to become a big potato anywhere.’ My circle of (younger) close friends convinced me…
Within my circle of (younger) close friends, I am jokingly referred to as the ‘Big Potato’ because of my days of being a high flier…
‘Dad, I got the award.’ With these heartwarming words – “Dad, I got the award”- I knew that Lawrence has won the Converse x Dazed Emerging…
Once in a while, old friends disappear and they may reappear or vanish completely. And at times, new friends appear in your life. As time…
2014 is nearly over. What should we ask ourselves as one year ends and another year begins? There is still time for reflection. We don’t…
The pairing of chocolate, the essential luxury food in the West, and tea, the aromatic drink of the East, is perhaps a union which is…
My introduction to the series of Masterclass Cooking Demo by Les Amis executive chef Galvin Lim was how to prepare the savoury Foie Gras Custard…
Little did I know that the note that I am writing now – “Time Spent On Trying To Be Perfect Is Time Wasted” – applies…
Ah Dia*, (endearing salutation for Dad* in my Teochew dialect) I write this letter to commemorate your 30th anniversary and to celebrate your journey of resilience…
Thank you to all my friends and followers for voting for Retire – Do What? in the Singapore Blog Awards. I am honoured to be…