Monthly archive January, 2007

Just as there are 12 signs in the Western horoscope, the chinese zodiac also has 12 of its own, represented by 12 different animals. Rather than being determined by months, a person’s Chinese zodiacal sign is determined by the year he is born in. I was born in the year...
Virgin Digital created this awesome digital composite image some time back. There are 75 bands hidden in there. Can you spot all of them? This image has been floating around the internet for a long time. But here it is in case you haven’t seen it before. Be sure to...
…and breakfast. And dinner too. And all the snacks in between meals. To increase productivity and time spent at the workplace, google provides free meals for all its employees. Mind you, this isn’t just some shoddily prepared food simply because it’s free and has to cater to 10,000 workers. This...
Tucked at the basement of The Heeren, The Vila’ge sits where Marché used to. Most people would probably not even notice the difference since the two restaurants share an identical look and concept. The Vila’ge is pronounced “vee-lah-jey”. Until very recently, I had thought it was simply pronounced and spelled...
Following the popular “Christmas Tree of the Day” series, I thought it would be cute to have a similar one for Chinese New Year. I don’t care if the response is going to be lukewarm. A holiday is a holiday, and that is always a good thing. So let’s get...
Just when I thought it would be a long time before I find another restaurant that’s worth raving about (like graze), along comes one that rekindles my hope. Aerin’s, a modern European restaurant, is one of the bigger eating establishments at the Raffles City marketplace. With its dining area spread...
I must have eaten in three out of every four dining establishments at VivoCity. Yes, that is how often I go to that place. I would probably exhaust their dining options soon! But then again, new restaurants pop up every so often, such as The Mussel Guys. “The Mussel Guys”....
Make that “100 percent not interested”. She feels nothing for you. None. Zero. Zilch. She never did, and she never will. These are five foolproof ways that a girl may be using to tell you to back off and leave her alone. 5. She avoids your gaze and hardly makes...
Having had such a wonderful and memorable Christmas dining experience at graze, I returned there on a different occasion barely a couple weeks later. Unfortunately it doesn’t open for lunch so Da Paolo, its adjacent neighbour at Rochester Park, played host to us instead. Comparing Rochester Park in daytime and...