Friday nights are not what they used to be. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Cross your heart and tell me honestly – are you sure you want your pre-lockdown Friday nights back? I guess that depends on how you spent them. All night bar-hopping can be …
As we enter our 11th month of the world on pause- we begin to wonder what we are for? ARE we the fat of society or something important…
Welcome back to your life as you never knew it. Welcome back to the 2020s. Welcome to the new year.
The sandwich as we know it – name and all – only emerged in the 18th century. The story of its invention goes like this: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich was a gambling addict…
Opening libraries to the public meant exposing valuable books to theft. A chained library was a logical response to the problem posed by light-fingered…
To hear Ethan Koh describe his youth in Singapore is to be swept off in a fantasy. One sees hot rainwater trickling glassily from the wide, flat leaves of palms. Lush plants in forest green, moss green, spring green, yellow green garland the skyscrapers. Fat fruits lie lazing by tree roots…
Gentrification, and its associations with the so-called ‘flat-white economy,’ hipsterism, cold-pressed juices and shabby chic interiors has firmly secured..
Today Lisa is still sharp as a whip, wears thigh-high boots and accessorises her feminine wiles with unmistakable wisdom…
I’m typing. If I stop typing for more than five seconds, everything I’ve written will be deleted. If I pause for just a moment, the text will start to fade and the edges of the screen will turn blood red. Just keep going. At least I’m writing. Is it good writing? I don’t know anymore. I was only trying to be productive…
Believe it or not, FADs have been around since the early 1900s. Back then, they were mainly reserved for the aristocracy, who grew weary watching their servants run laps on their behalf…
London doesn’t have good days, it has good mornings and good afternoons; the weather is temperamental and likes to piss all over us every few hours or so…
Synaesthesia is a phenomenon where the senses intermingle — a union of sensations that are normally experienced separately, such as sound and colour or…
The language of the luxury hotel can feel imbued with a certain imperiousness. I imagine to counteract such feelings they hire men like Nigel Stowe…
