starting my week with: 1. breakfast of champions. noodles, the best 70c coffee around, and a beautiful yolk explosion waiting to happen. these breakfasts always happen on the spur of the moment, so every time i’m at the nus arts canteen for breakfast, i wonder if it will be my last. it’s so good. an […]
just looked out the window and oh man, is this for real? a zero-editing, au naturel sky, 10 minutes from a glossy midnight blue.
my parents brought me to their secret breakfast haunt at bussorah street two days in a row. it’s 7.30am. we pull up. the street is quiet and still in shadow, but the light glints gold off the masjid sultan domes. we pick up packets of nasi lemak. my mother peels the little fried fish and […]
life brought me on another little adventure yesterday. got my sandals and ankles soaked by rain gushing down the slopes of Lock Road, but made it to the Mizuma Gallery in time to share a moment with some intense, photorealistic portraits by Hyung Koo Kang. i haven’t been trained to understand art as connoisseurs do, […]
1. Surrender to fun. My English tuition classes are coming to an end, and I couldn’t bear to spend the last few classes going through syllabus material when my students are done with their exams for the year. Instead, we had mini-muffins, kept a poem in our back pockets, and had a masterclass in speed […]
To-do: resume jewellery-making and pay my sewing room a visit to finish my first dress. To-do before aforementioned to-dos: write abstracts for autism conference submission, shrink thesis to a tenth of its original length to be considered for a research award, find the sheer nerve to pull up 15 thirty-page long focus group transcriptions to […]
singapore, you looked so fine this weekend. we may have ridiculed every new building that popped up on the bay, from bug-eyed concert halls to a speedboat marooned atop hotel towers, but when the city is alive at night, how can you stop your heart from swelling? wans and i hit the races on saturday […]
He could be wearing a windowpane suit one day, and theatre blacks and a grey hoodie the next. On both days he is in his element, and I am in mine — he spins songs with nimble fingers leaping across ivory keys, and i’m across the room, in the centre of petals of pale gold […]
the day’s yield: wobbly chit-chat, funny leg-flailing, one third of nasi lemak, a quarter of a bottle of 100 plus, warmer complexions. skill practice of one-handed cycling and over-the-shoulder speech. more than three moments that felt like davis again and added a wistful pang to my sun squint, a tank top tan but only on […]
Highlight of my week: passion, creativity and men in suits at the 24th Congress of the Federation of Asian Master Tailors. What a privilege to witness skilled hands steadily stitching in perfect lines and sketching complex geometries! Also got to say hello to the incredible duo behind Vanda Fine Clothing, but the icing on the […]
