/ 23 Mar 2011
How many times have you heard the term "staycation" in the last year? Several times, I'm guessing.
The newfangled word has practically become a permanent fixture in the Singaporean lexicon. Although...
/ 15 Mar 2011
Upon entering Timothy Oulton's showroom on 81 Kim Yam Road, you would be forgiven if you thought that you'd just stepped into the manor of a rather eccentric British baron.
The Singapore store is the...
/ 15 Mar 2011
If you haven’t set foot in the $8-billion behemoth building that is Marina Bay Sands (MBS), you’re living under a rock. If you haven’t joined the legions of people who scramble to book a room there...
/ 11 Mar 2011
I’ve long considered myself a relatively generous person.
Here in Atlanta, I carry around McDonald’s gift cards for encounters with homeless men and women, build Habitat for Humanity houses and...
/ 9 Mar 2011
For all my belly aching about life in Singapore, I find that with the right attitude and more importantly, the right resources, it can be a pretty darned pleasant place to live and I count Quincy...
/ 8 Mar 2011
“Asia is booming,” says Singaporean celebrity chef Justin Quek. “Europe is suffering, and America too, but Asia is on the rise. From Hong Kong to Singapore to Japan to Vietnam to China to Korea to...
/ 8 Mar 2011
Get your spoons ready, because Cold Stone Creamery, the US premium ice cream chain, will be opening its first outlet in Singapore at Orchard Central on Saturday, 12 March.
Founded in the US in 1988...
/ 8 Mar 2011
NEW YORK – Stephen Antonson, an artist with a wily and mischievous point of view, is fond of saying that when he makes something, he’d like that thing to do more than just lie there. He might throw...
/ 4 Mar 2011
Sao Paulo isn't just the poor (culturally) cousin to Rio De Janeiro anymore. It's really important that you should know that, almost as important as knowing that us anglicised foreigners need to...
/ 1 Mar 2011
"Can you read in a moving vehicle without feeling sick?"
The question was posed to me by Jamie Messenger, the English paraglider who had been assigned as my pilot for my paragliding flight. I had...
